Politics
BBC News – Afghanistan condemns deadly Nato air strike in Uruzgan
It was a day that saw the participation of over 2,500 people in Miles with Meaning – a marathon organised to create awareness about Learning Disability. The marathon was organised by the students of D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, in association with Landmark International Foundation for Empowerment (LIFE Trust), a registered charitable... »
Railway Contract Workers’ Convention
Comrade Sunil Mukherjee, a veteran leader and, Office Secretary-cum-Treasurer, All India Committee, AIUTUC inaugurated the first convention of South-Westeren Railways’ Contract Workers held at Hubli, Karnataka on 20 Jnauary 2010. Comrade Mukherjee in his inaugural address said, inter alia “as a result of globlisation, privatisation and liberalisation lakhs of workers are loosing jobs. The... »
SUCI opposes proposed move to deregulate petrol-diesel prices and drastically raise cooking gas and kerosene prices and calls for resisting the same under pressure of powerful democratic movement
Strongly deploring the recommendation of the government-constituted expert panel to remove government control over petrol and diesel prices and drastically increase the prices of cooking gas and kerosene under the flimsy pretext of rescuing oil companies from bearing increased cost burden and relieving the government from subsidizing fuel tariff, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary,... »
UP engineer resigns alleging threat to life from BSP MLA
An executive engineer of Irrigation Department in Etawah has sent his resignation letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, accusing a ruling BSP MLA of threatening him with dire consequences. “Shivdas, posted in the First Tubewell Division in the district, has sent a letter to the Chief Minister accusing BSP MLA from Lakhna assembly constituency... »
BBC News – Russian ex-police boss gets life for supermarket murder
A Russian former police officer who shot dead two people at random in a Moscow supermarket last April has been sentenced to life in jail for murder. Denis Yevsyukov was convicted of two murders and 22 attempted murders. CCTV recorded the shooting, in which seven people were wounded. Prosecutors say he was drunk at the time. Friday's... »
Nihar Mukherjee, co founder of SUCI bids adieu
Nihar Mukherjee is the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), died of cardiac arrest on 18 February 2010 at Kolkatta. He is a founder member of the party and became the General Secretary after the death of Shibdas Ghosh in 1976. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Proletarian Era, the... »
Record blizzard shuts down the government
“…three straight days of closings and Friday’s half day will cost taxpayers an estimated $350 million in lost productivity by federal employees,” reports Washington Post Federal Eye reporter/blogger Ed O’Keefe. The figure is based on an estimate calculated by career OPM employees. John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the... »
Cambodian,thai Foreign Ministers Hold Border Talks
The foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand held talks yesterday aimed at resolving a long-running and deadly border dispute. Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and his Thai counterpart Sompong Amornviwat met after negotiators struggled this week to agree how to defuse a four-month military stand-off and resolve competing territorial claims. Negotiating teams from... »

