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‘Ban Gita’ court battle restarts in Russia
Published on 20 Feb, 2012 at 11:28 in World | Viewed 11 views times | No Comments
Moscow/New Delhi: Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred ‘Bhagavad Gita’ branded as “extremist literature” and banned, after the state prosecutors filed an appeal against an earlier judgment in December last year throwing out their case.
The state prosecutors have already filed their appeal in the…
‘Ban Gita’ plea dismissed in Russia
Published on 29 Dec, 2011 at 10:09 in World | Viewed 91 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Hindus in Russia Wednesday posted a major victory in a hard-fought six-month legal battle as a Siberian court axed a plea seeking to ban the Bhagavad Gita and to brand the holy text ‘extremist’ literature, even as hopes were expressed that the state prosecutors do not appeal against the verdict.
During the final hearing in the Leninsky district court…
Two quakes rock Christchurch
Published on 23 Dec, 2011 at 6:48 in World | Viewed 114 views times | No Comments
Wellington: Two earthquakes measuring 5.8 and 6.1 respectively on the Richter scale shook New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch on Friday, authorities said.
The New Zealand government geological agency GNS Sciences said the first quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale, struck at 1.58 p.m., local time. The epicenter was located 20 km northeast of Lyttelton and 8 km deep.
This…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passes away
Published on 19 Dec, 2011 at 23:12 in World | Viewed 129 views times | No Comments
Pyongyang: Kim Jong-il, the 69-year-old supreme leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, died Saturday during a train journey. His youngest son was made the ‘great successor’, the country’s official KCNA news agency announced on Monday.
South Korea promptly put its security forces on high alert as its financial market got rocked. Washington said it was in touch with Seoul and Tokyo over…
Hundreds missing as migrants’ boat sinks off Indonesia
Published on 18 Dec, 2011 at 6:45 in World | Viewed 91 views times | No Comments
Some 300 people went missing after an overcrowded boat carrying illegal migrants, most of them from the Middle East, sank off Indonesia’s Java Island on Saturday, the ABC broadcaster said quoting a senior emergency official.
According to Indonesian media reports quoted by ABC, the boat was apparently heading for Australia.
The wooden boat carrying some 380 people sank about 90 km (50…
US stops $700 million aid to Pakistan
Published on 16 Dec, 2011 at 0:34 in World | Viewed 123 views times | No Comments
Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed a huge $662 billion defence bill that freezes $700 million for Pakistan until the Congress is provided a report on how Islamabad is tackling the threat of improvised explosive devices.
Passed Wednesday with a 283-136 vote with bipartisan support in a bitterly divided Congress, the measure is expected to be approved by the…
Barack Obama marks end of Iraq war
Published on 14 Dec, 2011 at 23:16 in World | Viewed 149 views times | No Comments
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday marked the end of Iraq war with a visit to troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Xinhua reported.
He said the final work for the US military to leave Iraq has been done and the last troops will begin a final march out of that country in the next few days.
Addressing the members…
Jobless man hurls shoes at Iran President Ahmadinejad
Published on 13 Dec, 2011 at 1:38 in World | Viewed 112 views times | No Comments
Tehran: An unemployed Iranian threw shoes at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday during a ceremony in Mazandaran province, Xinhua reported citing the local Mehr news agency.
The shoes, however, did not hit Ahmadinejad.
The incident occurred while Ahmadinejad was delivering a speech at a ceremony in the northern city of Sari.
The 45-year old, who had been dismissed by a weaving factory, managed…
Jackson’s doctor gets four-year jail term
Published on 30 Nov, 2011 at 0:28 in World | Viewed 81 views times | No Comments
Los Angeles: Late pop star Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison on a charge of ‘involuntary manslaughter’.
Before announcing the sentence, Judge Michael Pastor lashed out at Murray, noting that the cardiologist made an ‘egregious series of departures from the accepted standard of care’ that represented a ‘disgrace to the medical profession…
Mario Monti is Italy’s new Prime Minister
Published on 14 Nov, 2011 at 0:06 in World | Viewed 87 views times | No Comments
Rome: Mario Monti, an eminent economist and former European commissioner, was Sunday appointed as Italy’s new Prime Minister.
President Giorgio Napolitano has asked Monti to head the new government after Silvio Berlusconi resigned from office Saturday.
Earlier, Napolitano held meetings with leaders of various political parties as well as former presidents before inviting Monti to form a caretaker government, Xinhua reported.
Monti is…
