Suicide bomber kills 16 in Afghanistan
November 20, 2009
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Tags: Afghanistan, Blast, children, foreign forces, killed, motorcycle, motorcyclist, police officer, policeman, suicide bomber, wounded
KABUL – A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said.
Suicide bomber
Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards (50 meters) from his compound in a crowded square in Farah.
Afghan police shouted “Stop! Stop!” at the motorcyclist before he detonated the explosives, provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Faqir Askar said. It was unclear what the bomber was targeting.
Amin said the 16 killed included two children. Dr. Shir Agh Asas at the hospital in Farah city said several children also were among the wounded. A police officer also died.
“These days Taliban are causing high casualties because the foreign forces and Afghan forces have been conducting operations against the insurgency in the region,” Askar said.
Taliban strikes in Peshawar again with new blast
November 19, 2009
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Tags: Blast, dead, injured, killed, lawyer, Peshawar, policemen, schools, Security forces, strikes, suicide attack, Taliban, terror attack
Eighteen people have been killed and 44 others injured in the latest terror attack in Peshawar in North West Pakistan. Three policemen and a lawyer are also among the dead.
Peshawar blast
The blast, a suicide attack, targeted the court on Khyber Road. The bomber blew himself up when he was being frisked at the gate of the judicial complex. The blast on Thursday morning was so powerful that several cars parked nearby were destroyed. Security forces immediately cordoned off the area and neighbouring schools were closed down.
Microsoft co-founder has cancer
November 18, 2009
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Tags: investment, disease, Microsoft, cancer, co-founder, Paul Allen, diagnosed, treatment, optimistic
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his sister has said.
Jody Allen, the chief executive of Mr Allen’s investment firm Vulcan Inc, told staff in a memo that her brother had begun chemotherapy.
Mr Allen, 56, founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates but left in 1983, when he was diagnosed with another form of cancer – Hodgkin’s disease.
Mr.Allen with Cancer
He survived that bout after receiving successful treatment.
“He received the diagnosis early this month and has begun chemotherapy,” Jody Allen wrote to staff.
“Doctors say he has diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a relatively common form of lymphoma.
“Paul is feeling OK and remains upbeat. He continues to work and he has no plans to change his role at Vulcan.”
She added that he was “optimistic he can beat this”.
16 bogies of oil tanker train burning in Assam
Sixteen bogies of an oil tanker train have caught fire near Mariani in Upper Assam.
The tanker train had left the Numaligarh refinery for Uttar Pradesh and was between Bhilgaon and Borpathar when it caught fire.
The fire is still raging. The track has been damaged so it will take some time for train services to resume.
All train movement to and from Upper Assam has been suspended as a result of the train fire.
6 newborn babies die in Andhra hospital
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Congress, hospital, died, newborn, babies, Andhra, shocking incident, Vijayawada, oxygen system, incubators, doctors
In a shocking incident, six newborn babies died under mysterious circumstances in the infants’ ward of a hospital in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
Newborn_death
Parents of the babies say the tragedy took place due to failure of incubators and oxygen system.
Telugu Desam Party MLA Devineni Umamaheswara Rao visited the hospital and blamed the doctors for the deaths. Local MLA Malladi Vishnu of the Congress too visited the hospital.
Australian gets over 6 yrs in jail for attacking Indian
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Australian, cabbies, Indian, Indian taxi driver, jail, knife, Melbourne, mental, physical injuries, provoked, stabbing
A court in Melbourne has sentenced an Australian to over six years in jail for attacking an Indian taxi driver with knife, an incident that led to hundreds of Indian cabbies blocking the Melbourne streets last year.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain sentenced Parrish Chales to six-and-a-half years in jail, saying the stabbing was “random, unprovoked and frenzied” and the fact that the 45-year-old attacker had a hunting knife hidden in his pants showed a degree of “premeditation”.
The judge said the unprovoked and unexpected assault on 23-year-old Jalvinder Singh was terrifying and left Singh with ongoing mental and physical injuries….
Bing teams up with Wolfram Alpha
November 12, 2009
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Tags: Alpha, Bing, brainchild, databases, Diet tool, Google, health, market share, mathematics, Microsoft, nutrition, search engines, Wolfram
Microsoft has teamed up with a web tool once hailed as a rival to Google to provide results for its search engine Bing.
Wolfram Alpha aims to answer questions directly, rather than display a list of links like a search engine.
The “computational knowledge engine” is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.
Bing will use Wolfram's algorithms and data sets
It will be used to bolster Bing’s results in areas such as nutrition, health and mathematics.
The partnership will initially be rolled out in the US.
Bing has been gradually grabbing market share from other search engines since its launch in May.
Figures from Experian Hitwise suggest its market share in the US rose from 8.96% in September to 9.57% in October.
The figures put it well behind market leader Google which has 70.6% of the market.
‘Diet tool’
Wolfram Alpha differentiates itself from standard search engines by attempting to answer questions directly.
The tool computes many of the answers “on the fly” by grabbing raw data from public and licensed databases.
Cyclone: Maharashtra schools, offices closed
November 11, 2009
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Tags: cyclone, offices, government, fishermen, Maharashtra, schools, Gujarat coast, Bengal coast, Surat, Ratnagiri, Local trains, traffic, raining, low-lying areas, landfall
Mumbai is bracing for cyclone Phyan with the level six cyclone now approximately 250 km from the city and expected to make landfall by the evening.
Cyclone in Mumbai
All schools in Mumbai and coastal Maharashtra have been shut; government offices are also closing down.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister has said emergency services have been activated and people in low-lying areas have been put on alert. Extra local trains are being run to take people home quickly. It hasn’t been raining in Mumbai for over an hour.
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Efforts on to rescue child trapped in a borewell
Massive rescue operations are underway for 5-year-old Saahil, trapped in a borewell for over 24 hours. A team of doctors is monitoring the situation.
Saahil fell into an open borewell at a village about 60 kms from Jaipur around 8 am on Monday morning. He was playing near his house in Jagatpura village when he slipped into the borewell, which belongs to his own family. The borewell was left open after some work on Sunday.
Child trap borewell
The borewell is 270 feet deep and Saahil is lost at a depth of about 150 feet inside it. A team of doctors has put in an oxygen pipe to facilitate the boy’s breathing. He can survive another 24 hours with the help of this supply.
Meanwhile, the administration is trying to dig a parallel pit next to the borewell to reach and rescue the trapped child. 6 JCB machines and several rescue workers have been deployed.
Josy B, Ribkat and Biju Mathew have created a striking combination of music
November 9, 2009
Filed under Music, Ribkat and Josy, about monadarling, lifestyle
Tags: Biju Matthew, Effigy Award, hip hop, Hip Hop song, Josy B, Music, music creators The wrestler, Ribkat, Theory of Addicts, versatile singers of Indian origin
What do you get when you mix a baritone soothing rhyme style with a soft melodic voice? You get an exhilarating potpourri of rap and hip hop of early 90s with intoxicating 80’s music. That’s what Josy B, Ribkat and Biju Mathew are up to, creating a striking combination of music.
Ribkat and Josy
When Ribkat met Biju, the collaboration of east and west was but inevitable. Ribkat and Josy B are also music creators for 2008 Oscar nominated movie, the wrestler, they also have a Hollywood Music Award nomination and Effigy Award for best Hip Hop song in 2009. What can best describe them? The three are innovative, catchy, classy, got swagger, have sound like no other and Josy’s enchanting voice intrigues you deep within. If given just one word, would call them– Hot! That’s what they are!
Their music carries and international appeal, which knows no boundaries of culture or ages.
