At last count today, over 6 lakh (0.6 million) shoes had hit the "target" in each of the on line games that replicated the press meet scene telecast on television news channel all day long the world over.
"During the interview, there was some confusion about casinos in India. I misspoke, and was referring to casinos in the United States operated by Native Americans. If anyone in India was offended by those remarks, I sincerely apologise," Eisenstadt, who is a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy in Washington, DC, said in a press release.
UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe told media persons that the material had been taken from the al-Muthanna chemical weapons plant north of Baghdad and that the sealed samples had been there since 1996.
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The government on Wednesday said it was looking into all options for the safe evacuation of stranded Indians from strife-torn Iraq. "We are looking into all options. All suggestions are on the table," Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
The second-in-command of the dreaded Islamic State militant group has been killed in a United States air strike in northern Iraq, the White House has said.
Bush said he would not have committed US troops if he had not been convinced the objective was achievable.
'Drone warfare has come to stay.' 'India should exploit the expected Reaper acquisition from the US to build an effective counter terror campaign,' argues Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
"The minister told us that she would meet the CMs of the four states from where the Indians belonged to take a decision on possibility of providing a government job to the next of kin."
British director Paul Greengrass has bought the rights to Rajiv Chandrasekaran's acclaimed book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Reports said the former Iraqi dictator had been handed over to Iraqi authorities for execution and his lawyers had been asked to collect his personal belongings.
The attacks came less then 15 hours after parliament voted in the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari.
"This is a film and films often take liberties with actual events, facts. This particular film has also taken artistic liberties in the depiction of the events as it actually happened in Kuwait in 1990," MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
The Saudi and Iraq offer to replace Iranian crude supplies comes with a catch: Higher prices for the same quality of crude. The new government will face a tough decision over fuel price hike, says Aveek Sen.
"And in this overall context," he added, "it is against India's own national security interests to have another nuclear weapons state in our region."
Abdel-Zahraa Othman was among four Iraqis killed in the blast, an Iraqi source said.
Six of them claim to be Americans.
The insurgents are pushing Iraq towards the brink of a civil war but the Iraqi government and the military could still prevent it with strong international backing, the generals said.
The grotesque irony is that while Hussein was hanged for killing 148 people, the leaders of the US and its allies won't be tried for killing half-a-million Iraqi children through the post-1991 sanctions, nor for the death of 655,000 Iraqi civilians.
United States President George W Bush intends to appoint current US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad as the country's ambassador to the United Nations to replace John Bolton
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A former Indian ambassador to Iraq has said this to the ED.
Iraqi first division player Ihab Kareem has died as a result of injuries sustained in a bombing in Baghdad.
The White House will soon be presented a number of options on Iraq and one of them from the Pentagon will suggest that the US adopt the 'go big' strategy.
India's new high commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal on his stint in South Africa.
At least 15 people were killed and 22 wounded when insurgents attacked a police station and a government building in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, police and hospital officials said.
At least 83 US soldiers have now died in October - the highest monthly death toll of 2006.
The incident occured when thousands of Shias marching across a bridge in a religious procession heard rumours that a suicide bomber was about to attack, triggering a stampede.
The United States on Friday ruled out a full-scale reinvasion of Iraq by American military in view of the Islamic State gaining ground in the country.
A man from Kerala working as a truck driver for a Kuwait-based transportation firm has been killed in a landmine explosion in Iraq.
16 police personnel were among those who died in militant attacks in a Sunni-dominated area of Baghdad.
'Lack of contact by kidnappers is a good sign'
Jagat hands over Congress letter on Iraq visit to ED
Al Rubaie also said on Saturday that the people who are afraid of the democracy in Iraq were funding extremism.
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