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CHENNAI: Actor Kamal Haasan believes that the collective voice of a south India united under Dravidian identity would be strong enough to dictate terms to the central government. The actor, who had already announced that he would begin a state-wide tour from Ramanathapuram district on February 21, has now revealed that late President A P […]
NEW DELHI: India has now begun final contract negotiations with Russia for the Rs 39,000 crore (over $5.5 billion) acquisition of five advanced S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems, which can detect, track and destroy hostile strategic bombers, stealth fighters, spy planes, missiles and drones at a range of up to 400 km and altitude […]
Proverbs. 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. I am neither a psychologist nor an anthropologist, but my over sixty years of living with my people, studying them and researching them have led me to many conclusions about them. Of course, […]
This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela, a true African son and only one of its kinds is what I consider the apt title to this piece. It is an obvious and incontrovertible fact! Why we chose to notice and acknowledge it Nigeria is beyond me, because it is also an incontrovertible fact […]
“Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February 2014) called on Nigerians to work harder towards ensuring the country’s unity”, with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo averring that Nigeria will not break up. Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said for Nigeria to have survived the first 100 years despite the various challenges of nation building, the country would not […]
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea alleging that rice made out of plastic, imported from China, was being sold in the country and seeking testing of samples. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said it will hear on August 20 the application which […]
Gwalior (MP), Oct 24: Curfew was imposed today in a locality of the city today following protest by an organisation over the route of Moharram procession. ”The administration has imposed curfew as a precautionary measure to prevent members of two communities from coming face to face,” a senior official told PTI. (read:Kejriwal targets Punjab Police […]
(CNN)Israeli authorities reported five knife attacks Saturday, all of them at the hands of Palestinians, as the spate of violence afflicting the two sides continued into the weekend. According to Israeli Defense Forces, three of the attacks occurred in Hebron, one in Jerusalem and one in Qalandia. None of them were fatal, at least for […]
This is the emotional moment a man who was abducted as a young child was finally reunited with his family – 20 years later. Sun Wei was just 4-years-old when in 1995 he was kidnapped as he walked home from kindergarten in Liangshan Yi, Sichuan Province. He was given sweets by a stranger and led […]
Indian police on Monday detained two men in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl who was found unconscious by her parents near railway tracks in New Delhi. Vijay Singh, a senior police officer investigating the case, said the girl was raped and beaten with stones on Thursday. "We are questioning the men in […]