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Ola has already expanded into boat ride hailing business, Can Uber match it?

Nice that they leave out the VAPP cases, an estimated 100-180 per year JUST IN INDIA. http://www.telegraphindia.com/...

"Nobody got any money because - as even the summary mentions - the copyright was used to block publishing in Germany."

You are aware that there are a couple of hundred other countries?

In India it's a bestseller.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/...

*clap* *clap* *clap*

Have you ever considered going into politics? Making it into an issue of the individual soldier's life against a terrorist's was good, and bringing in the soldier's family was even better. That allowed you to side-step the issue of what orders the soldier had from his superiors.

As I see it, it's not the individual soldier who should be blamed, but the superiors and politicians who put that soldier in Pakistan in the first place. As (among others) Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib have shown, the US military believes it has the right to lie to the public to get support for their operations. We simply don't know if the US special ops team was sent there with orders to apprehend Bin Laden if possible, or to kill him regardless.

For example, The Telegraph claims:

US officials said Osama resisted and was shot in the head during the raid that took less than 40 minutes. A US official said the strike team had orders to kill Osama and not capture him but added: “If he had waved a white flag, he would have been taken alive.”

Honor killings as you have read recently about in the media, did not happen in the same country

Are you claiming that 'honor killings' do not occur in India?

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040113/asp/nation/story_2780541.asp

http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/archives/04_0112_in_wrights.htm

Just like any other technology, now that its available, society has to make sense of how best to use it.

Yes, and that is by throwing it in the heap with all the other pseudo-science and outright quackery.

Here is a link to a more informative article: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050411/asp/knowhow/ story_4560152.asp

As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.

It's the domino theory of island obliteration! As environmentalists always warned, once Lohachara falls, that's it for Egypt.

The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.

Got that right, Geoffrey. I can't remember Lohachara ever disappearing previously.

Until now the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea were expected to be the first populated ones to disappear, in about eight years' time, but Lohachara has beaten them to the dubious distinction.

By quite a margin, as it happens. Lean doesn't say so, but Lohachara apparently vanished two decades ago. So much for Lean's scoop; the event took place back when Lean had hair, and several years before he emerged from a coma. Some locals aren't buying that global warming line, by the way:

Atanu Raha, director of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, said the islands were getting eroded by oceanic currents, not by rising sea levels.

"Erosion and accretion are natural phenomena. Across the world islands submerge and new ones emerge. This is natural," Raha said.

Not according to Lean, who evidently believes all weather change is due to Meddling Humans. And that's all change, whether towards cold or heat. In 2004, Lean reported that "Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming". Two years later, he asked: "So where has all the snow gone?" There's no pleasing Geoffrey.

UPDATE. This nonsense was republished in the NZ Herald.

UPDATE II. Lean has previously been convicted of sins of omission and other crimes against journalism.

UPDATE III. Jackalope Pursuivant: "I've seen worse cases of journalistic malpractice, but not much worse."

Telegraph India has a map of the island and some islands nearby in 1969 and in 2001, and Google Maps has a Satellite photo.

Telegraph India has a map of the island and some islands nearby in 1969 and in 2001, and Google Maps has a Satellite photo.

Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. If Kerry didn't want him to use it, he shouldn't have voted to give him the authority. If you give someone the authority to do something, there aren't strings attached, unless it said so in that vote. It didn't, there weren't.

The main opposition to the war, and the UN, were hip deep in Saddam's pocket. Take Galloway for example. Pretty damn said that people would support a facist state instead of deposing it.

You tell me.
"Villagers in India's Andamans and Nicobar Islands have denounced 'paltry' tsunami compensation relief they have received from the local government.
One woman received a cheque of just two rupees (less than five US cents) for damage to her coconut crops."

I also remember reading an article recently about how India's Air Force kicked our ass in joint training exercises

While the Indian Air Force did 'win' several (even 'most') of the engagements, to say they 'kicked our ass' is a bit misleading.
No AWACS, which the USAF would use if it were real
Older F-15C, lacking the upgraded, longer range radar, against newer IAF Su-30's.
No BVR engagements
The USAF sent 5 jets, and were outnumbered during the A-A portions of the exercise. This was a DACT exercise, not a 'beat the other guy' situation.

Having said that...
General Hal Hornburg, head of the US Air Combat Command said "that we may not be as far ahead of the rest of the world as we once thought we were"

From an IAF official:
"We have appreciated the compliments but we are being pragmatic. We have no doubt about the technological superiority of the US Air Force. The exercise in Gwalior was a low-level one and involved conventional fighter tactics."

Spin it how you want, but that's not quite "kicking our ass"

From this article ( http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040216/asp/bengal/s tory_2900904.asp ) on Feb 16 2004 report that an 8 year old boy is the youngest. I'm not a math wiz. But last time i checked on elementairy school. 10 > 8. What's going on here?

There are stories like this and some reports from India that say that some religious organisations are trying to do conversions as part of the tsunami relief.

Sorry about that. I tested this post in previews so I did as much as I could. You could just google news for any article on these subjects. I just find it interesting that there is so much "politics" with this event.

India refuse aid

Sri Lanka and rebels

in the last seven days here. The Andaman and Nicobar islands has experienced more than 60 aftershocks !
In related news, the tsunami split one of the islands in Andaman & Nicobar into two. Here is what one of the officials say ..

Another island, Trinkat, appears to have been split in two, said S.B. Deol, inspector-general of Andaman and Nicobar. "Part of the island has been submerged, while one half is visible," he said.

Old news bub.
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Election officials operating the poll booths are school teachers mostly from the neighborhood, meaning that they'd likely know you by name anyway.

Which means they could be susceptible to local influences, just like Florida. They probably aren't in large parts of India, but how do you think local chieftains threaten people with hookah-paani boycotts in North India? The perception that villagers have is that at least in some places, the ballot is not so secret after all.

Washington has been upset by Brazil's tit-for-tat reaction to the US-VISIT system that went into force yesterday with digital technology after a year of preparation. US travellers have complained of up to nine-hour delays at Rio de Janeiro airport where Brazilian immigration authorities, only told of the order last week, are using inkpads and paper.

US troops accidentally kill 9 children in Iraq

Wonder why the news sites here (in the US) fail to carry such news, while making a big deal when a single US soldier dies.

Not taking sides here, or even being on-topic, but really makes me wonder how controlled our media is.