French firm Dassault has won a multi-billion dollar contract to provide 126 fighter jets to the Indian military, a government source in New Delhi said on Tuesday. Dassault will sell its Rafale multi-role jet to India after beating the Eurofighter consortium to secure the long-awaited contract, which is estimated to be worth $12 billion. “You can [...]
Thailand’s weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday is considering an additional budget of 800 million-900 million baht (26-29 million U.S. dollars) requested by the responsible committee for procuring 300,000 more tablet PCs for school children. The tablet policy management committee last week agreed to increase the distribution of tablets for the primary school students in the [...]
Myanmar Ministry of Hotels and Tourism will introduce online electronic e-visa system in February on pilot run aimed at facilitating the foreign travelers who want to visit Myanmar and promoting the number of tourists arrival in the country, local media reported Tuesday. The ministry has started to install internet lines at the Information Departments of [...]
If you are an intending visitor or current tourist in Fiji, do not worry as the weather office has confirmed that even though there is a possibility of a cyclone forming near Vanuatu and moving to threaten the island nation, it will not directly affect the Fiji group this week. Meteorology Director Alipate Waqaicelua said [...]
South Korea’s top nuclear negotiator will visit Russia next week for talks over reopening stalled six-party talks aimed at dismantling the Democratic People’ s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s nuclear program, local media reported Tuesday. Lim Sung-nam, Seoul’s envoy to the six-party talks, will meet with his Russian counterpart and deputy foreign minister Igor Morgulov, according [...]
Japan’s jobless rate rose to 4.6 percent in December 2011, up 0.1 percentage point from the previous month, the government said Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted figure marked the first deterioration in two months. For 2011, the country’s unemployment rate, excluding prefectures hit by the twin disasters in March, declined to an average 4.5 percent, down [...]
Sixty four years after his death, Mahatma Gandhi’s name on Sunday created a world record in the Guinness Book as 485 underprivileged boys brought out a peace march dressed as Bapu. Flaunting khadi attire and Gandhi caps, the group of boys wore round-framed spectacles and walked with sticks as they brought alive memories of Gandhi’s historic [...]
The Pune bus driver who went berserk on the city roads has now been admitted to a mental hospital. Santosh Mane, the driver with the state transport department went on a rampage earlier this week killing nine persons and injuring 28 others. Mane has been kept under observation at the Regional Mental Hospital in Yerwada [...]
A low-intensity earthquake hit Rohtak and Sonepat districts of Haryana on Sunday but no loss of life or damage to property was reported. The quake, measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, occurred at 4.55am, the MeT department said in Delhi. People rushed out of their homes in panic as the tremor struck. “I felt tremors for [...]
Huge crowds hailed Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyias she hit the campaign trail on Sunday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the regime’s commitment to reform. Tens of thousands flocked to get a glimpse of the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the coastal district of Dawei, as she made her first political [...]
