Oklahoma tornado: Search for survivors nears end

     Rescue workers are combing the ruins left by the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery.

Lankan army to reduce military presence at former LTTE stronghold in north.

     Sri Lanka Army has said that it would reduce the number of military camps in former rebel stronghold of northern Jaffna and hand over lands back to their original owners. "We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three," Army chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.

Salt on Old Wounds : Post-War Sri Lanka.

     The Systematic Sinhalization of Sri Lanka’s North, East and Hill Country’ the first study published by The Social Architects (TSA), seeks to set out the systematic, increasing and widespread process of Sinhalization that is taking place in historically Tamil areas in the North, East and Hill Country in post-war Sri Lanka. While focusing on the process of Sinhalization that is currently being implemented, this monograph seeks to situate it within the broader historical process of Sinhalization that has been carried out by different governments spanning a number of decades.

US man recovers stolen 300-year-old German Bible.

     A man’s heart sank when he realised that burglars had broken in and stolen a safe holding his most prized possession a 300 year old family Bible.

     The Lutheran Bible, written in German Gothic script and containing the handwritten dates of births, deaths and marriages for seven generations of Tim Shier’s family, went missing in the burglary in December 2011.

Happy birthday, Kate!

Whatever the Duchess of Cambridge wears turns to gold.

     From that Zara cornflower blue dress to those vibrant pink jeans and her exquisite Sarah Burton wedding gown, her sartorial selections have sent high-street and designer sales soaring as women try desperately to emulate her impeccable style.

200 teenagers dead in nightclub fire in southern Brazil.

     In a horrific tragedy that would raise serious questions about public safety in Brazil, some 200 people — mostly teenagers — were killed in an inferno that swept through a nightclub, Kiss, in Santa Maria, a small city in Rio Grande do Sul, the prosperous southern state which shares its border with Argentina and Uruguay.

Thoughts on marriage [Humour]

For those who r Married as well as for those who wil get Married.....

Sharing a few thoughts for Would - be grooms

For Would-Be Grooms:

Paradise Lost!

Tags : Medicine, Buffalo, time, world, 

Thanks to Rahul.

Russian Parliament approves several "repressive" bills

     The Russian Parliament wound up its spring session with the approval of several “repressive” bills designed to help the Kremlin crack down on a growing civic protest movement, according to opposition leaders.