The Week Gone By

• Shoe throwing has become a fashion these days. Mr. Manmohan singh became the latest target of shoe attack at an election rally in Ahmedabad.

• Five Taliban commanders and around 300 terrorists, including suicide bombers are believed to be headed towards Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi to carry out major terror attacks.

• Lankan army confines LTTE to just 8 sqkm.Meanwhile LTTE declares a unilateral ceasefire.

• Lakshi Mittal looses staggering 16.9bn pounds in a year due to global recession, but still continues to be the richest man in UK.

• Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion after the talks of IBM failed with the latter.

• F1: Britain’s Jenson Button won the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. This is his third victory in four races. His team Brawn GP formerly known as Honda.