“Myanmar, very corrupt nation”
Myanmar was named one of the most corrupt countries in the world in a league table published by an international anti-bribery group. The military regime comes joint bottom in Transparency International’s 180-country index, sharing ...
Brown copied speech?
LONDON: It was Gordon Brown’s first speech to a Labour Party conference as Prime Minister and he got a standing ovation when he delivered it on Monday but now it turns out (or so it is alleged) that it was “rehashed” from old ...
Dalai Lama meets Angela Merkel
Paris: Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first German head of state to officially receive the Dalai Lama when she held an hour- long meeting with him in Berlin on Wednesday. “The Chancellor paid tribute to the Dalai Lama as a ...
24 Tigers killed in intense fighting
COLOMBO: At least 28 persons, 24 cadres of the Tamil cadres, two civilians and a soldier were killed in clashes in the north in the last 24 hours, said the Defence Ministry. Accounts from both sides suggest intensification of fighting in ...
Bush accused of bid to derail U.N. climate conference
Washington: President George Bush was on Wednesday criticised by diplomats for attempting to derail a U.N. initiative on climate change by pressing ahead with his own conference, which began in Washington on Thursday. One European ...
Three Gorges Dam causing problems, says China
China’s showcase hydro-engineering project, the Three Gorges Dam, could become an environmental catastrophe unless remedial action is taken, the state media reported on Wednesday. In an unusually blunt public assessment, officials ...
India & World Chidambaram: India should grab nuclear deal
Philadelphia: It would be an epic waste if India let go of the opportunities, including the one to end to nuclear isolation, thrown open by the civil nuclear deal with the U.S., feels Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. Speaking on the ...
Benazir Bhutto for peace treaty
Washington: The former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has said she wanted to see a treaty between India and her country in the 60th year of their independence that would “promise” peace for the coming generations. ...
