Rani Mukerji claims that for her next movie. She drew inspiration from her mother. Rani claimed that her character was based on her mother. Rani Mukerji claims that for her next movie Mrs. Chatterjee Vs. Norway, she drew inspiration from her mother. The film, which was directed by Ashima Chibber of Mere Dad Ki Maruti … Read more
Thousands of supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad for a prayer service. They were trying to get the talks about making a new government move faster. The Friday prayers were held allegedly to honour Sadr’s father, who was killed by Saddam in 1999. BAGHDAD: Thousands of supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shiite leader, … Read more
Moqtada Sadr’s Shiite bloc, the biggest in parliament, resigns en masse. The move deepens uncertainty in country. Iraq is an oil-rich but poverty-stricken country battered by decades of war. Iraq, an oil-rich but poverty-stricken country battered by decades of war and insurgency, has been mired in a long political crisis that just took a turn … Read more
The site near Najaf has seen more than four decades of conflict and turmoil. Dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Hassan al-Anazi, asked for the missing person database. A noisy backhoe excavates earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed, and forensics experts begin … Read more
An official in Iraq said Saturday that authorities exhumed the remains of 15 people from a mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens more people killed by dictator Saddam Hussein. The mass grave was discovered in April near the southern city of Najaf, while workers were constructing a residential compound. It is thought … Read more
With joyous ululations, hundreds of Iraqis have celebrated for the first time the appearance of the “Holy Fire” added from Christianity’s holiest website in Jerusalem to mark Orthodox Easter. With chanting and prayers, excited crowds accumulated Saturday night time to greet the flame’s arrival on the Syriac Christian Orthodox Mar Matta monastery of Saint Matthew, … Read more
BAGHDAD: As Iraq votes in parliamentary elections Sunday, here is a timeline of the troubled Middle Eastern country since the US-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. – 2003: Fall of Saddam – The US and British invasion begins with dawn airstrikes on March 20, 2003, after then-US president George W. Bush accuses Saddam … Read more
