New York, Sep 9 – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that no religion in the world can condone the burning of the Quran. Ban said he was ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports that a religious group plans to burn copies of the Quran Saturday, on the ninth anniversary of the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – Declaring that ‘a new American moment’ had arrived, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday said that President Barack will use his November visit to India to take its relationship with an ‘indispensable’ partner to the next level. ‘The emerging powers represent a spectrum of interests and values,’ Clinton said in a [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – Seizing a ‘new American moment’, President Barack Obama will use his November visit to India to take the relationship with an ‘indispensable’ partner to the next level, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ‘The emerging powers represent a spectrum of interests and values,’ Clinton said Wednesday in a wide-ranging speech at [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – In a move that would hit Indian IT companies, America’s Ohio state has prohibited spending of public funds for services provided offshore. ‘No public funds should be spent on services provided offshore,’ Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said in an executive order issued Aug 6 asking state officials to ‘remain passionately focused [...]
New York, Sep 8 – A 70-feet-tall steel column, that literally formed the backbone of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, made a return to the original site and would be part of a memorial to the Sep 11, 2001 terror attack. Salvaged from the debris, the 52-tonne three-pronged column [...]
New York, Sep 8 – Maoists and Indian authorities should protect schools and children’s access to education during the upcoming Bihar state elections, Human Rights Watch has said. The use of schools by police and paramilitary forces as bases during the election campaign can disrupt students’ access to education and may increase the likelihood of [...]
Rosario (Argentina), Sep 8 – India were blanked 0-3 by New Zealand in their last pool match in the women’s World Cup hockey at the Jockey Club here. India have recorded only one win in their five pool matches and finished fifth in the standings with three points. They now play South Africa for the [...]
New York, Sep 8 – India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan cruised into their first ever Grand Slam semifinal with a hard fought straight sets victory over 10th-seeded Dick Norman of Belgium and Wesley Moodie of South Africa in the US Open tennis tournament here. The 16th-seeded India-Pakistan pair beat Norman and Moodie [...]
New York, Sep 8 – Rafael Nadal was untouchable at the US Open, unbroken for the fortnight after reaching the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 defeat of friend Feliciano Lopez on a day of Spanish domination Tuesday. The world number one and top seed worked past midnight and into Wednesday for his victory, which [...]
Toronto, Sep 8 – ‘Dhobi Ghat’ is a rare movie to come out of Bollywood and it is meant for the global stage, says Cameron Bailey, co-director of the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) where the film will be premiered this week. It is the first non-masala, non-song-and-dance film from Bollywood to make to the world’s [...]
Los Angeles, Sep 8 – A woman claiming to be the love child of the late pop legend Michael Jackson has had her case thrown out by a Los Angeles judge. Mocienne Petit Jackson, who filed documents with the Los Angeles county superior court in July demanding a DNA test to prove she is the [...]
Los Angeles, Sep 8 – A Thai Airways plane with about 200 passengers on board was grounded in Los Angeles Wednesday after a bomb threat was made, authorities said. Written threats saying there was a bomb on board were found in a lavatory of Thai Airways Flight 794, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller was quoted as [...]
Copiapo (Chile), Sep 8 (IANS/EFE) The Schramm T-130 drill, Chile’s Plan B for rescuing the 33 miners trapped underground since Aug 5, reached an excavation depth of 113 metres just two days after it started digging, officials said. Miguel Fort, coordinator of the rescue work, said Tuesday that the machine ‘surpassed the depth reached by [...]
Toronto, Sep 8 – Subodh Kant Sahai, India’s minister for food processing industries, has called upon Canadian companies to invest in the fast growing sector of the Indian economy. Sahai, who is here to seek investment and knowhow, said the Indian food processing sector was growing by more than 14 percent and many Canadian companies [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – GE and PepsiCo in India are among 12 American companies selected as finalists for the Secretary of State’s prestigious 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). Chosen from a record number of 78 nominations submitted by American ambassadors around the world, ACE finalists are international business leaders who recognize the vital role [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – The United States says it will look to New Delhi to see what changes can be made to the nuclear liability bill passed by Indian parliament making suppliers of nuclear equipment also potentially liable. In its first public reaction to the controversial provision, State Department spokesman Phillip Crowley told reporters Tuesday: [...]
Guatemala City, Sep 8 (IANS/EFE) Another body was found Monday among the tonnes of mud and rocks that fell Saturday on a highway in western Guatemala, bringing to 45 the number of deaths in the torrential rains. The spokesman for the Conred disaster management agency, David de Leon, told EFE that with the body being [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – As a Florida church vowed to move forward with a controversial plan to burn the Koran, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined other US officials in condemning it as ‘disrespectful and disgraceful’. ‘We sit down together for this meal on a day when the news is carrying reports that a [...]
Washington, Sep 8 – Two asteroids are to zip close by Earth within hours of each other Wednesday, the US space agency said. The asteroids measuring several metres in diameter were discovered Sunday by a telescope in Arizona and will pass closer than the moon’s distance to Earth, NASA said. Though asteroid’s come within that [...]
Santiago, Sep 8 (IANS/EFE) Chilean director Rodrigo Ortuzar has announced that he is planning to make a film on the 33 miners trapped for a month in the country and that he will donate the profits to finance the education of the miners’ children. ‘All the money that is collected, all of it, not a [...]
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