Posts Tagged ‘India’

Internet Enemies and Corruption Index 2006

This item was filled under [ Arab, Blogging, Breaking News, Internet 'n Computers, Middle East ]

Yesterday, Transparency International published the annual report, where it showed that most Arab states are among worst ranked (UAE - 31, Qatar - 32, Bahrain - 36, Oman - 39, Jordan - 40, Kuwait - 46, Tunisia - 51, Lebanon - 63, Saudi - 70, Egypt - 70, Morocco - 79, Algeria - 84, Mauritania [...]

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India denies ban on Arabic TV channels

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Some good news for a change: Indian authorities have denied that they have imposed any ban on Arabic-language television channels.
“This is not true. No specific instruction has been issued by our ministry to ban any Arabic channel. Cable operators and hotels are free to beam them,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting [...]

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Raining Red Aliens in India

This item was filled under [ Say That Again, Science and Technology, Space ]

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water [...]

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