President Rajapaksa dissolves parliament as anger grows over Fonseka arrest The Times | Sri Lanka's President dissolved parliament tonight and announced fresh elections as the opposition called for nationwide protests over the arrest of Sarath Fonseka, the former army chief. | Opposition leaders accused President Rajapaksa of ordering General Fonseka's arrest on fabricated coup charg...
Wildlife group, stars urge Indians to save the tiger Khaleej Times MUMBAI - As China prepares to usher in the Year of the Tiger next week, a massive publicity drive has begun in neighbouring India, where the big cat is the national animal, to save it from extinction. | Conservation group WWF-India has enlisted the support of sports stars and celebrities to raise aw...
Sri Lanka president dissolves parliament The Star | COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president has dissolved parliament to pave the way for legislative elections, a senior government official said on Tuesday, a day after a leading opposition figure was arrested on military offences. Sri Lanka's Presi...
Should Legislative Council become mirror image of Assembly? Deccan Herald By B K Chandrashekar | Something new and very disturbing is happening of late in Karnataka’s politics... | Politicians seem to easily lose their cool and restraint over their tongue on almost any issue. After a senior politician’s angry outbur...
Bombay HC asks police whether retrial of a murder case is possible DNA India | Mumbai: The Bombay high court finding itself in a piquant situation today sought a reply from the police whether a retrial could be held in a murder case given that the records of the original proceedings having been destroyed. | Akhilesh Kumar, al...
President Rajapaksa dissolves parliament as anger grows over Fonseka arrest The Times | Sri Lanka's President dissolved parliament tonight and announced fresh elections as the opposition called for nationwide protests over the arrest of Sarath Fonseka, the former army chief. | Opposition leaders accused President Rajapaksa of ordering...
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Terrorists 'gaining upper hand in cyber war' The Independent | Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned....
China 'resolutely' opposes Obama-Dalai Lama meet The News & Observer | BEIJING -- China expressed "resolute" opposition to President Barack Obama's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying it would further strain ties between the world powers. | ...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Phot...
HC reserves order on bail of Sadhvi in Malegaon blast case Deccan Herald Mumbai, Feb 9 (PTI) | The Bombay High Court has reserved order on the bail plea of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case. | After the trial court rejected her bail plea, Sadhvi moved the High Court s...
'Undertrials facing murder charges will have to wear uniforms' Zeenews Mumbai: Undertrials who are facing murder charges will have to wear uniforms in prison, Bombay High Court has said. | A prisoner lodged in Thane central jail had filed a petition, contending that he was being forced to wear prison uniform, which is n...
There's No Eyebrow She Can't Tame The New York Times | Unibrows meet their match in Salima Rajwani, a 28-year-old threader at Unique Threading Salon in Chelsea, who has been making New Yorkers’ scraggly eyebrows lovely for the last two years. Threading, not to be confused with sewing, entails twi...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa - Profile Sri Lanka News web | President Mahinda Rajapaksa (64), the fifth Executive President of Sri Lanka, was elected for a second term of office in the Presidential Election held on 26 January, 2010, with the Sri Lankan electorate recognizing him as the national leader who liberated the country from the terrorism of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTT...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and a...
