Bogota, April 16 (IANS/EFE) Colombia’s leftist FARC guerrillas blew up a portion of the main road linking their country with neighbouring Ecuador, authorities said Tuesday. The explosives were apparently hidden in a sewer pipe, Temistocles Ortega, governor of the southwestern province of Cauca, told Blu Radio, as was the case in an April 1 FARC attack […]
Riyadh, April 16 (IANS) Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud Tuesday relieved Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz of his post as chief of general intelligence, according to the Saudi Press Agency. After the prince reportedly requested to leave the position, the king replaced him with a member of the general staff, Yousef al-Idrissi, who is […]
Moscow, April 14 (IANS) Russia has said Western countries will bear the responsibility if the crisis in eastern Ukraine escalates. “I believe that our Western partners will be responsible for this by 99 percent,” ITAR-TASS quoted Russia’s Permanent Representative at the UN Vitaly Churkin as saying at a Security Council meeting on Sunday. Churkin urged the […]
New York, April 14 (IANS) Can a person’s socio-economic background influence when he becomes sexually active? Yes, research reveals. Researchers, psychologists and others in the medical field have known for years that genes play an important role in how soon teens begin to engage in sexual activity. Genes determine when a teenager reaches puberty, and this […]
Dhaka, April 14 (IANS) Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year on Monday by combining traditional and modern practices. “We’ve seen one of the biggest concentrations of shoppers this weekend as customers rush to shopping malls to buy new clothes and other items,” Selim Reza, a salesman of Aarong, Bangladesh’s leading fashion and lifestyle brand, told Xinhua. Over […]
Sao Paulo, Singer Lorde has played the biggest show of her career — performing for 40,000 people in Brazil. “Today I found out that I played to forty thousand people at Lolla last night (Sunday),” the singer tweeted Monday after the show, The New Zealand Herald reported. The “Royals” star will be in Australia later […]
Abuja, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa as Africa’s biggest economy, rebased gross domestic product (GDP) figures from authorities showed Sunday. The biggest oil producer in Africa climbed to the 26th largest economy in the world, according to the statistics announced by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the national […]
Baghdad, At least three people were killed and 34 others injured in four car bomb explosions across Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday, the country’s interior ministry said. One of the blasts early Wednesday morning hit a busy intersection in the Shiite district of Sadr City in the eastern part of Baghdad, leaving a civilian dead and […]
Washington, April 10 (IANS) About three-in-ten Asian-American eligible voters, including Indian Americans, have cast ballots in midterm elections since 1998, a much lower turnout rate than that of whites and blacks, according to a new report. With an estimated nine million eligible voters in 2014, the Asian-American electorate for the November Congressional elections makes up 4 […]
Toronto, April 9 (IANS) Be it a high-powered dinner or a seminar, make sure you take your seat beside the person that matters as a study has confirmed that people who sit near you are more likely to support your agenda. Where a person is located influences who they interact with and who they would turn […]