Sanyog - Instablogs
Nov 24 2009
Italian anti-terrorist police have arrested two Pakistanis suspected of helping to finance the Islamic militant group responsible for the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008, that killed 166 people. Police said in a statement on Saturday the men,...
Nov 13 2009
Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her relatives’ heads. Then the bride-to-be, a little girl playing in the dirt in this impoverished village, plucked up her courage and said, “I do not.” Roshan Bairwa, then 14,...
Nov 10 2009
A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday. The landslide demolished nearly 300 tin-roofed mud huts Monday in the Ooty and Coonoor region of...
Nov 6 2009
Pakistan has been accused of economic sabotage after a surge in the amount of counterfeit currency being discovered in the vaults of India’s central bank. The Reserve Bank of India discovered 400,000 counterfeit notes in its coffers in the year to...
Nov 6 2009
Sachin Tendulkar, two weeks short of completing his two decades in international cricket, scored a brilliant 175 as he crossed his personal milestone of 17,000 ODI runs in the fourth One-Day International against Australia here Thursday.
Sep 23 2009
The President of the Maldives, the Indian Ocean islands threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, told the United Nations climate-change summit yesterday that the country’s appeals for help had fallen on deaf ears for 20 years. “Once or...
Sep 17 2009
As the morning commuter train rattled down the track, Chinu Sharma, an office worker, enjoyed the absence of men. Some of them pinch and grope women on trains, or shout insults and catcalls, she said. Her friend Vandana Rohile agreed and widened her...
Sep 4 2009
Pakistan on Thursday said it was “disturbed” by reports that India could be preparing for additional nuclear tests and hoped a unilateral moratorium on testing would remain in place in the region. “We are disturbed by media reports...
Aug 7 2009
A probe has been launched into the death of an Indian man after photographs were published appearing to show that he had been executed by police. Police claimed they shot hospital attendant Chongkham Sanjit, 27, after he fired on them during a chase...
Aug 5 2009
I think India’s status as a democracy - irrespective of size - is firstly undermined by a political class that thinks it is above the law, by an administrative machinery that thinks it is above the law, and - going by how upset they are at being...