Tamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers has been seriously injured in an attack by advancing government troops, a pro-rebel website said Thursday. K.V. Balakumaran, described as a 'special member' of the LTTE, suffered injuries in an attack by the army at Udaiyarkattu in Mullaitivu Monday and is in a hospital, puthinam.com reported.

April 6th, 2009 JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said. The Fokker airplane was carrying 17 officers from the Indonesian Air Force's special force and seven crew when it crashed at about 12.30 p.m.

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.

June 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Telecom major Idea Cellular Tuesday signed a Rs.145-crore agreement with Firstsource Solutions, a business process outsourcing (BPO) service provider. As part of the agreement, Firstsource will provide for five years a suite of customer management interaction services, including customer service, billing, new product information and plan details to Idea from its centre in Coimbatore, the companies said in a statement.

February 25th, 2006 Almost every java developer finds one fine morning that he cannot compare String with "==" as he has been doing with int or char. Then either he finds out or someone kindly tells him that objects cannot be compared with "==".

October 12th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Female employees at the computer company Dell are mentoring senior male colleagues in a bid to introduce them to female perceptions of the world of work and the daily challenges faced by them. The scheme forms a wider project designed to help women get into the top positions in the IT sector.

January 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Jan 1 strike from an unmanned US drone in Pakistan killed four top al-Qaeda operatives, including a suspect in both last year's Islamabad hotel attack and the 1998 truck bombings against US embassies in Africa, the Washington Post reported on its website early Friday. The report cited US counter-terrorism officials with access to secret reports, speaking on condition of anonymity.

June 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - State-run Electronics Corp of Tamil Nadu Ltd (ELCOT) will soon cover around 28,000 public distribution shops in the state under its e-governance initiative, a top official said here Monday. "Currently implemented in around 210 shops, the electronic billing project will be shortly extended to other outlets in the states," ELCOT chairman Santhosh Babu told reporters.

July 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government will announce a slew of measures to help IT sector attract fresh investments, a senior official here said Wednesday. "The proposals will be announced in the assembly," IT Secretary P.W.C.

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.

February 9th, 2009 LONDON - British police Tuesday warned women against communicating with a Facebook user suspected to be a killer. Police said women should not meet up with Facebook user George Appleton after the badly burnt corpse of 36-year-old Clare Wood was discovered last week in the bedroom of her home in Salford, Greater Manchester.

February 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Google India Tuesday unveiled an Internet bus, a mobile vehicle designed to provide information on Internet and computer to people in cities across Tamil Nadu. Dubbed as 'Google Bus', the vehicle which was flagged off from Chennai will cover 15 towns including Erode, Dindigul, Pudukkottai, Trippur and Nagercoil in 45 days.

January 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - In an announcement that took everybody by surprise, Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswamy said here Friday that the state does not need any more investment from the IT sector.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Young Indians angry about the attack on women in a pub in Karnataka's Mangalore town are giving vent to their ire on the internet with critical comments on blogs and furious responses to the video of the incident on YouTube. 'On a day when India celebrated its 60th Republic Day, the news (of the Mangalore pub incident) that made the headlines was shocking, awful and shameful to hear as an Indian,' said a comment on a blog.

September 17th, 2009 JAKARTA - Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed. The 41-year-old Malaysian-born extremist was one of four militants killed in the raid near Solo, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters.