An express train crowded with holiday travellers derailed in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more, officials said. The overnight express train was going from Karachi to Lahore when about 12 of its 16 carriages came off the rails near Mehrabpur, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Karachi, […]
10 jawans killed in Chhattisgarh
Ten jawans of the second Mizoram Reserve Police Battalion were among 12 persons killed in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI (Maoist) on Thursday. Their jeep was attacked at a place some 6 km from the divisional headquarters of Konta in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. The naxalites walked away with some 10 sophisticated weapons, […]
The Weapon of Boycott
In pre independence India, Mahatma Gandhi organized the boycott of foreign goods both as an act of defiance to the British as well as to give a boost to the local Indian economy by promoting the use of Khadi and other indigenous products. I wonder why that potent weapon has gone into disuse. When […]
Last Words of Princess Diana
PRINCESS Diana said “Oh my God, Oh my God” as she lay dying in the wreckage of a Paris car crash, a witness told the jury probing her death. Volunteer firefighter Damian Dalby, speaking to the London inquest by videolink from the French capital, said he ran towards the crashed Mercedes in a bid to […]
Suicide attack kills 13 as Red Mosque reopens
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– Another suicide bomber killed 13 people, including eight policemen, and injured 52 people at a hotel near Islamabad’s Red Mosque on Friday as the government reopened the religious complex for the first time since a bloody army raid to oust Islamic militants from the site. Hundreds of students clashed with security forces […]
Autopsy – The Big Bopper
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED On a bitterly cold winters morning, in a stubble field just outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, lay the strewn wreckage and the occupants of a four passenger Beech craft Bonanza. The plane had carried three bright, up and coming young Rock and Roll stars. The founding Fathers of Rock and […]
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