Days and nights have I toiled until I reached the mountain top. There I can see the whole world but I hardly notice that I’m up, for my inner eye sees most. In my toilings I was taught that I need not to boast. So as I chat with the elephants, I also chat with […]
Amitabh Ghosh’s Hungry Tide
With an Amitabh ghosh book, you just don’t get a novel you get generous doses of history and geography , folk lore , lots of scientific facts related to the plot( in this case – dolphins in general and Gangetic dolphins in particular) and you still enjoy the story at the level of a story. The archipelago […]
Two people are killed in Kohat district of NWFP Pakistan
Noman son of Adil resident of Sheikhan village of Kohat is killed, his father Mr. Adil in his first information report registered in police station Jungle Khel Kohat district of NWFP Pakistan, has mentioned that yesterday night around eight o’clock, accused Iqbal son of Younus and accused Afnan son of Ajab Gul have opened […]
Lies, Lies, Lies
It touts itself as Zimbabwe’s independent news agency. But it does not even operate from Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Online operates from South Africa. The reasons: the “general decimation of media in Zimbabwe”, the enactment of “a vicious media law which enables the government to licence media houses and journalists to do their work, the closure of […]
Three People Killed in Kohat district of NWFP Pakistan
Three persons in Kohat district of NWFP Pakistan are killed today. In Gumbat village of Kohat accused Tika Khan son of Speen Gul has killed his mother Mrs. Bismeroo, by opening fire at her with fire arms, and had managed to escape, an FIR regarding the murder is launched by Mr. Mastan Gul in […]
U.N. puts pressures on Sudan over Darfur
After waiting for months, the United Nations has finally decided to put pressure on the Sudanese government to convince its government-backed militias to stop attacking innocent civilians in Darfur. At last, the slaughter, rape and murder of innocent Darfurians would finally grind to a halt once Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir gives in to […]