Kozhikode: The Special Investigation team probing the murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan has arrested one of the gang members who allegedly hacked him to death. He was arrested in Mysore by SIT and would be produced at a court at nearby Vadakara this evening, police said. Police said SIT are also verifying whether the man, who was reportedly injured in the attack had got...
03:31 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Internet revolution has bypassed rural India with less than half a per cent of families having the facility at home as against 6 per cent in cities, reveals a government survey. "At all India level only about 0.4 per cent of rural households had access to Internet at home as compared to about 6 per cent of urban households," said the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report on...
11:28 AM, May 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Resistance group Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), at its first conference here on April 22-23, will demand an end to the anti-Maoist Operation Green Hunt and discuss how to turn the current economic crisis in the country into a revolutionary opportunity. More than 300 delegates from across India, including writer and activist Arundhati Roy, historian Amit Bhattacharya, Maoist leader Tusharkanti Bhattacharya's wife Soma Sen and Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde, will...
02:07 PM, Apr 19, 2012
HYDERABAD: This weekend Osmania University will play host to a food festival which is being touted as the beginning of a revolution. The Beef Festival to be held at the NRHS hostel on Sunday evening by Dalit students associations will see participation from students from different universities in the city. The administration is unwilling to stoke the fires by interfering in the proceedings.We have ample time on hand and we...
08:53 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Villavicencio: Colombia's main rebel group freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, a goodwill gesture that President Juan Manuel Santos praised but called insufficient to merit a peace dialogue. The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons, captured with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength. But Latin America's oldest and most potent...
01:59 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday said that Syria's leader is acting like a murderer and should be sent to the International Criminal Court. With diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria faltering, the French leader urged humanitarian corridors to allow refugees out and aid in to the country. "We must obtain humanitarian corridors, and for that we must unblock the Russian veto and Chinese veto" at the...
03:46 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the West's war eyes are now firmly fixed on Iran and Syria. International reportage on the Syrian crisis has drastically changed its character over the last fortnight or so. The entire discourse on the urgency to "stop the brewing humanitarian crisis' has changed tracks. The new discourse as outlined by the West and its lackeys in West Asia and North Africa now is...
07:43 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Damascus: Military forces in Syria have launched a fresh offensive on several towns in the northwestern province of Idlib. This came even as the world leaders attacked Syria's referendum as the Constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2018, was voted in. The European Union imposed new sanctions against the country amidst ongoing clashes. Opposition groups said at least 125 people were killed on Monday. The UN...
08:36 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Damascus: The counting of votes for the Syrian referendum on a new Constitution amidst the escalating violence has begun and the results are expected on Monday. At more than 14,000 polling stations all over Syria, 14 million eligible voters were out to approve or disapprove President Bashar Assad's draft Constitution proposals. It is claimed that if the proposal is approved, Syria will transform into a multiparty democracy, with direct elections...
07:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Damascus: India has agreed to join the Arab league block against President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. India has sent its representative to the 'Friends of Syria' meet in Tunis, that has been convened by the US and the Arab League to determine options for Assad's successor. The meet has been boycotted by Russia and China. Earlier, the UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution urging Assad...
03:39 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Damascus: The bombings in the rebel bastion Homs by the Syrian government forces have entered the 21st day. Opposition groups in Syria claim over 100 people were killed on Thursday, taking to toll to over 9,000 in the last 11 months. The violence continues even after a UN report accused the government of crimes against humanity. CNN-IBN and IBN-7 are the first two Indian news channels to report from the...
07:59 AM, Feb 24, 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
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Monday conferred honorary doctorate by the country's premier agriculture research body Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in recognition of his contributions to the development of the farm sector. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar presented the 'Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa)' to the Prime Minister at 50th convocation of IARI in New Delhi. Being the country's premier national institute for agricultural research,...
05:36 PM, Feb 20, 2012
United Nations: The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The Arab nations-backed resolution condemns human rights violations in Syria and calls for an end to the violence. As expected China and Russia again voted against the measure. But this time, India has voted in favour of the resolution, taking a U-turn from the February 4 voting on a...
08:50 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field, state TV reported. He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Tens of thousands of Iranians joined state-organised rallies across the country to mark the occasion. Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America"....
07:32 PM, Feb 11, 2012
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