An earthquake has unleashed waves of terror in central China on Satuday (Nov. 26). It killed at least 14 people and destroyed thousands of homes. The tremor had a magnitude of 5.7 and its epicentre was near the city of Ruichang in Jiangxi province....
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The ruling Junta in Myanmar has shifted the capital of the country to Pyinmana town, about 250 miles north of the current capital, Yangon, formerly Rangoon. A minister said there was a need for a "command and control center" in a strategic location....
Police arrested 17 terror suspects in Australia's two biggest cities on Tuesday ( Nov. 08) in raids. Authorities claimed to have foiled a plot to carry out a catastrophic terror attack. A radical Muslim cleric known for praising Osama bin Laden was...
The recent jab by the US President Bush at the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a pointer to the fact that the US suffers from Chavezphobia in the manner as it used to be the prey to the Castrophobia in the past. Bush was participating in the...
Mukhtaran Mai, the Pakistani gangrape victim, who single-handedly waged a battle on her rapists against all odds, has received accolades and support from around the world, says the Washington Post. Her battle has made a tremendous difference to the...
Hasan Suroor, Special correspondent of the Indian newspaper "The Hindu" has asked some questions from Ms. Irshad Manji, Canadian author of the controversial book "The Trouble with Islam Today". The minset of Hasan Suroor, an Indian Muslim, who seemed...
Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan (god) Osho to millions of his followers all over the world, has written in his book "Beyond Psychology": Terrorism is related to what is happening in society. Society is falling apart. Discipline, morality, religion,...
Though the bifurcation of India gave birth to Pakistan way back in 1947, fiftyeight years ago, the mutual distrust and suspicion between the two neighbours continue to prawl to the extent that it seems that none will grow and mature ever. For instance...
Myanmar (Burma) tops the list of conflict-prone countries in the world. Another South-east Asian country, India, long-mired in violence in Kashmir, comes second to it. These disclosures have come out in the 'Human Security Report, 2005'. This report,...
The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who is emerging as the US enemy no. one, brackeeted with Fiedel CCastro of Cuba, has urhed Venezuelan parents not to let their children dress up as witches and ghouls for Halloween, calling it a 'game of terror' - a...
Kickbacks and corruption have become so endemic that these issues, eating the vitals of Democracy, no longer stir the conscience of people. The Volcker Committee report on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, 2001 has named K. Natwar Singh,...
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, incarcerated for more than 10 years since 1989, and following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi (India) and Nelson Mandela (South Africa), is leading one of the great non-violent political struggles of our time in Myanmar in South...
Another predominantly Muslim country has fallen prey to the menace of terrorism. It is Nigeria, West Africa's leader and one of the world's leading oil producers. It has been revealed that it is listed by Osma bin Laden among five apostate states, ripe...
Poverty is the biggest polluter, terrorist and criminal. Little wonder, a study in the UK says that increasing murder rate over the past 25 years were triggered by a recession in the early eighties.
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It is a heartening note that the studens in Bali have demonstrated outside the parliament demanding action against terrorists. They are demanding stern action against terrorists who are out to disrupt the tranquility of the island and threatening the...
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