In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a freshwave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had justbeen branded â the gulag of our timesâ by Amnesty International, therewere new allegations of abuse from United Nations human
High in the Himalayas, above the peaceful valley of Punakha, inBhutan, where farmers till apatchwork of emerald-green fields, an icy lake fed by melting glacierswaits to become a "tsunami from the sky."The lake is swollen dangerously past normal levels, thanks
Sen. Barack Obama launched an array of attacks in the final weekendbefore thePennsylvania primary, hoping to regain momentum and increase pressureon Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the race for theDemocratic presidential nomination.Aftera six-week stretch featuring the kind
Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted byAmericancourts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes, a new and verydifferent class of genetic test is approaching the bench.Ratherthan simply proving, for example, that the blood on a suspect's
Pope Benedict XVI transformed a four-story-deep hole at the bedrockofGround Zero into a prayer site Sunday morning, lighting a candlesymbolizing resurrection and praying with victims of the Sept. 11attacks for "peace in our violent world."Drizzle and heavy mist shrouded the
Nine people were killed and 28 injured when a passenger bus fell 350 feet into the Chenab river near Ramban on the Jammu Srinagar national highway on Sunday evening. Sources said that the accident took place when the driver of
A video showing Azizuddin, asking the Pakistan government to meet the demands of his abductors, including the release of some Taliban cadres, was aired by the Al Arabiya TV channel on Saturday. The militants holding Azizuddin, his driver and bodyguard
Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu turned 58 on Sunday. Naidu said that the TDP, under his stewardship, aimed at ushering the third generation economic reforms for the benefit of the poorer sections.
Giving first insights to what transpired at Rashtrapati Bhavan during that period, P M Nair, secretary to Kalam, says the President was advised to sign the letter, shake hands with Gandhi and congratulate her. Kalam was also told to ask
Resident doctors and medical students called off their six-day-old strike after an assurance by the Maharashtra Government to meet their demands, including increasing the number of post graduate seats.
The widower of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, whose party heads a coalition Government, said he does not have the power to confront President Pervez Musharraf.
Maoist supremo Prachanda, whose party has registered a surprise victory in recent Constituent Assembly polls, today declared that he will lead the next Government in Nepal.
Acting on specific information, the Army personnel zeroed in on the camp of the militant group inside dense forest, about 12 kilometers away from Manja in insurgency-ravaged Karbi Anglong district. The sentry on guard, who opened fire at the Army,
Krishna preferred to campaign for the party in the upcoming polls, rather than contest from his constituency Maddur. His re-induction in the party had sent waves of dissent among other leaders, who thought that the party was trying to rope
Maoist supremo Prachanda, whose party has registered a surprise victory in recent Constituent Assembly polls, on Sunday declared that he would lead the next government in Nepal.As the interim constitution does not have the provision for electing a President, he
A drunk Vazquez was thrown out of a football game and put into a cab driven by Singh. While Singh was driving down, Vazquez punched him, bit him on the scalp and called him an 'Iraqi terrorist'. Singh, who pulled
Resident doctors and medical students in Maharashtra called off their six-day-old strike on Sunday after an assurance by the state government to meet their demands, including increasing the number of post-graduate seats."The state government has agreed to meet all our
