Tn Fishermen attacked by Lankan navy Deccan Chronicle | It seems diplomacy does not hold strong for even a week between India and Sri Lanka. External affairs minister S.M. Krishna raised the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen with authorities in Colombo during his four-day visit there last week. But news comes Sunday of four Tamil Nadu fishermen goin...
President Patil urges diaspora to participate in India's development The Siasat Daily | Jaipur, January 10: Emphasizing on the need for development in education and health care sectors, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has urged the overseas Indian community to continue helping India in becoming a global power. | President Patil in her valedictory address at the 10th Pravasi Bharat...
India: Delhi boy invents device to deter attackers BBC News A school boy in the Indian capital, Delhi, claims to have invented a device that can help women stave off would-be attackers. | The device, which can be worn like a wrist watch, delivers an electric shock once it touches the attacker's skin. | Manu C...
Thousands wage war against ACTAck on Internet Pakalert Press Share | Poland is bracing for a new day of protests against a copyright agreement signed by Warsaw on Thursday. Opponents staging demos and hacker attacks say the ACTA treaty amounts to internet censorship and gross violation of human rights. | In or...
Cannot censor the Web: Google to India Zeenews Davos: Ahead of a court hearing, technology giant Google facing controversy in India allegedly for hosting obscene and objectionable content on Thursday made it clear that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website. | Goo...
Thousand Year Old UFO Base Under Mount Shasta Pakalert Press Share | Tim Beckley | UFO Digest | One cannot help but be impressed when first seeing Mt. Shasta. It is a massive and imposing mountain that dominates the landscape for many miles around it. For many people, the mountain also seems to dominate their ...
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PM for changing 'face of Indian science' Zeenews Bhubaneshwar: India's position in the world of science was being overtaken by countries like China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday and announced that spending on resear...
China has overtaken India in science: PM Zeenews Zeenews Bureau | Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday inaugurated the 99th Indian Science Congress (ISC) here. | Speaking during the event, Singh noted that China ...
India may beat polio, finally Deccan Chronicle | India is all set be off the list of polio endemic countries. With India completing a year next week without the incidence of any polio case, experts say if the progress continues...
Gates praises India for polio eradication Deccan Chronicle | Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, congratulated India on being free from polio for a year now in his fourth annual letter on Wednesday. | Calling it a huge milestone, Mr Gates said that the challenge in India was “m...
India, Thailand ink defence MoU Deccan Chronicle | In what is certain to raise Beijing’s concerns, India and Thailand inked an MoU on defence cooperation here on Wednesday while also talking about elevating their bilateral relations to a “strategic partnership”. The defence pact, which has be...
India, Lanka may sign water MoU Deccan Chronicle | A memorandum of understanding (MoU) proposed by New Delhi to Colombo for the joint management of resources in the waters between India and Sri Lanka hasn’t found favour with the latter. | The proposed MoU put forth by New Delhi to Colombo had sug...
Scientists developing salt-resistant rice Zeenews London: Scientists are developing a salt-resistant rice variety after a huge tsunami last year hit paddy fields in Japan leaving behind a salty sludge. | Farmlands that accumulate salt have lower crop yields, which can threaten food supply, as rice happens to be the staple of billions of people worldwide. | "The beauty of the new method (called Mut...
Little optimism over promised Bahrain reforms Al Jazeera | A new round of modest constitutional reforms proposed by the king of Bahrain will do little to stop the nearly year-old uprising in the island kingdom, activists and opposition leaders said on Sunday. | King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa delivered a televised address on Sunday morning in which pledged to limit the power of the executive branch....
