Congress win will make things lot simpler, say editsNEW DELHI - The victory of the Congress party in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections has made a lot of things simpler for the country and those at the helm of affairs, feel editorials of leading English dailies in the country. Miss Calif. USA official, former beauty queen, quits over Trump’s decision to let Prejean stayLOS ANGELES — Former Miss USA Shanna Moakler resigned as co-executive director of the Miss California USA pageant on Wednesday, saying she no longer believes in the organization because of pageant owner Donald Trump’s decision to let the state’s controversial title holder keep her crown. World’s largest space telescope aims to explore depths of the UniverseBERLIN - Herschel, the largest space telescope ever built, would explore the depths of the Universe, once it launches into orbit aboard the latest ESA (European Space Agency) mission on May 14th. Analytical approach can ferret out terrorists in social websitesWASHINGTON - Researchers have worked out ways to ferret out the presence of terrorists in social websites and how they use them to connect with one another to plan attacks. Eleven killed in Chhattisgarh landmine blastRAIPUR - As many as 11 people were killed and two others injured Wednesday in a powerful landmine blast planted by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s restive southern Bastar region, police said. Pakistanis in Taliban-threatened district rally for peace, say army should stay awayISLAMABAD — Hundreds of people rallied for peace Sunday in a northwest Pakistani district recently infiltrated by Taliban fighters, while an explosion elsewhere in the volatile region was reported to kill at least four people. US again tells Pakistan: Focus on extremists not IndiaWASHINGTON - Warning that Al Qaeda and Taliban extremists in Pakistan are posing ‘an ever more serious threat to Pakistan’s very existence,’ a top US general has asked Islamabad to turn its focus from India to extremists. Taliban’s threat to overrun Pak “weighing heavily on Obama’s mind”WASHINGTON - Worried and highly concerned by the Taliban’s invasion into new territories inside Pakistan, the United States has warned Islamabad that its failure to take stern action against the expanding writ of the insurgents may endanger the relationship between both the countries, as well as the US strategies in Afghanistan. Lawsuit claims detainee was tortured by CIA in ‘01, months before memo justifying practiceNEWARK, N.J. — A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapodWASHINGTON - New evidence has emerged that suggests an earlier land-water transition of a four-limbed animal with backbones, which was known to have moved from fish to landlubber. How Brown aide went about his Tory smear campaignLONDON - Damian McBride, Downing Street’s head of strategy and planning, sent e-mails in January to the Labour blogger Derek Draper suggesting a smear campaign against the Tories using a proposed new website, RedRag. Slushy water on Titan may be proof of volcanismLONDON - New radar images from NASA’s Cassini probe have suggested that slushy water from a hidden ocean may be pooling onto the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, thus bolstering the case for the existence of volcanoes on its surface. Chhattisgarh may get its first army cantonmentRAIPUR - Army chief General Deepak Kapoor is arriving in Chhattisgarh Friday on a two-day visit to hold discussions with the state government for setting up an army cantonment in the state, officials said Thursday. British government files show 1200 incidents of UFO sightingsLONDON - British Defence Ministry abandoned plans for a secret computer database of UFO sightings for fear they would be mocked if its existence were revealed to the public, according to declassified government documents. History extracted from teeth of Christopher Columbus’ crewWASHINGTON - Dead men do tell tales. Researchers are now extracting history from the teeth of crew members Christopher Columbus left on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola after his second voyage to America in 1493-94. Old-timers reminisce as Nirula’s turns 75NEW DELHI - They got us our first hot chocolate fudge, burger, pizza and lots more. As the quintessentially Delhi institution Nirula’s turns 75, its popularity remains intact among all from 80 to eight. Arunachal Pradesh for simultaneous Lok Sabha, assembly pollsITANAGAR - The Arunachal Pradesh government has requested the Election Commission to conduct polling for the 60-member state assembly simultaneously with the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, a minister here said. European team discovers smallest extrasolar planetLONDON - A European satellite has discovered the smallest planet outside of our solar system, which is twice as large as earth and orbiting a star slightly smaller than the sun. What jumpstarted life on earth - riddle still unansweredNEW DELHI - How and when did life begin on earth? Did the first microorganisms arrive from space, riding piggyback on meteors that crashed into earth billions of years ago, or was life created from non-living chemicals? An Indian researcher has cast doubt on both the leading theories. HuJI chief gets death term for 2004 grenade attack on British envoyDHAKA - The chief of Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) and two others of the banned militant outfit were sentenced to death Tuesday for a grenade attack that seriously injured British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury and killed three people in May 2004. |
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