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| 801. |
Raja to replace Maran as Communications and IT Minister
MIL/Zee News May 15, 2007 Author:
Delhi, May 15: A Raja would replace Dayanidhi Maran as the new Cabinet Minister for Communications and Information Technology. S Regupathy would be the Minister of State for Environment and Forest. DMK chief M. Karunanidhi on Monday sent a list of seven party MPs as replacement with Union Minister A Raja heading the roll for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to chose from.
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| 802. |
Bush Calls for Work for Higher Fuel Efficiency
MIL/NYT May 15, 2007 Author:
Washington, May 15, 2007 - President Bush announced on Monday that he had directed his administration to begin the long process of establishing higher fuel efficiency standards for new cars.
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| 803. |
A Corporate Divorce on the Cheap
MIL/NYT May 15, 2007 Author:
Stuttgart, Germany, May 15, 2007 — Nine years after they exchanged vows at a huge, lavishly choreographed news conference in London, Daimler and Chrysler signed their divorce papers Monday at a sparsely attended briefing in an auditorium at an aging Mercedes-Benz factory here.
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| 804. |
IT & Telecom Minister Maran Quits
MIL/Agencies May 14, 2007 Author:
May 14 2004 - As per reports from within the DMK party, the Indian Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, has quit the Cabinet as well as the party. He submitted his papers yesterday, following a bitter fight within the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party.
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| 805. |
 | Pak clashes cause 41 dead - Judicial Crisis getting deeper
MIL/BBC May 14, 2007 Author:
May 14, 2007 - After Mr Chaudhry's suspension, an organization of lawyers has regularly protested - defying security restrictions and barbed wire barricades in all the big cities of Pakistan and that has ultimately led to 41 people are dead Karachai in the worst battle of the country.
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| 806. |
Palestinian's interior minister resigns
MIL/Agencies/Associated Press May 14, 2007 Author: Ibrahim Barzak
Gaza Strip : May 14, 2007 - The Palestinian interior minister has stepped down on Monday accusing leaders of upsetting his plans to halt a new wave of violence that is threatening the survival of the new coalition government.
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| 807. |
Key Taliban Leader Is Killed in Afghanistan in Joint Operation
MIL/NYT May 14, 2007 Author:
Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 14, 2007 - The man who probably was the Taliban’s foremost operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, was killed in a joint operation by Afghan security forces, American forces and NATO troops in Helmand Province, Governor Asadullah Khaled of the neighboring Kandahar Province said on Sunday.
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| 808. |
Mayawati on the seat of power
MIL/Agencies May 12, 2007 Author:
Lucknow: May 12, 2007 - After getting an absolute majority in the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, BSP supremo Mayawati shall meet the party MLAs to day to formally get her elected as the BSP legislature party leader so as to become the Chief Minister.
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| 809. |
Mayawati may become Chief Minister of UP
MIL/Agencies May 11, 2007 Author:
May 11, 2007 – BSP has come up and set to emerge the single largest party in Uttar Pradesh holding the lead in 204 of the total 402 seats. This trend is based on the counting of votes in the assembly elections. Mayawati has thus appeared set for a fourth term as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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| 810. |
Tony Blair steps down
MIL/Agencies/NDTV May 11, 2007 Author:
London, May 11, 2007 - Tony Blair has announced that he is stepping down. He has served for over a decade in office as one of the most successful Prime Minister of United Kingdom. It is Iraq and Blair's alliance with US President George W Bush that shot him to prominence. Though criticized due to Iraq affairs, his statesmanship remained unquestionable.
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| 811. |
India Marks Anniversary of Anti-British Revolt
MIL/Agencies May 11, 2007 Author:
May 11, 2007 - India celebrated the 150th anniversary of its First War of Independence against British rule on Friday, poking fun at its former colonial rulers at a historic fort in the capital which saw much bloodshed on both sides.
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| 812. |
Patna abducted boy may be alive
MIL/Agencies/TOI May 10, 2007 Author:
Patna, May 10, 2007 - Even as the police continued the search for six-year-old Ankit, kidnapped from Alamganj on April 12, amid hopes of his being alive with his servant retracting his earlier confession of having killed the boy, yet another boy was kidnapped in Bihar.
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| 813. |
Karunanidhi gets cornered by war for succession
MIL/Agencies May 10, 2007 Author:
New Delhi, May 10, 2007 - The battle for succession between the two sons of M Karunanidhi is getting intense ahead of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s grand plans to celebrate his 50 years in the legislative Assembly.
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| 814. |
Pressure grows on World Bank President to resign
MIL/Agencies May 10, 2007 Author:
May 10, 2007 - Protestors have been demonstrating outside the World Bank headquarters in Washington calling for the resignation of its President as pressure increases on Paul Wolfowitz to step down.
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| 815. |
Kidnapped boy believed to have been killed
MIL/Agencies/Hindu May 9, 2007 Author:
Patna, May 09, 2007 - Six-year old Ankit, who was kidnapped from Alamganj area here on April 12, is believed to have been killed by his servant who confessed to having committed the crime but the body was yet to be found from the place where he said he had buried it in Bihar's Saran district.
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| 816. |
SC reserves order on quota issue to Const. bench
MIL/Agencies May 9, 2007 Author:
New Delhi, May 09, 2007 - The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the Centre's plea to refer to a Constitution bench the issue of 27 per cent quota for OBC in elite educational institutions like IIMs and IITs.
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| 817. |
Sentences in 1993 Mumbai blasts on May 18
MIL/Agencies May 9, 2007 Author:
Mumbai, May 09, 2007 - A special TADA court hearing the 1993 serial blasts case will start pronouncing sentences against 100 people convicted in the matter on May 18 after deciding on an application filed by actor Sanjay Dutt seeking leniency under the Probation of Offenders Act.
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| 818. |
 | King Herod's grave uncovered in hilltop fortress
MIL/Agencies May 8, 2007 Author:
Jerusalem, May 08, 2007 - Archaeologists have unearthed the grave of King Herod the Great, the ruler of Jerusalem who attempted to kill Jesus soon after his birth, it was announced today.
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| 819. |
 | White House gives Queen the royal treatment
MIL/Agencies May 8, 2007 Author: Joe Rogalsky, The Examiner
Washington, May 08, 2007 - President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush entertained Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at a formal dinner Monday that ended a day of pomp and ceremony and saw both leaders firmly attest to the long and deep friendship of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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| 820. |
Pakistan court halts judge probe
MIL/Agencies May 7, 2007 Author:
May 07, 2007 - Pakistan's Supreme Court has suspended an inquiry into misconduct charges against the country's top judge.
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