New Delhi, Nov 10 : President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the National Education Day here tomorrow.
National Education Day is observed in tribute to eminent freedom fighter and educationalist Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Azad was also India''s first Minister for Education.
Institutions of educational would be involved in seminars, symposia, workshops, rallies on importance of literacy and in promoting the nation''s commitment to all aspects of education.
Sydney, Nov 10 : Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, one the three 2002 Bali bombers, looked pale and afraid as he was taken from his cell to the firing squad on Saturday night where all the three were “fired to death” at around 12-15 a. m.
After carrying one of the bloodiest carnage in Indonesia, Amrozi had regularly smiled in front of TV cameras, took pride in the devastation caused, and after he was sentenced to death, he cheered and gave the thumbs up to judges, then to his victims’ families.
London, November 10 : The legality of Prince Charles’ wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles has come into question after constitutional experts revealed that civil weddings were banned for the royal family.
The Whitehall papers suggest that the Marriage Act of 1836 banned the royal family from civil weddings.
“Nothing in this Act shall affect any law or custom relating to the marriage of members of the Royal Family,” the Daily Express quoted a 1949 follow-up Act, which continued the prohibition, as stating.
Washington - A secret order since 2004 has allowed several covert raids against al-Qaeda targets by US special forces into countries including Syria and Pakistan, The New York Times reported Monday on its website.
Previous orders had authorized intelligence agencies including the CIA to act against al-Qaeda and other suspected terrorist groups since the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
The 2004 order, signed by then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and authorized by US President George W Bush, has been used in several attacks including a widely reported strike on a Syrian village last month, according to the Times report, which cited several unnamed defence and intelligence officials.
Johannesburg - South African singer Miriam Makeba died Monday morning from a heart attack in an Italian clinic, her manager confirmed.
Makeba, 76, felt ill after a performance on Sunday evening and was brought by ambulance to a hospital in Castel Volturno in southern Italy, where she died, Italy's ANSA news agency said.
"It was a life well lived," her manager told South African private radio station Radio 702.
"It's really the passing of an era, her legacy will always live on. She hasn't been well for some time now, she had serious arthritis. She had plans for another album to come out. She opened the eyes and ears of the world to South African music," he said in an interview with a different radio station.
New Delhi, Nov 10 : President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the National Education Day here tomorrow.
London, November 10 : The legality of Prince Charles’ wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles has come into question after constitutional experts revealed that civil weddings were banned for the royal family.
