Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa himself admitted that in the last two years, 1.05 crore tonnes of iron ore had been exported to foreign countries illegally. In a reply extending for two hours on illegal mining in the state, the chief minister explained the issue thread by thread and submitted a lot of details to prove [...]
( Exactly as published in Proletarian Era – a newspaper by Socialist Unity Center of India ) Bhopal verdict: Unravels cruel despotic corrupt face of moribund capitalism The recent Bhopal verdict that virtually let off the guilty and reduced the worst ‘industrial disaster’ ever, to the equivalent of a mere street accident – a deadly [...]
A state-wide bandh called by Rastriya Janata Dal and the Lok Janshakti Party combine in Bihar against fuel price hike began this morning. There was no report of any untoward incident from anywhere in the state so far, official sources said. In the morning, train services were reported to be normal and vehicular traffic was [...]
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley. Abdullah, a former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and patron of the ruling National Conference in the state, discussed with Chidambaram the steps being taken by the Centre and state government to bring back normalcy [...]
The European Parliament approved a deal Thursday that allows the sharing of sensitive financial data with U.S. counterterrorism officials that the Obama administration had been urgently seeking since the previous system went dark at the start of the year. The controversial agreement had been voted down by the parliament in February 2009 amid privacy concerns, [...]
The Australian Greens have urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to set a price on carbon in 2011 before introducing an emissions-trading system. The price should be introduced at A$23 ($20) a ton and rise 4 percent plus inflation each year ahead of an emissions trading scheme starting, the party said in a June 28 letter [...]
The UN Security Council was set Friday to condemn the sinking of a South Korean warship but stop short of directly blaming North Korea as urged by Seoul and Washington, according to a draft statement. The text, expected to be adopted by all 15 members of the Security Council on Friday, “condemns the attack which [...]
Twelve Iranian women and three men are on death row awaiting execution by stoning despite an apparent last-minute reprieve for a mother of two who had been facing the horrific sentence after being convicted of adultery. Human rights groups and activists welcomed a wave of international publicity and protests over the case of Sakineh Mohammadi [...]
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people queueing for wheelchairs in a busy Pakistan market Friday, killing 47 people and flattening scores of shops, a local official said. The lone attacker detonated his suicide jacket outside the office of the assistant political agent in a crowded market at Yakaghund village in [...]
Sri Lankan demonstrators marched to Russia’s embassy on Friday to express gratitude for support against a U.N. war crimes panel, the subject of a fourth day of protests that have cracked open a rift with the world body. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday recalled the head of U.N. Sri Lanka for consultations and blasted [...]