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| February 14, 2008 | Thursday | Safar 06, 1429 |
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Obama sinks Hillary’s hopes in Potomac
WASHINGTON, Feb 13: Senator Barack Obama superseded Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates, registering his 8th victory in as many days.... 
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Thackeray’s nephew arrested for stoking violence
MUMBAI, Feb 13: Two rival political leaders in India’s financial hub were arrested on Wednesday for stoking violence as part of a battle over “outsiders” thronging to the city for jobs, police said....
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US envoy apologises over Japan rape case
NAHA (Japan), Feb 13: The US ambassador to Japan offered a personal apology on Wednesday over a US Marine’s alleged rape of a young girl in Okinawa, amid warnings that the incident could damage the countries’ alliance....
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52m-year-old bat shows flight came first
PARIS, Feb 13: A nearly perfect bat fossil unveiled on Wednesday, the oldest ever found, has settled a long-simmering evolutionary debate: first came flight, and only then did bats develop sonar to track and trap their prey....
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Concern over mobile phone viruses
BARCELONA (Spain), Feb 13: Viruses on mobile phones are still rare but nearly three-quarters of mobile phone users in developed countries are worried about security on their handsets, a survey showed on Wednesday....
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17 Danish papers print blasphemous cartoon
COPENHAGEN, Feb 13: At least 17 Danish newspapers printed on Wednesday a controversial cartoon of Holy Prophet (PBUH) a day after police foiled a murder plot against the cartoonist, as editors vowed to defend freedom of expression....
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Hollywood writers’ strike ends
LOS ANGELES, Feb 13: Hollywood screenwriters can get back to work after voting to end their three-month strike, bringing to a close the US entertainment industry’s most damaging dispute in 20 years....
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Nepal hit by strike as political tensions rise
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s ethnically tense south was hit by an indefinite strike launched on Wednesday, compounding a fuel shortage in the impoverished and landlocked nation’s capital and fears for the peace process....
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India’s tiger population dwindles further
NEW DELHI: India’s rare Royal Bengal Tiger population has plunged to 1,411, drastically lower than the estimated 3,700 believed to exist five years ago, researchers said on Tuesday....
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Indian rose growers’ sales bloom ahead of festivities
BANGALORE: Valentine’s Day may infuriate India’s Muslim and Hindu fundamentalist groups, but the festival signals boom time for the world’s biggest rose grower....
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Sri Lanka pushes for Tiger territory: Death toll mounts
COLOMBO: Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tigers intensified in the north of the island on Wednesday, officials said, but there was no sign of major gains by either side despite a rising body count....
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Hardliners protest against Valentine’s Day in India
NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu hard-liners are showing no love for Valentine’s Day....
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Delhi’s toll plaza exposes growth dilemma
NEW DELHI: The new 32-lane toll plaza outside New Delhi is one of Asia’s biggest and a gateway to India for many foreigners, but traffic snarls have made headlines and underscored India’s unsteady pace of infrastructure development....
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Natwar Singh quits Congress
NEW DELHI, Feb 13: Former Indian foreign minister Natwar Singh resigned from the ruling Congress party on Wednesday following a bitter standoff with party leader Sonia Gandhi who forced him to...
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Bird flu strikes another BD district
DHAKA: Bird flu has spread to another district in Bangladesh despite efforts by authorities to control it, officials said on Wednesday, bringing the number of affected districts to 41 out of 64....
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Colombo heightens security amidst deadly strikes
COLOMBO: Heavy fighting between government troops and LTTE rebels in northwestern Mannar completely destroyed a Roman Catholic Church in the area killing six soldiers, military officials said on Wednesday....
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India in the midst of a smoking epidemic: study
NEW DELHI: India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released on Thursday....
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