World Last Week
November 25th, 2007 at 11:02 pm (World Last Week)
Saturday, 17th November 2007
The British scientist who led researchers and created Dolly the sheep will abandon cloning using embryos for a rival method, which makes stem cells without them.
In Lucknow, lawyers assaulted three Jaish-E-Mohammad terrorists in the session’s court premises while they were being taken by the police to be produced before the chief judicial magistrate.
In New Delhi, a government stamp vendor who took Rs.10/- as illegal gratification from a man while selling him a non-judicial stamp paper is sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment.
Sunday, 18th November 2007
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says that the organization has completed 40% of the research to develop the technology of a hydrogen-powered engine of a bus engine, which will hit the roads in 2008.
At least 28 people including 6 Indians were killed in a fire accident on the Haradh Uthmanian Gas pipeline in a gas processing plant at Hawiyah in Saudi Arabia.
A 30-year-old woman is arrested when she attempted to gatecrash into the Sabarimala shrine defying the ban on entry of women in the temple under the 10-50 age groups.
Monday, 19th November 2007
Tamilnadu chief minister M.Karunanidhi inaugurates the MRTS train service between Velachery and Thiruvanmiyur. Shipping and surface transport minister T.R.Balu and union minister of state for railways R.Velu, were also present.
The eight day old BJP government in Karnataka collapses after the chief minister B.S.Yeddyurappa faced with the withdrawal of support by the J.D.(S)
A Brazilian professor and psychic warns the Indonesian government that a powerful earthquake of 8.5 magnitude will strike the Sumatra islands on or around 23rd December 2007.
Tuesday, 20th November 2007
A metal company in Tokyo has made a 41 cm tall Santa Claus statue weighing 20 kgs pure gold, studded with 1.7 carat diamonds, carrying gold coins in a woven gold sack, and will be on display at the shop until Christmas day.
Tamil brahmi script dated first century BC has been excavated at Queseir-al-Qudia, an ancient port with Roman settlement on Red Sea coast of Egypt.
Alaska, a school drop out received an honourary high school diploma at her 100th birthday party, she quit attending the on room school in the year 1925.
Wednesday 21st November 2007
7 year old Kaushik Ram a class III student of a Chennai school has been fined Rs.500/- and suspended from class for a few days, for coming to school with Mehendi on his hand which he had applied during the Pooja for the annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala in his house. His parents, both lawyers have lodged a complaint to the human rights commission.
Pakistani authorities freed cricket legend Imran Khan who was on a hunger strike from prison where he was detained for the past week.
The Tamilnadu chief minister signs a MOU to establish a Health village in Elavur near the city, the first of its kind in the country with a 1000 bed hospital with a biotech park.
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was moved to Jaipur after protest by a muslim outfit in Kolkatta demanding her deportation turned violent.
Rome-The image of an eagle the symbol of the ancient Roman Empire on the vault of an underground grotto believed to be the place where a she-wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.
The three Jaish-e-Mohammed militants nabbed in Uttar Pradesh last week had plans to garland Rahul Gandhi with grenades before kidnapping him to put up their demands.
Friday 23rd November 2007
Commonwealth heads of government meeting (CHOGM) suspends Pakistan from the 53 Nation Club at the grand inaugural of CHOGM 2007 at Kampala South Africa.
A series of near – simultaneous bomb blast out side courts in Varnasi Lucknow and Faizabad kills at least 13 people while 45 others were injured.
Following the assurance of the Tamilnadu chief minister medical students have called off their strike in Chennai but the fast in Coimbatore continues.