We are litigious society. Instead of picking up weapons, we sue each other. Ah, but what if the subject matter of the case is so complex that most of us can’t figure it out. You know – something like programming your old VCR.
After Australia, Racial Assault on Indians in Canada
Four white Canadians were on Tuesday charged with a racial assault on a group of Indians at Langley on the outskirts of Vancouver. According to police, the six Indian-origin men were playing tennis at the weekend when the four suspects approached them and started shouting “racially based expletives.” The assailants, who included three young men and a woman, went on…
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14 dead, 57 Hurt in Blast Outside Luxury Hotel in Peshawar
The death toll from a suicide blast at a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s northwest Peshawar city has risen to 14, while 57 people were injured, a police official said Wednesday. Early reports suggest at least two men shot their way through a security barrier and rammed a pick-up truck packed with explosives into the five-star Pearl Continental hotel late Tuesday,…
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Australian PM Urges Calm, Warns off Student Vigilantes
Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for calm as Indian students led “vigilante” patrols on Wednesday after a second night of protests in the wake of attacks on foreign students in Sydney and Melbourne. Scores of Indian students took to the streets of western Sydney, leading to two police arrests, after attacks in both Sydney and Melbourne which have sparked diplomatic…
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India’s Parliament Elects First Woman Speaker
India’s lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber’s history. Meira Kumar is also a member of the “untouchable” Dalit class, the lowest rung in the centuries-old caste system in the country.The speaker conducts the proceedings of the house. She will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women.Read