Violence has almost doubled in Afghanistan: Pentagon
Tweet Washington: Violence in Afghanistan is up nearly 90 percent, according to a new Pentagon report submitted to the Congress late Wednesday that tracked progress in the country from October of last year to March. The overall increase in violence is attributed to more NATO-led offensives into Taliban strongholds, as well as Taliban efforts to [...]
Tweet Thimphu: Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan Thursday held their first talks in nine months here and agreed to think afresh on how to “honestly” take forward their peace process stalled after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. During their 50-minute talks at Bhutan House here, the two leaders [...]
Continue reading …Tweet Rome: Italian troops may be sent to help security forces fight mafia as part of the government’s war against organised crime, defence minister Ignazio La Russa said Thursday. “When we deploy our soldiers, it’s not because they have a better attitude, greater efficiency or capability than our (paramilitary) Carabinieri force or our police,” La [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet Washington : US officials Thursday declared the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico to be of “national significance,” signalling the full engagement by the federal government and possibly the military in containing the damage. A mammoth crude oil slick from three leaks in a BP exploratory well was headed to the fragile wetlands [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet Beijing: China will offer discounted loans and other incentives to companies to boost foreign investment in the country’s inland regions, the commerce ministry has said. The government is eyeing investment in sectors like agriculture, processing industry, finance, education, culture and tourism, among others, in the provinces of Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan, [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet Toronto: Indo-Canadian paramedic Rahul Singh has joined US president Barack Obama, talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and Apple boss Steve Job in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010. The Toronto-based paramedic, who founded GlobalMedic in 1998 to help disaster-hit people, has been the face of Canadian relief efforts [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet Washington: The number of Spanish-speaking people in the US has grown by over 200 percent in the last 30 years, says a report. The number of people aged five and above who speak a language different from English at home has more than doubled at a rate four times greater than the growth rate [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet London: Singer Courtney Love says she had an affair with singer Gwen Stefani’s husband, musician Gavin Rossdale. Love said she slept with Rossdale while he was married to Stefani. She said Stefani knew about the affair, reports mirror.co.uk. Stefani and Rossdale were married in 2002. The couple have two sons – Kingston, 4, and [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet London :”Girls Aloud” star Cheryl Cole has been crowned the world’s sexiest woman for the second consecutive year. The singer topped the FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women World among Megan Fox, underwear model Marissa Miller and Kirsten Stewart. Fox, 23, is on second place while Miller landed the third spot. Newly-single Saturdays bandmember Frankie Sandford [...]
Continue reading …
Tweet London : Singer Shakira’s hit number “Waka Waka” has been named official song of this year’s soccer World Cup in South Africa. “I am honoured that ‘Waka Waka’ was chosen to be part of the excitement and the legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup,” contactmusic.com quoted her as saying. “The soccer World Cup [...]
Continue reading …Hollywood Galleries
