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New Delhi: The Indian Defence Minister AK Antony called upon the top brass of the defence research body, DRDO to nurture talent and ensure “fairness at all levels” in order to realise the organisation’s goals.

New Delhi: The Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, in a gesture of goodwill, has invited Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and the country’s Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch the India-Pakistan semi-final match of the World Cup in Mohali in Punjab (in India) on March 30.

New Delhi: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has planned to facilitate India’s cooperation with the African continent.

On Day 1 (March 12), they first dismissed it as a minor accident, which would be brought quickly under control by Japan’s highly advanced nuclear industry. On Day 2, when there was an explosion in Reactor 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which had been starved of coolant water, they called it “a purely chemical reaction and not a nuclear emergency as described by some sections of the media”. One of them even said, “there is no nuclear accident or incident” in Japan. “It is a well-planned emergency preparedness programme which the nuclear operators … company are carrying out to contain the residual heat after the plants had an automatic shutdown.”

For all the success which the BJP and the Left have had in cornering the Congress over the financial swindles and Wikileaks, they are unlikely to look forward eagerly to the forthcoming state assembly elections to boost their positions. The reason is that neither group is expected to do sufficiently well in them to be able to spice up their anti-Congress campaign. Instead, it is the latter which will probably be in a position to claim that the voters have paid no heed to the diatribes against it.

BEIJING - Thirty years of successful reform have turned the People's Republic of China (PRC) into the world's second largest economy but the challenge now is to sustain growth while avoiding the middle income trap, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda said today.

New Delhi: The recent tsunami and the subsequent nuclear explosion in Japan has delayed the process of signing an agreement with the Japan Patent Office giving access to India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) on the condition of non-disclosure.

Would people invest more in clean water if they knew just how expensive dirty water is? World Water Day is an opportunity to remind governments worldwide that they have a responsibility to invest in clean water for the health of their citizens and their environments.

Pro-democracy protestors in other parts of the Arab world are, unfortunately, not as lucky as their brethren in Tunisia and Egypt. In both Tunisia and Egypt the autocrats had to abdicate on public pressure and the movement was by and large peaceful. Tunisia was recently rocked by riots over unemployment and corruption, supposed to have been sparked by the suicide of a young man who could not find a job and was barred from selling fruit without a permit.

New Zealand’s recovery has stalled since mid-2010. Domestic demand has remained soft, as cautious households and businesses look to strengthen their balance sheets by slowing debt accumulation amid a weak housing market and an uncertain outlook. Moreover, two earthquakes have caused substantial damage and disruption to activity in the Canterbury region, which accounts for about 15 percent of the national economy.