| Gandhi?s message very relevant today: Indian envoy |
Washington, June 23: Asserting that Mahatma Gandhi’s message is still relevant for the world of today, Indian ambassador Nirupama Rao has called for a pooling of individual capabilities for the advancement of the Asia-Pacific region.
“When we see the divisions and frontiers that divide humanity today, we must understand that the power to overcome them can only come from with... |
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| Obama attacks Romney for shipping jobs to India |
Washington, June 23: Seizing a news report that a company founded by Mitt Romney shipped American jobs to countries like India and China, President Barack Obama went into attack mode against his likely Republican rival.
“Today it was reported in the Washington Post that the companies his firm owned were pioneers in the outsourcing of American jobs to places like China and India. P... |
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| Pakistani PM vows supremacy of Parliament |
Islamabad, June 23: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has vowed to ensure supremacy of Parliament, strengthen democracy and hold free and fair elections.
“Powers to all institutions flow from the Parliament,” he said during his address to the nation on Friday night after being elected as the country’s 25th Prime Minister.
“The Parliam... |
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| Pakistan passes political test with little fuss |
Islamabad, June 23: Despite drama worthy of a political thriller, the system managed to elect a new Prime Minister with relatively little fuss. But the choice may be an “unwise one” because Raja Pervez Ashraf, an ex-power minister, was blamed for much of the country’s electricity woes, a leading Pakistani daily said on Saturday.
“No assemblies were dissolved and ... |
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| US seeks to mend ties with Pakistan |
Washington, June 23: The US government looks forward to working with Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to bring the strained relations between the two countries back on track, the State Department has said. “We are pleased that the leadership issue appears to have been settled,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters at a news brie... |
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| George Washington?s constitution copy sold for $10 mn |
Washington, June 23: A 223-year-old personal copy of the US Constitution belonging to America’s founding President George Washington has sold for around $10 million, Christie’ auction house has said. The leather-bound book, with the first President’s own annotations, was printed in 1789, his first year in office, BBC reported. It had an estimated price of $2 million-$3 million, b... |
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| Arm length ?may be reason why women need reading glasses sooner than men? |
Washington, June 23: Women require reading glasses or bifocal lenses earlier than men due to factors other than focusing ability, such as arm length or preferred reading distance, which should be considered when prescribing readers or bifocals, a new study has revealed.
The new evidence was found by a team of researchers who performed a meta-analysis using nine cross-sectional studies t... |
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| Baby?s cancer removed while in mother?s womb |
London, June 23: An unborn baby girl in the US was detected with an extremely rare cancerous tumour in the mouth, but doctors successfully removed it in one of the world’s first such surgeries in the womb. Leyna Gonzalez was born healthy five months later, The Sun reported. She is now nearly two years old, and the only sign of cancer is a tiny scar on her mouth. Her mother Tammy’s preg... |
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| Somali stabs girlfriend 57 times in Britain |
London, June 23: A 29-year-old Somali refugee in Britain has been jailed for at least 26 years for stabbing his girlfriend 57 times with shards of a broken mirror. Zakaria Mohamed killed 32-year-old TV recruitment consultant Amina Adan at the home they shared in Walworth, south London. The Old Bailey court heard he had assaulted her twice before during their year-long relationship, but magistrates... |
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| Kolkata solar physicist wins prestigious US prize |
Washington, June 23: Dibyendu Nandi of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata has been awarded the prestigious Karen Harvey Prize for 2012 by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The first scientist from the Asia Pacific to get the prize, Nandy was awarded for his “advances in the use of kinematic dynamo models to elucidate the typical and atypical solar cycle, a... |
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| Syria?s Assad unveils new government |
Damascus, June 23: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday unveiled his new government, less than two months after a disputed parliamentary election was boycotted by the opposition, RIA Novosti reported. “President Bashar al-Assad has issued Decree 210 forming a new government under Prime Minister Dr Riad Hijab,” al Arabiya TV said. Defence Minister Dawoud Rajiha retained his post... |
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