Michelle Obama tops Forbes most powerful women list
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
The American First lady Michelle Obama becomes world’s most powerful woman.
Michelle topped the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list pushing the likes of corporate honchos including PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and also the Queen of England to occupy the top slot.
Michelle topped the list of 100 most powerful women including in the political [...]
US Naked Cowboy running for US Presidential Elections 2012
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
The Naked Cowboy, an entertainer who’s seen strumming guitar strings at the world famous New York’s Times Square announced his bid to run for the 2012 US Presidential elections.
The only-brief-wearing 39-year-old Robert John Burck more popular as the Naked Cowboy is a singer entertainer who makes a living by singing and dancing around the [...]
Australian lesbian couple expecting quintuplets
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
An Australian woman conceived quintuplets with no fertility treatment support. Quintuplets (5 babies) is a rare thing that happens as rare as 1 in 60 million pregnancies.
27-Year-old Melissa Keevers was artificially inseminated with a donor’s sperm (belonging to United States) to conceive and she conceived quintuplets. The doctors who checked on her say that the [...]
Eiffel Tower and Berlin Central Station to be terror targets
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
It is learnt through intelligent sources that Pakistan based Islamic terror groups are planning to repeat Mumbai-styled terror wreaks in Europe.
If a media report has to be believed, they have had their sights set on important landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Berlin Central Station and Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The names of these hi-profile landmark [...]
Iraq defers census exercise again
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
Iraq defered its first census yet again due to political unrest especially over the dispute areas of the north. The planned October 24 census has been postponed to December 5. This makes the census postponed to almost 3 years (due originally in 2007) now.
An official source from the planning ministry (which is responsible for census) [...]
Strong earthquake rattles eastern Indonesia
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in General
A strong earthquake rattles parts of eastern Indonesia on Sunday, September 26, 2010. According to the Indonesian meteorological and geophysics agency, no tsunami warning has been issued after the earthquake. There were also no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.
According to the US Geological Survey the quake measured 6.0 on Richter scale, [...]
Apple Inc opens two new retail stores in China to big queues
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in Technology
Apple Inc. has opened two new stores in China; Shanghai and Beijing on Saturday, on the same day the iPhone 4 sales was launched in China.
The US Company takes this as chance to push itself further into the China market and promote the brand there.
The west Beijing store, Joy City is in the heart [...]
Bomb threat on board diverts Pakistan bound jet to Sweden
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
A Pakistani jet airline bound to Karachi in Pakistan from Canada carrying 273 passengers aboard had taken a diversion to Sweden after a reported bomb threat on board.
The Swedish police was investigating and trying to track the person reportedly carrying explosives on board the plane.
The airplane; however, has been diverted to Sweden and landed in [...]
Indonesia Annual Gay Film Festival kicks off
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
Annual Gay film festival, touted as the biggest in the entire Asia opens on Friday in Indonesia.
The muslim nation hopes that the fest draws as many as 15,000 visitors to the screenings and events there of. The film festival is in the ninth year and this year’s edition, named the Q! Film Festival will be [...]
Delhi should not have been awarded Commonwealth Games
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in Sports
John Coates, president Australian Olympic Committee says in Sydney that India shouldn’t have been awarded the Games.
John Coates was talking to reporters on Friday and said that the CWG Federation lacked resources for monitoring progress of the preparations for the games in New Delhi and also to ensure that the construction deadlines met. He [...]
