Dharamsala: Despite intensified government crackdowns and internet censorship, many Chinese netizens – in the absence of a free media Chinese citizens are very active on the internet that cannot be so easily policed – are increasingly voicing solidarity with the Tibetans who are setting themselves afire for more autonomy and the return of the Dalai [...]
Dec 3 1979: Olympic gold-winning field hockey champion Dhyan Chand dies in Delhi after a prolonged battle with liver cancer. He led the Indian hockey team to victory in three Olympic Games. Dec 3 1984: An explosion at the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal causes the release of toxic gas, leading to the worst industrial [...]
Beijing: Sixteen miners remained trapped underground after a coal mine in China was flooded, authorities said Sunday. The accident around 11.30 p.m Saturday in Heilongjiang province. Twenty-two miners were working at Furuixiang coal mine in Qitaihe city. Six miners managed to escape. Rescuers were laying conduits to pump water out of the pit.
United Nations: Palestine overwhelmingly won a historical UN General Assembly vote which will upgrade its status to non-member observer state at the world body, despite intense opposition from the US and Israel. India was among the 138 nations in the 193-member body that voted in favour while nine countries opposed the resolution that sought upgrading [...]
Moscow: Tehran has dismissed media reports stating it held secret talks with Washington. Iran said that the alleged talks were an attempt by US politicians to encourage a bigger turnout in November presidential polls. “As long as the US sticks to past policies, there will be no need for negotiations,” reported Press TV quoting Iranian [...]
Mexico City: State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said it found reserves of up to 500 million barrels of crude in southern Mexico, a discovery that President Felipe Calderon hailed as the “biggest find” of petroleum on land in the past decade. The Navegante 1 field is about 20 km from Villahermosa, the capital [...]
A Russian beauty pageant contestant sparked controversy by launching a scathing broadside at her home nation during a competition, calling it a ‘beggar’. Her honest outburst about the state of her nation will find resonance with millions, but she might piss off the most powerful man in Russia: Vladmir PutinA Russian beauty pageant contestant sparked [...]
London: An Indian-origin man in Britain has become the first person to have been banned from all 1,200 McDonald’s outlets in England and Wales after being caught spying on two women in the restaurant’s toilets. Thirty-two-year-old Sukhbir Singh sneaked into the ladies’ toilets at a branch of the fast food giant in Birmingham city centre [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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