Singapore, Nov 14 (DPA) The 16th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit kicked off Saturday with calls for greater US engagement in the region. US President Barack Obama, although he failed to ...

Tokyo, Nov 14 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Saturday said the US is seeking "pragmatic cooperation" with China and welcomed its growing role and responsibility on the world stage. At the same ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The second India Disaster Management Congress will be held in New Delhi from Wednesday and is expected to bring together 1,500 scientists and scholars from various global ...

Islamabad, Oct. 24 (ANI): If Pakistan fails to upgrade its existing anti-money laundering laws before February 2010, it will have to face severe financial penalties from international organisations that includes being declared ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) The US has asked the Sri Lankan government to thoroughly investigate charges of war crimes in the final months of its long war with Tamil Tiger ...

By Joydeep Gupta Bangkok, Oct 6 (IANS) The World Bank has estimated that industrialised countries will have to pay developing nations $100 billion a year from now till 2050 to battle climate change. ...

Beijing, Sep 28 (Xinhua) China Monday celebrated the 2,560th birth anniversary of ancient philosopher and thinker Confucius. A ceremony was held in the Confucius Temple in Qufu city in China's eastern Shandong province, ...

Dubai, Sep 6 (IANS) Some 70,000 Arab university graduates migrate annually to foreign countries for jobs, while 54 percent of Arab students studying abroad do not return to their native places, resulting ...

Abu Dhabi, Aug 7 (IANS) The UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has hailed United Arab Emirates' (UAE) report on human rights achievements in the country, WAM news agency reported ...

Islamabad, July 25 (IANS) The restoration and reconstruction works in Pakistan's restive Malakand division, where the military is wrapping up a nearly three-month-long operation against the Taliban, will start in September, ...

Guatemala City, July 15 (EFE) Ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya has urged the people of his country to revolt against the "interim" government that took power after the June 28 military coup ...

Dhaka, July 14 (IANS) Bangladesh has postponed the visit of a team of lawmakers and water resources experts to the site of the Tipaimukh dam project in India as it awaits ...

New Delhi, July 12 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will undertake a four-day official visit to France and Egypt from July 13 to 16, during which, he will participate ...

Dhaka, July 10 (IANS) Bangladesh's main opposition party will write to foreign governments and international organisations to protest the proposed Tipaimukh dam in northeastern India on grounds that it will hurt ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) The outreach meeting of the G8, the grouping of the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries, with the world's emerging economies G5, Thursday outlined ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Even as they jointly declared to conclude the Doha development round on trade talks by 2010, the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries or ...

New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) India and Germany Thursday held talks on non-proliferation issues and underlined their commitment to nuclear disarmament, officials said here. Germany's Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control ...

New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The logistics of the meeting next week between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in the Egyptian resort town of ...

Mumbai, June 26 (IANS) Awareness campaigns and counselling have led to a dip in incidence of HIV-AIDS, extra-marital sex and alcohol abuse among the 700,000 residents of three Mumbai slums, according to ...

Coimabatore (Tamil Nadu), June 25 (ANI): Thousands of girls Girls of various schools and colleges along with volunteers of different anti-abortion from different international organisations took out a rally holding placards and ...

New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) India Thursday called for a "revamp of the global energy architecture" and creation of new infrastructure to ensure stability in supplies and diversification of resources. This was conveyed ...

New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia Friday said that tobacco health warnings will be strictly implemented in the state. "Packaging industries will also be warned to follow the guidelines ...

London, April 28 (IANS) Singer-songwriter and actress Avril Lavigne has been selected to represent her native Canada as its ambassador at China's first world expo to be held next year. The 24-year-old, who ...

Colombo, April 24 (DPA) The plight of civilians trapped in a narrow coastal land strip in northern Sri Lanka worsened Friday amid shortages of food and medicine and ongoing fighting between troops ...

Colombo, April 24 (DPA) Government troops fought their way into some of the last Tamil rebel-held areas in north-eastern Sri Lanka Friday, with special focus on locating the hideout of the rebel ...

Dhaka, April 23 (IANS) Twentyone suspected women militants and an extremist man were arrested Thursday in the southern Barisal district by Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an official said. RAB ...

Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) India Tuesday asked Sri Lanka to take international organisations like the UN into confidence while evacuating civilians from the war zone in the island country. Speaking to reporters here, ...

Colombo, April 21 (DPA) Tamil rebels claimed Tuesday that as many as 1,000 civilians were killed and 2,300 injured in military operations carried out in northern Sri Lanka since Monday, prompting nearly ...

Dhaka, April 21 (IANS) An Islamist militant body has asked officials of United Nations and other international organisations to stop work and immediately leave Barisal district in southern Bangladesh, the police said. The ...

New Delhi, Apr 21 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will inaugurate the Civil Services Day here today. The theme for this year is `Excellence in Governance'. This Day is observed by ...