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January 6, 2010 5:10 PM

India-Pak Parliamentary forum being revived for promoting peace

India Pakistan Parliamentary forum is being revived to promote peace and friendship between the two countries. A decision to this effect has been taken by the speaker Ms Miera Kumar and her Pakistani counter part Ms Fahmida Mirza who met at the sidelines of the 20th conference of commonwealth speake...

January 6, 2010 1:34 PM

Twenty five Chinese miners die

In China, 25 miners have been killed and several others reported missing in a fire in a coal mine in the central Hunan province. Local government officials said that the accident occurred on Tuesday evening at the Lisheng mine in the city of Xiangtan. The government had earlier said it hoped to find...

January 6, 2010 1:21 PM

Google’s first mobile phone

The Internet Search Company, Google has unveiled its first mobile phone, the Nexus One rival to its rival Apple's Eye Phone, and other so called smart phones, mobiles which performs the functions of a computer. The critics say there is little new about Google product and it has many of the same...

January 6, 2010 1:16 PM

Suicide bomber strikes in PoK

In Pakistan, a suicide bomber struck an army barrack in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir today, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 11 more. The bomber targeted the barracks close to an army hospital at Tararkhal, over 90 km from PoK capital Muzaffarabad. There were about 35 soldiers in the facili...

January 6, 2010 10:16 AM

Israeli air strikes kill a Palestinian

A Palestinian was killed and four others were wounded in an Israeli air strike on in the central Gaza strip on Tuesday night.According to Israel's media Haaretz, the Israeli Forces confirmed that it carried out the air strike at the gunmen in the town of Khan Younis in Gaza and that one militant had...

January 6, 2010 10:16 AM

Intelligence failings unacceptable: President Obama

President Obama has acknowledged that the American Intelligence had collected enough information to stop the Nigerian man from boarding the plane with the intention of blowing it up on Christmas Day. Speaking at the White House after his meeting with top security advisers, President Obama said that ...

January 6, 2010 10:04 AM

Some forty thousand former Polish official’s pensions halved

Some forty thousand former officials from the communist era in Poland have had their pensions halved. The measure is designed to counter popular anger at the size of pensions given to people including a former President whose regime carried out human rights abuses.

January 6, 2010 10:04 AM

Goggle’s first mobile phone

The Internet Search Company, Goggle has unveiled its first mobile phone, the Nexus One rival to its rival Apple's Eye Phone, and other so called smart phones, mobiles which performs the functions of a computer. The critics say there is little new about Goggle product and it has many of the same...

January 6, 2010 10:04 AM

Columbia extradites money launder to US

Columbia has extradited to US the leader of a Pyramid Scheme which defrauded at least two hundred thousand people of nearly two billion dollars. David Murcia Guzman who was sentenced in Columbia to thirty years in prison will be charged in New York for money laundering and conspiracy charges. Guzman...

January 5, 2010 8:49 PM

US military intelligence chief criticises spy agencies' work in Afghanistan

The US military's intelligence chief in Afghanistan has criticised the work of spy agencies, terming them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people. In a report issued by the Center for New American Security think tank, Major General Michael Flynn described US intelligence officials as ignora...

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