G8: A festival of protest Police expect up to 100,000 demonstrators to pack the city and to attend 40 separate gatherings planned over the weekend in protest against the G8 summit to be hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in nearby Heiligendamm.
War threat looms over Syria There are rumours that this time Israel may launch an war with Syria in this summer. These rumours began to spread soon after Israels disastrous July-August 2006 war with Hizbollah in Lebanon.
Bhutans exotic fauna suffers an incursion Melting glaciers in the passes along the Bhutan China border has recently made it easier for Tibetans to illegally slip into this country in search of rare and exotic fungi.
Plugged In: Kids socialise in a virtual world ars Unlike the often-violent world of videogames, virtual sites such as Stardoll, Doppelganger, Club Penguin and Gaia Online hark back to a more innocent time of tea parties and playing outdoors and they are winning young users in droves.
US hits militants base At least one U S warship bombarded a remote, mountainous village in Somalia where Islamic militants had set up a base.
WJHEFGWGFIYyyy... Thai protesters hold flags that read “coup get out” during a rally against the military-installed government in Bangkok on Saturday. The Thai Constitutional Court ordered the Thai Rak Thai party to be dissolved on Wednesday and banned Shinawatra from Thai politics for five years. AP
Is the State Government justified in derecognising 2,215 primary schools which were teaching in English medium after obtaining permission for Kannada medium?
Over 3.5 lakh students are affected by the decision.
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