Concerned over high food inflation, the Food Ministry on Monday said that it will brainstorm with the finance and agriculture ministries to identify areas putting pressure on prices and work out a solution to contain inflation. “We are highly concerned about high inflation. We will sit together (with Finance and Agriculture Minister) and discuss which [...]
The 2-G controversy rockedParliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting here on Monday with opposition parties demanding that former DG (Audit) R P Singh be summoned and asked why he differs with CAG on the quantum of loss while Congress members opposed the move. With differences persisting, the meeting was adjourned. The meeting scheduled for tomorrow has also been [...]
Anna Hazare, who has been in ‘silent mode’ for the past fortnight since his team members got enmeshed in a series of controversies, may break his ‘maun vrat’ (vow of silence) in the next couple of days as he wants to hold “open discussions” with his supporters. The 74-year-old activist on Monday said he wants [...]
A white condominium building standing at least 136-meter tall on the bank of Chao Praya River in Bangkok is now a home to over a thousand people, some of whom flee floods from other areas. But no matter which floor they are staying, those residents could not easily chase away concerns over flooding at their [...]
She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny, wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world’spopulation reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet’s future. Danica May Camacho, born in a crowded public hospital, was welcomed with a [...]
The death toll from last week’s earthquake in southeast Turkey rose to 596 on Sunday, the day after authorities stopped searching for survivors and focused on helping thousands of homeless families in crisis. In Ercis, the town hit hardest by the 7.2 magnitude quake that devastated Van province on Oct. 23, some shops reopened on [...]
Undersecretary of the Makkah Governorate Abdul Aziz Al-Khudairy, who is also chairman of the preparatory and executive committees for Haj activities, has urged pilgrims to realize that the rules and regulations introduced by the government to streamline the pilgrimage season were not meant to make them uncomfortable. “The easy and comfortable performance of the Haj [...]
Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla, was elected mayor of Colombia’s capital on Sunday. Petro defeated eight other candidates running in the race for the mayoralty and will assume office on Jan. 1 for a four-year term. Surrounded by his family and cheered by hundreds of supporters in a lounge of a hotel, Petro said, “I [...]
Colombia’s regional elections ended Sunday amid at least seven violent incidents, authorities said. The driver of Deputy President of the Congress Albeiro Vanegas was killed while he was driving the congressman’s car in the northeastern city of Betoyes, Interior Minister German Vargas said. The other violent events were reported in the cities of Leiva in [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday expressed solidarity with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after the former Brazilian president was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx. Chavez, who earlier this month said he had finished his own treatment for cancer, voiced his “deep wish” that the chemotherapy treatment will restore Lula’s health, as “we can [...]
