Beijing: China hopes to use existing mechanisms to carry out discussions with India over border issues, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. “We hope to use currently available mechanisms to conduct friendly consultations with India on border issues,” Xinhua quoted spokesperson Hua Chunying as saying at a press conference. She was responding to a [...]
Bangalore: Aditya Mehta, the 27-year-old from Mumbai, became only the second Indian after Geet Sethi to score maximum 147 break in a snooker match as he achieved this rare feat during the Asian Indoor Selection Camp at the KSBA, here Tuesday. The break came in the fourth frame of Mehta’s match with Brijesh Damani who [...]
Beijing: China’s ministry of national defence Thursday denied that Chinese border troops and aircraft had trespassed across the line of actual control between China and India. The media reports on Chinese border troops, military planes and helicopters crossing the line of actual control are “not true”, said Yang Yujun, the ministry’s spokesman, at a press [...]
Volkswagen plans to employ 50,000 people by 2018, in its quest to become the world’s largest carmaker. Currently, Europe’s biggest automaker has around 550,000 employees worldwide. Most of the new jobs are expected to go outside the Eurozone, which has been affected by economic uncertainty for the past few years. “Given the slump in sales [...]
Washington: Saying that he wanted the next job-creating discoveries to happen not in India or China, but the US, President Barack Obama has unveiled a $100 million initiative to unlock the “enormous mystery” of the human brain. “I don’t want the next job-creating discoveries to happen in China or India or Germany. I want [...]
New Delhi: The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Monday asked the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to carry out a test on Beijing Olympics bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh for the reported use of the recreational drug heroin. In a communication sent to the director general of NADA, the ministry said reports have appeared in [...]
Durban: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday made five suggestions for BRICS, covering global growth to security, as the influential bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa moves forward after concluding the first cycle of five summits in each of these emerging economies. “As we look to the future, the progress over the past [...]
Yaounde/Bangui: Central African Republic slid into anarchy after its President Francois Bozize fled to Cameroon Sunday as rebels in his country seized capital Bangui. A helicopter of the presidency of the Central African Republic carrying Bozize landed at 6.00 p.m. local time at the aerodrome of Batouri, the capital of Kadey department, east of Cameroon, [...]
By Francis Kokutse As Indian pharmaceutical companies face charges of selling counterfeit drugs in Africa, India has dubbed the allegations as “calculated attempts” by Western cartels to destroy its march to provide affordable medicines. According to Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, since Indian companies introduced generic medicines to fight drug resistant malaria on the [...]
