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Manmohan Singh to travel in Air India One Agra

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

New Delhi, Nov 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will leave for his visit to the United States and Trinidad and Tobago in Air India One Agra on Saturday.

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Top political leaders hit campaign trail in Jharkhand

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

Ranchi, Nov 21 (IANS) Campaigning has gained momentum in Jharkhand where the first phase of the assembly elections is due Nov 25. Senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and Rajnath Singh hit the campaign trail Saturday, while the Congress has fielded its star campaigner Rahul Gandhi who will address many rallies across the state.

On Friday, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and BJP president Rajnath Singh addressed poll rallies.

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Winston Churchill’s World War II cigar discovered after 60 years

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

London, Nov 21 (ANI): Winston Churchill’s cigar smoked by him at the 1943 Casablanca conference has become a part of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.

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Sugarcane farmer in Uttar Pradesh commits suicide

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

Lucknow, Nov 21 (IANS) Distressed at not getting an adequate price for his produce, a debt-ridden sugarcane farmer allegedly committed suicide. The victim burnt his fields in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district and then jumped in the fire, police said Saturday.

Isbuddin (51), a resident of Asara village in Baghpat, about 400-km from Lucknow, took the extreme step Friday evening.

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Nicole Richie checks out of hospital

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

Washington, Nov 21 (ANI): Nicole Richie is back home after she was discharged from hospital following her battle with pneumonia.

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Majority of Brits ‘never discuss sexual health’

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

London, Nov 21 (ANI): A new British survey has found that tens of thousands of people still shy away from taking about sexually transmitted infections, thereby risking their health.

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Indus Valley civilization created world’s first sophisticated financial exchange system

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

London, November 21 (ANI): A Canadian mathematician has discovered that the Indus Valley’s Bronze Age civilization may have developed the world’s first sophisticated financial exchange system.

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Geri Halliwell welcomes “gay” hairdresser in undies!

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

Washington, Nov 21 (ANI): Geri Halliwell presumed her hairstylist to be gay and welcomed him in just her bra and pants only to get embarrassed when she realised he ‘loved ladies’.

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Karzai govt will collapse within weeks of international forces pullout, warns Miliband

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

Kabul, Nov. 21 (ANI): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has warned British opponents of the Afghan war that the Hamid Karzai-led government could collapse within weeks if NATO pulled out its troops now.

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French spy described Hitler as ‘German Mussolini’ in 1924

November 21st, 2009 SindhToday Comments off

London, Nov. 21 (ANI): In 1924, a French spy had described Adolf Hitler as “the German Mussolini” who was “not an idiot but a very cunning demagogue,” a recently discovered document has revealed.
The document has emerged from obscurity as part of a major overhaul of the French National Archives, The Telegraph reports.

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