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‘West’s hypocrisy: ‘Grass beats the tin drum’

‘West’s hypocrisy: ‘Grass beats the tin drum’

Guntar Grass has again been in the news. Shocked earlier by his revelations about his involvement  as a seventeen-year-old in the Nazi SS during the World War II in his autobiography ‘Peeling the Onion’, the Nobel laureate author has shouted in a poem titled ‘What Must Be Said’ against the policies the Israel government is […]

July 19, 2011 S Bindhu
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Twitter To Challenge Turkish Ban through Courts

Twitter To Challenge Turkish Ban through Courts

Twitter, the social media platform said in a statement on Wednesday that it had filed lawsuits in Turkish courts to challenge a ban imposed on the service  by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government last week. Twitter said that it had suspended content related to two of three court orders which were given as the legal basis for […]

July 15, 2011
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Pope Francis Shakes up the Vatican

Pope Francis Shakes up the Vatican

On his first anniversary as pontiff on Thursday, Pope Francis defended “slum priests” from the accusation that their advocacy for the downtrodden reflected a different, leftist church that is remote from conservative Vatican values. “The work of the priests in the slums of Buenos Aires is not ideological, it’s apostolic, and therefore forms part of […]

July 13, 2011
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World Wide Web Turns Twenty Five

World Wide Web Turns Twenty Five

The World Wide Web marked its landmark anniversary last week. It was twenty five years ago, in March 1989, that Tim Berners-Lee, then a computer programmer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, wrote a proposal to his employers for an abstract “global hypertext” system he called Mesh. He renamed the system as World […]

July 12, 2011
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Hong Kong Police Dismantle ‘Biggest’ World War II Bomb

Hong Kong Police Dismantle ‘Biggest’ World War II Bomb

The largest bomb from World War II was discovered on a construction site in Hong Kong last Thursday late night. The bomb was found by the building workers in the Happy Valley district, near the city’s famous downtown racing track. Hong Kong police dismantled it successfully on Friday. The nearly one-ton US Navy ANM66 bomb […]

July 5, 2011
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Grand Finale for Dubai International Film Festival

Grand Finale for Dubai International Film Festival

The 10th Dubai International film Festival has recently concluded with prominent film makers and actors bagging the leading awards. Indian actor, Irrfan Khan bagged the Best Actor award for Muhr Asia Africa Feature for his film Dabba (The Lunchbox). The film was a box office blockbuster getting unanimous critical acclaim with Irrfan doing complete justice […]

July 5, 2011
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4 Killed, 16 Wounded In US Base Shooting

4 Killed, 16 Wounded In US Base Shooting

In a shooting at the military base named Fort Hood in Texas, four people were killed and at least sixteen injured, according to US authority reports. The incident took place on Wednesday evening. The gunman was identified as Ivan Lopez, an Iraq war veteran, who was in uniform at the time of incident and used […]

June 20, 2011
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New Blood Test Could Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

New Blood Test Could Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

New research reports from the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) in Louisiana, United States reveals that a simple blood test could predict a person’s risk for sudden cardiac death. The study has been published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Samuel C Dudley, chief of cardiology at the institute, said that the new […]

June 15, 2011
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The Royal Opera House open every morning

The Royal Opera House open every morning

A new Vincent Van Gogh painting has been discovered after two years of research to confirm its authenticity. The work, Sunset at Montmajour (1888), was done during the artist’s time in the Southern French town of Arles, the same period during which he painted his Sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom. The priceless piece […]

June 8, 2011
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‘Thatcher Backed Indira after Operation Blue Star’

‘Thatcher Backed Indira after Operation Blue Star’

Tom Watson a Member Of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East, UK, revealed that Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher had supported the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in eliminating the Khalistan activists, from the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar in 1984. The operation titled Blue Star caused the death of more than thousand […]

May 23, 2011
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