World Billion tree planting Mission, India Ranked 9th with 96 mi

UNEP launched a mission to plant billion tree in 2006, latest report says that four billion plant has been planted till date. In this mission of planting tree India stood 9th with 96 million trees."India has been ranked ninth in the tree planting roll of honour in a campaign...

The 34th Toronto International Film Festival -TIFF 2009

Toronto's Yonge Street and Dundas Square is spotlighting the 34th Toronto International Film Festival this year.  With over 300 films the festival's creative catalyst highlights the best in Canadian Cinema...

Iran calls for nuclear talks as further sanctions loom

" Iran said today it was ready to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme and a broad range of other issues with a six-nation group of major powers. The brief announcement reported on state-run Iranian...

Iran lets in UN inspectors ahead of nuclear report

" ran has made significant concessions to UN nuclear inspectors days before a highly critical report on the country's nuclear programme is due to be published, diplomats said today. Inspectors from the...

'Sach Ka Samna' - 'Moment of Truth'

FIRST - why cant Indian channels get real , why do they always adapt to some program that is already there??? SECOND- once they do it ,there is always a big NOISE made about it in the media, well then stop it at...

Starvation among Tamil kids. GOSL denies food supply!

Colombo deliberately  blocking food to Tamils. Another way of government to kill the tens of thousands people caught up in the war-zone. Health officials in Vanni report that several children faint from hunger within the so-called safety zone every day. Deliberate denial...

Final episode of ER airs Thursday April 2nd

The final episode of hospital television drama ER will be broadcast Thursday April 2nd, and will end a 15 year run of one of the most popular television shows, which at one point drew in viewing figures of 32 million. ER had more Emmy nominations than any other drama in TV...

Merry Christmas: Plant a Tree This Christmas

Why This Project Why has the Conservancy begun the Plant a Billion Trees campaign? Because our forests are on the brink. Coastal development, urban expansion, agriculture, exotic plantations, ranching and...

An Indian in every Pakistani?

"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...

No oxygen in the IMF ventilator

"By Mosharraf ZaidiThe News InternationalBeing of Pakistani origin qualifies an IMF employee to be as much of a Pakistani economy expert, as being of Pakistani origin qualifies a child that eats a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be an expert in Pakistani child nutrition....

Journalists denied visas for India after critical reporting

"Written by www.daily.pk    Monday, 10 November 2008 20:17 Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Indian embassy in Sweden after journalists were denied visas after writing critical reports about the country. “This points to a lack of...

Bluetongue vaccination programme compulsary in Scotland

Scottish farmers will now be forced to vaccinate their sheep and cattle against the deadly bluetongue disease; the first compulsory vaccination programme in the UK. England and Whales have already done...

GAP Action Programme. No health without mental health

Around the world people suffering from epilepsy go untreated, specially because there are many forms of epilepsy, in some countries many are  unable to access simple and inexpensive anticonvulsant drugs...

Gandhi Jayanti Celebration draws flak in Mussoorie

  The Gandhi jayanti celebrations on oct 2nd have just become mere formalities.The public representatives and the govt officials think the clebrations as waste of time and prefer sitting in their homes...

Warships surround Somali pirates

The Somali pirates being confronted by a coalition of the worlds' navies off the Africa coast have been surrounded by three warships: one Russian, one American, and one unknown. "Somali pirates aboard a ship...

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