Any reasonable person who’s had the misfortune of watching the Fox News channel in the U.S. knows only too well its “Unfair and Unbalanced” tone. So, it’s with deep regret we note that News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has finally managed to get his grubby hands on one of the world’s finest newspapers – the […]
Wall Street Journal (subscription required) columnist Bret Stephens has lashed out at India’s supposedly growing defense ties with Iran in a hard-hitting column on Tuesday. Citing articles in DefenseNews and the Washington Quarterly as well as actions by the U.S. State and Justice Departments, Stephens charges India with providing miliary technology to Iran, a pariah state for […]
Did anyone say that politics makes strange bedfellows? Ah, how true. How true. Beleaguered Pakistan President and military chief Pervez Musharraf has held secret talks for a second time with his bitter foe Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party and former Prime Minister of the country. The secret meeting is believed to […]
Medical researchers in the U.S. have discovered that Turmeric, a key ingredient of Curry that gives the spicy Indian food its distinctive yellow color, has properties that can fight the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. Named after the German physician Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s is a disease that attacks the brain and is the most common form of dementia. […]
It usually takes a lot for the government to get moving in India. But in the case of Pooja Chauhan of Rajkot city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, it actually took a lot less. A lot less clothes, that is. Frustrated by the indifference to her complaints of dowry harassment by her husband […]
Indian news media report that in their eagerness to get their kid into the Guiness Book, a doctor couple in the town of Manaparai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu have allowed their 15-year-old son Dileepan Raj to perform a caesarean operation. The boy is studying in the 10th grade. Several doctors were […]