Snowden no hero, says Bill Gates
Agency :Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn’t seem to agree with the hero tag bestowed on National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden by Apple co-founder Steve...
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China demands accurate info on missing jet
Reuters, Beijing :China on Saturday demanded that Malaysia keep providing more thorough and accurate information about a Malaysia Airlines flight that was on its way...
Missing KL jet headed to Andaman
Reuters, Kuala Lumpur :Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening...
Tripartite meet in London
BBC Online :US Secretary of State John Kerry is holding talks on Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in London, two days before a...
… but Mamata is the best, says Anna
PTI, New Delhi :Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who left Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee red-faced two days back, today said he had skipped the poorly-attended...
Suspected Uighurs rescued from Thai trafficking camp
Reuters, Thailand :About 200 people rescued by police from a human trafficking camp in southern Thailand are suspected Uighur Muslims from China’s troubled far-western region...
Court rejects Tarun Tejpal’s bail plea
PTI, Panaji :A Goa bench of the Bombay high court on Friday rejected Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal’s bail plea.Earlier, Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, lodged in...
6 hacked to death in China after March 1 attack
BBC Online :A knife attack in southern China has left six people dead, local police say.Five people were stabbed to death before the attacker was...
7-storey bldg collapses in Mumbai, 1 dead
TNN, Mumbai :One person was killed and many were injured when a 7-storey building collapsed in Santa Cruz in Mumbai’s western suburbs on Friday morning.The...
Protests rage Venezuela
CNN :It’s been a month since violent clashes between opposition demonstrators and government forces in Venezuela first grabbed global attention.Protests rage on, and demonstrators show...
Ukraine creates National Guard ahead of Crimea vote
BBC Online :Ukraine’s parliament has voted unanimously to create a 60,000-strong National Guard to bolster the country’s defences.The vote came ahead of Sunday’s referendum in...
Diplomat row charges dropped in US
BBC Online :Charges against an Indian diplomat whose arrest strained US-India relations have been dropped by a US judge.Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled Devyani Khobragade had...