Sunday, August 31, 2014

ONAM

Onam is the biggest festival in the Indian state of Kerala. Onam Festival falls during the Malayali month of Chingam (Aug - Sep) and marks the homecoming of legendary King Mahabali. Carnival of Onam lasts for ten days and brings out the best of Kerala culture and tradition. Intricately decorated Pookalam, ambrosial Onasadya, breathtaking Snake Boat Race and exotic Kaikottikali dance are some of the most remarkable features of Onam - the harvest festival in Kerala.

Celebrate's OnamOnam Games
Onam Games exhibits bravado of the machos in Kerala in a terrific manner.

Celebrate's Onam

Saturday, August 30, 2014

GOOD NIGHT GYZZZ

Liberia Reopens Slum Barricaded Due to Ebola

Liberia Reopens Slum Barricaded Due to Ebola
Thousands of people take to a street outside of West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. (AP)
MONROVIA, LIBERIA: Crowds are cheering and celebrating in the streets after Liberian authorities reopened a slum where tens of thousands of people were barricaded amid the country's Ebola outbreak.

Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning doesn't mean there is no Ebola in the West Point slum.

Media outlets in the Maldives have raised nearly $2 million to help Gaza residents affected by massive destruction caused in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, a fundraising organiser said on Saturday
The White House has strongly defended Barack Obama's dress sense after the president faced some online disapproval for wearing a more informal tan-coloured suit at a news conference on Iran and Ukraine.
A new study provides strong evidence that the experimental drug given to two American aid workers stricken with Ebola in Africa really works and could make a difference in the current outbreak - if more of it could be produced.