LOS ANGELES: Over 2,500 people from all walks of life participated in the Los Angeles Partnership Walk at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

NEW YORK: Breakthrough, an international human rights organization, launched its innovative campaign, End Homeland Guantanamos, to spotlight the inhumane conditions being faced by nearly 300,000 people in immigrant detention as a result of unfair Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies.

NEW DELHI: Skipping a decision on polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission announced one-day poll in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Mizoram while Naxalite-infested Chattisgarh will have two-phased elections between November 14 and December 4.

GLENDALE, CA: Twenty-one year old California University student Sharanya Mukhopadhyay was crowned Miss Showbiz India USA at the glamorous 13th annual Beauty Pageant 2008-2009 at the Alex Theater on Saturday October 11. The crowning honors were done by Bollywood celebrity guest Kangana Ranaut.

Given the severity and frequency of terror attacks in the country and loss of hundreds of innocent lives, it is time to rethink anti-terror strategies. Voices are being raised for stringent anti-terror laws, but global experience shows that excessive use of force, draconian laws, inept handling of suspects and similar counter-terror measures have failed miserably to halt terrorism.

During the longest period of human history-so-called prehistorical times-the value or disvalue of an action was derived from its consequences: the action itself was considered as little as its origin, it was rather the way a distinction or disgrace still reaches back today from a child to its parents, in China, it was the retroactive force of success or failure that led men to think well or ill of an action.

BANGALORE: The champion batsman, Sachin Tendulkar who needed 64 runs to break Lara's record Test aggregate of 11,953, fell short by just 15 runs much to the disappointment of the crowd who cheered every stroke he played.