Kenya’s coffee exports could hit $308 mn
September 11th, 2012 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, Sep 11 (IANS) Kenya's coffee exports are expected to increase this year and could reach $308 million by the end of 2012, an official said.Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe to promulgate diamond policy
February 24th, 2012 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 24 (IANS) The Zimbabwean government Thursday said it is completing a diamond policy document which will lead to the crafting of the much anticipated Diamond Bill.
Deputy Chief ... Read more...
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Thai government welcomes Twitter censorship announcement
January 30th, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by BNO News
BANGKOK (BNO NEWS) -- The Thai government on Monday welcomed an announcement from the social networking website Twitter that it will start censoring controversial content on a country-specific level, local media reported.Jeerawan ... Read more...
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Rwanda taps India for food security, investment
October 18th, 2011 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Rwanda, a rising economy located at the crossroads of Central and East Africa, Tuesday pitched for greater trade with India and sought this country's expertise ... Read more...
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Rwanda delegation to visit India for investment
October 17th, 2011 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) A business delegation from Rwanda led by Agriculture Minister Agnes Kalibata will visit Indian metros staring with New Delhi Tuesday to attract investment in the ... Read more...
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Swedish poet wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
October 6th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced Thursday."The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011 is awarded to the ... Read more...
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Israeli scientist wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 5th, 2011 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman Wednesday won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals.
Shechtman, from Israel Institute of Technology, discovered the quasicrystals, a ... Read more...
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Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4th, 2011 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 4 (IANS) Three scientists Tuesday won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of exploding stars that revealed the universe was expanding quickly.
Saul Perlmutter and Adam ... Read more...
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After six decades, Congress veteran wants to quit
July 27th, 2011 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Ranoj Basu, a permanent secretary at the Congress headquarters since the days of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951, wants to call it a day.The 85-year-old ... Read more...
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Youth Congress dismisses anti-Rahul statements by former office bearer
June 28th, 2011 - 12:55 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) Monday dismissed "as baseless and politically motivated" allegations of former office bearer Kiran Kumar Reddy Chamala that party general ... Read more...
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British officials described Zardari as “highly corrupt”, “numbskull”: WikiLeaks
February 6th, 2011 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 6(ANI): British officials described Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari as "highly corrupt" and a "numbskull" who would not last long in office, diplomatic cables unveiled by the whistle-blower website ... Read more...
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British official’s stay in luxury Indian hotel frowned on
December 12th, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 12 (IANS) A top British tax official's four-night stay at a luxury Indian hotel cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds, a media report said Sunday.Dave Hartnett, Permanent Secretary for Tax ... Read more...
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Queen Elizabeth II found movies dreadful
November 7th, 2010 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 7 (IANS) In the early years of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II found the movies so dreadful that she complained to then prime minister Winston Churchill during an audience at ... Read more...
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Niger’s junta deputy leader Colonel Abdoulaye Badie arrested
October 14th, 2010 - 9:16 pm ICT by BNO News
NIAMEY, NIGER (BNO NEWS) -- Niger's junta deputy leader who took power in February has been arrested, and is currently in custody at a military headquarters in Niamey, local media reported Thursday.Colonel ... Read more...
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200-year-old beer bottles found during Baltic Sea salvage
September 3rd, 2010 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
Helsinki, Sep 3 (DPA) Divers have salvaged what is believed to be the world's oldest preserved beer from a 200-year-old shipwreck, the government of the semi-autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea ... Read more...
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Five killed in Thailand helicopter crash
August 18th, 2010 - 12:47 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, Aug 18 (IANS) Five people, including a senior official, were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Thailand, an official said Wednesday.
It is believed that the helicopter crashed into a mountain ... Read more...
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India to give offshore vessel to Mauritius
July 3rd, 2010 - 8:51 pm ICT by ANI
By Ravinder Singh RobinPort Louis (Mauritius) July 3 (ANI): In a bid to further strengthen their diplomatic ties, India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mauritius to provide it one offshore ... Read more...
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UK chief of defence staff to step down in autumn
June 13th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 13 (ANI): Britain's Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, is to be set to leave his post, as the coalition government seeks to "draw line" under ... Read more...
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Top British civil servant holds ‘hung parliament’ talks
March 21st, 2010 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 21 (IANS) A leading member of Britain's third largest political party has met a top civil servant for "unprecedented talks" and offered to be finance minister if the next general ... Read more...
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UN climate change panel urged to review methods
February 16th, 2010 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Feb 16 (DPA) The United Nations was Tuesday urged to review the working methods of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), following recent disclosures of mistakes in the organisation's reports.
The ... Read more...
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Children’s creativity stifled by “dour” school programs
January 6th, 2010 - 5:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 6 (ANI): A huge number of children are being left stifled by "dour" school programs which dull their sense of creativity and leave them bored, a former senior civil servant ... Read more...
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Captive Tamil women were sexually abused in Lankan refugee camps
December 20th, 2009 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec. 20 (ANI): A British medic, who was held for months in a "concentration camp" along with nearly 300,000 Tamil refugees, has revealed that Sri Lankan military guards sexually abused women ... Read more...
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Trinidad’s lone gurudwara to receive Gursharan Kaur
November 27th, 2009 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
By Smita PrakashPort of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): The lone Gurudwara Sahib in Trinidad and Tobago will have a distinguished visitor when Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ... Read more...
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‘Reputation of British Armed Forces at risk in Afghanistan’
November 7th, 2009 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov. 7 (ANI): If Britain fails to make any progress in the Afghanistan war, the reputation and long-term future of its Armed forces will be at risk, two top defence ... Read more...
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Herta Mueller wins Nobel for Literature (Second Lead)
October 8th, 2009 - 7:04 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 8 (DPA) Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm Thursday.
The Academy's citation said that "with the concentration of ... Read more...
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Churchill was furious when he discovered that his bunker was not bombproof
July 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 20 (ANI): Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, was furious reportedly when he discovered that his secret bunker headquarters was not bombproof, a letter has now revealed.Churchill accused advisers ... Read more...
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Kenya, India to beef up ties in small industry sector
May 15th, 2009 - 5:09 pm ICT by IANS
By Groum Abate
Addis Ababa, May 15 (IANS) In yet another indication of India's growing interest in the East African region, the country's National Small Industries Corp (NSIC) has signed an agreement with ... Read more...
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Thailand asks UAE to extradite fugitive premier
May 4th, 2009 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, May 4 (DPA) Thailand has asked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nicaragua to extradite fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on "a reciprocal and voluntary basis", foreign ministry officials said Monday.
Ministry ... Read more...
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Fiji Times’ Editor-in-Chief arrested
April 12th, 2009 - 1:47 pm ICT by admin
FIJI (BNO NEWS) – The Fiji military arrested a top editor for the Fiji Times, the country's oldest newspaper still operating, BNO News has exclusively learned. It comes some 24 hours after ... Read more...
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UK to have world’’s fastest train service by 2021
March 23rd, 2009 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.23 (ANI): Britain will have the fastest and most frequent train service in the world by the year 2021.
According to The Times, the train is expected to run between London ... Read more...
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Jolie chastised by Thai government over Myanmar migrants comments
February 12th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 12 (ANI): American actress Angelina Jolie has earned herself the ire of the Thai government after she commented on the plight of Myanmar migrants.Jolie and Brad Pitt had visited ... Read more...
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Thailand criticises Jolie for remarks on Myanmar refugees
February 12th, 2009 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 11 (IANS) Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has upset Thai officials after remarking on the plight of Myanmar migrants, who have accused the country's military of mistreating them.
The actress and her ... Read more...
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Race bias still keeping Brit boardrooms stubbornly white
January 8th, 2009 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan.8 (ANI): Boardrooms across the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom continue to remain stubbornly white, says a report, Race to the Top, by the charity Business in ... Read more...
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Bomb blast at Thai government building kills one, injures 19
November 20th, 2008 - 10:58 am ICT by IANS
Bangkok, Nov 20 (Xinhua) At least one protester was killed and 19 injured when a bomb exploded Thursday morning inside the Government House complex in Thailand that has been seized by ... Read more...
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WB promises crisis-hit Pak 1.4 billion dollars this year
October 13th, 2008 - 1:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington , Oct 13 (ANI): In a bid to expedite investment projects and budgetary lending in economic-crisis-hit Pakistan , the World Bank is learnt to have pledged to provide 1.4 billion-dollar ... Read more...
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