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Bihar's model of health care through mobile phones is finding many takers...
email this articleSubject line:Your Email:Send me a copy:Recipients Id:Type address separated by commas Enter the characters shown in the image.Send Many things may be going wrong in India, but the...
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An ex-loser is back in the money (Fortune, 1996)
Editor's note: Every Sunday we publish a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a story from 1996 chronicling the comeback of U.S. businessman Donald Trump. Since 2007, Trump...
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Indonesia's Forest Fires Sting Singapore As Smog Turns Hazardous
Simon Montlake, Forbes Staff People wearing face masks walk on the street in Singapore on June 21, 2013 (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)Living in Beijing, I know well how smog blights...
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India's Flood Of Woes
A submerged idol of Hindu Lord Shiva stands in the flooded River Ganges in Rishikesh, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Photo credit:AP)The north Indian state...
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Facebook Bug Exposes Contact Information Of 6 Million Users
A message from Facebook's "White Hat" program warns users about a bug that exposed contact informationA bug, that Facebook FB+2.64% said has been fixed, inadvertently shared email addresses or...
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Startup Turns Followers Into Funding -- For More Than Just One Project
By Natalie BurgJack Conte is the founder of Patreon, a new, online revenue model for creators that blends crowdfunding with old fashioned patronage. (Photo courtesy of Jack Conte)In past centuries, the...
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Why A Four Seasons Chef Ditched The Kitchen To Teach Gardening To Kids
By Zac UngerAfter stints in a Four Seasons Hotel kitchen and as resident chef for the U.S. consulate general, Ian Lai opened a gardening school for children. (Photo credit: Rita Minichiello)Ian Lai had...
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Tomato Curry - Sri Lankan Receipe
Posted by Malini This is simple dish that goes well with south Indian food like dosas, or idlies. It is good even with rice. Try this in place of Sambar.1 Onion, sliced3-4 Dried red chillies, broken 1...
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Seeni Sambol
Posted by Malini1 lb red onions, sliced finely1/4 lb maldive fish pieces (optional)3-4 tbsp chilli powdera sprig of curry leavesRampe, chopped into 1/2 inch pieces2? cinnamon5 cloves5 cardamoms5 tbsp...
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Peace in Afghanistan is distant but not impossible
BY ANY standards, June 18th was a momentous day in the troubled history of Afghanistan. At a ceremony at a military college near Kabul the country’s president, Hamid Karzai, and the secretary-general...
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No honeymoon for Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan’s terrorists
The school bus from hellIN HIS first weeks in office Pakistan’s newly reinstalled prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, might have hoped for a breathing space to concentrate on tackling the country’s failing...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi - Running for president comes with risks
USUALLY she coyly evades the question. On June 6th Aung San Suu Kyi at last answered it: “I want to run for president and I’m quite frank about it.” As by far the most popular politician in Myanmar,...
View ArticleGirl student sexually assaulted in Batticaloa near SLA, STF camps
[TamilNet, Monday, 24 June 2013, 01:36 GMT]Tamil women from the East continue to be vulnerable to sexual assaults allegedly at the hands of Sinhala men even as another incident of sexual assault on a...
View ArticleGotabhaya names TamilNet a ‘security threat’
[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 June 2013, 00:04 GMT]While listing ‘national’ security threats faced by genocidal Sri Lanka, its Defence Secretary and presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa included the name...
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Poaching Indian fishermen accuse Sri Lanka Navy of snapping their fishing nets
Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 09:35 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 23, Colombo: Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu poaching in Sri Lankan waters have accused the Sri Lankan Navy of snapping...
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Trincomalee DIG to fill arrested Sri Lanka senior police officer's post
Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 08:06 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police Department has appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police L.G. Kularatna as the new Deputy...
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Pro-LTTE diaspora prevents Sri Lanka's reconciliation
Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 06:58 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. June 23, Colombo: Politically mobilized pro-LTTE diaspora sustain hatred and prevent reconciliation in Sri Lanka and with groups...
View ArticleLanka, Canada in diplomatic dispute over ambassadors
By Anthony David Sri Lanka and Canada, which is calling upon member nations to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Colombo, are locked in a diplomatic wrangle over posting of envoys to their...
View ArticleSuspect DIG’s son facing arrest
sundaytimes.lk The son of remanded DIG Vaas Gunawardena is facing imminent arrest for his role in the abduction and murder of businessman Mohamed Shiyam. Police spokesman SSP Buddhika Siriwardena said...
View ArticleSinhalicisation of Chu’ndik-ku’lam to permanently choke Jaffna Peninsula
[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 June 2013, 08:55 GMT]The Eezham Tamil fishermen’s efforts to reconstruct their war-torn lives face fresh threats from the occupying Sri Lanka’s rampant Sinhalicisation of the...
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