New Delhi: March 20 marks the arrival of the spring season in the northern hemisphere. This date is also referred to as the vernal or spring equinox in the northern hemisphere and the fall or autumnal equinox in the southern hemisphere. Google has put up its 2012 spring equinox doodle on its home pages in European and North American countries and not on home pages of countries such as India...
01:23 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Dubai: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence Group. Zawahiri, shown standing in front of a green curtain, urged Pakistanis to follow the example of...
04:51 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: A series of sneak peeps into new books by top Indian writers will be the cornerstone of a festival of literature, "Spring Fever", to be held March 16-24 at the India Habitat Centre. An annual feature of Penguin-Books India, the festival will preview several new titles by authors like Vikram Seth, Gurcharan Das, Shobhaa De, Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri and Devdutt Patnaik, who will discuss their books...
03:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: It is the festival of colours on Thursday as the entire country celebrates Holi. Since early morning, devotees have been out in temples, offering prayers. Elaborate preparations have been on in several pilgrim towns like Mathura and Kashi where tourists from across the world have also landed to take part in the festivities. In Rajkot, the trend of using organic colours is catching on fast as youngsters say...
07:11 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Beijing Investigators in China's Hebei province are shocked after coming across a bizarre incident in which a woman's corpse was married twice. During 2012 Spring Festival , a family surnamed Wu sold their daughter's dead body for 35,000 yuan ($5,557) to a man surnamed Liu who wanted to perform a "yin marriage" - a marriage between two dead bodies - between the Wu's daughter and Liu's younger brother, the Global...
10:57 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Aden: Yemen sealed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power on Tuesday by electing his deputy to shepherd the country away from the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh's 33-year rule, but the president's sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies. "Elections are the...
04:54 PM, Feb 21, 2012
In January 2011 we saw images of hope and the rise of people power in Egypt's Tahrir Square. The crowds pushed President Mubarak out then, but a year later the protestors are still there. Has the promise of the Arab Spring faded? ...
10:30 PM, Feb 04, 2012
At a small gathering of top Indian executives and management professionals in Bangalore this December, Egyptian blogger and spokesman for the "April 6 movement" Waleed ...
01:49 PM, Feb 02, 2012
In January 2011 we saw images of hope and the rise of people power in Egypt's Tahrir Square. The crowds pushed President Mubarak out then, but a year later the protestors are still there. Has the promise of the Arab Spring faded? ...
12:57 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Wael Ghonim doesn't like being called an activist. The 31-year-old Google employee says he's no different than other Egyptians who took part in the 2011 protests spurred by a Facebook page he created that forced then-president Hosni Mubarak to step down. "I'm just someone with access to the Internet who has a few marketing skills," Ghonim said. Nearly a year after Egyptians streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square to...
04:21 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Beirut: The UN Secretary General on Sunday demanded that Syria's president stop killing his own people, and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. In a keynote address at a conference on democracy in the Arab world, Ban Ki-moon said the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny. "Today, I say again to President (Bashar)...
03:45 PM, Jan 15, 2012
I think it's a sign of the times that protest movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the American Tea Party, and the anti-corruption movement in India have predominantly been non-violent, although they have led to some violent reactions from governments. This is not always the case. Often, when people protest during economically hard times, they'd be out with their pitchforks; drag business owners from their homes and...
12:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Israeli Finance Minister Dr Yuval Steinitz, who was in India to negotiate a free trade agreement. He says India and Israel need to take stronger action on Syria and other countries of the Arab spring. ...
05:51 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Sidi Bouzid: Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world. The festive mood in Sidi Bouzid was tempered somewhat, however, by reminders that democratic change in Tunisia has yet to ease poverty and high unemployment - bread and butter...
08:24 AM, Dec 18, 2011
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