Prasad - Instablogs
Nov 5 2009
A day after the LeT plot to attack key installations and schools was revealed by the FBI, more chilly details are emerging on Thursday about the terror plan directed at India.
Oct 7 2009
A major breach in the embankment of a Krishna river canal has left low lying areas of a town and many villages in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district inundated even as the toll due to the heavy floods climbed to 269 in the state and in Karnataka on...
Sep 21 2009
A father in eastern India gave away his teenage daughter to a fellow gambler after he lost a card game, with police launching a hunt to retrieve the girl. Ismail Sheikh, from a village in West Bengal, used his 18-year-old daughter as a stake after he...
Sep 7 2009
U.S. troops burst into a Swedish charity-run hospital in Afghanistan and tied up patients’ relatives and staff, the charity said on Sunday, in what it called a breach of deals between the military and aid groups. In a statement issued on Sunday,...
Aug 31 2009
apan’s newly empowered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections, sending them out of power for only the second time in 54 years. Hatoyama said in a victory...
Aug 3 2009
More than 60 years after Independence, untouchability is alive and thriving in India’s hinterlands. Pockets of social change have been but mere drops in an ocean of casteism and prejudice. This was borne out in a survey by National Law School,...
Jul 18 2009
Nearly six months after announcing a high-profile review of U.S. policy to Burma during a trip to Indonesia, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is returning to Asia without a new policy. Clinton will attend a gathering of Southeast Asian foreign...
Jul 11 2009
In diplomacy, as in football, smart players know the consequences of losing sight of the ball. The blink of an eye is all it takes to miss a goal or lose a hard-won advantage. 2008 was a signal year for Indian diplomacy when a set of international...
Jul 2 2009
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has rejected demands that judges reveal details about their wealth and fears they will face “frivolous complaints” if they are made to do so. Balakrishnan told CNN-IBN’s Bhupendra Chaubey that judges of the...
Jun 16 2009
A country not known for its transparent practices in business, politics and many other areas, Indonesia is pressing ahead in its long-running anti-corruption drive by opening up cashier-free “honesty cafes” across the archipelago.