Pratyush - Instablogs
Sep 8 2008
Here is another rank list out in the press. This time this is on the freedom of the press. The Reporters sans frontieres’ Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2006, says that India is ranked 105 among 168 countries in the list. These rankings...
May 11 2008
Ten railway workers were killed by tribal separatists in Assam, officials said on Sunday. A police spokesman said a heavily armed group of militants from the Jewel Gorlosa faction of the outlawed Dima Halam Daoga (DHD), popularly known as the Black...
May 11 2008
Six Indian nationals who were on their way to visit Niagara Falls were killed when their minivan spun out of control and was hit by an oncoming car on a Pennsylvania highway, police said on Sunday. Four of those killed worked at the Troy,...
May 7 2008
The anti-migrant drive by Raj Thackeray in Maharashtra has not remained confined to the state and has, in fact, spread throughout the nation and even spilled over to the virtual world. The netizens at NDTV.com have reacted to the issue and have...
May 4 2008
Several regions in Myanmar have been declared disaster zones after a tropical cyclone, with winds of up to 190kmph, destroyed thousands of houses and knocked out electricity. At least 350 people have been officially confirmed dead since Cyclone Nargis...
May 3 2008
Sreesanth - the angry sportsman of Indian cricket. He was searching for an answer but nobody had an idea what his question was. He asked Andrew Symonds He asked him again He asked Mathew Hayden He asked Mohd. Kaif too Then, he decided to...
Continue reading this article ...
May 1 2008
The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world’s largest and costliest home with a price- tag nearing two billion dollar, according to Forbes magazine. “When the Ambani...
Apr 30 2008
A prominent Hindu religious leader with a worldwide following and a huge ashram complex in the US has been arrested on charges of sexual harassment with minor girls emanating from alleged incidents in the 1990s. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, 79,...
Apr 28 2008
India’s Olympic Association (IOA) has taken over running the country’s hockey federation after alleged bribe-taking by one of its top officials. The move to suspend the Indian Hockey Federation with immediate effect was announced by IOA...
Apr 26 2008
Almost half of Cambodia has been sold to foreign speculators in the past 18 months - and hundreds of thousands who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more. Sang Run, his hair stiff with sea salt, chugs out into the Gulf of Kompong Som in his...