By Miss Rosey After a rash of swatting incidents aimed at celebrities, the Los Angeles Police Department has decided to stop issuing press releases as well as confirming if and when such pranks occur, the Los Angeles Times reports. "It's our belief that the perpetrators of these false police reports are motivated entirely by the publicity these calls receive," Cmdr. Andrew Smith, who oversees the LAPD Media ...

ISLAMABAD: According to American news channel CNN, former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf has acknowledged that his government secretly struck an agreement with US regarding drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan. This is the first time a top past or present Pakistani official has admitted publicly to such a deal, the news channel said. In an interview this week in Islamabad, Musharraf insisted ...

TOKYO: Asian shares retreated on Friday after recent gains, with investor confidence underpinned by Wall Street's record-high close overnight, while the yen hovered near four-year lows against the dollar. European markets were likely to ease also, with financial spreadbetters predicting London's FTSE 100, Paris's CAC-40 and Frankfurt's DAX to open down as much as 0.5 percent. US stock futures were also down ...

Rida Zaheer The first female prime minister in her country's history, Thatcher came to embody a turn toward a free-market political program that sought to unleash economic dynamism through an aggressive program of privatizations and tax reductions. Thatcherism -- as her political program became known to both her supporters and detractors -- would throw off the heavy hand of the state and seek a Britain with ...

Rajesh Roshin  The most awaited event in India this year so far, the opening ceremony of Indian premier League 6 (IPL 6) happened in an ostentatious manner in the gigantic Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata. The event had tremendous crowd pulling performers from Bollywood likeShahrukh khan, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and the international star rapper Pitbull. Event comprised of Bollywood stars performing for ...

Rajesh Roshan  Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has logged a complaint against actor-filmmaker Kamaal R. Khan for misquoting her attributing a controversial rape comment to her on his Twitter page. Recently, we had reported what a big mistake Sunny Leone had made, after she took to Twitter and made acontroversial comment on rape. Soon after Sunny’s tweet, Kamal tweeted, “Ye lo… Sunny Leone says, Rape is ...

Prominent website WikiLeaks again published more than 1.7million U.S. records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world.   The data released today includes  U.S. diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976 - covering a traffic of cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence. Interesting  has granted Mr Assange  is trying to contest Sentor elections in Asutralia . Pr ...

The Constitution, Review Commission has correctly recommended the deletion of Explanation II to Article 25. It will certainly clarify to the world that Sikhism is an independent and separate religion and is no longer a branch or offshoot of Hinduism. The SGPC, the Punjab Government, the National Minorities Commission, Sikh scholars and others have uniformly asked for its deletion. During his visit to Amrits ...