Mumbai: Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene celebrates after reaching his century (100 runs) during the ICC Cricket World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 2, 2011...Mahela Jayawardene slammed a rollicking 103 as Sri Lanka capitalised on the batting powerplay to post a decent 274 for six in their World Cup summit showdown against India here on Saturday. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Jayawardene used his vast experience to good effect and anchored the Lankan innings together on what appeared to be a slow track at the renovated Wankhede stadium... »
A huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered during a recent police raid in a house of a Trinamool Congress activist at Baranagar in north Kolkata. It is not that firearms have been only stockpiled there the house owner Jhantu alias Ashoke Sur, used to run an arms manufacturing unit from his residence. Ashoke , known as a staunch Trinamool activist, managed to escape police net but his wife Dolly, also a Trinamool Congress supporter, was arrested. Police also arrested four skilled arms manufacturers attached to the workshop... »
Former Telecom Minister A Raja and eight others including former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura and three telecom companies were on Saturday indicted in the 2G spectrum allocation scam in which the CBI filed its first charge sheet pegging the loss to the exchequer at Rs 30,984 crore. The companies named in the charge sheet filed in a Delhi court include Reliance Communications, Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom. A supplementary charge sheet is to be filed later this month in the case that is being monitored by the Supreme Court... »
You didn't have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: "The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya," "The Cynical Danse Macabre," and "NATO's Inevitable War... »
THE publication of the confidential US diplomatic cables emanating from India is having a significant fall out. At one stroke, it has laid bare the nature of the relationship between India and the USA... »
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The US has calculated the cost of the military operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi which started on March 19. So far, it has already cost the US taxpayers about 550 million dollars. Most of the cost comes from the Tomahawk launches. There have been 192 launches by US alone, each costing about $1.5 million. Also, the US Air Force has flown 983 sorties - 370 of them being air missions against military sites and forces and the rest for surveillance, refueling and so on. All in all, about 60 percent of the spending was on munitions. The rest was due to "higher operating tempo" of U.S. forces and of getting them there, said Commander Kathleen Kesler, a Pentagon spokeswoman... »
On the eve of the Assembly elections West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, in an exclusive interview to Ganashakti, CPI(M)'s Bengali daily, observes that in the absence of specific ideology and well defined political programme the Opposition speaking about "change" is going to bring about destruction. The slogan "change" is misleading the people and they do not want it for ruination. Bhattacharjee speaks to Atanu Saha... »
BRIGADE RALLYThe Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata was full to the brim on February 13, 2011...
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