Sunday, November 7, 2010

Slim hope for change in 1st Myanmar vote since '90

Slim hope for change in 1st Myanmar vote since '90

Slim hope for change in 1st Myanmar vote since '90

Posted:

Myanmar's secretive military-ruled government gave no sign on Monday of when results from the country's first election in two decades would be released, though it's almost certain power will remain in the hands of the junta and its political proxies.


HIV revenge rampage? Kenyan police officer kills 10

Posted:

A police officer who said he was looking for a woman who infected him with HIV rampaged through three bars in a central Kenyan town and killed 10 people on Saturday, including two fellow officers, officials said on Sunday.


Michelle Obama to be treated to Zari, Phulkari

Posted:

Traditional cane and bamboo art from Assam, pata chitra from West Bengal, zari work from Delhi -- all these would be on the platter when US first lady Michelle Obama visits National Crafts Museum in New Delhi on Monday.The exhibition galleries, usually closed on Mondays, would be specially opened for her.


NRI Internet expert to head Cameron’s media section

Posted:

Young Indian-origin internet wizard Rishi Saha has been hired by British Prime Minister David Cameron to head the new media section of 10, Downing Street on a salary of 50,000 pounds. A former Conservative candidate, Saha, 30, devised the "Pimp My Party" online game for Cameron.


Taliban publicly execute three 'US spies'

Posted:

Taliban militants today publicly executed three men they had accused of spying for the US in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials said.


Mid-course correction needed in policies, says Obama

Posted:

Days after the electoral drubbing of his Democratic Party, US President Barack Obama admitted he needed to make some "mid-course corrections" and "adjustments" to win back the support of the angry American people as he promised to work with a resurgent Republicans.


UK’s Queen Elizabeth II joins Facebook

Posted:

Now it's the socialite network — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has joined Facebook, launching a series of official pages offering the website's 500 million users daily updates on her engagements, the royal household said Sunday.


Violence in Lanka prison after drug raid, 51 injured

Posted:

At least 51 people, including 44 policemen and four prison officials, were injured when a drug raid at Sri Lanka's main jail in the capital sparked violence, officials and doctors said. Around 200 policemen stormed the prison on Sunday morning as part of nation-wide operation to crackdown on illegal activities inside prisons, including drug abuse.


Putin tests his mettle on Formula 1 racing car

Posted:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today tested his mettle by driving a Formula 1 racing car at the speed of 240 km/ph near his hometown St Petersburg.


UAE airlines stop carrying cargo from Yemen after bomb scare

Posted:

Emirates and Etihad, the two main airlines in the United Arab Emirates, said today they have stopped carrying cargo from Yemen after the discovery in Dubai of a US-bound bomb posted from the Arab country.


New UK visa to woo Indian entrepreneurs

Posted:

Britain will introduce a new Entrepreneur Category of visa to encourage foreign nationals from India and elsewhere to catalyse economic recovery in the country, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.


Obama visit: No hyphens in India

Posted:

At a panel discussion last week on relations between India and the United States, Strobe Talbott, the former American diplomat, told an audience of Indian business leaders that he had learned a valuable lesson about India: Do not hyphenate it. As in Indo-Pak. (Or, in a close cousin of a hyphen, as in Chindia.) The audience smiled at his epiphany: India matters because it is India.


The China education boom on US campuses

Posted:

In her ballroom dance class, Li Wanrong has learned to tango and cha-cha. At lunch one day, she tried a strange mix of flavors — pepperoni pizza, the spicy sausage and oozing cheese nearly burning her tongue. Then there was that Friday night before going clubbing for the first time when new friends gave her a makeover, and she looked in the mirror to see an American girl smiling back wearing a little black dress, red lipstick and fierce eyeliner.


Posted by Harshad at 10:17 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)