| Insecurity increasing among Hindus, says Pakistani daily |
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: There is an escalating sense of insecurity within Pakistan’s Hindu community, said a leading daily on Saturday as many Hindu families moved from Jacobabad to India.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s predilection for terming all negative developments in Pakistan as a conspiracy against the state was in full play on Thursday, said an editorial in the Dawn. |
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| India-educated Vietnamese may get ASEAN's top job |
JAKARTA, Aug 11: Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh, an alumnus of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, may become the ASEAN’s next secretary-general, according to reports here.
Vietnamese foreign ministry spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi said that ASEAN foreign ministers have expressed support to the nomination of Minh as ASEAN secretary-general for the 2013... |
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| Top US law official calls gurdwara shooting a hate crime |
OAK CREEK (WISCONSIN), Aug 11: As thousands of mourners paid their last respects to six Sikh worshippers gunned down at a Sikh gurdwara here, US Attorney General Eric Holder called it “an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime.”
Holder spoke at an emotional memorial service at Oak Creek High School for the victims of the attack at the gurdwara in a Milwaukee suburb... |
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| Five Indian techies die in car accident in US |
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: Five Indian software professionals, all from Hyderabad, died when their car hit a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in a fiery crash on a highway near Oklahoma city on Friday.
The names of the people killed have not been released, but the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) citing a friend of those killed identified the five as Jaswanth Reddy Subbayyagari,... |
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| Russian warships hold drills in Mediterranean |
MOSCOW, Aug 11: A Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said.
The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and two support ships from Russia’s Northern, Baltic and Black Sea Fleets. |
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| Indian named to Romney's Asian American panel |
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has named the party’s top Indian-American fundraiser, Dr Akshay Desai, one of seven national co-chairs of his newly formed Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Romney committee. Desai, chief exective officer of St Petersburg, Florida-based Universal Health Care Group, Inc, is the only South Asian American among the seven co... |
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| Amid concern in India, Zardari forms panel to talk to Hindus |
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: With concerns rising in India over reported persecution of Hindus in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari has formed a three-MPs’ panel to meet and reassure Hindus in Sindh of their security after their families decided to flee their homes.
Zardari has taken serious notice of reports of the sense of insecurity among Hindu families in Sindh and directed the autho... |
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| 'Kidney for an iPad' trial begins in China |
LONDON, Aug 11: Five people are facing trial in China after a student sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone, the Daily Mail reported. The 17-year-old nearly died after the operation to remove one of his vital organs, which he reportedly sold for the equivalent of around 1,900 pounds. The defendants include the surgeon who removed the kidney from the teenager in the central province of Hunan. T... |
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| British teenager gets 10 years for killing man |
LONDON, Aug 11: A teenager in Britain has been jailed for 10 years for stabbing a disabled man to death. Jordan Flattery, 19, knifed Graham Snowden, a father of two who was partially blind and had mobility problems after being seriously injured in a car crash, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. The killing happened while the pair were at a house party in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in January. Snowd... |
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| Britain's cardboard cop cuts shoplifting by 75 per cent |
LONDON, Aug 11: The life-size cut-out of a police officer guarding a supermarket in Britain has been so effective that shoplifting has been slashed by 75 per cent. The cardboard cop, nicknamed PC Boardman and based on a real officer, was placed at the entrance and aisles of Asda in Leigh on last October, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Unwitting customers have even tried to have a chat with t... |
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| Egypt's buried hands may be ancient trophies |
LONDON, Aug 11: Sixteen buried hands uncovered recently in Egypt could be trophies victorious warriors took after battle 3,600 years ago, say experts. Researchers believe the discovery is the earliest and only physical evidence that soldiers used to present the cut-off right hands of enemies in exchange for gold. After beating the enemy successful fighters would chop off their opponents hand to re... |
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| US air force commander removed amid widening sex scandal |
HOUSTON, Aug 11: The US Air Force removed a top training commander at a Texas base on Friday amid a widening sex scandal involving basic training instructors. Col Glenn Palmer, point man in the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland’s efforts to identify and remove instructors who may have been involved in sexual relationships with recruits, has been relieved of the command of the 737th training gr... |
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