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Indian Glaciologist Fires Back at Climate Sceptics
By Keya Acharya
BANGALORE, India, Jan 26 (IPS) – ”It is a fact that global warming is happening. If the Arctic Sea ice is melting, how can the Himalayan glaciers not be melting?” glaciologist Syed Iqbal Hasnain
asked indignantly.
Amid the brouhaha over last week’s retraction by a United Nations body of its 2007 report that [...]
CWG 2010 Hockey Stadium to be ready by Dec. 15
Mr. Suresh Kalmadi and officials of the Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on Dec 4, 2009. PHOTO: CWG 2010
By Rajiv Sharma & Neeraj Nanda
NEW DELHI, December 4, 2009: The showpiece pitch at the historic Maj. Dhyan Chand National Stadium, renovated venue for next year’s Commonwealth Games hockey competition, [...]
Sri Lanka military chief quits: BBC
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s armed forces chief General Sarath Fonseka has resigned from his post just months after helping secure the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels. Gen Fonseka is reportedly considering challenging President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an election to be held before April. He is due to make a speech shortly.
- BBC, 12 November 2009
Bande Matram unites India: Javed Akthar
By Javed Akthar
Who is forcing the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind to sing Vande Mataram? They don’t want to sing it but want to make an issue of it! I don’t understand the business of passing a resolution against singing the national song.
Not that I agree with these people for a moment, but I must accept that I am [...]
Kashmiri activist found dead
A member of a prominent committee investigating the rapes and deaths of two women in Indian-administered Kashmir has been found dead.The discovery has triggered a general strike in the town of Shopian.Police say Mohammad Hussain Zargar, 42, went missing after leaving home on Saturday morning. His body was found on Tuesday (8 Sept.) evening.Local residents [...]
Julia Gillard’s India visit raises questions
The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Ms. Julia Gillard calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on September 01, 2009. PHOTO: PIB
Australia after months of violence against Indian students stepped up its diplomatic offensive. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard on a five-day visit to India stressed that Australia is safe and [...]
Pak scribe pursues sexual harassment case
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By Zofeen Ebrahim*
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 29 (Asia Media Forum/IPS) – When is a telephone call considered sexual harassment? For Pakistani journalist Maheen Usmani, it is when her superior calls her late at night and launches into “suggestive talk” and lots of “innuendoes”.
At around 10 pm on May 11, Usmani received a call from her boss [...]
Gandhi killers back Jinnah: Congress
NEW DELHI:Congress today attacked former RSS chief K S Sudarshan for calling M A Jinnah secular and nationalist and charged the RSS and BJP with trying to become “secular by proxy” through such statements.
“They are trying to become secular by proxy by terming Jinnah as secular. We reject and repudiate it in strong terms…If someone [...]
BJP like Ku Klux Klan: Jaswant
NEW DELHI: Mr Jaswant Singh’s fight with BJP got nastier on Wednesday, when he compared BJP to the Ku Klux Klan — violent hate groups in the US that pledge to further interests of white Americans, and who hate Afro-Americans, Jews, minorities, Catholics and labour unions. Mr Singh said BJP has become a variant of [...]
Afghan scribe shot
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Afghan journalist in north-west Pakistan, officials say. Janullah Hashimzada, 40, was the bureau chief in Peshawar for Afghanistan’s Shamshad television channel.He was returning from Afghanistan when his bus was ambushed near Jamrud, the main town in Khyber tribal district.
Source: BBC
