Vancouver, May 19 (IANS) The mountains of British Columbia cradle glaciers in west Canada are in rapid retreat, which has become a major climate change issue, a media report said Sunday, citing an American state-of-the union report on climate change. “Most glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia are shrinking substantially,” Xinhua quoted The Canadian Press as […]
After the perceived corrupt practices in the run-up the 2010 Commonwealth Games, both the government and the sports administrators will think twice before bidding for another sporting extravaganza. Yet, the reconstututed Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has the gumption to ask the new government, likely to be installed next week, to consider bidding for the 2019 […]
Agartala, May 17 (IANS) Despite the Left parties’ devastating defeat in West Bengal, the CPI-M, a dominant partner of the Left Front, held on to its two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura, thanks to good governance and an able leadership in the state. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist candidates – Sankar Prasad Datta and Jitendra […]
Istanbul, May 14 (IANS) At least 200 people were killed and some 400 workers remain trapped underground after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in Turkey Tuesday, officials said Wednesday. A total of 787 people were inside the mine in Soma, 250 km south of Istanbul, when the disaster occurred. As many as […]
Agartala, May 13 (IANS) The CPI-M politburo will meet in Delhi May 18 to discuss the outcome of the Lok Sabha election results and to finalise the party’s strategies, party sources said here Tuesday. The 15-member politburo is the highest policy making body of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). “To decide the CPI-M’s next […]
Amman, May 12 (IANS) Jordan and Saudi Arabia signed $232 million grant agreements Sunday, the state media reported. Jordanian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Ibrahim Saif said the amount will be used to finance projects in the field of water, irrigation and infrastructure, Xinhua reported. The grant is part of $1.25 billion grant that Saudi […]
Palakkad (Kerala), May 10 (IANS) The total number of mass marriages arranged by Middle East based Keralite P.N.C. Menon’s Sobha Group has touched 438 after 19 more weddings were solemnized Saturday. Under the programme of organising community marriages, women from the Vadakkenchery and Kizhakkenchery gram panchayats, in Palakkad district, which have been adopted by Menon, are […]
The Department of Agriculture’s Authorised Officer (AO) programme is saving Australian exporters time and money by empowering them to undertake specific export inspections. Australia’s Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Vanessa Findlay, said the AO programme provides greater flexibility to export businesses. “Plant and plant products for overseas markets must be inspected to ensure importing country’s […]
Astana, May 8 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and nine others injured when a van collided with a car in the southern Kazakh province of Kyzylorda Wednesday, authorities said. The accident took place on a highway near Tartugay city around 9 a.m., Xinhua quoted the provincial internal department of Kyzylorda province as saying in […]
Book: Coolie Woman – The Odyssey of Indenture; Author: Gaiutra Bahadur; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 274; Price: Rs.599 Over half a million Indians were taken to the Caribbean colonies to work on the sugarcane plantations; a little more than a third of them were women. Some of them travelled abroad on their own without male […]