Malom (Manipur), Nov 2 (IANS) “Iron Lady” Sharmila Chanu completes Sunday 13 years of hunger strike that she began after the massacre of 10 people by Assam Rifles at a bus stand here. Over the years, the “Malom Massacre” memorial at the bus stand in Malom, around six kilometers from Manipur capital Imphal, bears a deserted […]
Dharamsala, Nov 1 (IANS) When Kurdish filmmaker Mano Khalil came across an apiarist named Ibrahim Gezer, he knew that his was a story that must be told. The result was “The Beekeeper”, which was screened at the ongoing Dharamsala International Film Festival (DIFF) here. The 107 minute-long documentary gives a heart warming illustration of Gezer, a […]
Baghdad, Nov 1 (IANS) A total of 1,273 Iraqis were killed and 2,010 others were injured in terrorist attacks and violence in October in Iraq, according to a statement issued Saturday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The statement said that 856 civilians, including 139 policemen, and 417 Iraqi security forces personnel were killed, […]
Mexico City, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) The leader of Mexico’s Caballeros Templarios drug cartel has no plans to surrender or seek some kind of deal with authorities, according to an audio tape posted Tuesday on the internet. A man purporting to be Servando La Tuta Gomez says on the audio recording that authorities are mistaken if they […]
Beirut, Oct 27 (IANS/EFE) The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has intensified its airstrikes on anti-government forces over the past week, killing 500 people, 182 of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Monday. Between Oct 19 and 26, the government forces launched a total of 602 airstrikes, 326 by aircraft and […]
“The Council (US Council on Competitiveness] champions the belief that to be competitive, and raise the standard of living Americans, we must enhance productivity.” www.compete.org/images/uploads/File/PDF%20Files/CoC_2014_Clarion_091014_FINAL.pdf Effective competitiveness is often described as above. Being competitive means being able to increase prosperity, which requires increasing productivity. It’s a fairly straightforward and well-understood relationship – increased productivity leads […]
Madrid, Oct 6 (IANS/EFE) Spain’s Maritime Rescue service Sunday pulled out of water 58 immigrants from Sub-Saharan countries, who had set sail from the Moroccan coast in a small boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The migrants were intercepted 10 nautical miles from the Spanish islet of Alboran. A spokesman for the emergency service told EFE that […]
Madrid, Oct 3 (IANS) FC Barcelona striker Lionel Messi will have to stand trial on corruption charges after a judge in the Catalan town of Gava rejected the footballer’s appeal against having to appear, it was confirmed Friday. Messi had alleged and had been backed up by the Spanish anti-corruption judge that he had not known […]
Guwahati, Oct 1 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday urged union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to expedite the process to set up the Brahmaputra River Valley Authority (BRVA) as a long-term mitigation measures for floods on Brahmaputra and Barak river basins. “Flood causes a temporary setback but erosion causes permanent damage. So far four lakh […]
Santiago, Sep 30 (IANS/EFE) A 23-year-old Chilean man died after two years in a persistent vegetative state as a result of being shot in the head unintentionally by a law enforcement officer during a student protest in October 2012, his family said Monday. Angelo Estrada, who died Sunday at his home in Peñaflor, 40 km southwest […]