Sharif terms holding elections under PCO as fraudulent (ANI via Yahoo! India News) Lahore, Nov 12 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister and PML (N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that holding the general elections with the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in place will be fraudulent. The Daily Times quoted Sharif as saying in a Geo News report that President General Pervez Musharraf imposed an "emergency-cum-martial law" to rig the general elections and to pave ......more...What Gives (Baltimore City Paper) Buying presents conjures up conflicting emotions. You want to show your friends and family how much you care about them, and nothing beats the look on the face of the person you love when he or she opens the perfect present, but perfect presents are hard to come by....more... Search (Drowned In Sound) DiS braves kick-out time on London's shopping mecca of Oxford Street to spend fifteen with Saddle Creek's 'folk-punks' Two Gallants. We find them burnt out by the February blues, about ready to call time on the UK's doom and gloom......more... La Vie "Bohème" in Boston (The Justice) La Bohème is not an intellectual opera à la Zauberflöte or some high-minded Wagnerian epic. At Saturday night's "Bravo Bohème" performance at the Shubert Theater, tickets to which were sold at half-price to young professionals and provided by the Boston Cultural Arts Club at $10, even the singing wasn't brilliant: Rodolfo (Sean Panikkar) weakened at the extremes of his range and even Mimì (Jill ......more... Sharif terms holding elections under PCO as fraudulent (New Kerala) Lahore, Nov 12 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister and PML (N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that holding the general elections with the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in place will be fraudulent....more... Johor Buzz: Decorating kolam brings out the joy of Deepavali (The New Straits Times--All the News that Matter) GRAPHIC designer-cum-restaurant owner G. Sumathi emerged victorious in the inaugural ?Deepavali Kolam Making Competition? held at Persada Johor International Convention Centre recently....more... 2007/11/10 (The New Straits Times--All the News that Matter) STEADY HANDS: Staff of Mutiara Hotel getting together to construct the giant kolam at the hotel's lobby. GRAPHIC designer-cum-restaurant owner G. Sumathi emerged victorious in the inaugural ?Deepavali Kolam Making Competition? held at Persada Johor International Convention Centre recently....more... 11/11: Rally defies police ban to demand poll reforms (Malaysia Today--Your Source of Independent News) (IPS) - Tens of thousands of people defied riot police, water cannon and pouring rain to march through the capital city, on Saturday, to demand electoral and other reforms and deliver a strong rebuff to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi....more... Oliver Sacks: The doctor who mistook his bike for a plane (Times Online) Oliver Sacks is known as ?the poet laureate of medicine?. He was played by Robin Williams in Awakenings, his story of bringing a group of patients with sleeping sickness back to life....more... |