US is number one ’spam nation’

August 24th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Majid Nizami has urged teachers in Pakistan to indoctrinate the new generation with the idea that Hindus and Muslims belong to two separate nations. Nizam said the practice could only be defended by the two-nation theory.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - A charity network in Britain has banned the term 'blacklisted' over fears that it is offensive or prejudice. The Citizens Advice service has instead replaced this term with 'blocklisting', in a bid to avoid "fostering stereotypes".

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - A new study, conducted by researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center in California, has shown that Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites may be coming to an end because the community-created encyclopaedia has become less welcoming to new contributors. he research team has warned that the changes could compromise the encyclopaedia's quality in the long term.

July 7th, 2009 NEVADA - Hindus urged US President Barack Obama to put a Hindu temple also on his list, if possible, in case he decided to attend a number of different churches in rotation. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that President Obama was most welcome to visit any Hindu temple he selected in/around Washington DC.

July 6th, 2009 JERUSALEM - US Vice President Joe Biden has said the US will not dictate to Israel-a sovereign nation-in case, it decides to strike Iran's nuclear sites. Biden was asked on ABC's This Week whether the US would stand in the way militarily if the Israelis decided they needed to take out Iran's nuclear program.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Legendary playwright William Shakespeare-known for his plays like 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet', etc.-has officially been named Britain's greatest national treasure in a new poll. The poll was sponsored by ice-cream makers Mivvi.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Beware of any emails regarding the investigation into King of Pop Michael Jackson's death, for they may be spam messages that infect computers with a virus able to steal bank account numbers and passwords. Expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have revealed that they began tracking the celebrity-focused spam early on June 30.

June 30th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian mobile users have reported receiving a new kind of attack-SMS spams, which says the user have won 123,000 dollars but must reply to the message with their email address for further instructions. Security researchers have termed these attacks as "Smishing" - SMS phishing - and "SPASMS" - spam using SMS.

June 28th, 2009 LONDON - A Church of England bishop has said that Britain is no longer a Christian nation. Right Reverend Paul Richardson warned that declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism meant that "Christian Britain is dead".

June 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - China has links to about 70 percent of the web sites advertised in computer spam, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) computer forensics expert. Gary Warner, UAB's director of research in computer forensics, has dubbed the trend as "spam crisis in China".

June 13th, 2009 BEIJING - In the wake of Chinese mobile users complaining that they are getting up to 641 million junk texts a day, Chinese telecom regulators have intensified their crackdown on spam short messages. Country's three main mobile network operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have joined the regulators in their anti-spam fight by signing an agreement to deal with inter-network spam messages, the China Daily reports.

May 29th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's first Republic Day is being celebrated on Friday throughout the nation with various programmes, exactly one year after the Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a republic on May 29, 2008 ending the 240-year old monarchy. In his message to the nation, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has urged everyone for consensus to reach the goals and conceded the first year was not very easy.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Twitterers and users of Facebook, beware! For hackers have now begun targeting popular social networking sites, and chances are that the sites' members maybe hoodwinked into revealing their identities and, worse, even credit card details, warn experts. Last week, hackers twice attacked Facebook - arguably the world's most popular social networking site - causing a host of users to reveal their personal information.

May 26th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will address the nation on Tuesday afternoon. He will address the nation from his office in Singha Durbar at 4.00 pm.

May 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Fear of bad luck has forced a Kiwi town to ban number 13. Palmerston North, in the central North Island, New Zealand has a policy to jump street numbers from number 11 to 15 to avoid the unlucky figure in-between.