Tamil Publishers have observed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanithi’s birth day as World Tamil Book Day and offered 10 % discount for the readers on Tuesday. According to them it was a mark of respect to the leader who had increased the number of books purchased by the public libraries from 600 to 1,000, formed […]
Afghan Journalist Imprisoned Indefinitely
By Jean MacKenzie in Kabul (ARR No. 291, 02-Jun-08) Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh in court, June 1, 2008. The mood was almost festive at the start of the latest appeal hearing in the case of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who has spent over seven months in prison facing execution on a charge of defaming Islam and the […]
Zardari approves package after amendments
Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has given his approval to the constitutional package, which Law Minister Farooq H Naek submitted to him on Friday night. The PPP Co-chairman suggested some changes, which were incorporated into the package. After getting approval from Asif Ali Zardari and making the necessary changes, Law Minister Farooq Naek […]
Study:Smokers take a long time to recover after surgery
Smokers take a long time to recover and heal after any surgery undergone by them according to surgeons and physicians. According to Dr.S.Rangaswami, veteran orthopaedic surgeon and vice-chancellor, Ramachandra University, Chennai, ‘Post-operative complications are higher in smokers. Smoking increases cardiac and pulmonary complications, impairs tissue healing which increase the cost of medical care.The healing process, […]
Dying Banyans : Muslim and Indian
Manzar Ahtesham’s original Urdu work Sukha Bargad has been called a modern classic and has been ably translated into English under the title A Dying Banyan. Set in the late seventies and early eighties when Islamic tendencies are on their rise in Pakistan and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto has been hanged while in India, Mrs. Gandhi […]
Kolhapur boy in the dock for faking letter from NASA
A 17-year-old student from Kolhapur, desirous of studying at NASA, is hogging limelight but for wrong reasons. Sridhar Kamble, who has just appeared for 12th standard exam, has found himself in the dock for faking a letter from the NASA establishment as well as forging the 10th standard result mark-sheet to inflate the total percentage. […]
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