Sikkim Achieves Over 100 Per Cent Sanitation
Sikkim has become the only state in India to achieve more than 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centers. All 6, 10,577 inhabitants in the state now have latrines with high sanitation and hygiene standards. The Himalayan India state has constructed 98,043 individual household latrines against the […]
Amazon Chooses 100 Books to Read Sans Les Misérables, Moby Dick
Amazon released a selection of “ 100 books to read in a life time” Tuesday. A “bucket list of books to create a well-read life”, goes the advertisement from the editors of Amazon on their site. The list spans two hundred years of literature, along with a wide range of genres and authors like David […]
Iranian Warships ‘To Sail Close To US Maritime Border’
Iranian warships would be sailing near the U.S Atlantic coast for the first time, senior naval spokesman Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad announced last week. Iran’s semi-official news agency, Fars News Agency (FNA), quoted the Admiral as saying that the move was a “response to Washington’s beefed up naval presence in the Persian Gulf.” The fleet […]
Matteo Renzi Wins Confidence Vote for His Coalition Government
Matteo Renzi, Italy’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister, has won the backing of the upper house of parliament for his new coalition government after he promised radical reforms to his economically struggling country. Renzi, known for his ambition and rhetorical flair, won the crucial confidence vote for his coalition government after a long session of the […]
80 Bodies Found In Mass Grave in Former LTTE Stronghold
Eighty skeletal remains have been discovered from a mass grave in a former LTTE stronghold in Sri Lanka. The remnants of the bodies are believed to be those of Tamil civilians who disappeared during the war with the rebels. “We have collected some 80 skeletal remains and removed them for safe keeping,” said Dhananjaya Waidyaratne, […]
Ukraine Face off: Kiev Ups Ante
Ukraine has mobilised troops and the defence ministry called up for reserves after Russian Prime Minster, Dmitry Medvedev, hinted on Sunday that there might be chances of war. Amidst the escalating fear of a conflict between the two nations, the world leaders are striving for a diplomatic solution urging Putin not to use any force. […]
Tremors Hit Chilean Coast
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 magnitude on Richter scale, struck the northern coast of Chile late on Wednesday just twenty four hours after an 8.2 magnitude tremor hit the coast on Tuesday night killing six people, triggering a tsunami and causing vast destruction. The 7.6 quake was recorded at 23:43 local time (0243 Thursday GMT) […]
Turkish Prime Minister Defies Scandal: Twitter Blocked In Turkey
Amidst the allegations of graft against the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, speculations are surging up regarding the performance of Erdogan’s AKP Party in the imminent local elections. Demonstrators have taken onto streets to protest against him and his party calling for his resignation. Erdogan disposes the allegations as an attempt to destroy him by […]
Egypt: Second Mass Trial of 683 Islamists Adjourned
An Egyptian court, on Tuesday, adjourned the second mass trial of 683 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters until April 28. They face charges including murder, incitement of violence and sabotage, Al Jazeera reported. Clashes flared up, in August last year, when the security forces stormed two Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo killing over six hundred people. The […]
Boat Capsize In India’s Orissa Kills Fifteen
At least fifteen people drowned and sixteen others went missing after a boat capsized in a river in Indian state of Orissa, officials said. The boat which carried more than hundred passengers sank near a dam in Sambalpur district on Sunday. The passengers were, reportedly, picnickers who had hired the boat for a pleasure ride. […]
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