India

Chandigarh,(Dharam Loonaa) – Mr.Pawan Kumar Bansal, Central Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, said that the increasing pollution in the Ganga was the matter of concern and the central Government  was planning to clean sacred Ganga. He said though it was the duty of the Centre and State Government to control this. The people should [...]

New Delhi – The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security in New Delhi today. In his address, the Prime Minister called for effective coordination between the Centre and the States to face the challenges of Internal Security. Following is the text of the Prime Minister’s address on the [...]

WASHINGTON – New poverty estimates published by the World Bank reveal that 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981.
The new numbers show that poverty has been more widespread across the developing world over [...]

NEW DELHI – A new chapter in India’s aviation history unfolded this morning, when the inaugural flight touched down on Indira Gandhi International Airport’s (IGIA) brand new runway 11-29. This is IGIA’s third runway and with it, it becomes the India’s first and among the very few civilian airports in Asia to have three operating [...]

USA

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The new design for the $100 note will make its debut on Wednesday, April 21 during a ceremony at the Department of the Treasury’s Cash Room. The U.S. government redesigns currency in order to stay ahead of counterfeiters and protect the public. Decisions about the redesign of each denomination are guided by [...]

New York– Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked former United States President Bill Clinton, already deeply involved in Haiti before last month’s devastating earthquake as United Nations Special Envoy to the country, to assume a leadership role in coordinating international quake relief, from emergency response to reconstruction to launching a new funding appeal.
“Needless to say, he [...]

By Donna Miles
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget request calls for a record $8.8 billion for military family support programs, First Lady Michelle Obama told military spouses today at Bolling Air Force Base here.
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First Lady Michelle Obama outlines military family support measures in the fiscal 2011 budget request to [...]

Six members of a racketeering enterprise, called La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were convicted today by a jury in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., of criminal charges that include racketeering, murder, attempted murder, assault, cocaine trafficking and numerous related federal firearms offenses, the Department of Justice announced. The jury convicted the defendants after two [...]

Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani while expressing dissatisfaction over the over all law and order situation in the country has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to fight terrorism and urged for an effective strategy to deal with terrorist incidents in a more coordinated manner in order to provide an environment of peace and [...]

World

Tehran,( Riano) – Iran is working on a formula to swap its low enriched uranium for 20%-enriched material, the Iranian foreign minister said Wednesday.
“We are considering a swap mechanism. We are keeping it on the table,” Manouchehr Mottaki said.
He added that he was set for substantive dialogue with international mediators on the resolution of Iran’s [...]

South Asia

LONDON – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a coherent political strategy to assist Afghanistan in its quest for peace, security and development, noting that the country’s challenges cannot be overcome by military efforts alone.
“We must recognize that while security is a major element in the transition strategy, it must not be the main and [...]

Tech

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. – Canon today introduced the EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR camera, the long-awaited successor to Canon’s highly popular EOS 5D, introduced in 2005. Building upon the qualities that made the EOS 5D camera so successful, Canon has coupled the creative power of a full-frame CMOS sensor in a relatively compact and [...]

Business

WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced a new program – the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program – to strengthen confidence and encourage liquidity in the banking system by guaranteeing newly issued senior unsecured debt of banks, thrifts, and certain holding companies, and by providing full coverage of non-interest bearing deposit transaction accounts, regardless [...]

Washington – According to recent data released by the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), women –among all minorities – are establishing their own businesses nearly twice as fast as male minority entrepreneurs and more than four times non-minority men and women. Between 1997 and 2002, the growth in number of minority women-owned firms was 57 [...]

Washington- The U.S. Treasury Department announced that Bank of New York Mellon will serve as its custodian for the implementation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Treasury hired the New York City-based firm Monday and work began immediately to help the Department with custodial, accounting, auction management and [...]

Science

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have identified a protein that plays matchmaker between two key types of white blood cells, T and B cells, enabling them to interact in a way that is crucial to establishing long-lasting immunity after an infection. Their finding may also explain why some individuals who have a genetic defect [...]

Ratnesh Kumar keeps his prototype soil sensors buried in a box under his desk. He hopes that one day farmers will be burying the devices under their crops.
Kumar is leading an Iowa State University research team that’s developing transceivers and sensors designed to collect and send data about soil moisture within a field. Eventually the [...]

WASHINGTON – A U.S. district court has ordered a halt to the operations of a vast international spam network that peddled prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement products. The network has been identified as the largest “spam gang” in the world by the anti-spam organization Spamhaus.
The Federal Trade Commission has received more than three million complaints [...]

Johns Hopkins scientists who have spent decades researching the effects of caffeine report that a slew of caffeinated energy drinks now on the market should carry prominent labels that note caffeine doses and warn of potential health risks for consumers.
“The caffeine content of energy drinks varies over a 10-fold range, with some containing the equivalent [...]

With gas prices soaring, Consumer Reports’ latest analysis of owner costs shows that drivers can save anywhere from $500 to $4,250 over a five year ownership period by choosing selected hybrids rather than similar conventional gasoline-powered vehicles.
Six of the 12 hybrids CR experts looked at – Toyota Prius and hybrid versions of the Chevrolet Malibu, [...]