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 [...]
North Korean nuclear talks could restart by the summer, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Japan’s NHK television in a Saturday interview whose transcript was released by the ministry on Sunday. “It is absolutely realistic to do this not just this year but in the first half of the year, concentrating on the main task of ensuring theKorean [...]
One leader refers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “Pappu PM” while another talks of doing a “qattal-e-aam” (massacre) of party rebels. Punjab may be going without posters and flags to keep poll expenses in check but colourful language is in full flow. As campaigning for the Jan 30 elections to 117 assembly seats [...]
Former Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MP Shivaji Mane, till now Hingoli district Congress President, today joined NCP, saying he was feeling “suffocated” in the Congress. Mane joined NCP in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at a function in party office here this morning. He said Youth Congress President Rajeev Satav, who hails from Hingoli, a [...]
