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TAR delegation in Nepal

Source: Phayul

Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated Wed Nov 25 22:58:51 -0800 2009 | political-news

Dharamsala, November 26 – A delegation from the Tibetan Autonomous Region led by its executive deputy chairperson Hao Peng is currently touring Nepal where it arrived Tuesday on a five day visit. According to Nepalese media, the visiting Chinese delegation...

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PM Gilani seeks PML-N?s help to implement Balochistan package

Source: Pak Tribune

Nawābshāh :: Pakistan | updated Wed Nov 25 22:14:33 -0800 2009 | political-news

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has made it clear that the dreams of the Baloch people would come true through the Balochistan Package, adding the government is committed to making available necessary resources to make Balochistan truly reflective of...

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Hundreds gather in Terrell to honor fallen soldier

Source: The Dallas Morning News

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated Wed Nov 25 22:16:52 -0800 2009 | political-news

Hundreds waited under the Christmas decorations and flags to honor Army Spc. Joseph “Joe” Michael Lew i s, the fifth Terrell soldier to die in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2004. Lewis, 26, died Nov. 17 in Afghanistan when his vehicle...

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Foolish New Slogans for Bad Old Banks

Source: The Motley Fool

Mumbai :: India | updated Wed Nov 25 13:47:37 -0800 2009 | business-news

Last year, Time magazine put a nice bit of tongue-in-cheek punctuation on an awful year in the banking world by releasing a list of the top 10 banking slogans. In honor of The Motley Fool's Banksgiving Day holiday, I thought...

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Retired Gen. Hillier testifies

Source: The Globe & Mail

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated Wed Nov 25 20:13:41 -0800 2009 | political-news

To view this content you need to install the Flash Player. Retired Gen. Hillier testifies CP Video Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 09:40PM EST Former defence chief Rick Hillier says he didn't see reports by a Canadian diplomat warning that prisoners...

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Victims remembered a year after attack on Mumbai’s Jews

Source: Times Online

Mumbai :: India | updated Wed Nov 25 15:06:00 -0800 2009 | disasters

The ten Islamist gunmen who stormed the city a year ago today were told by their handlers in Pakistan that the lives of Jews were worth 50 times those of Gentiles. The wreckage of the only Jewish target — a...

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Mah Satyam feels heat of Rs 1,220 cr extra burden

Source: The Economic Times

Mumbai :: India | updated Wed Nov 25 17:17:44 -0800 2009 | business-news

Mahindra Satyam, the new owner of fraud-hit Satyam Computers, will have to manage an additional burden of Rs 1,220 crore over and above its existing claims and pending law suits after India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Wednesday...

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RK Krishna Kumar, VP, Indian Hotels Company

Source: The Economic Times

Mumbai :: India | updated Wed Nov 25 22:40:15 -0800 2009 | technology-news

NOT just Ratan Tata, but the entire nation wants the Taj Mahal Palace & Towers hotel to reclaim its original grandeur — and it’s this man and his team who are painstakingly making sure that the new Taj matches up...

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State Bank facilitates rice exporters

Source: Pak Tribune

Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated Wed Nov 25 22:14:39 -0800 2009 | business-news

The State Bank of Pakistan has allowed rice exporters one-time facility of getting financing up to 100 percent instead of 85 percent of the value of firm export order in order to facilitate domestic rice procurement process for exports...This relaxation...

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Tamils and Tamil speaking Muslims ditches Sarath Fonseka

Source: Asian Tribune

Colombo :: Sri Lanka | updated Wed Nov 25 14:50:34 -0800 2009 | political-news

No Tamils and Tamil speaking Muslims political parties have come forward to support the retired General Sarath Fonseka. Majority of the political outfits of the Tamils and Tamil speaking Muslims have already decided not to support General (retd.) Sarath Fonseka...

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