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By STAFF Reporter August 11, 2011 The economies of China, India, Indonesia and Philippines face maximum risk due to natural disasters, reveals a report released by Maplecroft, an analysis and mapping company. The firm mentions these emerging economies lack the combating capacity from the disaster caused naturally and also from its impact. It adds, Japan and US are also highly exposed to such natural hazards, but they are well equipped to combat with the impacts. In its Natural Hazards Risk Atlas 2011, Maplecroft lists 196 countries across the world that are exposed to natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, drought and tropical cyclones. According to the atlas, USA ranks on the top followed by Japan, China and Taiwan. These four countries are categorized as "extreme risk" and titled as absolute economic exposure to natural hazards. The remaining five countries in the top ten list are India, Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia and Italy respectively. T...

Iraq has taken two long years to train up its demoralized army to mount offensive for the recapture of Mosul, but backed by cover as well as special forces of the greatest powers of the world. Experts believe, after week into the onslaught, it could either make or break battle for the country. It could also determine the future of ISIS and reshape part of Middle East. However, the battle could go long and would be hard too. There's one important way for speedy conclusion of the battle in the city. If the local fighters are persuaded to drop allegiance to the ISIS, there's a chance, of course, and this could prove to be major implications for the future of Iraq. Mosul is the second biggest city of Iraq and is the same where in 2014 the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared Sunni caliphate. Currently 30,000 Iraqi regular force is deployed in Mosul backed by the US and Europeans apart from the Shi'ite and Kurdish militias. An estimation points the ISIS just hav...

By STAFF Writer December 15, 2011 Illegal alcohol killed over hundred people in the Indian state of West Bengal. Late Tuesday poor manual workers, hawkers, rickshaw pullers and laborers began falling ill after drinking adulterated batch of bootleg liquor in Mongrahat town of Diamond Harbour, 31 miles south of Kolkata city. All the 100 dead drank "country liquor" at different makeshift bars which sold the same brand from illicit distillery of Diamond Harbour. Many more are hospitalised for treatment, but the death toll may rise further. Alcoholism is a significant problem in the country in urban as well as rural India . Liquor poisoning is frequent in the country. At least 130 people died in 2009 in state of Gujarat in similar incident. Police have arrested four people so far and ten illegal liquor shops have been demolished, said official. It is also reported that angry locals have destroyed the blamed distillery. In the town one litre of such liquor costs ju...

By STAFF Writer December 15, 2011 Illegal alcohol killed over hundred people in the Indian state of West Bengal. Late Tuesday poor manual workers, hawkers, rickshaw pullers and laborers began falling ill after drinking adulterated batch of bootleg liquor in Mongrahat town of Diamond Harbour, 31 miles south of Kolkata city. All the 100 dead drank "country liquor" at different makeshift bars which sold the same brand from illicit distillery of Diamond Harbour. Many more are hospitalised for treatment, but the death toll may rise further. Alcoholism is a significant problem in the country in urban as well as rural India . Liquor poisoning is frequent in the country. At least 130 people died in 2009 in state of Gujarat in similar incident. Police have arrested four people so far and ten illegal liquor shops have been demolished, said official. It is also reported that angry locals have destroyed the blamed distillery. In the town one litre of such liquor costs ju...

By STAFF Reporter August 11, 2011 The economies of China, India, Indonesia and Philippines face maximum risk due to natural disasters, reveals a report released by Maplecroft, an analysis and mapping company. The firm mentions these emerging economies lack the combating capacity from the disaster caused naturally and also from its impact. It adds, Japan and US are also highly exposed to such natural hazards, but they are well equipped to combat with the impacts. In its Natural Hazards Risk Atlas 2011, Maplecroft lists 196 countries across the world that are exposed to natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, drought and tropical cyclones. According to the atlas, USA ranks on the top followed by Japan, China and Taiwan. These four countries are categorized as "extreme risk" and titled as absolute economic exposure to natural hazards. The remaining five countries in the top ten list are India, Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia and Italy respectively. T...

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 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. ...