Embargo on fuel blocks UN aid in Gaza UN agencies providing humanitarian assistance to more than 8,00,000 Palestinians in Gaza were set to suspend operations on Thursday due to Israels fuel blockade.
Maoists want to scrap the Indo-Nepal pact of 1950 Nepals former Maoist guerrillas, the largest political party in Nepal which will soon head a new government, wants to do away with a crucial 60-year-old treaty with India and review other pacts.
UK: Biggest strike in 10 years Around 400,000 public sector employees went on strike in Britain on Thursday, in what trade unions said is the biggest wave of work stoppages since the Labour party came to power a decade ago.
Arctic ice melting faster: WWF Arctic sea ice is melting significantly faster than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund warned
US retailers resort to rationing of rice The global food crisis reached the US on Wednesday with big retailers rationing sales of rice in response to bulk purchases by customers alarmed by rocketing prices of staples.
Paraguay's president-elect Fernando Lugo (R) shakes hands with Archbishop Orlando Antonini, Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay on Thursday in Asuncion. Antononi arrives at Lugo's electoral campaign headquarters to express success to the next Paraguayan government. AFP
As many candidates have made it a habit to change parties just to contest elections, should the people of Karnataka reject the party-hoppers lock, stock and barrel ?
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