Saturday, 29 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 29 : The Taliban has billed a rash of
insider attacks targeting international troops in Afghanistan as an effective
battlefield strategy, but detailed data disclosed recently by the U.S....
Insight: Once a symbol of new Afghanistan, can policewomen survive?
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 29: Shortly after Friba joined the Afghan
National Police, she gave herself the nickname "dragon" and vowed to bring law
and order to her tormented homeland.
Five years later, she is tired...
Civilian analysts gained Petraeus’s ear while he was commander in Afghanistan
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 29 : Frederick and Kimberly Kagan, a
husband-and-wife team of hawkish military analysts, put their jobs at
influential Washington think tanks on hold for almost a year to work for Gen.
David...
Mexico's ethnic Maya unmoved by 2012 "Armageddon" hysteria
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Izamal, Dec 29 : Thousands of mystics, New Age dreamers and fans of pre-Hispanic
culture have been drawn to Mexico in hopes of witnessing great things when the
day in an old Maya calendar dubbed "the...
Gun lobbyists plan media push after Newtown massacre
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Washington, Dec 29 : One week after a school shooting that shocked Americans - with many
of the 27 victims buried and time allowed for prayers and investigation - the
National Rifle Association will...
Magic mushrooms may explain Santa & his 'flying' reindeer
Saturday, 29 December 2012
London, Dec
29 : This Christmas, like many before it and many yet to come, the
story of Santa and his flying reindeer will be told, including how the "jolly
old elf" flies on his sleigh throughout...
Fla. teen arrested for threat to 'shoot everyone'
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Fort Pierce, Dec 29 : Police have arrested a Florida teen who they say posted a Facebook message threatening to "bring a gun to school tomorrow and shoot everyone."
The St. Lucie County Sheriff's office...
San Bernardino paid $2 million in cash-outs before bankruptcy filing
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Los
Angeles, Dec 29 : The California city of San Bernardino paid $2
million in cash-outs to employees for unused vacation and sick time in the three
months before declaring bankruptcy on, data reviewed...
Newtown residents ready to step out of media glare
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Newtown, Dec 29 : That's what many residents here have been saying about the media
since, when funerals began for 20 children and six adults killed in last week's
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"There...
SEC enforcement chief Khuzami to step down: Bloomberg
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Washington, Dec 29: Robert Khuzami, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission's enforcement division, plans to step down as early as next month,
Bloomberg reported.
Khuzami notified SEC...
American Air flight attendants to join talks on potential merger
Saturday, 29 December 2012
New
York, Dec 29 : The Association of Professional Flight Attendants
union, which represents workers at AMR Corp's (AAMRQ.PK) American Airlines, said it had been invited
to take part in confidential...
RIM shares slump as service revenue, subscriber concerns weigh
Saturday, 29 December 2012
New York,
Dec 29 : Research In Motion shares tumbled more than 10 percent after
the company reported the first ever decline in its subscriber numbers and
outlined plans to transform the way it charges...
Ex-banker arrested in U.S. over Olympus fraud
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Los Angeles, Dec 29 : A former Singapore banker was arrested in Los Angeles and accused of
helping "liquidate" hundreds of millions of dollars in the Olympus Corp
(TYO:7733) accounting scandal, one...
San Bernardino paid $2 million in cash-outs before bankruptcy filing
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Los
Angeles, Dec 29 : The California city of San Bernardino paid $2
million in cash-outs to employees for unused vacation and sick time in the three
months before declaring bankruptcy on August 1,...
ICE to buy NYSE Euronext for $8.2 billion
Saturday, 29 December 2012
New York, Dec 29 : In
October, Jeff Sprecher, chief executive of upstart IntercontinentalExchange,
approached NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer with a modest proposal to team up
on clearing trades...
IHK’s poultry sector hit by Rani Khet Disease
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Srinagar, Dec, 29 : The poultry sector of the valley has been badly affected as
thousands of birds have died due to New Castle Disease or Rani Khet Disease,
called Kokuer Kone in local parlance.
The...
Fake driving licenses on sale in IHK
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Islamabad, Dec 29: The
fake driving licenses are on sale in the Assistant Regional Transport Office
(ARTO) here in this held Kashmir district.
Sources said the agents in
nexus with some officials...
Sopore gunbattle leaves behind tragedies,trail of destruction
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Sopore, Dec
29 : The gunbattle at Saidpora, Sopore in which six militants were
killed has left behind a trail of destruction in the area with scores of
orchards and houses damaged completely.
The...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)