New Delhi, September 28: With the meeting of Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers in New York ending in a stalemate, the next opportunity for the two countries to make another effort to start their stalled dialogue is in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the sidelines of the Commonwealth summit November-end.
New Delhi, September 28: Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even blogs will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday.
“For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools, modern web-based social networking tools will be used to spread knowledge of road safety,” K.K. Kapila, vice chairman of the International Road Federation (IRF), said in a statement.
New Delhi, September 28: After its talks with the agitating pilots ended inconclusive Monday, the Air India management said it was open for further negotiations and that a decision on thorny issues like the pilots’ incentives would be taken shortly.
“The management is open for discussions on the composition of the committee of executive pilots referred to in the office order dated Sept 27, 2009. Orders have been issued that PLI (productivity linked incentive) and flying allowance of July and August 2009 be disbursed immediately,” the airline said in a statement.
Ghaziabad, September 28: A contractor was shot dead and a municipal employee critically injured in Ghaziabad late Sunday night after three men, one of whom is an army soldier, opened fire at them following a dispute over parking of vehicles, police said Monday.
The contractor, Prashant Chaudhary, was supervising the cleaning of Ambedkar road for the Dussehra festival and the work was being undertaken by municipal sweepers.
Beijing, September 28: Chinese experts Monday announced that the country’s space scientists have completed the world’s highest-resolution three-dimensional map of the moon.
The map, covering the whole surface of the moon, is based on image data obtained by a charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera carried by Chang’e-1, China’s first lunar probe vehicle, launched Oct 2007.
The spatial resolution of the map – measured by the distance of two features within an image that can be clearly defined – is 500 meters.
Hamburg, September 28: Jenson Button may have only managed a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Singapore Formula One Grand Prix but with his main rivals slipping up, the Brawn GP driver celebrated like a winner as he took another step towards the F1 title.
The Briton can even wrap things up this weekend at the Japanese GP in Suzuka with a fourth-place finish should teammate and closest threat Rubens Barrichello fail to finish.
New Delhi, September 28: As thousands of onlookers cheered, the effigies of demon king Ravana were set ablaze amid a burst of fire crackers at many places across the national capital Monday evening to celebrate Dussehra, symbolising the victory of good over evil. The day also saw hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga being immersed in the Yamuna river as the Navaratri celebrations ended.
Jeddah, September 28: Four Saudi Arabian men have gone on trial in Jeddah for boasting about their sexual conquests on a TV talk show, a media report said Monday.
The charges against the men are believed to be connected to a July edition of the Bold Red Line show on the LBC satellite channel, in which Mazen Abdel-Jawad, 32, along with three unnamed others, told the show about his premarital sexual adventures.
Kolkata, September 28: The West Bengal government Monday sounded a high alert in three Maoist-affected districts following the arrest of People’s Committee against Police Atrocity (PCAPA) leader Chattradhar Mahato Saturday.
“We’ve alerted the police and the district administration and asked them to be prepared for any untoward incident and retaliation by the Maoists extremists,” West Bengal Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters here.
He said a high alert had already been sounded in all three Maoist-infested western districts – Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore.
Jeddah, September 28: Four Saudi Arabian men have gone on trial in Jeddah for boasting about their sexual conquests on a TV talk show, a media report said Monday.
The charges against the men are believed to be connected to a July edition of the Bold Red Line show on the LBC satellite channel, in which Mazen Abdel-Jawad, 32, along with three unnamed others, told the show about his premarital sexual adventures.
Johanesburg, September 28: Cricket Ireland has declined the ECB’s invitation to join the new English domestic 40-over one-day competition in 2010.
The ECB has ditched 50-over cricket in favour of a shorter format, but Ireland feel their development will be better served by concentrating on the international version.
Johanesburg, September 28: Pakistan’s deal is not quite done yet. Two wins from two, in this tight tournament, at least means onward progress to the semi-final rests in their own hands.
Regardless of the result between Australia and India at Centurion, they will be aiming to keep their game in working order when they take on the world champions in Centurion on Wednesday.
Brussels, September 28: MP3 players could soon come with a cigarette- style health labels to warn users about risks to their hearing if the European Union’s executive has its way, officials in Brussels said Monday.
There should be “enough information that sensible people know enough to decide” how loud and how long they play music for, EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva told journalists in Brussels.
Hyderabad, September 28: Telugu Desam Party on Monday revamped its organisational structure with party president N Chandrababu Naidu appointing a 20-member Politburo, which includes several new faces.
The Editor ‘Siasat’, Mr.Zahed Ali Khan, who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election this year from Hyderabad, found a place in the TDP Politburo.
Besides, the party has also appointed 12 general secretaries, 56 executive secretaries, 55 secretaries and 15 vice-presidents to the state committee with attention being given on striking a balance between youth and experience.
Nouakchott, September 28: A Mauritanian army officer on Monday said soldiers had arrested seven armed men suspected of being members of the North African branch of al-Qaeda.
The men were arrested in the remote Limaghiti region, some 1,100 kilometres north-east of the capital, Nouakchott.
They were “active members of al-Qaeda,” a source in the Mauritanian military told the German Press Agency dpa, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
London, September 28: Andrew Flintoff has reiterated his belief that Twenty20 cricket will not impinge upon the primacy of Test cricket, by pointing out that it was his matchwinning feats at the game’s highest level that have made him so attractive to the various clubs and franchises around the world that are now bidding for his services in the twilight years of his career.
New York, September 28: Xerox Corp said it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc in a $6.4 billion cash-and-stock deal that expands the copier company into outsourcing and data management.
The deal, priced at a 33.6 percent premium to ACS’s Friday closing price, is the latest in the active technology services sector. A week ago, Dell Inc said it would buy Perot Systems Corp. Hewlett-Packard Co may sell part of its outsourcing business.
Johanesburg, September 28: JP Duminy may have only just embarked on his international career, but he is already coming to terms with South Africa’s lamentable record in ICC tournaments.
Writing for the Independent Online, Duminy noted the “huge disappointment” of South Africa’s first-round exit from the Champions Trophy, which came just three months after their failure to reach the final of the World Twenty20 tournament.
Johanesburg, September 28: The toss hasn’t been Ricky Ponting’s friend of late but the coin came down on the right side at Centurion, where he chose to bat against India.
In a match that is essentially an elimination final for India, MS Dhoni’s men made two changes and strengthened their bowling after a below-par performance against Pakistan.
Mumbai, September 28: Union Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has succeeded in winning over his former rival BJP”s Shivajirao Patil Kavhekar, who is likely to join Congress soon. “Deshmukh visited my residence at Latur two days ago and offered me to join Congress.
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Lahore, September 28: In the latest twist in Pakistani actress Meera’s stormy marriage, police have booked her husband Attique-ur-Rehman on charges of theft and threatening her life.
Meera had filed a petition in a Lahore court alleging that Attique-ur-Rehman had stolen goods worth of Rs.1.1 million after entering into her house and had also threatened to kill her.
Despite a direction to register a case against Attique-ur-Rehman, the police adopted delaying tactics, prompting the court to pass another order, Online news agency reported.
Bangalore, September 28: Over 4,000 government doctors in Karnataka will resign Tuesday protesting a “meagre” hike in salaries but treatment of patients will not be affected as they have given two weeks’ time to authorities to accept their demand.
“We are resigning en masse Tuesday. We will wait till Oct 14 for the government to either concede our demands for better pay or accept our resignation,” H.N. Ravindra, president of the Karnataka Government Medical Officers Association, told IANS Monday.
Hanoi, September 28: Four days of floods killed at least 17 people and left six missing in central Vietnam, the country’s Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday.
Heavy rains destroyed more than 9,600 homes and flooded some 2,500 hectares of rice and 5,800 hectares of vegetables, officials said. Twenty three fishing boats were reported sunk.
The Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Center said a low pressure zone over the South China Sea caused rainfall of 300-400 millimetres since Thursday in the five central provinces.