Ravi’s Gadgets

JERUSALEM, Sept 24 (Reuters) – An El Al plane flying from Paris to Tel Aviv landed safely on Wednesday after security officials received a warning that al Qaeda may have planted a bomb on board, but this proved to be false, Israeli police said.
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PARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – French Defence Minister Herve Morin called on Monday for national unity over France’s military mission in Afghanistan and played down reports of a damning NATO account of how 10 French soldiers died in a Taliban ambush.
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I have been in Pondicherry for quite some time now, and I have missed all the oppertunities that have come my way to learn French. But I already speak 4 languages and I am not very keen on knowing another one. So I am pretty sure that I will be letting go any other oppertunity that I might get as well.

Yesterday when I was watching TV, I was shocked to learn that Chandrika Kumaratunga took her universiry course in Paris and speaks french fluently, and she speaks English quite well too.

Would that make me learn French? Well, the French President is a bigger guy, and he too speaks French, so why should I care of Chandrika Kumaratunga speaks French or not?

As long as I have google translator and have a computer on my desk with enough computer memory, I wouldn’t want to bug up my brain in learning a new language.

PARIS, Sept. 19 (UPI) — Foreign ministers from Europe and Central Asia pledged Thursday to work together on new gas pipelines and efforts to fight terrorism, officials said.
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