Northeast India: Press Club Initiates For Better Health For ScribesSunday, February 03, 2013 Guwahati Press Club, a pioneer pressmens organization in northeast India continues its endeavor for better health for working journalists. The local press club, with over 300 active members representing various news papers, news agencies and news channels has tied up with some Guwahati based privat ... |
SA’s Stanchion Takes On Middle EastThursday, January 17, 2013 Specialist payment solutions provider, Stanchion is expanding its footprint into the Middle East and North Africa with the opening of new offices in Dubai. The technology company is a respected player in the payment systems field, an environment that compels organisations to comply with the ex ... |
Delhi Gang Rape Suspects Charged In India CourtMonday, January 07, 2013 Five men in Delhi have been formally charged with the abduction, gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman.The magistrate ordered the preliminary hearing to be held behind closed doors after chaotic scenes as lawyers denounced one of their colleagues who had offered to defend the accused.T ... |
Why was there war in Gaza?Wednesday, December 05, 2012 Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media. What occupation? Seven years ago, in front of the world, Israel pulled out of Gaza. It dismantled every settlement, withdrew every soldier, evacuated every Jew, le ... |
Reducing Tension in the Middle EastSunday, November 25, 2012 A statement released by the Jewish-American group J Street says: Military force alone is inadequate as a response to the broader strategic challenge Israel faces. For Israel, its different this time November 19, 2012. History shows that political resolutions cannot be achieved while tensions ... |
Civilian Death Toll Rising In GazaMonday, November 19, 2012 The Palestinian civilian death toll mounted Monday as Israeli aircraft struck densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip in a campaign to quell militant rocket fire menacing nearly half of Israels population.An overnight airstrike on two houses belonging to an extended clan in Gaza City killed t ... |
Israel Pounds Gaza For 5th TimeSunday, November 18, 2012 Israel has been shelling Gaza from the sea and air on the fifth day of its bombardment of the coastal territory.Missiles hit two media buildings in the centre of Gaza City, injuring several Palestinian journalists.Early on Sunday, the Israeli army said two rockets fired from Gaza landed in I ... |
Leave the Electoral Commission Alone!Thursday, July 05, 2012 We wish to encourage the Electoral Commission EC to stick to the tenets of the 1992 Constitution of the 4th Republic and the stipulations of the Political Parties law that require that bye-election be held when Parliament declares a seat vacant. We wish to urge all law-abiding citizens and po ... |
Two Supreme Court Judges Who Ruled On Jake’s Bungalow Case Are NPP ActivistsSunday, May 27, 2012 A leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress NDC claims he has irrefutable evidence that two of the nine-member Supreme Court judges that adjudicated on the recent conflict of interest suit filed against National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party NPP, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey by... ... |
Cat Divorce: Israeli Man Divorces Wife After She Brings Home 550 CatsFriday, May 25, 2012 A man from southern Israel divorced his wife this week because she had brought 550 cats into their home.The husband, apparently not a cat lover, told the Rabbinical Court in Beersheba that he was unable to sleep in his bedroom because the surface of the marital bed was constantly covered with ca ... |
Annan Calls For Immediate Syria CeasefireSunday, April 01, 2012 DAMASCUS - International envoy Kofi Annan urged Syrias Bashar al-Assad to immediately implement a ceasefire as fighting raged even after the embattled president said he had accepted the peace plan.Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Syria on Friday to protest against what they ... |
Syria Accepts Kofi Annan's Peace PlanThursday, March 29, 2012 The regime in Damascus has accepted a peace plan brokered by the UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, according to Annans spokesman. A spokesman for the UN and Arab League special envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, said on Tuesday that Syria had accepted a peace plan designed to end the year-l ... |
Syrian army delays its operation in Homs to avoid civilian casualtiesWednesday, March 07, 2012 Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the Syrian army has delayed its military operation against armed groups in some parts of the besieged city of Homs in order to avoid civilian casualties.I know one thing -- that the military operation was delayed because there are civilians in this ... |