The Malaysian Government should address the grievances of its 1.8 million-strong Indian population in the 10th Malaysia Plan, according to a researcher.
The Star Online quoted Dr Denison Jayasooria, a principal research fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, as saying that most government agencies did not seriously look into issues like [...]
The mother of murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling has admitted to falsely claiming 19,000 pounds in benefits.
According to The Times, 44-year-old Fiona MacKeown claimed the income support money between February 2005 and March 2008, including during the time of her daughter’s death in Goa.
MacKeown admitted to a Exeter Crown court that received the [...]
An audit report of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed massive financial irregularities in the board amounting to over 500 million rupees.
According to a report of the Auditor General, the PCB incurred huge losses of over 500 million rupees from 2003 to 2008 during the period when Shahrayar Mohammad Khan and Dr Nasim [...]
In a not-so-classy move, Sean Combs urged people to buy his favourite brand of vodka – after reportedly comparing other drinks to ‘pee’.
The hip-hop mogul, the celebrity ambassador for Ciroc vodka, was said to have encouraged guests at Greenhouse to try the label.
According to a source, the 40-year-old rapper went on to refer himself [...]
Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren has reportedly disappeared as one of his alleged mistresses vowed to unveil more racy text messages she claims to have received from the golf star.
Former porn actress Joslyn James revealed she is ready to unwrap more dirt on the shamed golfer, with whom she allegedly had a three-year affair.
According [...]
Presence of a pretty woman can lead men to throw caution to the wind, says a new University of Queensland research.
To reach the conclusion, Professor Bill von Hippel and doctoral student Richard Ronay, from the university’s School of Psychology examined the links between physical risk-taking in young men and the presence of attractive women [...]
Pakistan has rejected former UN envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide’s remarks that the arrest of some top Taliban commanders in the country has blocked the reconciliation process with the extremists.
“The fact of the matter is that Mullah Baradar’s arrest was a joint operation with the US and had nothing to do with talks or [...]
Responding to Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s statement that it was now America’s turn ‘to do more’ to help Islamabad tackle the menace of terrorism more effectively, President Obama’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said the US is already ‘doing more’ and will ‘announce more’ for Pakistan.
Briefing the US [...]
Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned of terror attacks n US citizens and former secret services officials.
According to intelligence reports, suicide bombers from Kohat region might use a black Honda city have entered the Punjab province to wreak havoc in the region targeting foreign nationals in particular.
The provincial Home Department has alerted all senior police [...]
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has closed its operations in Pakistan due to the deteriorating security condition in the country.
According to a private television channel, the airlines, which had four flights a week from Pakistan to Singapore, has closed its offices and sacked its entire staff, The Daily Times reports.
Several multi-national companies (MNC’s) have stopped [...]
Pope Benedict XVI’s former archdiocese in Germany has been overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of sex abuse claims, according to the head of new taskforce set up to deal with the issue.
According to The Telegraph, reports have emerged almost daily of sex abuse cases involving Catholic clergy in several European countries.
The spreading controversy threatens [...]
The Federal German Intelligence Service, which is also known as BND, has admitted that it employed about 200 former Nazi criminals for at least 15 years after the Second World War.
Some of these criminals were involved in massacres in Poland and Russia, while the others were Gestapo torturers. All of them found a [...]
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has adjourned the hearing on controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s petition challenging the one-and-half-year ban and a fine of seven million rupees imposed on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Adjourning the case on Akhtar’s plea, LHC Justice Azmat Saeed remarked that a player who is indisciplined does not [...]
Leading Indian actors from the film industries in Mumbai and South India, Geneila De Souza and Ram Cherain Teja are in Melbourne for the filming of the feature flick Orange – the biggest Indian film ever to be set in Australia.
The Member for Melbourne, Bronwyn Pike, spent the morning on the set of [...]
Union Minister of State (MOS) for External Affairs Preneet Kaur visited Manila, Philippines, as the leader of the Indian delegation to the Special NAM Ministerial Meeting (SNAMMM) on interfaith dialogue for cooperation in peace and development.
The three-day meeting concluded on Thursday, and over 70 Ministers of Foreign Affairs participated in the SNAMMM, which was [...]
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and University of Colombo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishment of Council’s short-term chair of social sciences at the university.
High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka, Ashok K. Kantha, and Vice Chancellor of the University Prof. Kshanika Hirimburegama signed the MoU on March 11 [...]
Pakistan has reportedly decided to return four Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters, which were given to it for free by the United States less than a year ago.
According to a Pentagon spokesperson, Islamabad has decided against keeping the helicopters, which were used extensively against extremists in the tribal regions, after one of them crashed in February [...]
The British taxpayers’ bill after former Prime Minister Tony Blair gave evidence at the Iraq inquiry for a single day on January 29 was 273,000 pounds.
The costs uncovered by questions under Freedom of Information Act disclosed that the total wage bill for police switched from other duties to guard Blair was 178,000 pounds.
A [...]
A five-year-old British boy is said to have stolen his father’s 4×4 and driven for more than four miles along country lanes and a dual carriageway before finally crashing into a wall.
Motorists were surprised to see the high-powered Mitsubishi Shogun automatic being driven at low speed, with only the top of the child’s [...]
A British property tycoon, who lost his 130,000 pounds Lamborghini sports car after he became too drunk to remember where he parked it, has been accused of trying to swindle an insurance company.
Guildford Crown Court was told Glenn Knowles, 35, and co-owner of the car, Richard Mant, 39, reported it to police as stolen, [...]
Queensland’s University of Technology has unveiled a new driving simulator that can help reduce the road toll by providing data on how alcohol or sleep deprivation can affect driving skills.
The driving simulator works by using eight computers, projectors and a platform capable of moving in three dimensions to simulate realistic traffic situations and can [...]
Rare and intimate letters from the Bloomsbury Group have been released for the first time, documenting the members’ fears over the suicide of Virginia Woolf.
The controversial circle of intellectuals, which was almost as well known for its romantic entanglements as its literary output, numbered Woolf, EM Forster and Lytton Strachey amongst its members.
The letters [...]
A British prison monitor is said to be facing jail for having phone sex and texting saucy pictures with three lags.
Alice Belton, 23, who was a volunteer for the Ministry of Justice’s Independent Monitoring Board, texted the men over a six-month period at HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, the Sun reported.
Her job [...]
The father of Padma Lakshmi’s baby Krishna could be venture capitalist Adam Dell, according to sources.
Dell, 40, resides in Austin and New York.
The pair had “had an on-and-off minimal relationship that ended many, many months ago,” the New York Daily News quoted a source as saying.
The insider added: “There already is a very [...]
Sam Mendes, who is directing the 23rd installment of the 007 series, is looking for the next Bond babe.
So far, only one name has surfaced as a potential Bond girl, Freida Pinto.
The film is fast tracked for a 2011 release, reports the New York Post.
The new flick, starring Daniel Craig as the licensed-to-kill British [...]
A man was arrested on charges of stalking real estate mogul Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka in Reno, Nevada.
According to Reno cops, Ivanka’s obsessed fan Justin Massler, 27, was busted on a New York warrant.
Justin, who lives on the East Coast, was in Reno to visit his mum Randee Massler.
“He is sick and has a [...]
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is said to be making a bid for struggling London soccer team Crystal Palace.
According to the Sun, Combs, 40, is planning to splash some of his reported 360 million pounds on the Selhurst Park side.
The bankrupt club is in chaos, facing relegation from the Coca-Cola Championship after having ten points [...]
Producers of the Indian movie Orange, which is being shot in Melbourne in the Telugu language and is primarily spoken in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, have said that their objective is to send out a message that there is no racial bias against Indians in Australia.
They described the movie as an [...]
Members of a Tai Chi class claim they have been banned from the use of a church hall because their martial art was not deemed to be unchristian.
About 20 regulars at the weekly class had been meeting at the All Saints’ Church Hall in Totley, Sheffield, for nearly five months.
According to vicar, the [...]
Librarians at the Dinnington Library, South Yorkshire, were surprised when a book borrowed 45 years ago was sent back in an unnamed parcel.
The Penguin first edition copy of Quatermass and the Pit, by Nigel Kneale, was borrowed in September 1965.
The borrower will, however, not be penalised since the Rotherham Council does not fine [...]
