Monthly Archives: July 2013
Kerala govt to go ahead with Aranmula airport project
DESPITE strong opposition even from a section of ruling Congress led-UDF to the private international airport at Aranmula, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday asserted his government would go ahead with the project.
Heavy rains in Uttarakhand; most rivers in spate
WATER level in most of the rivers in Uttarakhand swelled following heavy rains on the second consecutive day on Thursday, even as Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna distributed compensation to the kin of 14 policemen and four state officials, who went missing in the flash floods.
Syria’s war children will grow up illiterate, says UN envoy
SYRIA'S devastating civil war will force a generation of children to grow up illiterate and filled with hate, a UN envoy warned on Thursday as fighting raged on around the country.
Two Air India pilots suspended for allowing actress inside cockpit
TWO Air India pilots have been suspended after they allowed a south Indian actress to sit inside the cockpit mid-air on a Bangalore-Hyderabad flight in flagrant violation of safety norms.
Microsoft got more than 400 requests from India for info on IDs
IT services firm, Microsoft received over 400 requests from India last year for inquiries regarding criminal activity, affecting nearly 600 different accounts, according to the firm.
SC refuses to bring down juvenile age from 18 to 16 years
ON December 16, last year, a 23-year-old girl was brutally gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus allegedly by six persons, one of whom is a minor and is facing proceedings before a Juvenile Justice Board which is scheduled to pronounce its verdict on July 25.
Now, a pen that vibrates when you make a spelling mistake
GERMAN inventors have developed a new hi-tech pen that gently vibrates every time it senses a spelling mistake or sloppy handwriting. Lernstift is a regular pen with real ink, but inside is a special motion sensor and a small battery-powered Linux computer with a WiFi chip.
Saudi Arabia regularises status of 40 lakh expatriate workers
SAUDI Arabia has completed regularisation of nearly four million foreign workers in the last four months as part of its 'Nitaqat' programme, with 1.18 million expats choosing to change their profession.
Top Jamaat leader gets death for war crimes in Bangladesh
THE 65-year-old Jamaat-e--Islami (JI) secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was given death penalty by the International Crimes Tribunal-2, two days after JI’s 91-year-old supremo Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in jail.
Catholic priest from Andhra Pradesh faces sex charge in US
AN Indian Catholic priest, who was arrested in the US on charges of engaging in sexual contact with a child under 13 years of age, has been released on a bail of $75,000.
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Do Jews consider Jesus now more than ever?
Kalisher – the son of a Holocaust survivor and born into one of the most prominent and influential Messianic Jewish families in all of Israel – gives a fascinating explanation of why many Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah but also why more Jews than ever do believe.
