World’s Oldest Flamingo Dies
World’s oldest flamingo, also known as “Greater” died in the Adelaide zoo in Australia. He was aged eighty three and is survived by a long term friend, a Chilean flamingo. The sex as well as the origin of the flamingo is unknown and he was brought to the zoo in 1933. Greater was almost blind […]
UN Wary of Media Clampdown in Egypt: Al Jazeera Cameraman Acquitted
The United Nations Human Rights office expressed concern over the severe clampdown on the media in Egypt highlighting the ill treatment of the reporters working for Al Jazeera television. “We are extremely concerned about the increasingly severe clampdown and physical attacks on media in Egypt, which is hampering their ability to operate freely,” said Rupert […]
Filmmaker Miklos Jancso, Dies at 92
Miklos Jancso, Hungarian film director and screen writer, died on Friday. He was aged 92. His death was announced by the Association of Hungarian Film Artists with no further details disclosed, The Associated Press reported. He directed films for more than fifty years and rose to fame with films like “The Round-Up”, “The Red and […]
Volcanic Eruption Kills At least 14 in Indonesia
At least fourteen people were killed and three injured in a disastrous volcanic eruption in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday. The incident took place one day after the locals living on the three mile danger zone on Mount Sinabung, returned to their homes on its slopes with the green signal from the authorities that the volcanic […]
Bad Breakfast Habits Up Risks in Youths
Researchers from Umea University in Sweden found that adolescents who ate poor breakfast would be at greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome later in their adulthood. Metabolic syndrome refers to an increased risk of cardiovascular disorders such as heart attack, stroke and diabetes. It encompasses abdominal obesity, high levels of harmful triglycerides, low levels of […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
French Demonstrate to Back Traditional Family
Thousand took to the streets in Paris and Lyon, France, protesting against the new laws easing abortion restrictions and legalization of gay marriage. They accused the French President Francois Hollande’s government of “family phobia”. The police said that eighty thousand people marched in the streets in Paris and twenty thousand rallied in south central Lyon […]
German Newspaper Says US Kept Tabs on Leader
A leading German newspaper reported on Tuesday that the American intelligence services monitored former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder beginning in 2002 and perhaps earlier. The newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, said that the information came from documents from well-informed United States sources, both in the government and in intelligence circles. One of the sources, who were not identified, […]
South African Police Disperses 3,000 miners
The South African police, on Tuesday, used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse a mass of three thousand violent miners. The demonstrators “carrying dangerous weapons, such as knobkerries and sticks, blocked the road and were threatening to remove non-striking workers at the shaft,” said the police. The incident took place at Anglo American Platinum’s […]
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