SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.

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: Vijayadashmi was celebrated with traditional fervor here amid burning of the effigy of Ravana and splendid presentation of Ramlila depicting the victory of evil over good.

HOLLYWOOD, CA: The Spinning Wheel Film Festival Hollywood has chosen a new representative to direct and coordinate their media coverage. She is Babeeta Kaur Dhillon, 23, formerly of India Post. Her brief is to coordinate with different media to ensure that the Sikh film and art are properly exposed to the outside world.

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: Taking cricket world by surprise, Sourav Ganguly announced his retirement from Tests after the end of four-match series against Australia, bringing to an end an era in which he brought aggression to the Indian team.