Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was Sunday grilled by a team of state vigilance bureau at circuit house here in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case against him. Singh along with few of his supporters was allowed to enter the circuit house whereas several party activists, including 27 sitting MLAs, were gathered outside […]
Musical Instruments from Around the World
– by Juliana Rincón Parra A Japanese instrument maker with histrumpet made from a bell pepper and a cucumber has been making its rounds on the internet, so I’ll bring a few other interesting instruments from elsewhere in the world. YouTube user 13strings (account currently closed) made an open call: to have everyone show their own home-made instruments on YouTube, and […]
HC stalls land sites for VIPs
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Saturday directed the housing societies of judges, MLAs, MPs, All India service officers including Indian Revenue Service officers, AP special police, and journalists not to allot house sites for its members until further orders. Justice Nooty Rammohan Rao and Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy while dealing […]
History Happening: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman Found
Max Watts, Annandale, Australia March, 2008: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman have been found: Oh ! said my American Friend: “I didn’t even know they were lost !” They were. They had been. The Sydney and the Kormoran, together, since 1941. Grossman – perhaps linked, – since 1951. Of Grossman(n), more below. Now, March 2008, 67 […]
Gates Demands More Troops Willing to ‘fight and Die’ in Afghanistan
Disagreements over Nato’s mission in Afghanistan intensified today as the US defense secretary, Robert Gates, criticized some countries for not providing troops prepared to "fight and die" against the Taliban. Speaking before leaving the US for a two-day Nato summit in Lithuania, Gates said: "I think that it puts a cloud over the future of […]
China: Storm in the way home
By Bob Chen It’s just a 20-hour travel, but I have lost contact with my 3 kids for 3 days! The train must have been stranded in somewhere unknown, in the wild far from any station. The only cell-phone text message they sent yesterday told that they were out of money, the train short of […]