Palash Ghosh

Hazare has also urged the passing of dramatic electoral reforms -- including the right to recall a lawmaker.

Nov 01, 2011

Selebi remains free on bail. If, however, his two-day appeal fails, he will have to go to jail.

Nov 01, 2011

The two face possible prison terms.

Nov 01, 2011

The magazine will be temporarily renamed ‘Sharia Hebdo,’ for its next weekly issue.

Nov 01, 2011

The principal opposition party New Democrats, have called for early elections, warning that the referendum that Papandreou has proposed could endanger Greece’s membership in the European Union (EU).

Nov 01, 2011

French banks Credit Agricole, Societe Generale and BNP Paribas --all of which are believed to be heavily exposed to Greek debt-- are down more than 10 percent.

Nov 01, 2011

Townshend, now 66 years old, said he was opposed to unauthorized file-sharing because the internet is destroying copyright as we know it.

Nov 01, 2011

According to Japanese media, there are currently 126 prisoners languishing on death row.

Oct 31, 2011

During a speech on Friday in Wilmington, Del, Joe Biden repeatedly referred to his “future son-in-law.”

Oct 31, 2011

At year-end, Brazil’s GDP is expected to hit $2.44 trillion, just a hair above the $2.43 trillion figure for the UK.

Oct 31, 2011

Almost 60 percent of Greeks view the new EU agreement providing for a new bailout package as “negative” or “probably negative”,

Oct 31, 2011

At least three other western celebrities, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Seal and violinist Vanessa Mae also attended Kadyrov’s 35th birthday party.

Oct 31, 2011

Louis Schlamowitz, a retired 81-year-old florist, wrote letters and exchanged photos with the Libyan strongman for twenty years starting in the late 1960s

Oct 31, 2011

The yen just reached a post-war record against the U.S dollar – thereby placing great pressures on Japanese exports.

Oct 31, 2011

North Koreans in Libya are in a trapped in a diplomatic limbo. Their brethren in Tunisia and Egypt have also been prohibited from returning home.

Oct 31, 2011

Global unemployment now already exceeds 200 million, the highest level ever reported.

Oct 31, 2011

According to reports, of the 54 nations of the Commonwealth, three-fourths (41) have laws which ban homosexuality.

Oct 31, 2011

To augment his stature, Sarkozy has stood on boxes, foot-stools, even on his tippy-toes and reportedly even demanded to be photographed only among other short (or shorter) people

Oct 31, 2011

Halloween likely originated with “Samhain,” the most important festival of the Celts of ancient Ireland

Oct 31, 2011

The attack, which Turkish authorities believe was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), occurred in the province of Osmaniye.

Oct 29, 2011

A recent column in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper described Sarkozy and Berlusconi as “pygmies.”

Oct 29, 2011

A number of Tuareg have reportedly fled Libya for Mali and Niger and other nations since the Libyan rebels deposed Gaddafi.

Oct 29, 2011

Islamic Jihad -- which is not directly affiliated with Hamas -- said it will take revenge for the killings.

Oct 29, 2011

When his last term ended in December 2010, he enjoyed a record 80 percent approval ratings

Oct 29, 2011

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged both the company and labor unions to settle the dispute immediately.

Oct 29, 2011

A suicide car bomber on Saturday killed 13 troops and civilian employees of the NATO-led force in Kabul, including Americans and a Canadian, in the deadliest single ground attack against the coalition in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

Oct 29, 2011

A court in Morocco has sentenced to death the man believed to be behind a deadly April bombing of a cafe in Marrakesh.

Oct 28, 2011

Gitanjali said it envisions having 75 ATMs in shopping centers, retail, temples and airports

Oct 28, 2011

Workers have been striking against Qantas' plans to restructure the airline, a move that is expected to result in almost 1,000 job cuts.

Oct 28, 2011