The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II. The Swedish Academy said it recognised the 80-year-old poet “because, through his condensed, translucent […]
Syrian President Bashar Assad has threatened to “set Middle East on fire”, firing hundreds of rockets on Israel, if NATO decides to attack his country, Iranian Fars News Agency reported. Assad conveyed this message to Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, who met the Syrian President to relay a US warning, Ynetnews quoted the Iranian news […]
NATO allies debated on Thursday how quickly to end the bombing campaign in Libya as they reviewed progress in their plans to withdraw combat troops from the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. With Muammar Gaddafi die-hards surrounded by the new leadership’s forces in Sirte and Bani Walid, and the fallen Libyan leader in hiding, the number […]
DMK Chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to make attempts to save the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. In a statement, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister said the three convicts — Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan — had been languishing in […]
The first all-woman team of six skydivers of the Indian Air Force will make its official debut on Saturday at the Hindon Air Base near New Delhi during the annual Air Force Day parade. The team which underwent a two-year gruelling training in India and the US will jump out of an AN-32 transport aircraft […]
Realising the difficulties faced by community radio stations in the country, Government proposes to set up a support fund for which it will seek Rs 150 crore from the Planning Commission to promote the fledgling medium. “We are proposing a community radio fund in the 12th plan because funding is a major issue for a […]
National Conference leader and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah has broken his silence over the custodial death of NC worker Syed Muhammad Yousuf. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah has asserted that truth will be unearth in the report of the Judicial inquiry into the alleged custodial death on NC worker Syed Muhammad Yousuf. […]
Congress party on Thursday released second list of 62 candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls even two weeks before the party had released first list of 72 candidates. The State has 403 Assembly seats.
The wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots case, has written a second letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a “terrorist” by the Gujarat police. In the letter, she has also accused the state government of […]
The world on Thursday mourned the death of Apple’s iconic visionary Steve Jobs, with CEOs and political leaders describing him as a “genius” whose ideas will continue to shape the world for generations to come. Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page, “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. […]
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