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A forest in north China that was preserved under a layer of volcanic ash deposited nearly 300 million years ago has been found.The fossil forest, located in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is compared to the Italian city of Pompeii in a paper published Tuesday on the website of US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reported Xinhua. [...]
With India stepping up its political outreach in the Maldives, ousted president Mohamed Nasheed has softened his stance saying he was now satisfied with New Delhi’s “more realistic approach” towards the crisis in the picture-pretty atoll nation. “I now fully understand how things may be brought into a proper alignment and I am much more satisfied,” Nasheed told reporters in [...]
Iranian militants may be the prime suspect behind the Israeli embassy car blast here Monday, but the role of other jihadi terrorist outfits cannot be ruled out, say security experts. “I put 50-50 percent suspicion on the Iranian outfits and the Pakistani ISI-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) or other outfits,” Ved Marwah, security expert and former governor of Jharkahnd, who was also [...]
The first ever National Survey of Libya suggests that the population would still prefer one-man-rule over alternatives like democracy. The publication of the survey of over 2,000 Libyan people coincides with the anniversary of the first protests triggered by rebel forces against Gaddafi, which ended after months of fighting when he was killed in October 2011. Despite the widespread hatred [...]
The World Bank and Fotopedia, the publisher of popular iOS apps and winner of the Best Tablet App of the Year Crunchies Award, today announced their collaboration on a new free app titled “Women of the World” for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. “Women of the World” takes users on an eye-opening tour and educational look into the lives of women all across the [...]
When the Moroccan resolution on Syria failed at the UN Security Council because of the double veto (from the Russians and the Chinese), the US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice proclaimed that it was “disgusting and shameful.” Outside the chamber, Rice said that the Resolution would have “aligned the international community behind a process in which both sides had [...]
One obvious concern of the world economy is the prospect of recovery from the Recession of 2008. At the global level this recovery will be largely dependent on the growth in the largest OECD economies. It must be remembered that the US and the EU15 still accounted for about 50% of world GDP in 2010 compared to about 8% for China and 2.5-3% each for India, Brazil and [...]
The critical challenge for Egyptians is to draft a constitution that subordinates the military. Cairo is tense and polarised. Egypt’s military is groping for solutions to the many political and economic problems that have beset the country since the fall of the old government. Various political parties and groups are united in their opposition to military rule despite being divided [...]
Sound is 50 percent partner in a film, Commissioner of Customs and Excise A.N. Sharma said during the release of his book “Baajanama” here Wednesday. The book was launched on the sidelines of the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012. Sharma said he chanced upon the project accidentally. “I was a casual music lover, but a chance browsing of junk in [...]
The US-India Business Council (USIBC), seeking better commercial ties with India, has launched a week long Life Sciences Executive Mission to India to coincide with Bangalore INDIA BIO Feb 6-8. USIBC President Ron Somers is leading the mission, which will explore ways for US and Indian companies to enhance collaboration in innovation and biotech research and development, according to the [...]
At least 1,45,000 people live jampacked in the area that houses the famed 16th-17th century Lahore Fort and Badshahi Mosque, crowded into just over 2.6 square kilometres (258 hectares). Sunlight rarely filters through the web of narrow alleys covering the district, where pedestrians are forced to wade through piles of goods and hand-carts moving merchandise. Of the 13 original [...]
The depiction of the potential risks the world faces this year, in the Forum’s Global Risks 2012 report released last month, is overwhelmingly depressing. This report is a wake-up call to the both the movers and shakers on a global level to come up with productive ways to realign the expectations of an increasingly concerned global community. Expectedly, Davos, this [...]
In the breathless monitoring of the meltdown between Pakistan’s larger-than-life army and the pugnacious assertions of independence by its civilian government, two broad narratives have emerged. The conflict has been chronicled either as a litmus test for a nascent, often fragile democracy or it has been pitched as the story of a beleaguered government fighting demons from its past. Yet, there [...]
ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has at last resigned under tremendous pressure from various quarters. He had lost majority support in Italy’s parliament owing to his poor handling of the major financial crisis in his country, with his popularity rating plummeting to 22 per cent. His seductive smile was no longer of any use to the Italians, who wanted the [...]
Ruling out any action against Sunny Leone, who participated in the Indian reality television show, “Big Boss 5″, Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice Markandey Katju Monday said that the porn star conducted herself in a “socially acceptable” manner in India and should not be treated a “social outcast”. “Sunny Leone was earning her livelihood in the US in [...]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon�s message on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the peace agreements in El Salvador, delivered today by Anders Kompass, Director, Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in San Salvador: I am delighted to convey my congratulations to the people of El Salvador as we [...]
NEW YORK, 13 January (Office of Legal Affairs) — Sri Asih Roza Nova of Indonesia has started the second phase of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs. She started the second, practical phase of the Fellowship [...]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon�s remarks to the World Future Energy Summit opening, in Abu Dhabi, 16 January: Energy is central to everything we do � from powering our economies to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, from combating climate change to underpinning global security.� It is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity and preserving the environment. [...]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon�s message to the fifteenth ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), read by Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in N�Djamena, 15 January: On the [...]
Security Council 6703rd Meeting (AM) In Briefing, Drought, Piracy Flagged As Emerging Threats amid Persistence of Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime The situation in West Africa had taken a turn �in the right direction�, the Secretary-General�s Special Representative in the subregion told the Security Council today, noting that a cessation of �open conflict� and tensions tied to institutional political unrest [...]
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