Washington, March 02: Climate models project that the global average temperature will rise about 1 degree C by mid-century, if we continue with business as usual and emit greenhouse gases.
The global average, though, does not tell us anything about what will happen to regional climates.
Kabul, March 02: Afghanistan announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as Nato forces seize their southern strongholds.
Journalists will be allowed to film only the aftermath of attacks, when given permission by the National Directorate of Security spy agency, the agency said. Journalists who film while attacks are under way will be held and their gear seized.
London, March 02: Even premature babies are capable of recognising and distinguishing two objects of different shapes (a prism and a cylinder) with their right or left hands, a new study has found.
The sense organs and sensory systems of premature babies are less efficient than those of full-term babies, though the latter are also not yet fully developed.
Now researchers have found preterm human infants have fully efficient manual perception that are just as good as other babies.
Mumbai, March 02: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex surged up by a whopping 243 points, or 1.47 per cent, in the opening trade on Tuesday on capital inflows by foreign funds, driven primarily by a rally on global bourses.
The 30—share index, which had gained 175.35 points in the previous session on Friday, rose by 243.55 points to 16,673.10 points with metals, auto and oil & gas sectors leading the rally.
Mumbai, March 02: The rupee appreciated by 10 paise to 46 a dollar in the early trade on Tuesday in line with other Asian currencies and increased capital inflows by foreign funds into equities.
At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the rupee appreciated by 10 paise to 46 a dollar. The domestic currency had closed 30 paise higher at 46.10/11 in the previous session on Friday. The markets were closed yesterday on account of ‘Holi’
Forex dealers said rupee gained against the US currency in line with other Asian units and dollar selling by banks and exporters.
Washington, March 02: Scientists have detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the moon’s North Pole using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I.
NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 2 to 15 km in diameter.
The finding would give future missions a new target to further explore and exploit, a NASA statement said, adding it is estimated that there could be at least 600 million metric tons of water ice in the craters.
Riyadh, March 02: The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said.
Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed last month in his hotel room in what Dubai police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillise Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website.
Peshawar, March 02: Two Sikhs, abducted for ransom by Taliban in the troubled Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, were on Tuesday rescued by Pakistani security forces, a week after another Sikh trader was beheaded by the militants in captivity.
The operation was conducted in a remote area along the boundary between Khyber and Aurakzai tribal regions on a tip-off from intelligence sources, a spokesman from the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
Gandhinagar, March 02: There will be a statewide protest in Gujarat March 6 against the government’s move to acquire farmland and allot it to industry.
The protest will be known as Mahuva Day.
Farmers of Mahuva area in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district have been agitating against a Rs.1,400 crore 214 hectare cement plant being put up by Nirma, which will require a large mining lease.
Mumbai, March 02: A Zambian woman was arrested with contraband drugs valued around Rs 6.5 crore at the international market by the Air Intelligence Unit of the international airport here, a top customs official said today.
34-year-old Matapo Ajar Twambo, who was to leave for Addis Ababa by an Ethiopian Airlines flight on February 27, was intercepted by the AIU officials and seized cocaine weighing around 5,420 grams, and 95 grams of heroin concealed in the amplifier of multimedia speaker system, Additional Commissioner of Customs B S Nunwal said.
New delhi,March 02 :PMO has sought details of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts awarded by the AP irrigation department, spelling potential trouble for the projects undertaken in the past five years.
The Central Water Commission (CWC) wrote to the department asking for the details, which it said had been sought by PMO.Officials at the PMO couldn’t be contacted for comment on Sunday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a visit to Saudi Arabia.
Santiago, March 02: A 12-year-old girl saved the lives of many inhabitants on the Chilean archipelago with her timely warning about the tidal waves that were to devastate the islands after last weekend’s earthquake.
The Santiago daily La Tercera reported Monday that Martina Maturana heard about the magnitude-8.8 temblor from her grandfather, a resident of the mainland port city of Valparaiso, and ran to the central square of Robinson Crusoe Island to sound the gong that is used to alert people in such emergencies.
Lucknow,March 02:SHIV Murat Dwivedi alias Ichchadhari Bhimanand Maharaj, the alleged “ pimp guru” who was arrested from his ashram in south Delhi, had close ties with at least two Samajwadi Party ( SP) parliamentarians and many of its leaders.
Samajwadi MPs from Mirzapur and Banda, Bal Kumar Patel and R. K. Singh Patel were allegedly in charge of a three- day religious function organised by Dwivedi during Diwali last year at his village Chamrauha in Chitrakoot district.
Doha, March 02: Husain was forced into exile in 2006 after some fundamentalist outfits launched a virulent attack on him for his portrayal of Hindu deities in the nude. His paintings were vandalised and, worse, nearly 900 cases were filed against him.
With no sincere help coming from the government to protect him, he left for Dubai.
New Delhi, March 02: Bollywood legend Shammi Kapoor may have yodelled his way into a million hearts, and won the 2009 Dadasaheb Phalke award for “lifetime contribution” to Indian cinema.
But the man, celebrated as India’s Elvis Presley, missed the cut for the 2010 Padma Awards despite being recommended by the government-appointed Padma Search Committee.
This information was disclosed on February 24 to Subhash Chandra Agrawal, who filed an RTI (Right to Information) application with the Home Ministry seeking to know the procedure adopted for this year’s selection.
Washington, March 02: In yet another appointment of Indian Americans in the Obama Administration, an eminent attorney from the community has been chosen for the US President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
Obama has appointed eminent Indian American attorney, Amy K Singh, as President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the prestigious John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the White House has said.
Paris, March, 02: The weather bureau and radio stations across France had posted warnings of gale force winds and a storm to come. But what hit France’s western Atlantic coastline in the early hours was no ordinary storm and no one foresaw the mayhem it would bring in its wake.
Winds at 160 km per hour combined with unusually high tides pounded small, unprotected fishing villages and seaside tourist havens. Entire rural communities were inundated and nearly 50 lives were lost, most of the dead caught unawares by the swiftly mounting wall of water.
Sydney, March 02: Firefighters gained control on Tuesday of a wildfire with flames up to 60 feet (18 meters) high burning near a small Western Australia mining community.
The Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia lifted an emergency warning issued Monday night that had urged residents to flee the blaze, burning near Eneabba, 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Perth. The fire no longer threatened homes or lives, the fire authority said.
Washington, March, 02: Here’s a simple but effective way to cure it. Just put a few drops of milk protein under the tongue and it will help the child overcome the problem.
The approach, known as SLIT (sublingual immune therapy), involves giving children small but increasingly higher doses of the food they are allergic to until their immune systems learn to tolerate the food without triggering allergic reactions or symptoms.
Moscow, March 02: Russia will consider imposing “smart” sanctions against Iran if it refuses to relent over its nuclear programme, President Dmitry Medvedev said after negotiating a range of trade deals in Paris.
Medvedev was speaking after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that culminated in a gas pipeline deal between France’s GDF Suez and Russia’s Gazprom, as well as closer negotiations over French helicopter carriers.
New Delhi, March 02: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today joined a group of school children to celebrate Holi, the festival of colour that signifies the arrival of spring.
Gandhi put ‘gulal’ on the forehead of the children and distributed sweets to them.
Senior party leaders including AICC treasurer Motilal Vora, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit, Union minister Mukul Wasnik, senior leader R K Dhawan and a number of CWC members and AICC general secretaries visited Gandhi on the occasion.
Several politicians and diplomats gathered at Lodi Gardens to play with colours on the occasion.
Chennai, March, 02: Stating that it will not grant further adjournment, the Madras High Court posted an appeal challenging a single Judge’s order of September 2008 regarding premature release of Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to March 10 for arguments by the government side.
When the matter came up before a Division Bench, comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and K.K. Sasidharan, Advocate-General P.S. Raman said the government had not received the report of the prison advisory board, which had considered a request for premature release of Nalini.
Riyadh, March 02: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday wrapped up his first visit to the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, describing it as “very productive and fruitful.”
Kabul, March 02: Afghanistan announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their southern strongholds.
The announcement came on a day when the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) fighting the Taliban reported six of its service members had been killed in various attacks.
Islamabad, March 02: The leader of an Al Qaeda-linked Chinese militant group has been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, an official said Monday.
Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, and two comrades died when a missile fired from a CIA-operated pilotless aircraft struck a vehicle in North Waziristan district Feb 15.
‘It has been confirmed now, through our local sources, that Abdul Haq al-Turkistani has been killed,’ claimed an intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity.