Home | World

World

25,000-year-old Venus has Viennese in thrall

By VERONIKA OLEKSYN Vienna Aug. 7: It’s Venusmania in Vienna, where Austrians are celebrating the discovery 100 years ago on Thursday of a tiny but voluptuous figurine
 Visit website

XX (52)

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 7: Campaign group HSMP Forum Ltd, which was successful in its legal challenge against retrospective application of tougher immigration rules for ...
 Visit website

Russia threatens to deploy bombers

Moscow, Aug. 7: In reminiscent of the Cold War politics, Russia has threatened to station bombers and missiles on the Polish border if Warsaw decides ...
 Visit website

Brown to star in own TV channel

London, Aug. 7: Beleaguered British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to launch his own online TV channel in an attempt to boost his plunging ...
 Visit website

Pininfarina CEO dies in accident

BY COLLEEN BARRY Milan Aug. 7: Andrea Pininfarina, the chief executive of the Italian car design firm founded by his grandfather that counts Ferraris and Alfa Romeos ...
 Visit website

Pak Speaker a hit at C’wealth meet

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 7: Pakistan’s first woman Speaker, Dr Fehmida Mirza, caught the attention of one and all at the ongoing 54th Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Conference ...
 Visit website

Maoists attack Dabur office

BY Shirish B. Pradhan Kathmandu Aug. 7: Intensifying their campaign against ‘Miss Nepal’ beauty contest, Maoists on Thursday stormed the offices of the pageant’s Indian sponsor Dabur ...
 Visit website

Pervez may use power to sack govt

By Shafqat Ali Islamabad Aug. 7: There was hectic activity at the Presidency in Islamabad on Thursday as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf consulted his aides to counter ...
 Visit website

Palace denies Prince Philip cancer report

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London Aug. 7: Buckingham Palace has denied a report claiming that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has received a "diagnosis of prostate ...
 Visit website

Hospitals used homeless people to make money

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER LOS ANGELES Aug. 7: A hospital CEO was arrested on Wednesday in what authorities said was a scheme to recruit homeless people as ...
 Visit website
Howrah News Service 2008 ©
This website is best viewed in Firefox. Internet Explorer users can get Firefox here