April 20, 2012
PARIS: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Thursday for the UN Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to try to halt 13 months of bloodshed, but she acknowledged such diplomatic actions would likely be vetoed.
April 20, 2012
After banning certain English dailies and high circulation Bengali newspapers from the state-funded and state-aided libraries, Mamata Banerjee has advised people not to watch some TV channels, alleging that they are spreading false propoganda against the Trinamool government.
April 20, 2012
Twenty percent of the spam mails that were sent out worldwide in the quarter ended March 31, 2012, originated in India, according to a study by security software firm Trend Micro. "The quarter's top spam-sending countries included India at 20 percent, Indonesia at 13 percent, South Korea at 12 percent and Russia at 10 percent," the report said.
April 20, 2012
Two days after welcoming the idea of a referendum for a separate 'Eelam', DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday said the "blood spilt and the sacrifices made by Tamils" in Sri Lanka would not go waste and a separate nation will come into existence some day.
April 19, 2012
Close to 30,000 taxis will remain off the roads in Kolkata city demanding a fare hike. The associations of taxi operators are demanding for more than 35 percent hike in fares.
Bimal Guha, the president of Bengal Taxi Association says, “The minimum fare should be raised to Rs 30 from the current Rs 22. The West Bengal government has last enhanced taxi-fare in August 2009.”
April 19, 2012
Dimple beauty Preity Zinta has got her share of reservations on few things with media recently when she spoke about her relationship status and her love life.
April 19, 2012
India test-fired a nuclear-capable, long-range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe Thursday, television stations showed, putting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defense capabilities.
April 18, 2012
The news that Gladstone Dainty has won a landslide in the USA Cricket Association elections is about as surprising as Robert Mugabe emerging victorious in this year's presidential elections in Zimbabwe.
Gladstone Dainty has at times appeared to run USACA as something akin to a personal fiefdom
April 18, 2012
About 270 million people aged 15 years and older still remain illiterate in India, despite the country making major progress in cutting down the number of school drop-outs over the years, according to report.
According to the Opportunity for Action report by the International Youth Foundation (IYF), there are an estimated 270 million Indians aged 15 and older who are illiterate, while young women aged 15 to 24 are twice as likely as young men their age to be illiterate.
April 18, 2012
Warning that time was running out to preserve the Ganga, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pulled up state governments for tardy performance on sewage treatment and asked them to take action against industries polluting the river.
