Car bomb in Iraq's Kufa kills 39

Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 12:35 [IST]

KUFA, Iraq, July 18 (Reuters) A car bomb hit a group of labourers in a crowded market in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa today , killing 39 people and wounding 55, police said.

The blast occured 50-100 metres from a Shi'ite shrine as labourers were boarding a minibus that had pulled into the crowd looking for workers, witnesses said.

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Pakistan arrests scores of Taliban in crackdown

Tuesday, July 18, 2006,12:35 [IST]

QUETTA, Pakistan, July 18 (Reuters) Pakistan arrested about 52 Taliban militants in raids overnight in the southwest province of Baluchistan, taking action that Afghanistan, the United States and NATO powers have long called for. ''They are Taliban, and they have links with those living in Afghanistan. They had no documents so we will hand them over to the Afghan authorities,'' Chaudhary Mohammad Yaqub, Baluchistan's police chief, today told Reuters. A total 150 Afghans had been arrested.....

Samsung-Sony LCD panel line sales at $2.3 bn

Tuesday, July 18, 2006,12:35 [IST]

SEOUL, July 18: A new joint flat-screen production line by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. is expected to generate $2.3 billion in annual sales by 2008, producing 50-inch class TV panels, Samsung said on Tuesday.Samsung and Sony on Friday signed a final agreement for a $1.9 billion expansion of their joint liquid crystal display (LCD) plant, S-LCD Corp., to build a next-generation TV panel line.The production line, which uses the eighth-generation''motherglass measuring approximately 2.2 by 2.5.....

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China to ban small scale coal-to-liquid plants

Tuesday, July 18, 2006,12:36 [IST]

BEIJING, July 18: China will ban small scale projects converting coal to liquids as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains water supply, said a government circular seen on Tuesday.Beijing will not approve plants under 3 million tonnes per year (tpy) to process coal into transportation fuels, or projects under 1 million tpy to convert coal into methanol, a blending component for petrol, the National Development.....

Journos denied help by Indian Embassy

Tuesday, July 18, 2006,13:05 [IST]

Dubai, July 18: Three Indian media professionals, caught in a crossfire in Lebanon, have complained that the Indian embassy in Beirut rejected their pleas for assistance.The group alledged that they pleaded with the Embassy to call or send emails to their families to inform that they were safe, but the latter refused to grant favour explaining that personal phone calls and e-mails from the embassy were not allowed.A consular official asked them to head for the border to.....

50 per cent seats as per Thomas Commt. report: Kerala HC

Tuesday, July 18, 2006,13:05 [IST]

Kochi, Jul 18 (UNI) The Kerala high court today directed the state government and the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations to permit self-financing college managements to fill up 50 per cent of the seats and to levy fees as per the K T Thomas committee's decision. Justice S Siri Jagan was not inclined to stay the operation of the Kerala Self-Financing Colleges (Regulation and Control) Act 2006. The court issued the interim order on a batch of.....