Women's Corner
A Christian woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after being convicted of defaming Prophet Mohammed, reports Daily Telegraph, London. Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination. Christian groups and human rights campaigners [...]
Seoul, Declaring that “Indonesia is part of me,” US President Barack Obama issued a strikingly personal appeal to the Muslim world to join the West in an unrelenting battle to defeat al-Qaida and violent extremism. After his speech in Jakarta, Obama flew to South Korea and a meeting of the Group of 20 major economic [...]
Bollywood film maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been sent a seven-day notice by veteran writer and director Dayanand Rajan, in which the latter has claimed that the stryline of his unpublished novel “Summer Snow” has been lifted in its entirety for the film Guzaarish, says a media report. Bhansali says he is not aware about [...]
An engineer by profession, Deepak Chowdhry had a love marriage and splurged money on his wife. After rising debts, he planned to carry out a bank robbery, Deepak planned to steal money from the strong room of Punjab National Bank branch in Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, and he chose the Diwali holidays as the right time to [...]
New Delhi/Mumbai, Union Minister Prithviraj Chavan, a technocrat-politician, was today selected as Maharashtra’s new Chief Minister with the NCP also mirroring the change bringing in Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar as his deputy dislodging popular OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal. 64-year-old Chavan, a US educated engineer, was chosen by Congress president Sonia who was authorised by [...]
New Delhi, Nov 8 (PTI) President Barack Obama today announced support for India’s quest for permanent membership of a “reformed” UN Security Council (UNSC) “in the years ahead”, as he wrapped up his three-day state visit. His widely-awaited endorsement of India joining the elite club of five permanent members of the UNSC came in the [...]
A ten-day-old baby girl died after being placed in a washing machine as it went through an entire spin cycle. The newborn’s mother Lyndsey Fiddler put her daughter into the washing machine along with a pile of laundry, reports Daily Mail, London. The tiny baby was inside the top loading washing machine for up to [...]
An Asian male disguised himself as an elderly white man using a silicone mask and successfully board a flight from Hong Kong to Canada, The Daily Telegraph reported. The unnamed man boarded the Vancouver-bound flight on October 29. At some point during the flight, he went into the bathroom and took his mask off, emerging [...]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) Lilting tunes wafted across the lush green lawns of the Race Course residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he hosted a private dinner tonight for US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite bhajan ‘Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye jay peerh paraaye janney ray’ played by [...]
1. ਕਿਸੇ ਪਿੰਡ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਜ਼ਿਮੀਦਾਰ ਆਪਣੇ ਪ੍ਰੀਵਾਰ ਨਾਲ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਸੀ। ਇੱਕ ਦਿਨ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਛੋਟੇ ਪੁੱਤਰ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਇਤ ਕੀਤੀ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਭਰਜਾਈ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਗਾਲ੍ਹਾਂ ਕਢੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ਕੁੱਤਾ ਆਖਿਆ ਹੈ। ਜ਼ਿਮੀਦਾਰ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਨੂੰਹ ਨੂੰ ਬੁਲਾਇਆ ਤੇ ਪੁਛਿਆ ਕਿ, ਕੀ ਤੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਛੋਟੇ ਦੇਵਰ ਨੂੰ ਗਾਲ੍ਹਾਂ ਕਢੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ [...]
