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Courtesy: Hindustan Times, 25 Dec. 2009
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman has asked India on Tuesday to stop interfering in the country’s internal affairs. He also threatened to launch an indefinite strike from January 24 to restore `civilian supremacy’,...
Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman, Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi with Mr. Pawan Munjal, MD & CEO, Hero Honda Motors Ltd. at the event held in Hotel The Ashok, New Delhi to announce Hero Honda Motors Ltd. as the major private sector...
Canberra: Australia’s unemployment rate fell unexpectedly in November, as the country’s economic recovery continued.
The jobless rate dropped to 5.7% last month, from 5.8% in October, as 30,800 new full-time jobs were created, said the Australian...
By Melbourne News Bureau
Melbourne: The Victorian Government has decided to shelve the controversial plan to allow the mining and export of Victorian brown coal to India. The $ 1.5 million deal has been dropped, says The Age today quoting the Energy...
US prosecutors have charged a Chicago man with involvement in the deadly Mumbai (Bombay) attacks of a year ago.The man, named as David Headley, had already been accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper.The Mumbai shooting attacks – blamed...
By Julio Godoy* – IPS/TerraViva
BERLIN, Dec 7 (IPS) – Electricity is indispensable to modern life, but its generation is responsible for 40 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming and climate change.While wind...
Legendary actress Bina Rai, who charmed Indian audiences with her performances in Anarkali and Taj Mahal and won a Filmfare award for Ghunghat, died of a heart attack in her Mumbai home on Sunday, reports IANS. She was 78.
Bina was married to actor...
By Rajiv Sharma & Neeraj Nanda
NEW DELHI, December 4: Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi sustained its process of engaging the citizens of Delhi by launching the Delhi United, a programme aimed at recruiting 30,000 volunteers to...
Mr. Suresh Kalmadi and officials of the Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on Dec 4, 2009. PHOTO: CWG 2010
By Rajiv Sharma & Neeraj Nanda
NEW DELHI, December 4, 2009: The showpiece pitch at...