|
| October 23, 2008 | Thursday | Shawwal 23, 1429 |
|
Japan okays $4.5bn loan to India: Delhi-Mumbai railway project
TOKYO, Oct 22: Japan on Wednesday offered a record $4.5 billion in loans to India to build a major railway as the Asian powers agreed to step up both economic and military ties.... 
|
|
3 killed in Indian state as ‘outsiders’, locals fight it out
MUMBAI, Oct 22: Three people were killed in overnight rioting in India’s Maharashtra state after the arrest of a firebrand politician accused of inciting violence against migrant workers, police said on Wednesday....
|
|
||
|
Bosnia in danger of collapse, warn former peace envoys
SARAJEVO, Oct 22: Bosnia could disintegrate if the international community does not become more involved in this Balkan nation beset by factional divisions, former peace envoys Richard Holbrooke and Paddy Ashdown warned on Wednesday....
|
|
Beijing most ‘equal’ city: survey
LONDON, Oct 22: Asian cities are among the most equal in terms of income, but inequalities are widening as the income gap between rural and urban areas grows, the UN population programme said in a report on Wednesday....
|
|
|
||
|
India considering sealing border with Myanmar: Manipur blast
GUWAHATI, India, Oct 22: India needs to seal its border with Myanmar to stop separatist rebels carrying out regular attacks in the northeast, officials said on Wednesday, a day after a powerful blast killed 17 people in Manipur state....
|
|
Three credit rating firms under scrutiny
NEW YORK, Oct 22: The top executives of three big credit ratings companies based in New York who made as much as $60 million in compensation while their organisations gave bogus...
|
|
|
||
|
Two killed in Israeli military plane crash
JERUSALEM, Oct 22: An Israeli military plane crashed during a training flight on Wednesday, killing the two servicemen on board, the army said....
|
|
Radioactive elevator buttons spark panic in France
PARIS, Oct 22: A French lift-maker scrambled on Wednesday to remove buttons from hundreds of elevators after the nuclear safety authority said Indian-imported materials used in them were radioactive....
|
|
|
||
France buries ‘sister of the poor’
CALLIAN (France), Oct 22: France paid a warm tribute on Wednesday to Sister Emmanuelle, a much-loved 99-year-old nun who dedicated much of her life to the service of the poorest of the poor in both Egypt and her homeland....
|
|
Nato will defend Baltics: US army chief
VILNIUS, Oct 22: Nato would abide by its commitment to defend the three Baltic states in case of attack, the top US military officer said on Wednesday in the face of regional concerns over a newly assertive Russia....
|
|
|
||
|
Thai gamblers desert casinos
PHNOM PENH, Oct 22: Hundreds of Thai gamblers are avoiding Cambodian casinos a week after a territorial dispute between the neighbouring countries turned deadly, a tourism official said on Wednesday....
|
|
Indian clinics woo ‘fertility’ tourists
NEW DELHI: “We are actively recruiting egg donors!” reads the advertisement on the website of one of India’s top in-vitro fertilisation clinics....
|
|
|
||
|
Sri Lanka rebels hit back with suicide attacks on ships
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels struck back against a major government offensive on Wednesday with suicide attacks on merchant ships off the island’s northern coast, defence officials said....
|
|
Tragedy and comedy, but little dancing in S. Asia film festival
NEW YORK: An Indian tragedy, an American sitar aficionado, and a heroic doctor feature this week in New York’s Asian film festival – with barely a Bollywood dancer in sight....
|
|
|
||
|
‘Toxic’ ship dismantled in Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh): A ship described by Greenpeace as “hazardous” is being dismantled off the coast of Bangladesh despite a court order banning it from the country’s shores, its owner said on Wednesday....
|
|
Death in Kabul and an aid system in chaos
Gayle Williams, say those who speak for her Taliban assassins, was killed on Monday because she was a proselytising Christian. The charge is denied by SERVE Afghanistan, the British aid group...
|
|
|
||
