Swiss on worldwide solar plane adventure PAYERNE: Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard’s team took its round-the-world solar plane prototype into the skies for the first time today, with four propellers lifting the massive craft off the ground at near bicycle speed. Piccard said the... Women 08 Apr, 2010
Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar detained KUALA: LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities have picked up 93 Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar who said they spent 30 days at sea in a crowded wooden boat, an official said today. The Rohingya men, an ethnic group not recognised by Myanmar’s... Women 13 Mar, 2010
10 die on drifting Gulf of Aden migrant boat HARGEYSA: At least 10 migrants died and 30 went missing when the boat smuggling them from Somalia to Yemen suffered an engine failure in the Gulf of Aden, officials said Sunday. Seventy people, mostly Ethiopians, were rescued when the coastguard in... Women 07 Feb, 2010
Forgotten bravery KATHMANDU: Their name is synonymous to bravery and their job an act of heroism, but firefighters in our country hardly get their due. And being felicitated as heroes are the least of their concern for they are struggling to get basic amenities. The...
