With 76,000 deaths in Syrian conflict 2014 becomes deadliest in 4 years
Over 76,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict in the year 2014 marking it as the deadliest year yet in the country’s four year conflict, said activists. According to the BBC, among the dead, 17,790 were civilians while 3,501 were children, said the UK-based Syrian Observatory for... read more »
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa regime losing its grip
Delhi: Casino mogul James Packer must wish he could vote in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections next Thursday. Not only is the main challenger Maithripala Sirisena threatening incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s bid for an unprecedented third term – he is also promising to cancel... read more »
Chinese react to stampede deaths: Thought this happened only in India
China on Friday mourned the 36 dead from New Year festivities at its financial capital Shanghai, as the city government revealed the victims of the deadly stampede were mainly young women. Among the 47 who were injured – many of them students – at Shanghai’s famous waterfront area, called the... read more »
BHEL bags first key power project in Telangana
BHEL will set up first Supercritical Thermal Power Plant in newly formed state of Telangana. The company has bagged contract worth Rs. 3,810 crore. The order is for setting up the 1×800 MW Supercritical Thermal Power Plant on EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) basis at... read more »
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan keeps key rates unchanged; EMIs won’t go down for now
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan dashed expectations of the government, consumers and business leaders as he kept lending rates unchanged on Tuesday despite plunging... read more »
Clashes in Hong Kong as pro-democracy protests escalate
BEIJING – Clashes between Hong Kong police and protesters overnight Sunday and Monday morning marked a violent escalation for the more than two month-old pro-democracy movement in the... read more »
Imran Khan threatens to “shut down” Pakistan by December 16
Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan threatened to “shut down” the entire country by December 16 if the Nawaz Sharif Government failed to initiate an impartial probe into the... read more »
Mudgal Report: Three more questions Supreme Court should ask BCCI, Srinivasan
The Board for Control of Cricket in India’s (BCCI’s) attempts to obfuscate the issues currently before the Supreme Court are not a new tactic. As lawyer Rahul Mehra detailed for... read more »
Trinamool targets Amit Shah in Parliament, to hold huge counter-r...
A day after Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her home turf, Trinamool Congress launched a counter-attack in... read more »
