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New Delhi: India will urge Sri Lanka for dealing with its Tamil population with a “human face” and call for speedy reconciliation of certain issues including early withdrawal of emergency regulations, investigation into human rights violation, said the Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation, Vayalar Ravi after announcing the venue of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on here on Friday.

Marine mammals form a fascinating group of animals including whales, dolphins, seals and the dugong, also known as the sea cow. Being mammals, they are more closely related to elephants, leopards, bats and hares than they are to sharks and other fish. There are some 120 species of marine mammal to be found in the world, and a fourth of these may be found in India and adjacent countries.Dugongs are one of the ancient living creatures underwater and are most interesting aquatic mammals.

New Delhi: Geodynamic ally active and ecologically sensitive Himalaya; apart from having the inherent environmental problems of natural occurrence such as, earthquakes, landslides, soil erosion and flash floods; is confronted with a range of other problems of anthropogenic origin.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Fresh revelations in the palmolein and ice cream parlour cases have sent the already besieged the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government in Kerala into a political tizzy.

It is said that when in danger people lose their mental balance. Cornered over a series of massive corruption charges followed by an Anna onslaught, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in Delhi seems to have reached its wits’ end. It is using police power to suppress public dissent, abusing anti-corruption crusaders and making irrelevant statements to confuse the public.

New Delhi: India, among other countries, are invited by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to attend an international conference on Libya scheduled to be hosted in Paris next week. The meeting will discuss the future of the North African nation after the collapse of the Muammar Gaddafi regime.

New Delhi: The Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma will be on a visit to India from Friday to brief top Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, on the upcoming CHOGM meet in Perth and other activities of the 54-nation body.

Is there a leadership vacuum in the Congress party spilling over to the UPA government in the absence of its chief Sonia Gandhi who is convalescing abroad after her surgery? Going by the desperate mood in the party it appears so.

New Delhi: The Indian Army, with a view to counter the Chinese build up along the border is planning to set up a mountain strike corps. To further its initiative, the Army has planned to discuss the matter with the states which share the international boundary with China, particularly those in the northeastern region.

As lingering financial crisis in the developed world is casting its shadow on the developing countries, it is time to look beyond capitalism for sustainable and equitable development.