She could be standing right next to you at the bus stop and you'd never notice. She'd just be another face in the crowd. Speak to her on the phone and you hear a lilting, patient voice. No aggression, no attitude, no hurry to conquer the next big challenge. Revolution isn't wrought by people like her. Or at least that's what you'd think.
Taslima Nasreen, well known Bangladeshi writer and publicity hungry who has always been under discussion for her controversial statements across the web.
Strip sensation Poonam Pandey is back in controversy, not by striping her clothes though, but this time it's a 'war of words' on a social networking site.
CALIFORNIA: Privacy advocates, lawyers and powerful rival Microsoft were piling on Google for sidestepping Web browsing software to tailor ads for people signed into its online services.
DUBAI: UAE telecoms operator Etisalat has sued its Indian joint venture partners for fraud, the former monopoly said on Thursday, following a top court's recent order to cancel its affiliates licenses amid a corruption probe.
Citigroup Inc. (C) is selling its entire stake in Housing Development Finance Corp., India’s largest mortgage lender, for as much as 102 billion rupees ($2.1 billion), a term sheet obtained by Bloomberg News shows.
Rescue workers extract a passenger from a commuter train that crashed into the Once train station at rush hour in Buenos Aires February 22, 2012. A train crashed in Buenos Aires on Wednesday and media reported that at least 49 had been killed, while officials said some 550 others had been injured.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "The people of Somalia have... heard many promises, and seen many deadlines come and go."
New Delhi, Feb 23: Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court slamming the Delhi Police for its midnight crackdown against supporters of Ramdev, BJP on Thursday held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and union ministers P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal "accountable" for the incident.
New Delhi: In a move that has implications for India's fight against black money, the Swiss Government has asked its banks to prevent acceptance of "untaxed assets" in their accounts without violating client confidentiality.
The pacemen could relish bowling on this surface and home boy Ben Hilfenhaus (in pic) would be distinct threat.
KOCHI: Italy on Thursday offered to cooperate with the Kerala police for the ballistic examination of the weapons of the two arrested marines, suspected to have shot and killed two Indian fishermen, but said it should be in their presence.
NEW DELHI: In a goof-up, Government today tied itself in knots in the Supreme Court by first disapproving decriminalisation of gay sex terming it as "highly immoral" and later taking a different line, drawing sharp criticism from the bench.
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