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| May 08, 2008 | Thursday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 2, 1429 |
Cowen elected Irish PM
DUBLIN, May 7: Irish deputies elected Brian Cowen prime minister on Wednesday and allies and opponents warned the former finance minister he faced a tough task steering the country through a worsening economic slowdown....
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Obama likely to clinch nomination: pundits
NEW YORK, May 7: Most political experts, newspaper columnists and writers predicted on Wednesday that with the decisive victory in North Carolina democratic primary, Senator Barack Obama would ultimately prevail over...
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Pakistan’s new HC in rich company
LONDON, May 7: By the time Wajid Shamsul Hassan, Pakistan’s High Commissioner-designate takes over his new assignment, probably in the middle of June, at 36 Lowndes Square, the London neigbourhood, already an opulent place would become even more so....
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Two Nato soldiers killed
KABUL, May 7: Two Nato soldiers and a civilian were killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance force said....
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Lebanon’s political conflict turns violent
BEIRUT, May 7: Supporters of Lebanon’s US-backed government fought gun battles in Beirut on Wednesday with gunmen loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition, escalating the country’s worst internal crisis since the 1975-90 civil war....
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Rowling wins privacy case
LONDON, May 7: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won her battle to ban further publication of a long-lens photograph of her son, in a privacy case her legal team called a major development in British law....
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For temple, Gyanendra will remain king
BHUBANESHWAR (India) May 7: Nepal’s monarch may soon be reduced to a commoner — but there is one place he will always be king....
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Cyclone Nargis — Urdu for ‘daffodil’
BANGKOK, May 7: Cyclone Nargis, the tropical cyclone that tore into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta killing at least 22,000 people and leaving a million people homeless, takes its name from the word for “daffodil” in Urdu....
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Iran blames Nato for Afghan drug problem
TEHRAN, May 7: Iran accused Nato on Wednesday of being indifferent towards Afghanistan’s growing drugs problem and called on European states to help Tehran fight smuggling of heroin and other narcotics from its neighbour....
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Rice export ban
DHAKA, May 7: Bangladesh has banned exports of non-aromatic rice for six months to secure domestic supplies, the government said on Wednesday. The ban came into effect from Tuesday....
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Strong quake rocks Tokyo region
TOKYO, May 7: A series of strong earthquakes including one with a magnitude of 6.7 hit the Tokyo area on early Thursday, cutting off power to more than 2,000 homes and causing light injuries, officials and reports said....
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Japan, China make progress on gas feud at summit
TOKYO, May 7: Japan and China announced progress towards settling a feud over gas in the East China Sea in a sign of warming ties between the big Asian rivals, and...
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Iranian resistance wins ruling against UK ban
LONDON, May 7: An Iranian resistance group claimed victory on Wednesday in a seven-year legal battle when three top judges upheld a ruling that the British government was wrong to ban it as a terrorist organisation....
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India’s breadbasket unable to feed its farmers
HAMIRGARH (India): Unlike his father and brother who hanged themselves, Labh Singh gulped down pesticide to end his misery, leaving his wife to look after five children and pay off the family debts....
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Drugs undermine efforts to rebuild Afghanistan
FAIZABAD: Jam Bigum, a drug addict in Afghanistan’s impoverished northern province of Badakhshan, feeds her three-month-old son opium three times a day to keep him quiet....
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Delhi unlikely to soften on farming in WTO talks
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: India is unlikely to soften its stance on agriculture at global trade talks and may even gamble on the negotiations stretching into next year when a new US administration is in place, analysts say....
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Afghans escape poverty via cheap labour at US bases
KHOST (Afghanistan): Said Mohammed spends eight hours a day six days a week cementing walls with his bare hands, earning just $3 a day. He could barely be happier....
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Bangladesh court charges Hasina with graft
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court charged former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with corruption on Wednesday over contracts awarded to a Canadian oil and gas company in 2001, an investigator said....
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India takes first step in fight against rhino poachers
KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK (India): Authorities in India’s remote northeast said they were increasing security in the world’s biggest reserve for the endangered great one-horned rhinoceros to save them from poachers....
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Sri Lanka party pushing for Muslim chief minister
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s chief Muslim party, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), which represents the country’s 7 per cent Muslim population and is contesting the provincial council polls in the volatile...
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