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By STAFF Writer August 05, 2011 INDIA NEWS - Ancient Vedic festival Rakhi, also known as Rakhsha Bandhan, gets greater market both online and offline. The online B2C companies in India such as VirtualRakhi.com, Rakhi-Gifts.com, SendRakhiGiftsToIndia.com, RakhiFestival.com, rakhi.indiangiftsportal.com, Rakhi.Rediff.com, festivals.iloveindia.com/rakhi, Raksha-Bandhan.com have already launched their Rakhi Store months ago to attract its global customers who wants to send rakhi to India and other countries. Indian postal department is also playing a major role to celebrate this relationship celebration between brothers and sisters. The department has launched special envelops for sending Rakhis which is pre-gummed with peel-off strip to ensure proper and safe delivery of Rakhis. These tear and water-resistant envelops cost just Rs. 5 per piece. Riya Arts & Exhibition Solutions is organizing a Rakhi Mela, The Shopping Carnival, between 10th and 13th August at Bansal Bhawan in ...

By STAFF Writer September 19, 2011 INDIA NEWS - Not only Sikkim and the Northeast as a whole, more than half of the country is earthquake prone. In twenty years the Sunday evening earthquake in Northeast was the worst, measured 6.8 on Richter scale and the epicenter was Sikkim. According to Central Seismological Observatory data, the entire region is increasingly unstable. In 2009 there were 34 earthquakes there, 26 in 2008, 26 again in 2007 and in 2006 it was hit 23 times. Northeast, Punjab, Rann of Kutch, parts of Kashmir and central Himalayas fall in Zone 5 of areas most prone to quakes. Jammu, Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra and Indo-Gangetic basin is in Zone 4, slightly less risky but extremely dangerous. Zone 3 areas have moderate risk where as Zone 2 is the safest. Few days before Zone 4 Delhi experienced 4.2 intensity earthquake. However, scientists deny of any connection between the two quakes. RS Dattatrayam, Seismologist at India Meteorological Department said, ...

By ONE Liners Agency SUNDAY, June 26, 2011 Former Rwanda minister has been sentenced to life in prison on Saturday by judges at the United Nation. Pauline Nyiramashuhuko becomes the first woman to be charged with genocide and incitement to rape by an international court. Her son Arsene Shalom Ntahobali is co-accused and sentenced to life too. United States has welcomed the conviction. Nyiramasuhuko, 65, has been found guilty on 7 genocide charges out of eleven by International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of atrocities. She was the minister for women's empowerment in Rwanda then. The International court found that Nyiramasuhuko and Arsene had helped in abducting hundreds of ethnic Tutsis who were raped, assaulted and killed in the southern region of Butare. During the 100-day genocide, about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered between April and June 1994 with the help of extremist Hutu militia called Interahamwe. Nyiramasuhuko was born in southern ...

By STAFF Writer August 05, 2011 INDIA NEWS - Ancient Vedic festival Rakhi, also known as Rakhsha Bandhan, gets greater market both online and offline. The online B2C companies in India such as VirtualRakhi.com, Rakhi-Gifts.com, SendRakhiGiftsToIndia.com, RakhiFestival.com, rakhi.indiangiftsportal.com, Rakhi.Rediff.com, festivals.iloveindia.com/rakhi, Raksha-Bandhan.com have already launched their Rakhi Store months ago to attract its global customers who wants to send rakhi to India and other countries. Indian postal department is also playing a major role to celebrate this relationship celebration between brothers and sisters. The department has launched special envelops for sending Rakhis which is pre-gummed with peel-off strip to ensure proper and safe delivery of Rakhis. These tear and water-resistant envelops cost just Rs. 5 per piece. Riya Arts & Exhibition Solutions is organizing a Rakhi Mela, The Shopping Carnival, between 10th and 13th August at Bansal Bhawan in ...

By CITIJEN Journalist (CJ) September 19, 2011 WORLD NEWS - Do you want the Whistleblower WikiLeaks’ laptop computer that was the "Cablegate" compiling uncountable numbers of secret cables of government across the world and embarrassed Obama and many leaders of several nations? Yes, roll up - roll up! The memorabilia of the Assange cult has begun, just begun getting auctioned on eBay. At £6,000 the laptop is on sale on eBay, and at £2,100 a signed version of those famous diplomatic cables can be yours. There are more it has been heard. At £240 a sachet of prison coffee is being sold. It is the same coffee that once purloined by Julian Assange. WikiLeaks, which is funded by donations, announced last Friday that the auctions on eBay have begun to raise money. It said that this is an effort by the Whistleblower to replace cash lost during an "unlawful financial embargo" that included refusal of payments process to its accounts by Bank of America, Mastercar...

By ONE Liners Agency WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2011 The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is being tagged to be bigger than any blockbuster movie released this year by gaming industry experts. The first person shooter game is expected to earn millions of dollars in revenues, despite the subsequent downloadble content, throughout the 2012. The Call of Duty: Black Ops, which was released last had sold something about 18 million copies and had become the biggest selling game in the history of the States. The story was based on the Cold War. Despite its success, fans of the CoD series consider the Call of Duty Studio, the Infinity Ward, to be the standard bearers of the game. The Modern Warfare 3 was always inevitable but nothing about its development was very clear. The co-founders of the Call of Duty series was sacked by the Activision for "breaches of contract and insubordination", although the duo had sued the Activision and the Activision had counter-sued them, the Call o...

By STAFF REPORTER October 17, 2011 In the first eight months of this year the trade between Thailand and Cambodia went up by 8%. Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday the trade between went up to $1.93 billion. The export of Cambodia to Thailand was 125.6 million dollars, which is 17% lower compared to the same period last year, whereas the export of Thailand to Cambodia went up by 10% to 1.8 billion dollars. Director of Thai embassy's Foreign Trade Promotion Office, Jiranan Wongmongkol said trade between the two countries is seeing better recovery since August when the Pheu Thai Party came to power led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She added, "We project that through restoring good relations between the two nations, the bilateral trade will grow around 20 percent this year." Director of statistics department at Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce, Kong Putheara also said that Cambodian and Thai trade would re-grow well henceforth after it slow...

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same got...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...