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Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena Supremo, has repeatedly called for a tie-up with the NCP in Maharashtra since some time. The NCP is a member in the ruling United Progressive Alliance at the centre as well as in the Congress-led state government in...
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Aid agencies in the Batticaloa region of eastern Sri Lanka have warned of a major humanitarian emergency. Severe shortage of food supplies loom large over the numerous refugee camps.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) supplies food to the 60,000...
As April 14, the date before which North Korea has to begin the process of shutting down the Yongbyon nuclear plant as per the February 13 Beijing Agreement, draws near newer anxieties are aired by some close observers of the issue. The capping has to...
It is no news if a company plans takeover of a large business in another country in these days of buy-outs and global business networks. Nothing prevents a multi-billion dollar firm from gobbling up another.
But, the post 9/11 misgivings among many...
SIDS, Sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death is a sudden and unexplained death of a healthy infant of one month to one year.
Babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to die of SIDS.
But, fears of head flattening prevent many mothers...
It is a highly lucrative business to traffic human beings to destinations where, they believe, better jobs and living conditions readily await them on landing.
Semi-literate people from poor nations, mainly in Africa and Asia, who hope to get into...
Britain has banned the use of cluster bombs by its armed forces. An official communique from the Defence Secretary Des Browne says that the decision was taken on humanitarian grounds.
A cluster bomb is a bomb with a large shell that contains a number...
North Korea is desperately seeking to reverse its economic downfall by getting the sanctions withdrawn. The agreement signed in February in Beijing exactly served this purpose well for North Korea.
It took long and painful negotiations to bend North...
The Sri Lankan government forces have sunk two vessels near the southeastern coast of the island country that were allegedly carrying arms to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE. The LTTE controls the northern peninsula of the island and is...
The Merowe dam, also known as Hamdab or Hamadab Dam, being constructed on the Nile’s fourth cataract in Sudan, is one of the largest in Africa. The 1250 MW hydroelectric station in the project will triple Sudan’s electric power...
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