Washington: Geert Wilders, a right-wing Dutch politician arrived in the U.S. Thursday to show his controversial film attacking Islam and is meeting with lawmakers in Washington. The 16-minute documentary juxtaposes passages of the Quran with the Setember 11 attacks and Madrid and London bombings, suggesting that the Quran contributes to Islamic extremists. Geert Wilders says [...]
A UN war crimes tribunal on Thursday cleared former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Five of his co-accused former high-ranking Serb officials : Nikola Sainovic, Dragoljub Ojdanic, Nebojsa Pavkovic, Vladimir Lazarevic and Sreten Lukic — were found guilty on all or some of the same charges and [...]
WASHINGTON: According to Defense officials, U.S. President Barack Obama will ask Congress for more than $200 billion to fund U.S. war efforts for the next year and a half. According to the sources, the request will be for $75.5 billion for the rest of the 2009 fiscal year to cover the cost of sending more [...]
New Delhi: India Friday urged Pakistan to speak in one voice on the Mumbai terror attacks, with two ministers saying flip flops on the carnage were best avoided. “I am sure somebody else will refute him tomorrow,” Home Minister P. Chidambaram said at a press conference here when asked to comment on Pakistani Navy chief [...]
Union health minister A Ramadoss told in Lok sabha yesterday that India need a national alcohol policy and he urged all the states to introduce prohibition of Alcohol. He mentioned that states Gujarat and J & K had enforced prohibition of Alcohol so far. Minister described Alcohol as the mother of all problems. “The four [...]
Even when the mutinous soldiers in Dhaka surrendered and ended the fight after accepting an offer of amnesty from the Government, police and witnesses say that Mutinies by members of BDR has broken out at different places across Bangladesh. The shooting began on Wednesday, between the members of BDR , over pay dispute and other [...]
Turkish Plane Crash Amsterdam: At least nine people have been killed and more than 50 others injured (six critically) when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed while attempting to land in the Netherlands, Dutch officials have said. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft came down at around 1031 local time (0931 GMT), several hundred yards (metres) short of the runway. It [...]
A heavy gun battle broke out between the soldiers and the officers of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles at their Headquarters in Pilkhana area in Dhaka. At least 14 BDR officers including Director General of Bangladesh Rifles has been feared killed in the firing. As per the reports, several officers were kept as hostages by rebel Bangladesh [...]
Tehran: Iran’s first nuclear power plant test run started here Wednesday, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported. The test involved the use of non-nuclear material instead of enriched uranium. The trial began as the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Gholamreza Aqazadeh and chief executive officer of Russian nuclear company Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko [...]
Supreme Court The Supreme Court today asked Tamil Nadu Government to give a reply by Thursday for under what instance the police had entered the Madras High Court premises on February 19, the day of the lawyer-police clash. Mentioning the incident as “serious” and “sad”, Supreme Court said it will pass a formal order relating [...]
