Articles: TERROR TARGETS CRICKET
Region: Pakistan
According to News reports emanating from Lahore, at least eight Sri Lankan Cricket players were injured in an attack that took place few hours ago when some unidentified gunmen opened firing at visitors near the Gaddafi Stadium here. These gunmen opened indiscriminate firing on the bus in which the Srilankan Players were traveling and the incident took place when the team was about to enter the stadium where the Second Test Match is being played. The players injured include Skipper Jaye... more
Views: 507Fire In a Night Train Charred at Least 32 Passengers to Death
Region: IndiaA devastating fire engulfed 5 coaches of a night express train causing death to at least 32 passengers, most of who were burned to bones, when report last came in. The Kankinada bound popular train, ‘Goutami Express’ left Secunderabad at 9.15pm on 1st Aug’08 and was 240km from Secunderabad, approaching Mahabubabad, when at about 1.30am, a blaze apparently caused by electrical short circuit, engulfed the train. The fire is supposed to have started in coach S-9 and immediatel... more
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Giant Ice Chunk Breaks off Canadian Arctic Shelf
Region: Canada
Giant ice sheets of about 20 square kilometer size in aggregate broke away from the shelf on Ward Hunt Island, one of the northern most area of Canadian Arctic, last week. Temperatures in large parts of Arctic have risen much faster than the rise in global average over the past few decades and the cause is being attributed to Global warming by the scientists Scientists have already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf measuring about 400 square kilometer. They are t... more
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300 Children on Hunger Strike for Demanding a High School, Faint After 18 Hours
Region: IndiaIn an extreme protest, 13 children out of some 300, who were forced to sit on a fast by their parents, fell unconscious at a Nadia district village in West Bengal, about 130km from Calcutta on the morning of 30th July’08. The fasting protest in front of Golaidori-Battala primary school was organized by parents to demand a high school in the area. The nearest high school is now 8km away. Reacting on the incident, a furious Nakasipara Block Development Officer (BDO... more
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Girl Participants to Undergo Sex Tests at Beijing Olympics
Region: IndiaTaking cue from 2006 Doha Asian Games- when an Indian athlete Santhi Sundar Rajan was stripped of her silver medal in 800meter track event after failing a sex determination test-Olympic authorities in Beijing have formed a four member medical team to examine doubtful athletes for gender determination. The experts are all from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, which has designed the facility to ensure minimum embarrassment to the athletes who would be asked to undergo the sex determ... more
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Meritorious Brother Quits College to Let Sister Continue Study
Region: IndiaThis is a story of a student of Shibpur Village of Nadia District in West Bengal. Nineteen years old Naresh Mondal’s father died when he was 14 and studying in class VIII. His elder brother Ramesh, 22, had to leave study to support family of four including mother and sister Amita, 17, and started working as daily labor earning Rs.1200 ($30) per month. Naresh however pulled up from the trauma and passed secondary examination by scoring over 80% marks and then again passed the Higher Sec... more
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Cricket: Sri Lanka Pulverizes India in First Test
Region: IndiaWhile terrorists were butchering Indians at home in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, the Sri Lankans were 'killing' their prey, the team India, at Colombo with no less ferocity than the terrorists. The duo of Muthia Murlitharan and Ajantha Mendis pulverized a spineless Indian team handing them down one of the worst defeat in the history of Indian test cricket. Between them the duo captured 19 of the 20 wickets making the Indian batsman look novices. It appeared at the end that even if given a t... more
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Drinks and Drug in a Horrifying Ragging of a Girl Student in Calcutta
Region: IndiaEven after expelling two students from National Institute of Design as reported by me on 17th June, the menace of ragging is continuing unabated. This time in a horrifying incident in the heart of Calcutta, the cultural city, one girl student of first year architecture of Jadavpur University (JU), was ragged on 16th June, by third year students, forcing her to drink alcohol, chew and eat cigarette and smoke marijuana till she fell unconscious. The students were all stated to be drunk ... more
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Kangaroo Court lets off Rapist After Fining Him Rs.30000/-
Region: IndiaTaking advantage of the absence of father and the brother of a13-year-old girl, her neighbor Ashraful Haque, 19, sexually assaulted her on April’13 this year. The incident took place at Janakinagar, 180 Km from Calcutta in Murshidabad District of West Bengal. To hush up the matter, a kangaroo court was held, allegedly with the active involvement of the officer in charge Sandip Sen of Beldanga Police Station. The ‘Shalishi’ (Kangaroo Court) was arranged by Congress led Panch... more
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National Institute of Design Expels Two Students for Ragging a Fresher
Region: IndiaAs a crack down on Ragging habits, The National Institute of Design (NID) at Ahmedabad had expelled two students recently for brutally and sexually ragging a fresher from Calcutta. Additionally three more students were ordered to vacate the Institute’s hostel for their indirect involvement in the ragging. An 18-year-old boy from Calcutta was ragged from day one after joining the institute on June 18. The boy’s ordeal began just half an hour of entering the hostel of NID. Two boar... more
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