UPPER DIR: With only 25 days remaining for holding general elections, the political parties seem to be in no hurry to kick off election campaign for garnering people’s support. There is dull and unexciting environment in the district as parties failed to start campaign and decorate towns with flags, banners, hoardings etc. Previously, the parties […]
Two suicide attacks at check post in Quetta kill 10
QUETTA: The death toll rises to 10 in two suicide attacks took place near military check post at Katch Morr here in cantonment area on Thursday. According to government sources, a man executed a suicide attack near a security forces check post at 4:50 PM, killing two troops and wounding several others. As more security […]
No more heroes
It is difficult to quantify nor appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of a concerned man, when he is still alive. All the critics see are his mistakes and not the good things that he did for his country. The likes of the late Dr. Jose Rizal and Senator Benigno Aquino, who sacrificed themselves to be killed, if […]
Halliburton has no Accountability in Cases of Rape and Murder
A U.S. citizen working in Iraq has alleged in a lawsuit that she had been raped by co-workers while in the Green Zone in Iraq. The young woman is from Houston, Texas and says that the rape occurred two years ago. She alleges that she was drugged, raped, and physically abused by several of […]
Iron deficiency abounds in Vizag City girls
An alarming situation prevails in the ‘steel city’ where some 28,000-odd students, mostly girls of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) schools were suffering from ‘iron deficiency’ resulting in a high rate of absenteeism. Though no official or the elected representative took serious note of the issue despite warnings by the medical community, the State Government […]
Suicide
Committing suicide is in itself an extreme step. It is easy to threaten somebody to do it but Committing it is an Herculean task. I always wonder, whether people commit suicide out of pessimism or optimism? Well the general notion is pessimism. When people find atrocities of life heavier than its blessings, they resort to […]
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