CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk http://www.indianexpress.com/news/same-network-of-terror-has-hit-india-georgia-thailand-israel/912396/ Bangkok, Wed Feb 15 2012, 12:09 hrs The bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts in the Thai capital were similar to those used in attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, the Israeli ambassador said Wednesday. While the targets of the bombs was not clear, ''we can assume from the other experiences that we were the target,'' Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rs-1-cr-seized-from-president-pratibha-patils-son/912391/ Wed Feb 15 2012, 11:54 hrs President Pratibha Patil's son and Congress MLA Raosaheb Shekhawat today said Rs 1 crore seized as unaccounted cash was meant for distribution among financially weak candidates for the local civic polls. "I had sought funds from the state Congress Committee for distributing them among 87 party candidates as most of them are women and poor. Accordingly, Rs 1 crore was sent ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk http://www.indianexpress.com/news/death-to-kasab-is-permissible-punishment-maha-govt-to-sc/912413/ New Delhi, Wed Feb 15 2012, 13:28 hrs The Maharashtra government strongly defended in the Supreme Court on Wedensday the death penalty given to Mumbai attack accused Ajmal Kasab, asserting that death was a permissible means of punishment. Kasab has approached the apex court challenging the death sentence. He has also complained that a fair trial was denied to him. Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk http://www.indianexpress.com/news/defiant-iran-chokes-oil-export-to-europe-displays-nuclear-might/912483/ Tehran, Wed Feb 15 2012, 18:25 hrs Iran says it has begun loading domestically made nuclear fuel rods into its Tehran research reactor, a defiant move in response to toughening Western sanctions. The official IRNA news agency said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inserted the first Iranian-made nuclear fuel rod into the reactor in north Tehran. State TV broadcast Wednesday's ceremony live, showing nuclear experts briefing Ahmadinejad on the process. The ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA) news desk, February 15, 22012 http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/gujarat-riots-contempt-notice-to-narendra-modi-government-from-high-court-176562?pfrom=home-lateststories Ahmedabad:  Narendra Modi's government in Gujarat has been issued a contempt notice for failing to compensate 56 people whose shops were destroyed in the state's communal riots of 2002. The Gujarat High Court had ordered the compensation last year; because the government has still not handed over the money to those affected, the court has taken action today. Last week, the High Court ordered ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, February 15,2012 http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400212&catid=35 BANGKOK, 15 FEB: Thailand's top officials tried to calm anxiety today over the triple explosions here, with the Defence Minister saying they should not be construed as terror attacks, while another official linking them to global political tensions, even as Israel and Iran traded blames over the incident. Thai police arrested two Iranian men after the dramatic unfoldings in central Bangkok yesterday, when a ...