Senior LTTE leader seriously injured

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of the Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday. 'A senior leader and special member of the LTTE K.V.

January 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials have detained a senior Taliban leader in North West Frontier Province capital Peshawar, Dawn newspaper reported on its website Saturday. Ustad Mohammed Yasir was reportedly a spokesman of Taliban chief Mullah Omar after the fall of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001.

September 30th, 2009 AOL hires senior VP for advertisingNEW YORK — AOL LLC said Tuesday it has hired Shashi Seth from software maker Cooliris Inc. for the position of senior vice president of global advertising.

August 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Fingerprint analysis has confirmed that one of two men reported killed in a central Java shoot-out with police was not Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that killed nine people and wounded 53.

September 7th, 2009 AOL taps exec who famously warned Yahoo of troubleSAN FRANCISCO — AOL LLC has tapped former Yahoo Inc. executive Brad Garlinghouse for a key position that is meant to beef up the struggling Internet company's presence in Silicon Valley.

September 9th, 2009 Cablevision prices $900M senior notes offeringNEW YORK — Cablevision Systems Corp. on Wednesday said it priced a $900 million private placement of debt.

August 20th, 2009 Accenture laying off some 336 executivesNEW YORK — Business consultant and outsourcing company Accenture says it will cut some 336 senior-level executive positions as part of a broad-based restructuring effort. The layoffs total about 7 percent of Accenture Ltd.'s 4,800 senior executives.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - Hundreds of Tamilian activists have smashed all the windows of the Indian High Commission (also known as India House) in Aldwych, London after staging a noisy protest outside the building. Five pro-Tamil protesters have reportedly been taken into custody.

March 3rd, 2009 Though it has nothing do with technology, still we just couldn't let this bewitching incident not happen to our site. India had pulled out from a Cricket series in Pakistan after the 26/11 attack on Mumbai.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rs.70 billion (Rs.7,000 crore) accounting fraud at Satyam computer Services was not a corporate scam but a 'governmental scandal', senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said.

September 27th, 2009 VANCOUVER - The Dalai Lama joined Bishop Desmond Tutu, eBay founder Pierre Omidyan, "Power of Now" author Eckhart Tolle, Nobel laureates and other spiritual leaders here to call for change in the world through compassion. The Tibetan spiritual leader, who is here to lead the Vancouver Peace Summit, and Bishop Tutu were jointly given the Fetzer Prize for Love and Forgiveness.

May 20th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 97 people were killed when an Indonesian military plane with more than 100 people on board crashed Wednesday into a residential neighbourhood in East Java province, the military said. Nineteen people were also injured when the Hercules C-130 crashed in Magetan district while on a regular flight to the country's easternmost province of Papua from the capital, Jakarta, hospital staff said.

June 17th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australians wanting to secure an intimate sit-down dinner with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have just hours left to bid for the privilege on eBay. But they will need 20,000 dollars or so to be in the running.

July 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - North Korea is suspected of launching an unprecedented large cyber-attack this past weekend against South Korea and a smaller number of US government web sites. The Internet attacks are not isolated, but closely tied a broader North Korean military strategy, including its recent missile and nuclear weapons tests, the Christian Science Monitor quoted analysts, as saying.

January 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - He may have committed the biggest ever fraud in India's corporate history but for people in his native West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh and his die-hard supporters, Satyam Computer Services founder Ramalinga Raju is still the hero. Though the IT magnate is in jail after admitting to a Rs.70 billion (approx $1.5 billion) fraud, he still enjoys the support of his admirers who hail his social service initiatives, especially the 108 ambulance service.