Beijing, May 8 (IANS/EFE) The Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has trained a group of macaques to help protect an air base close to Beijing. These monkeys have been put here to take care of the huge flocks of birds that pose a threat to flights. According to China’s Air Force […]
Beijing, May 8 (IANS) China’s foreign trade volume declined 0.5 percent year-on-year from January to April to $1.32 trillion, data showed Thursday. Exports decreased 2.3 percent year-on-year, while imports went up 1.4 percent during this period, Xinhua quoted the General Administration of Customs as saying. The trade surplus stood at $35.24 billion, down 41.4 percent from […]
Washington, May 8 (IANS) The Indian Embassy here has awarded the new contract for providing Visa/OCI/PIO/Renunciation of Indian Citizenship Certificate application support services to the Cox & Kings Global Services Pvt. Ltd. The new service provider will be operational from May 21, a day after the current service provider, BLS International Ltd. closes all its operations […]
Washington, May 7 (IANS) Ukraine’s border guard has received a large percentage of the US-funded equipment it had requested, a Pentagon spokesman said. Steven Warren told reporters Tuesday that the Pentagon recently provided funding to Ukraine for locally purchased equipment, Xinhua reported. “To date,” he said, “using Cooperative Threat Reduction funds, Embassy Kiev has purchased and […]
Washington, May 7 (IANS) Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly brought down the then US president, is back in the news saying “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” Breaking her silence over the scandalous affair in the 1990s with Clinton – which led to the […]
Abuja, May 7 (IANS) At least 200 people were killed in a fresh attack by insurgents in a border town of Nigeria, an official said. Dressed in military uniforms, the insurgents attacked Gamboru, a remote town of the northeastern state of Borno, late Monday, Xinhua quoted a representative of the area at the Nigerian Senate as […]
Beijing, May 7 (IANS) If BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi comes to power, it could bring India and China closer, says an influential state-run Chinese daily. The Global Times in a write up says that Modi was once a “practical businessman”. After he became chief minister of Gujarat he established good relations with China. “A […]
Washington, May 7 (IANS) US National Security Advisor Susan Rice will travel to Israel for bilateral meetings slated for Wednesday and Thursday, the White House said Tuesday. Rice, in her first visit to Israel as President Barack Obama’s top advisor, will lead an interagency delegation to the US- Israel Consultative Group meetings, with senior officials from […]
Stockholm, May 7 (IANS) A Swedish woman was informed by her insurance company that she had been dead for over a week following a mistake committed by her doctor, the media reported Tuesday. “I was shocked. It was not nice at all. I understood nothing about it,” the woman named Suanne Hemphala from eastern Sweden was […]
Kigali, May 7 (IANS) The Rwandan government Tuesday launched a $329 million plan to stop malaria deaths in the country by 2018. The Rwanda Malaria Strategic Plan is a public health campaign to be coordinated by the Rwanda Biomedical Centre geared at eradicating the disease that claimed the lives of more than 400 people last year, […]