Washington: Holding back tears, the mother of a six year-old boy, who was murdered alongside 19 other children in Connecticut four months ago, made a passionate plea from the White House for Americans and their leaders to embrace her call for stricter gun control laws. In a significant departure from the past, US President Barack Obama had asked Francine Wheeler to deliver his weekly radio and web address to the nation.
She is the first person to deliver the address other than Obama or Vice President Joe Biden since the two took office in 2009. Wheeler was joined by her husband David to deliver the weekly address.
Their son Ben was shot dead in the Connecticut school violence in December. Since that terrible day in December, thousands more Americans have died, and thousands more families have suffered the pain of losing a loved one to violence, Ben's mother said.
Now that the Senate has agreed that gun safety reforms deserve a vote, they must finish the job and pass those reforms to protect our children and our communities, Wheeler said. "When I packed for Washington on Monday, it looked like the Senate might not act at all. Then, after the President spoke in Hartford, and a dozen of us met with Senators to share our stories, more than two-thirds of the Senate voted to move forward," Wheeler said in her address to the nation....
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07:53 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Actress Thandie Newton has revealed that she was abused by a director during the early stages of her acting career. The 'Impossible II' star, now 40, has spoken out as part of an international campaign to end violence against women, One Billion Rising. Newton says she is still scarred by a "horrific" incident that involved a director when she was 18 and looking for her 'big break'. ...
07:11 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A dusty box of books discarded at the bottom of a cupboard in a school physics laboratory in the UK has turned out to be the prized work of scientist Sir Isaac Newton, containing his thoughts on principles of gravity. The textbooks, which were unearthed at Newcastle-under-Lyme School, Staffordshire, are more than 300 years old and contain the musings of the man credited with the discovery of gravity. ...
07:09 PM, Feb 03, 2013
New York has become the first US state to enact new gun control laws in the wake of the mass shooting at a Connecticut Elementary School in December. The new law imposes restrictions on assault weapons and also seeks to prevent the mentally ill from possessing guns. ...
08:23 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Students will return to classes at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Thursday after a month since the deadly massacre left 26 dead in the Newton, Connecticut school. Dozens of people have worked tirelessly over the holidays to bring the school back to normality. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has lashed out at the US National Rifle Association's suggestion that armed guards should be stationed at schools to prevent shooting incidents, saying such a move will create a "more dangerous and violent" America where "no place is safe." ...
02:32 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Four people died on a Pennsylvania highway on Friday when a gunman shot dead three people and later was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pennsylvania media, citing authorities. Three state troopers were injured in the incident in Frankstown Township, about 160 km east of Pittsburgh. ...
02:07 PM, Dec 22, 2012
The powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby in the United States called on Friday for the deployment of armed guards in every school in the country, weighing in on gun violence for the first time since a school shooting a week ago that shocked Americans. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Wayne LaPierre, the head of the lobby...
02:03 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Adam Lanza used to slither through hallways, pressing himself against the wall while wearing the same green shirt and khaki pants every day. ...
01:27 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Washington: Spurred by a horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration Wednesday with creating concrete proposals to reduce the gun violence that has plagued the country. "This time, the words need to lead to action," said Obama, who set a January deadline for the recommendations. He tasked Vice President Joe Biden with leading the effort and vowed to push for implementation of the policy proposals without delay....
11:54 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Newton, Connecticut: At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. The gunfire on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School left a toll both unbearable and...
08:27 AM, Dec 17, 2012
London: A 16-year-old Indian origin schoolboy in Germany has managed to crack puzzles that baffled the world of maths for more than 350 years, it was reported in London Saturday. Shouryya Ray, from Dresden, has been hailed a genius after working out the problems set by Sir Isaac Newton. Ray solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using powerful computers, Daily...
10:17 PM, May 26, 2012
Jerusalem: He's considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian who applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture, Hebrew and Jewish mysticism. Now Israel's national library, an unlikely owner of a vast trove of Newton's writings, has digitised his theological collection - some 7,500 pages in Newton's own handwriting - and put it online. Among the yellowed...
12:32 PM, Feb 16, 2012
CJ Aruna Newton, Secretary, Electronic City Associaiton and Dr P S Harsha, DCP (South East) Bangalore, discuss the alarming rates of mugging in Bangalore. ...
10:00 PM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: An Indian auctioneer is set to put Rabindranath Tagore's paintings up for bids at an auction event named, 'Significant Indian Paintings' to be held in the capital later this month. The auction will put 69 paintings by some of the biggest Indian artists including Raja Ravi Varma, Rabindranath Tagore and an original letter from Francis Newton Souza, under the hammer. "We are trying to project unsung heroes of...
11:52 AM, Nov 28, 2010
New Delhi: "Significant Indian Paintings' is one of a kind auction to be held in the capital later this month that will put 69 paintings by some of the biggest Indian artists - including Raja Ravi Varma, Rabanindranath Tagore and an original letter from Francis Newton Souza - under the hammer. "The concept of this auction was to show our classical Indian painters doing things they aren't specially known for....
12:56 PM, Nov 27, 2010
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Syed Haider Raza's work, done in 1983, was bought by a private Indian Museum during auction at Christie's. ...
11:13 AM, Jun 11, 2010
Coming to the cinemas soon is the mega disaster film,
2012. ...
02:16 AM, Nov 07, 2009
Nomura experts think that Congress may form the government again. ...
02:52 PM, May 13, 2009
Mohali: David Hussey's heroics helped Kings XI Punjab register a thrilling four-wicket victory over Deccan Chargers in the 61st match of the Indian Premier League at Mohali in a last-ball finish on Sunday. With this win, Punjab are placed seventh in the points table with 14 points from 13 matches and have kept their playoff hopes alive. Chasing a big target of 191, Punjab were off to a disastrous start...
08:57 PM, May 22, 2008
