Growing chinese factor in Sri Lanka

On the southern coast of Sri Lanka, ten miles from one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, a vast construction site is engulfing the once sleepy fishing town of Hambantota.

This poor community of 21,000 people is about as far as one can get on the island from the fighting between the army and the Tamil Tiger rebels on the northeastern coast. The sudden spurt of construction helps, however, to explain why the army is poised to defeat the Tigers and why Western governments are so powerless to negotiate a ceasefire to help civilians trapped on the front line.

This is where China is building a $1 billion port that it plans to use as a refuelling and docking station for its navy, as it patrols the Indian Ocean and protects China’s supplies of Saudi oil. Ever since Sri Lanka agreed to the plan, in March 2007, China has given it all the aid, arms and diplomatic support it needs to defeat the Tigers, without worrying about the West.

Even India, Sri Lanka’s long-time ally and the traditionally dominant power in South Asia, has found itself sidelined in the past two years — to its obvious irritation. “China is fishing in troubled waters,” Palaniappan Chidambaram, India’s Home Minister, warned last week.

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The Chinese say that Hambantota is a purely commercial venture, but many US and Indian military planners regard it as part of a “string of pearls” strategy under which China is also building or upgrading ports at Gwadar in Pakistan, Chittagong in Bangladesh and Sittwe in Burma.

The strategy was outlined in a paper by Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher J. Pehrson, of the Pentagon’s Air Staff, in 2006, and again in a report by the US Joint Forces Command in November. “For China, Hambantota is a commercial venture, but it’s also an asset for future use in a very strategic location,” Major-General (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in Delhi said.

The British Navy used the Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee as its main regional base until 1957 and still shares a naval base with the US on the nearby island of Diego Garcia. China has no immediate plans for a fully fledged naval base but wants a similar foothold in the Indian Ocean to protect its oil supplies from piracy or blockade by a foreign power, analysts say.

Beijing sent three ships on an unprecedented anti-piracy mission to the Gulf of Aden in December, and in January a Chinese defence White Paper said that the navy was “developing capabilities of conducting co-operation in distant waters . . .”

China has cultivated ties with Sri Lanka for decades and became its biggest arms supplier in the 1990s, when India and Western governments refused to sell weapons to Colombo for use in the civil war. Beijing appears to have increased arms sales significantly to Sri Lanka since 2007, when the US suspended military aid over human rights issues.

Many of the arms have been bought through Lanka Logistics & Technologies, co-headed by Gotabhaya Rajapksa, the Defence Secretary, who is also the President’s brother.

In April 2007 Sri Lanka signed a classified $37.6 million (£25 million) deal to buy Chinese ammunition and ordnance for its army and navy, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly.

China gave Sri Lanka — apparently free of charge — six F7 jet fighters last year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, after a daring raid by the Tigers’ air wing destroyed ten military aircraft in 2007. One of the Chinese fighters shot down one of the Tigers’ aircraft a year later.

“China’s arms sales have been the decisive factor in ending the military stalemate,” Brahma Chellaney, of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, said. “There seems to have been a deal linked to Hambantota.”

Since 2007 China has encouraged Pakistan to sell weapons to Sri Lanka and to train Sri Lankan pilots to fly the Chinese fighters, according to Indian security sources.

China has also provided crucial diplomatic support in the UN Security Council, blocking efforts to put Sri Lanka on the agenda. It has also boosted financial aid to Sri Lanka, even as Western countries have reduced their contributions.

China’s aid to Sri Lanka jumped from a few million dollars in 2005 to almost $1 billion last year, replacing Japan as the biggest foreign donor. By comparison, the United States gave $7.4 million last year, and Britain just £1.25 million.

“That’s why Sri Lanka has been so dismissive of international criticism,” said B. Raman of the Chennai Centre for China Studies. “It knows it can rely on support from China.”

Report: Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent

Nusli wadia says he did not finance book on Jinnah

New Delhi: Industrialist Nusli Wadia, grandson of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on Monday dismissed a suggestion that he had financed the book by Jaswant Singh to glorify Pakistan's founder but said he was "appalled" by the BJP leader's expulsion from the party.

"It is all nonsense. My grandfather is my grandfather, it is not going to change. I don't need Jaswant Singh to write a certificate for him," he told CNN-IBN.

On the debate over the book 'Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence' involving some 'very close' friends of his, Wadia said, "In the case of Jaswant Singh, I don't think anybody has the right to say he doesn't have the right to write a book."

To a question on the action taken by BJP against Singh, he said, "I am surprised, yes. I am very surprised. I am saddened and I am appalled."

Asked how he felt when he saw BJP leader L K Advani, a friend of his for the last 30 to 40 years, in the current situation, Wadia just said, "Sad, very sad."

Source: Times Of India hotclicks
http://timesofindia.hotklix.com/link/news/India/I-didnt-finance-book-on-Jinnah-Nusli-Wadia

Indian Cricket Team Schedules

Compaq Cup 2009 Tri-Series India/Srilanka/Newzealand
Fixtures For Indian team
   
Fri Sep 11         
14:30 IST     2nd Match - India v New Zealand
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo    

Sat Sep 12         
14:30 IST     3rd Match - Sri Lanka v India
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo    
   
Mon Sep 14         
14:30 IST     Final - Team1-Team2 in Points Tabl
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo


ICC Champions Trophy 2009/10  indian team schedule/semi and finals
   
Sat Sep 26         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     Group A - India v Pakistan
SuperSport Park, Centurion    

Mon Sep 28         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     Group A - Australia v India
SuperSport Park, Centurion    

Wed Sep 30         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     Group A - India v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg    
   
Fri Oct 2         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (A1 v B2)
SuperSport Park, Centurion    
   
Sat Oct 3         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC (B1 v A2)
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg    
   
Mon Oct 5         
14:30 local | 12:30 GMT
18:00 IST     Final - TBC v TBC
SuperSport Park, Centurion

'Haunted' Indian station reopens

A Indian railway station which was abandoned for 42 years because of fears that it was haunted has reopened in the eastern state of West Bengal.

 

Locals and railway workers say they lived in fear of a female phantom who frequented Begunkodor 260km (161 miles) from the state capital, Calcutta.In 1967, a railway worker is said to have died days after he saw a "woman ghost" draped in a white sari.Officials say the story was made up to avoid postings at the remote station.They argue that it was primarily railway employees who expressed fears about the "woman ghost" at Begunkodor.

"Soon all railway employees fled Begunkodor and trains stopped stopping there.It made life very difficult for locals," said Basudeb Acharya, former chairman of the parliament's standing committee on railways.
Mr Acharya says employees "cooked up the ghost story " to avoid a posting at such a remote station.

Source: Times Of India
Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8236178.stm

Time For A Little Joke: Little Mary and Johny

Little Mary was not the best student in Sunday School. Usually she slept through the class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, ''Tell me, Mary, who created the universe?''

When Mary didn't stir, little Johnny, an altruistic boy seated in the chair behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear. ''God Almighty !'' shouted Mary and the teacher said, ''Very good'' and Mary fell back to sleep.
A while later the teacher asked Mary, ''Who is our Lord and Savior?'' But Mary didn't even stir from her slumber.

Once again, Johnny came to the rescue and stuck her again. ''Jesus Christ!'' shouted Mary and the teacher said, ''Very good,'' and Mary fell back to sleep. Then the teacher asked Mary a third question, ''What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?'' And again, Johnny jabbed her with the pin.
This time Mary jumped up and shouted, ''If you stick that damn thing in me one more time, I'll break it in half!'' The Teacher fainted.

Dam tragedy shows Russia lags behind

 ULAN UDE, Russia (AFP) - The tragedy at a Russian power plant shows Russia lags far behind in technology, its president said Monday, in a rare high-level acknowledgement of the country's post-Soviet weaknesses.

President Dmitry Medvedev said the deadly catastrophe last week at Russia's biggest hydroelectric power plant showed that ageing infrastructure which was once the pride of the Soviet Union was in urgent need of modernization."It is clear that a technological catastrophe of unprecedented scale and consequences has taken place," a stern-faced Medvedev told a meeting with officials in Ulan Ude, the capital of the Siberian region of Buryatia.

Investigators have said that a technical fault caused the August 17 flooding tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, which killed at least 69 people with six more still missing and presumed dead."The only truth here is this. Our country is technologically very far behind," said Medvedev."We really are very far behind and if we don't overcome this challenge then all those threats that everyone is talking about will truly become a reality."

Glue on toilet seat: Man taken to hospital

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA: A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall was taken to a hospital to have the toilet seat removed from his backside after someone smeared it with glue in what an official condemned on Monday as a sick joke.

Police urged possible witnesses to come forward after the 58-year-old man was humiliated in the northeastern city of Cairns by the prank. An ambulance was called to help the man after he was found stuck by fast-acting adhesive glue to a toilet seat on Saturday in the busy shopping mall.

Paramedics removed the seat from the toilet and took him to a hospital, where medical staff used industrial solvents to get it off.Cairns local government official Di Forsyth said the man, who was not identified, was not injured but was "extremely embarrassed" by his experience.

"I'm disgusted that a gentlemen has had to go through that because someone thinks it's funny," Forsyth said. "It's a sick joke."

Source: Times Of India

Man finds his baby son alive after opening his coffin

Jose Alvarenga was told by doctors at a state hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, that his son had been pronounced dead shortly after birth.

Hospital orderlies delivered the premature baby's body, which had been placed in a temporary coffin, to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the coffin to bid an emotional farewell to the infant.

"I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Mr Alvarenga recounted. "I began to cry." He rushed back to the hospital with his unnamed son in his arms and nurses placed the infant in an oxygen chamber.

Doctors seemed hopeful that tragedy would not strike again, describing the boy's condition as "stable".
The news of the child's miraculous recovery was then taken to his mother, who was in a bed in the same hospital.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Women drags her child while shopping

A 37 year old mother dragged leashed child on the ground at a store in paris. Women was jailed and enquiry is going on to know exactly what happened at the store which made mother to drag the child.

For video  and texts go through the link below: From AOL news
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/08/04/parenting-can-be-a-drag-for-woman-who-keeps-child-on-a-leash/

Obama's Joker image spreading like online viral

A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.Nobody has come forward yet to claim responsibility for the posters, which, of course, only adds to the mystery and fuels Internet speculation

The poster has also gone viral online, crashing the Web site that first posted images of it and rising to the top of Google's "Today's Hot Trends" list.

This is spreading like virus, certain democrats have overreacted on the issue, they have challenged the group that has created and published the image to come to foreground and state the reason why they did  offensive against the president

Mystery object crashes into Ottawa river

Dozens of residents of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa Ontario and nearby Gatineau, Que., witnessed an object streak across the night sky at about 10pm local time Monday night and crash into the Ottawa River with a “thunderous boom.” The object had lights on it and appeared to change course several times, like a small plane struggling to stay airborn, before it hit the water.

It was such a sight that emergency rescue and search crews in the area sprung into action and began searching the area using sophisticated sonars and underwater cameras

to try and figure out what the object was. Even helicopters from the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in nearby Trenton took part. On Tuesday at 1:30pm, they discovered an object about 9 meters (30 feet) below the surface, but because of currents and nearby rapids, sending divers down would be extremely dangerous since they would be instantly swept away by the currents.

The mystery? Authorities and residents have no idea what this object laying at the bottom of the river is. There are no planes missing from the area, no other aircraft like helicopters, etc. are missing. There is no derbis, no oil slick and even space agencies that were contacted said nothing disappeared from orbit.

On Tuesday afternoon, Ottawa police Const. Alain Boucher said of the object they found on the riverbed:

“The size and the shape doesn’t lead us to believe it’s any piece of an airplane or fuselage or anything like that. It could be a rock, it could be a bunch of logs stuck together, it’s hard to say. No one has come forward with any kind of videos or anything like that at this time.


Source: http://www.inquisitr.com
Read more: http://www.inquisitr.com/31081/mysterious-ufo-crashes-into-the-ottawa-river-monday-night/

FTC Might Start Watching Bloggers, should be careful while writing testimony

There is a big buzz in the blogosphere about a regulation that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is planning to approve late this summer. If that goes through, they will basically start going after bloggers “for any false claims or failure to disclose any conflict of interest.”

In other words, if you write a testimonial for a product you have never used, you might get busted. This part is the one that makes sense. The controversial one is the “failure to disclose any conflict of interest” one. This could involve bloggers who earned a freebie from a company and ended up writing about it (without disclosing the freebie), for example. Furthermore, it could also mean that you can’t use any affiliate links inside your blog or website without disclosing that you stand to earn money if someone clicks on them.

This article published in www.dailyblogtips.com You can go through the below link for more details
Source :  http://www.dailyblogtips.com/careful-bloggers-the-ftc-might-start-watching-you/

CPJ names 10 worst countries to blog

CPJ(Committee to Protect Journalists) names the worst online oppressors. Booming online cultures in many
Asian and Middle Eastern nations have led to aggressive government repression.10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger” also identifies a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has blossomed and government repression has grown in response

Here is the list of Top 10
1.    Burma
2.    Iran
3.    Syria
4.    Cuba
5.    Saudi Arabia
6.    Vietnam
7.    Tunisia
8.    China
9.    Turkmenistan
10.    Egypt

Refer Below Link For detailed report
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php   

Seattle bank teller lost job after catching bank robber

 A bank teller in seattle has lost his job because he ran down a would-be bank robber and held him until police arrived. Jim Nicholson, 30, who had worked for more than two years at a Key Bank branch near the Seattle Center, says he understands the bank's strict policy that employees comply with robbery demands and avoid confrontations.

But he told The Seattle Times that instinct took over when a thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter on Tuesday and demanded money.
Nicholson threw the bag to the floor, lunged toward the man and demanded to see a weapon. The man bolted
for the door with Nicholson in pursuit.

He chased him several blocks before knocking him to the ground with the help of a passer-by. Nicholson
then held the man until police arrived. On Thursday, Nicholson was fired. Key Bank spokeswoman Anne Foster declined to comment on Nicholson and his actions.

Source: AOL News  http://news.aol.com/
More Details: http://news.aol.com/article/bank-teller-jim-nicholson-chases-robber/599624

Mob attacks two churches and burnt 75 houses of Christians in pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Muslim fanatics attacked churches and burnt down scores of houses of the Christian community in Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on Saturday.

A mob attacked two churches and burnt 75 houses of Christians over the alleged desecration of papers inscribed with Quran verses at a wedding ceremony in Punjab's Azafi Abadi village at Chak 95-JB on Thursday, Atif Jamil Pagaan and Ashfaq Fateh, leaders of the minority community was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper today.


Fearing attack, the members of the minority community fled the village that allowed the fanatics to attack the church, houses and cattle, the report said. The station house officer of Gojra Sadar has been suspended by the District Police Officer (DPO) Inkisar Khan, the Pakistani daily said

The attack came barely a month after a mob attacked 100 houses of Christian in Punjab province's Kasur district, destroying several houses and injuring many on blasphemy charge, it said More than 1,200 of Christian families have been living in Sikendarabad near Kotri even before the creation of Pakistan," he stressed.

In November 2005, 3,000 militant Islamists attacked Christians in Sangla Hill in Pakistan and destroyed churches. The attack was over allegations of violation of blasphemy laws by a Pakistani Christian named Yousaf Masih.

In February 2006, churches and Christian schools were targeted in protests over the publications of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in Denmark, leaving two elderly women injured and many homes and properties destroyed.

Source: Times Of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pakistani-mob-attacks-churches-houses-of-Christians/articleshow/4844929.cms

New camera can see human soul ; Russian reseracher

A wonder device can see the soul of a dead man pass away… or at least that’s what the inventor claims.

A publication of the popular Russian tabloid Life.ru gives a dramatic account of the experiments of an inventor from St Petersburg, who has created a device able to see human aura.

Accompanied by pictures suspiciously reminiscent of a series of thermal images of a woman at different temperatures, the report claims they are made with a special “gas discharge camera” built by Konstantin Korotkov, a professor at the Research Institute of Physical Culture and State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

For detaled report Please Refer the Link:
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-30/soul-aura-kirlian-device.html

Escaped murderer spent 16 years hiding in cave

An escaped murderer who spent 16 years on the run hiding in caves and living mainly off fruit has been recaptured in northern Portugal, police have said.

The 54-year-old man tried to resist arrest when cornered by police on Wednesday night in Vieira do Minho,but did not use the pistol he was carrying.

The former shepherd, who had a deep tan and a long beard, was serving a 10-year jail sentence when he escaped in 1993.His family and friends had provided him with food and medicine, police said.

The former shepherd lived in caves in hills near his family's village
"Since his escape, he hid out and lived in three or four caves in the region, which he knew well," Chief Inspector Carlos Gomes of the judicial police in Braga told AFP news agency.

"He fed himself on fruits and had never seen a doctor, but he seemed to us to be in good health," he added. Mr Gomes said officers had carried out surveillance on the caves over the past two years after receiving reliable information that the man was hiding in the hills around his home. The fugitive "looked like Robinson Crusoe" and had been keen to talk to police after being recaptured, he added.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8176576.stm

13 million abortions every year in china

China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, state media said on Thursday in a rare disclosure of sensitive family planning statistics.

The China Daily newspaper said the real number of abortions is believed to be even higher since the 13 million accounts for procedures in hospitals but many more are known to be carried out in unregistered rural clinics. Also, about 10 million abortion pills are sold every year in China, the paper said.

It quoted Wu Shangchun, a government official with the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying that nearly half of the women seeking abortions in China had used no form of contraception.

About 1.2 million women have abortions each year in the United States, which has a population of just more than 300 million people

The government says its family planning controls since the 1970s - including contraception, sterilization and abortion procedures - have prevented an additional 400 million births in the world's most populous country of 1.3 billion

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Set Offline Status or Invisible mode in Gtalk messenger

Basically the desktop Gtalk client doesn’t allow you to set invisible offline status so one tip you can try out is by downloading the Gtalk Lab edition (Download lab edition) which is a google talk desktop client with a lot of features unavailable in the Gtalk gadget (the one which we use regularly).

You can also launch orkut, google calendar with a click on a button using the lab edition and use those cute smileys bar in the chat window.

If you do not want to block people and still want to chat with some of your friends in gtalk list then make use of Gmail.com web interface, you will have the option to set an invisible mode and chat from the left sidebar

Download link: http://www.google.com/talk/labsedition/download.html

US student disappears as unusual circumstances in Thailand

An international search is under way for a 29-year-old Auburn University veterinary student who vanished under what appears to be unusual circumstances in Thailand. In a media release, Alabama's Auburn University said Harrie, a second-year student at the veterinary school, was attending a summer study abroad program in Morioka, Japan. He informed a professor he was going to take a one-week vacation with friends to Bangkok, Thailand, that would begin on July 7.


"He said he would be back on the 14th," his father explained. But Harrie never returned to his studies. And when he failed to meet up with his parents in Tokyo on July 16, they reported him missing.The investigation into Harrie's disappearance is being led by Bangkok police. The American Embassy in Thailand has also been notified

Harrie's father, who hired a private detective agency to assist in the search, said surveillance tape from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport on July 14 shows his son entering the airport but then exiting the terminal before checking in for his flight. Why would he suddenly turn around and leave remains a mystery.

Why china is mad at india

China is well and truly mad at us. The latest provocation was a diplomatic coup that India pulled on China, getting the US, Japan and even Pakistan to vote for ADB funding for a $2.9 billion Indian development project, which includes a $60 million watershed development project in Arunachal Pradsh, a state, which China lays claim to.

Having refused assent a couple of months ago, China, this week lost a diplomatic battle as India got others on the board to vote for the project. China's refusal had India hopping mad, with the MEA telling ADB that it would reconsider its relationship with the multilateral financial institution.

Pranab Mukherjee, who was then the foreign minister, rallied his troops together to mount a diplomatic offensive, in the manner of the nuclear deal days. Pakistan, for instance, was told India would spike its funding requests for projects in the Northern Areas. Moreover, Pakistan and India have had a long tradition of voting with each other in multilateral institutions.

China was speechless with rage when the ADB meeting this week carried the project through. In retaliation, the Chinese foreign ministry lashed out at the organization, but actually lashed out at the other countries who voted for India.

In recent days China has taken a hardline against India's decision to station troops and elite fighter aircraft in the northeast. In a scathing editorial in Global Times, China basically asks India to back off.

Article By: Indrani Bagchi
Refer author's blog for Details
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Globespotting

"Transparent aluminium" created

Scientists have succeeded in creating a transparent form of aluminium through the use of the world's most
powerful soft x-ray laser. The material is being hailed as a completely new state of matter with far reaching implications.

"Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s
most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction

For more info refer below Link

Source: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/

Germany believes Iran could have nuclear bomb within 6 months

Iran is capable of assembling an atomic bomb within six months, German intelligence analysts told the German weekly newsmagazine Stern.

"If they want to, they will be able to set off a uranium bomb within six months," an analyst with Germany's intelligence service, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), told the magazine.

German intelligence officials told Stern believe Iran has "mastered" every stage of uranium enrichment and that they have activated enough centrifuges to produce sufficient quantities of weapons-grade uranium for at least one atomic bomb.

"Nobody would have thought this possible some years ago," an intelligence official told Stern.The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on Tehran for defying its demands to suspend uranium enrichment.Some analysts say Iran may be close to having the required material for producing a bomb, but most say the weaponization process would then take one to two years due to technical and political hurdles.

"Weaponizing" enrichment would not escape the notice of UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), unless it was done at a secret location. Until now there have been no indications of any such covert diversion, a point made by the IAEA's incoming director-general shortly after his election earlier this month.

Current IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has said it is his "gut feeling" that Iran is seeking at least the capability to build nuclear weapons, in order to protect itself from perceived regional and U.S. threats

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1100387.html

Iran- Russia Joint naval exercise after isreal navy moved into position in past weeks

two weeks before israel has moved it's naval ships to red sea, and now for the first time, Russia and Iran will hold a joint naval maneuver in the Caspian Sea, The Iranian Mehr News Agency reported Wednesday.

According to the report, the maneuver will include 30 Russian and Iranian ships, as well as helicopters.

Russia enjoys extensive trade ties with Teheran and has been opposed to imposing further sanctions on Iran due to the Islamic Republic's refusal to fall in line with the international community's demand that it halt its uranium enrichment program.

Moscow is building Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, has provided Teheran with weapons and needs Iranian assistance on the Caspian and other regional issues.In April Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained that Iran is "our neighbor, it's a country which can play a very important role in solving a number of acute international issues, such as the situation in Afghanistan, Iraq and different aspects of Mideast peace settlement."

In June a Russian news agency reported that the completion of Iran's first nuclear plant is being delayed by Russian banks refusing to work with Iran. Iran is paying Russia more than $1 billion (€630 million) to build the light-water reactor and has already received several shipments of enriched uranium for its operation. 

 Source: http://www.jpost.com/

Israel's Party leader calls President Barack Obama "a slave"

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Israel's Shas Party, has called US President Barack Obama "a slave" who seeks to rule the world and control Tel Aviv's affairs. "American insidiousness tells us to build here and not to build there as though we were slaves working for them," he said. "We live in a time when slaves are governing us and are trying to control us."

The racist remarks were made during Yosef's weekly sermon on Saturday during which he protested the Obama administration's policy to exert pressure on Tel Aviv over its settlement expansion. "We are not employees of the Americans… and Israel does not work for the United States," he shouted.

Barack Obama, the first African-American US president, has come under increasingly pressure from Israel over his strategy for peace in the Middle East. In Israel, President Obama is accused of pressuring Tel Aviv to please the Arab states and is criticized for personal dislike for hawkish Netanyahu. In other parts of his provocative remarks, the senior rabbi attacked Arabs.

“And where is our temple?! The situation there is a cause for grief! There is nothing there but evil Arabs who are occupying our lands… and I hope that the messiah will appear soon to destroy them," he was quoted by the Arab language daily al-Miesri al-Yaum (Egypt Today) as saying.

The remarks came amid a diplomatic conflict between the US and Israel over settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem (al-Quds).

Washington calls for a complete freeze in Israel's construction activities; however, Tel Aviv insists it would continue its program to meet the demands caused by "natural growth" of Jewish communities

150 dogs found in freezer at Michigan home

DEARBORN, Michigan: Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.

Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad said the 56-year-old man found Wednesday in the suburban Detroit home with the animals may have been living with an increasing number of dogs for up to three or four years.

"The house was in complete disarray, very cluttered and, with 100-plus dogs running around in there, very filthy," he said. A criminal investigation was under way at the two-story brick home, Haddad said. He said the case could be forwarded to prosecutors for possible animal-cruelty charges.

Haddad said 112 live dogs had been removed from the home as of Friday, and police believe about five more may be hiding inside. He declined to release details about the breed of the dead dogs. The man living in the house was taken to a local hospital for observation. He had no health insurance and a mental impairment that stemmed from rubella as a child, and had lived for years alone in the home after his parents retired to Florida, said lawyer James G. Schmier, who was acting as a family spokesman.

"I think this is a very human story of a guy who had some very severe mental issues," Schmier said. Neighbours in the past had complained of an odour at the Dearborn home, which had a neatly cut lawn and manicured bushes. But this week was the first time officials got inside, and crews needed masks to breathe.

Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Mad-Mad-World/150-dogs-found-dead-in-freezers-at-Michigan-home/articleshow/4818793.cms

101 years On... Siberian blast still a mystery

The Tunguska Explosion, presumably caused by a comet, is the greatest space catastrophe humankind has ever witnessed. Even a century later, the Siberian blast still attracts scientists who hope to unveil its mystery.

A powerful explosion in East Siberia shook the Earth in the early morning of June 30, 1908, or June 17 in the Julian calendar that was then in use in the Russian Empire. The energy of the explosion was most likely equivalent to around 10-15 megatons of TNT, or about 1,000 times the power of the Little Boy atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan’s Hiroshima by the United States at the end of the World War II.

The blast was registered on seismic stations across Eurasia. It produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected in Great Britain. Over the next few days, night skies around the continent were aglow. In some places, for example in London, people could read in the light.

Scientists theorized that this was due to light passing through high-altitude ice particles, the cause of the space body having entered the atmosphere and then exploded. Back in the Tunguska River area, a staggering 2,200 square kilometers of the taiga forest with 80 million trees was destroyed. Had the event happened some four hours later, St. Petersburg would have been wiped out along with all the villages surrounding it.

The trees around the epicenter of the blast toppled over in a radial pattern. But those in it remained standing. Their branches were stripped so that they looked like telegraph poles.

This phenomenon was discovered by Soviet scientist Leonid Kulik, who in 1927 led an expedition to the area. He measured the 2,000 square kilometers of devastation and recorded images of fallen trees. Kulik concluded that the blast was caused by a meteorite crashing down to earth.

More than a century after the blast, the mystery of the event is still attracting scientific expeditions from all over the globe

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http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-26/tunguska--101-years-long-deadly-comet-tail.html

Russian Navy's secret UFO records

The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.

The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says.

Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.

On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away.

Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.

Vladimir Kremlev for RT. Click to enlarge “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.

Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments:

“Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”

Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water.

In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured.

“I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”

Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-21/Russian_Navy_UFO_records_say_aliens_love_oceans.html

Natural Cure for Hair Loss

Following are some of the less commonly known and yet astonishingly simple hair loss remedies. They are absolutely natural with zero side effects.

Rubbing your left and right hand nails with each other is a powerful hair loss solution and causes faster hair growth. It is extremely simple yet very effective. You need to fold both your palms inwards and place the fingernails of both hands against each other. Then with regular swift motions, rub them against each other. There are nerve endings below the nails which are connected to your scalp. This rubbing procedure increases the blood flow to the scalp and helps in strengthening the roots. It not only helps in curbing hair loss, but also leads to regrowth of lost hair in people suffering from baldness or alopecia areata. And if that is not good enough, it also brings back the color naturally thus getting rid of the problem of gray hair. Trust me, it is the best thing you could do for your hair. It is simple and can be done anywhere anytime. Do it for about 5-7 minutes twice a day. It is tried and tested and will definitely show results. You need to be patient though. You will begin to notice a difference in about a month and by the end of 6 months you would probably be successful in ridding yourself of all your hair problems.

Coconut milk is another magic potion for your hair. Take a dry coconut and grate it. Grind to a fine paste and then sieve through a soft fine cloth to collect the milk of the coconut. Make around 1-2 cups of milk depending on the length of your hair. Apply the milk on the scalp and hair and leave to dry. Keep it for about 2 hrs and then rinse your hair with normal water (do not apply shampoo). This will leave the pure coconut oil in your hair. Keep the oil for 24 hours and shampoo the following day. This process will make your hair softer and smoother to touch and you will see an almost immediate drastic reduction in your rate of hair loss. For chronic cases of hair loss, do this once a week. Eventually once the problem is resolved completely, you can do this once in 2 or 3 weeks. It helps not only in reducing hair fall but also improves the overall health and texture of hair.

Massage your scalp with a good hair oil at least twice a week. Be careful not to be too harsh. Use your finger tips to gently stimulate the blood vessels on your scalp.

Source: http://www.cure-for.info/

China's Mysterious animal "Nessie" spotted

Ten tourists from Guangdong and Hubei provinces were the latest to report a "water monster" sighting in Kanas Lake, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. They told local media that they saw a giant black creature on July 5 that stirred waves over 1 meter high and left a wake over 10 meters long for 20 seconds about 100 meters away from their boat.


Kanas Lake, which means "beautiful, mysterious lake" in Mongolian, is China's deepest freshwater lake with a maximum depth of 188.5 meters, and 24 kilometers long from north to south. It's located in the Kanas Nature Reserve in the Aletai mountain area of northern Xinjiang and has been the source of numerous monster sightings, similar to Scotland's Loch Ness (or
"Nessie") monster for decades – particularly since the 1980s when more visitors and settlers came to the area. Scientists have carried out investigations, though no conclusive evidence has been found of the creature.

Some scientists believe, however, that the monsters may be taimen trout, one of the world's largest and most ferocious freshwater fish which can grow as long as 10 meters

Source: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6705330.html
Image: Timothy O'Donnell

Growing ATM Fraud And Type Of Threats

A spate of recent news reports highlight growing ATM fraud. Law enforcement in New York City reported a gang had stolen $500,000 from bank accounts via ATM skimming. They installed cameras and skimming devices on the machines, and recorded the magnetic strips and the PIN numbers.

A recent survey points towards ATM fraud rising 5-9 percent. Seventy percent of those poled experienced a jump between 2007 and 2008. Many of the large data breaches that have occurred over the past few years may have contributed to the fraud.

It’s simple enough to hack into a database and compromise cards and pins. It’s even easier to affix hardware to the face of an ATM machine and do the same. Once the data is compromised the identity thieves clone cards and turn the data into cash as quickly.

Bankinfosecurity.com recently published “7 Growing Threats to Financial Institutions”. This post is a play on that; “7 Growing Threats to You”

#1 Skimming; Hardware readily available online that is attached to the face of an ATM records user card information and pin codes. In this case you may still be able to perform a transaction.

#2 Ghost ATMs; A card reader is blocked off and replaced with hardware that supersedes the machine and records all your data without allowing a transaction. The machine reads “Can’t complete transaction”.

#3 Dummy ATMs; In some cases an ATM is bought off of eBay (do a search) or elsewhere and installed anywhere there is foot traffic. The machine is set up for one purpose; read data. The machine might be powered by car batteries or plugged in the nearest outlet.

#4 Ram Raids; ATMs built into a wall or stand alone are being rammed by a truck and/or wrapped with chain and pulled out then loaded onto a truck. Once removed the thieves blow torch the machine taking the cash. This is a hot topic in Mexican banks, buy certainly happens everywhere. A bank would be smart to install battery backed GPS in any machine.

#5 PIN ID’s; Sophisticated criminal hackers break into a database or skim magnetic strips. They then go to an online banking site with a hacking software that plugs in various well known PINs. These PINs might be consecutive numbers, peoples names, pets names, birthdates, or other various simple pass phrases people use. When it finds a match it gives the criminal access to your account.

#6 Automated PIN Changes; Criminals go through the banks telephone banking system to change the customers PIN. They may try to change the customers ANI (Automatic Number Identification) is a system utilized by telephone companies to identify the DN (Directory Number) of a caller. This might be accomplished via “Caller ID Spoofing”. They use publicly available data on the card holder such as name, card account number and last four digits of the social security number to “verify” them as the banks customer.

#7 SMS Attacks; AKA Smishing or Phexting – phish texting. Customers receive a text from a bank on their smartphone requesting login information.

#8 Malware or Malicious Software; Researchers found a virus that specifically infects ATMs and takes over the machine logging card numbers and pins.

Source:
http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=3073

Artificial brain '10 years away'

Report By Jonathan Fildes
Technology reporter, BBC News, Oxford

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.He told the TED Global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.

Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said.

"It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years," he said.

"And if we do succeed, we will send a hologram to TED to talk."

For more details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm

Major cyber spy network uncovered

An electronic spy network, based mainly in China, has infiltrated computers from government offices around the world, Canadian researchers say.

They said the network had infiltrated 1,295 computers in 103 countries.They included computers belonging to foreign ministries and embassies and those linked with the Dalai Lama - Tibet's spiritual leader. There is no conclusive evidence China's government was behind it, researchers say. Beijing also denied involvement.

The report, Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, comes after a 10-month investigation by the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which comprises researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies.

They were acting on a request from the Tibetan spiritual leader's office to check whether the computers of his Tibetan exile network had been infiltrated.

Researchers found that ministries of foreign affairs of Iran, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Barbados and Bhutan appear to had been targeted. Hacked systems were also discovered in the embassies of countries including India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Thailand, Germany and Pakistan.

Analysts say the attacks are in effect industrial espionage, with hackers showing an interest in the activities of lawmakers and major companies.

Source : BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970471.stm

An Update for Blackberry turns to be spyware In UAE

An update for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates could allow unauthorised access to private information and e-mails.

The update was prompted by a text from UAE telecoms firm Etisalat, suggesting it would improve performance. Instead, the update resulted in crashes or drastically reduced battery life.

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) said in a statement the update was not authorised, developed, or tested by RIM. Etisalat is a major telecommunications firm based in the UAE, with 145,000 Blackberry users on its books.

In the statement, RIM told customers that "Etisalat appears to have distributed a telecommunications surveillance application... independent sources have concluded that it is possible that the installed software could then enable unauthorised access to private or confidential information stored on the user's smartphone".

It adds that "independent sources have concluded that the Etisalat update is not designed to improve performance of your BlackBerry Handheld, but rather to send received messages back to a central server".

Source:
By Ben Thompson
BBC Middle East Business Report, Dubai
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8161190.stm

Spy scandal hits Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank has confirmed it faces a possible criminal investigation into spying allegations.

Germany's largest lender is accused of spying on two board members it suspected of leaking sensitive details, as well as one critical shareholder.

State prosecutors are now trying to establish whether to launch a formal criminal investigation.The bank refused to comment on reports that it had dismissed two of its staff members in connection with the claims

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8160499.stm

Only 3 Operators Can Have 3G

NEW DELHI: Only three telecom operators can roll out third generation (3G) services in Delhi due to a spectrum crunch, Communications and IT Minister A Raja said Monday. "Delhi has only 15 Mhz of spectrum available making it possible only for three telecom operators to offer such services," Raja told Lok Sabha in a written reply.

The minister also told parliament that an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) had been constituted to look into matters concerning 3G spectrum auctions, scheduled to happen this year.
Each telecom operator (successful bidder) will be allocated 5 MHz of 3G spectrum once the auctions are over.

In Delhi, only two private players will be able to offer this high-end services as one slot is already
reserved for the state-run telecom operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL).The minister said West Bengal will get only 10 MHz of spectrum, while Gujarat will have 15 MHz.
Such a crunch may lead operators to make crazy bids to acquire spectrum in maximum number of telecom circles, industry officials worry.

The government is expected to earn about Rs 35,000 crore from the 3G auctions.

Source:
Times Of India
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Only-three-operators-can-offer-3G-/articleshow/4802182.cms

Israel accuses Indian peace keeping force is helping Hezbollah

JERUSALEM: Israel has accused the Indian troops part of the UN peacekeepers along its border with Lebanon of doing nothing to prevent the infiltration of Hezbollah supporters into its territory, but on the contrary cooperated with them, a media report said.

infiltration of Hezbollah supporters into its territory, but on the contrary cooperated with them, a media report said. Fifteen Lebanese civilians had crossed into Israel last Friday waving Hezbollah flags. The Israeli troops spotted the group, but did not confront them as they returned to south Lebanon minutes later.

Indian troops were blamed by Tel Aviv for not only quietly watching the abduction of three Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in October 2000 but even assisting them after having accepted bribes

Source: Times Of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Middle-East/Israel-says-Indian-peacekeepers-helping-Hezbollah-Report/articleshow/4801490.cms

Fact about Indian Communists who work for china

For the First time Communists(CPI) In 1957 won the state elections in Kerala. This was the first time that an opposition party won control over an Indian state. E. M. S. Namboodiripad became Chief Minister.

A serious rift within the party surfaced in 1962. One reason was the Sino-Indian War, where a faction of the Indian Communists backed the position of the Indian government, the famous Ranadive, Jyoti Basu, and Harkishan Singh Surjeet, supported the Chinese stand. In general, most of Bengal Communist leaders supported China and most others supported India and also CPI's official stand was pro-China. most of the communist leaders were jailed during the war for
security reason

Ideological differences lead to the split in the party in 1964 when two different party conferences were held, one of CPI and one of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) also pro-soviet. There is a common misconception that the rift during Sino-Indian war lead to the 1962 split. In fact, the split was leftists vs rightists, rather than internationalists vs nationalists.The presence of nationalists, and internationalists P. Sundarayya, Jyoti Basu, and Harkishan Singh Surjeet in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) proves this fact.

In April 1959 Ranadive met with the Chinese Ambassador during which he Offered CPI’s support to China on Tibet, and advised China to concentrate its attacks on rightist Anti-Chinese Indian leaders Further in August in a letter to the Chinese Communist Party drafted by Ajay Ghosh and Ranadive the CPI urged the Chinese to single out particularly the Praja Socialist Party and the Jan Sangh for attack as suggested in the April meeting with the Ambassador

In 1960 China had expelled all Soviet Consulates because Mao had complained that russian intelligence had ploted a coup against him. That was the end of Sovieit-Chinese affairs.but russian communists, in fact since 1955 the Soviet Union did everything it can for India: to develop industries, support India internationally, defending India against Pak-Chinese-US attack in 1971; supplying every type of weapons, nuclear power, missiles, rockets—infact everything
came from the Soviet Union , nothing from the west to develop India.

The year 1960 ended with this faction of the CPI continuing to report to the Chinese Party and to receive guidance from it. Ajoy Ghosh also reported to the Central Executive that during his Peking visit Mao had revealed that China wished to exercise more control on Communist Parties in Asia. The most concentrated of these Communist Activities were to be in West Bengal Evidence of Chinese Influence in the growth of Communist Party in West Bengal
A new Chinese Party consul in Calcutta in Sept of 1960 held several meetings with members of the West Bengal party.

China insisted that the CPI must develop a standby apparatus capable of armed resistance, while intensifying penetration of Indian Military forces. With the PLA now present along the Indian Border the Indian Party had a channel of support for Armed Operations and a potential liberator in the event of mass uprisings - 13 Sept 1959. 4 powerful radio sets had been installed in the office of the China Review in Calcutta to listen to broadcasts from Peking

Chinese Financial Subsidies to sections of the CPI particularly the left faction strongholds in West Bengal a foreign supply base was now available for the underground organizations with Chinese occupation of Tibet and other frontier areas letter asking for collaboration in Indian underground organization work aimed at an eventual revolution, because China has a border with India and can provide arms and supplies

Recently India’s powerful communists protested against the first port call by a US aircraft carrier to the country, saying Washington was using New Delhi to counter the power of China and Iran, even basu said "“The Americans are in difficulty in Iraq and are not having their way with Iran and are wary of the growing might of the Chinese,”

Canada says Facebook breached it's law

Popular social networking site Facebook is breaching Canadian law by holding on to users' personal information indefinitely, a report has concluded.

An investigation by Canada's privacy commission found the US-based website also gave "confusing or incomplete" information to subscribers. Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart laid out the findings of the report at a news conference in Ottawa.

Facebook's policy of holding on to subscribers' personal information, even after their accounts had been deactivated, was one area that breached Canada's privacy laws, she said

More than 200 million people actively use Facebook.They include about 12 million in Canada, more than one in three of the population

Israel preparing an attack on iran ??

Earlier this week, two Israeli Sa'ar Five class warships - the corvettes Hanit and the Eilat, two of the most sophisticated vessels in Israel's small navy - passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.

Late last month, an Israeli Dolphin class submarine, possibly also accompanied by other vessels, passed through the canal for a brief deployment in the Red Sea before returning the way it had come. These are all very public deployments and for good reason.

These Israeli naval movements are intended as a clear warning to Iran that Israel retains military options should Tehran fail to halt its uranium enrichment programme.An Israeli official is quoted in The Times newspaper as saying that the movement of the two missile boats should be seen as being linked to a future attack on Iran.

"Israel is investing time in preparing itself for the complexity of an attack on Iran," says the official. "These manoeuvres are a message to Iran that Israel will follow up on its threats."

Clearly any attack on Iran would in large part be carried out by the Israeli air force.
An Egyptian patrol boat passes through the Suez Canal, November 2008
The Suez Canal is a vital waterway for cargo and military shipping

But the navy could play a part too. Israel's Dolphin-class submarines were designed to fire relatively short-range Harpoon missiles. But they also have a number of larger-diameter torpedo tubes from which a much longer-range weapon might be fired.

There has been considerable speculation that Israel has designed a long-range cruise missile capable of being fired from the Dolphin boats, and that this might even have the option of being equipped with a nuclear warhead.

Israel's growing interest in Red Sea operations is not solely linked to the perceived threat from Iran's nuclear programme. Israel is also increasingly concerned about arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.

Analysts believe that much of the weaponry travels by sea from Iran to Sudan and then on to Egypt. Last March there were unconfirmed reports that Israeli warplanes had attacked an arms convoy in Sudan.

All in all the Red Sea is fast becoming a more important area of operations for Israel's armed forces. Nonetheless, Tehran remains Israel's central strategic concern. A huge variety of preparations are underway for a potential attack against Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

There have been long-range large-scale air exercises over the Mediterranean. There are the recent naval deployments. And the revelations concerning Syria's alleged nuclear reactor - with pictures of the installation taken on site - gave a tantalising hint of Israel's intelligence capabilities.

Academic and military experts have produced a torrent of reports about just how such an operation might be carried out. But it is clear that Israel may have some surprises up its sleeve, and that its commanders intend to maximise their tactical options whether an attack comes from the air or from the sea.

THE world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, hit the streets today

The first customer was handed the keys to the vehicle its makers hope will transform travel for millions of Indians.

The head of Tata Motors, Ratan Tata, delivered the car in person at a central Mumbai dealership. No details were immediately available about the recipient or the type of Nano being delivered.
But analysts said the delivery was a positive step. If follows a land dispute which forced the company to produce the cars in eastern India, delaying its production.

The standard model sells for 140,000 rupees ($3595) including tax in the showroom. The deluxe models cost up to 185,000 rupees ($4750).

Tata Motors' Pantnagar factory in northern India can produce up to 50,000 Nanos every year

About Year 2012

There are prophecies and oracles from around the world that all seem to point to December 21, 2012 as New World Age ( World is not going to end but millions of people could die in the process of New Age Transition). The ancient Mayan Calendar, the medieval predictions of Merlin, the Book of Revelation and the Chinese oracle of the I Ching all point to this specific date as the end of civilization. A new technology called “The Web-Bot Project” makes massive scans of the internet as a means of forecasting the future… and has turned up the same dreaded date: 2012. Skeptics point to a long history of “Failed Doomsdays”, but many oracles of doom throughout history have a disturbingly accurate track record.

Many analysts and experts are now saying that something BIG is coming… rising tensions in Middle East (Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine….) and South Asia (India –Pakistan), Russia is getting stronger and making strategic moves, China silently emerging as a serious threat to the Super Powers.. all fully prepared and loaded with Nukes for a possible War! Ready to take avenges (cold wars and WW2). The World War 2 ended by the Nuclear explosions ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) and now experts predicting that the WW3 (The Greatest War) will start by a Nuclear attack on Israel, Iran or Pakistan… near 2012 that will transit this Age/Civilization into the New World Age on 21st Dec 2012!

The majority of world’s population is not involved in politics.. they are simple, innocent and common people.. this is not the matter of any country, any nation or any religion now… not any more! If this happens, each and every being on this earth will be affected!

Does the world have a couple billion fully stocked shelters to help humans survive nearby blasts and protect against radiation for months, and feed people for years, after the war?? ( Considering the VERY LIMITED time left, we are also researching to understand how we can practically and quickly create low cost nuclear protection bunkers for civilians, preserve and store seeds, dry food all other pertaining factors to survival after Nuclear Armageddon. Our objective is to educate people about what devastation a nuclear war could bring and how we can help each other to save ourselves from a possible nuclear attack…this is not just about 2012 prophecies .. but this makes perfect scene in the presences of thousands of nuclear warheads and other modern warfare weapons around the globe wholly for the purpose of Mass Genocide and Destruction! We will start publishing our research reports soon.

Pyramids In China

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Indian Attcked In Italy

Indian Navtej singh sidhu a sikh from India. In italy's carabineri paramilitary police said that three italian youngsters beat up 35 year old navtej and poured gasoline on him and then set him on fire in nettuno.the man sustained burn over 40% of his body . Dr. paolo palombo, an official of sant'Euenio hospital in Rome, where the immigrant was taken for treatment. sidhu is in critical state as he fights for his life, SKY TG24 TV reported that the patient would undergo skin grafts to help fight the danger of infection.

Italian police have arrested three men for beating and setting fire who was sleeping on a train station bench in the seaside town near Rome.