Cannes: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Cannes today in this French coastal resort to attend the crucial summit of world's 20 powerful economies (G20), saying difficult decisions are needed swiftly to address the crisis in Eurozone and elsewhere. Government sources said the G20 faces a big test in ensuring that concrete steps are taken for recovery of the global economy. The sources said that no country in the 17-nation...
09:28 AM, Nov 03, 2011
The world population touched seven billion on Monday but Germany is not part of this baby boom. ...
09:59 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Frankfurt: With their late-night deal to cut Greece's debt and support other wobbly countries, European leaders bought time to work out more lasting solutions to the crisis plaguing the euro currency bloc. What they do with that time will determine whether this summit succeeds where many others have failed. Thursday's three-pronged deal at long last appears to have met or beaten expectations for some kind of decisive action, judging by...
03:33 AM, Oct 28, 2011
United Nations: India and 17 other countries were on Monday elected as new members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The other new members are Belarus, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria, Spain and Turkey, Xinhua reported. The new members will begin their three-year terms beginning January 1, 2012. ECOSOC is the coordinating body for economic...
02:26 AM, Oct 25, 2011
Brussels: EU finance ministers outlined a deal on Saturday for recapitalising European banks, and the leaders of Germany and France said they hoped for a breakthrough in tackling the euro zone debt crisis at a summit on Wednesday. After nearly 10 hours of talks, finance ministers overcame strong opposition from Spain, Italy and Portugal and agreed on the need to inject around 100 billion euros into European banks to protect...
10:02 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Athens: Greece will remain trapped in recession next year, threatening the country's efforts to cut deficits and claw its way out of a debt crisis shaking the euro zone, budget figures showed on Monday. The economy will suffer a fourth consecutive year of contraction, shrinking by 2.5 per cent in 2012 after an expected 5.5 per cent slump this year, according to the 2012 budget draft submitted to parliament after...
03:29 AM, Oct 04, 2011
Berlin: Germany's Parliament approved new powers for the euro zone's crisis fund on Thursday but it was not clear if Angela Merkel got enough votes from her coalition to silence rebels worried about funding a series of bailouts of countries like Greece. Support from the opposition meant there had been no doubt Germany would okay new powers for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which some countries like Finland have...
03:59 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Mumbai: A smart rally on the expiry day, led by heavyweights, helped the Nifty to shut shop above the key psychological 5,000 mark. Oil & gas, private banks, technology, FMCG and auto stocks played a key role in Thursday's upmove. The 30-share BSE Sensex rallied 252.05 points or 1.53 per cent, to close at 16,698.07 and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 69.55 points or 1.41 per cent, to end at...
09:43 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: German Ambassador to India Thomas Matussek on Thursday condemned the blast outside the Delhi High Court and said his country stands by India at this moment of tragedy. "Our heart goes out for the victims and their family members. Germany stands with India," Mastussek told PTI on the sidelines of a charity event in New Delhi. "The venom of terrorism has to be fought at every level, but...
08:43 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: Doctors in Germany have trained dogs to sniff out lung cancer from a sample of person's breath. The dogs are trained to lie down when they detect a cancer sample and can look forward to receiving a treat. Bonni is no regular german shepherd - she's among the several dogs trained in a training school to sniff out lung cancer. "We trained the dogs via positive stimulation. So...
10:01 AM, Sep 01, 2011
London: Germany's former capital Bonn has introduced parking meters for prostitutes in a bid to tax the world's oldest profession, a media report said here. Prostitutes working the streets of Bonn now have to buy tickets from roadside vending machines that once dispensed tickets to the city's drivers. A night's ticket will set a prostitute back 5.30 pounds, irrespective of the number of clients they have, The Telegraph said. Like...
12:02 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Berlin: Police say vandals threw scores of red paint bombs at the Syrian Embassy in downtown Berlin and scrawled "Free Syria" on its facade. A police spokeswoman, speaking anonymously in accordance with department policy, said on Tuesday there were currently no suspects in the attack, which occurred on Monday morning. Police say a total of 26 paint bombs were thrown at the embassy building, and the damage was discovered at...
05:24 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Berlin: A German data protection authority is "unliking" Facebook's "Like" button. The state of Schleswig-Holstein's data protection commissioner, Thilo Weichert, on Friday ordered state institutions to shut down the fan pages on the social networking site and remove the "Like" button from their websites, saying it leads to profiling that violates German and European law. Facebook insisted Friday that is in full compliance with European data protection laws. On Friday,...
02:57 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Berlin: The Berlin Wall's construction 50 years ago must be a constant reminder to citizens today to stand up for freedom and democracy, the city's mayor said on Saturday as a united Germany commemorated the bitter anniversary. Seeing Berlin divided by the wall tore apart the country as well as separating the city's streets, neighbors and families, mayor Klaus Wowereit said at a televised ceremony. "It is our shared responsibility...
09:57 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Berlin: You can rate your restaurant meal, your make-up, your teacher online and now in Germany your priest. Hirtenbarometer(http://hirtenbarometer.de) or the "shepherds' barometer" is the first online platform where priests can be rated for their performance at church services, on projects for youths and the elderly, on their credibility and on how up to date they are. "Pastoral work should be qualitative," Andreas Hahn, one of the founders said of...
11:55 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Berlin: Deutsche Bank has appointed Anshu Jain as the co-CEO to succeed Management Board Chairman Josef Ackermann, who leaves office in May next year. Jain, 48, the head of Deutsche Bank's highly successful investment banking division based in London, will take over the leadership of Germany's largest bank together with his management board colleague, Juergen Fitschen, when Ackermann makes way for them one year ahead of his current term expiring...
03:52 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: Two letters written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to German dictator Adolf Hitler addressing him as 'Dear Friend' during the latter's ambitious eastern Europe push is subject of a film that hits the theatres this weekend. The film 'Gandhi to Hitler' stars Raghuveer Yadav as the diminutive German dictator, Neha Dhupia as his love interest Eva Braun and Avijit Dutt as Mahatma Gandhi. The film takes a parallel look...
04:16 PM, Jul 26, 2011
United Nations: Asking the United Nations to put pressure on India to not carry out death sentence on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, hundreds of Sikhs gathered near the UN headquarters and protested against his death penalty. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal adviser of Sikhs for Justice said that the group had written to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reminding him that the UN General Assembly had passed a resolution that called on nations...
08:13 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Karlsruhe: Researchers in Germany are working on a material that can keep walls from collapsing during earthquakes -- and even detect them before they happen. The "seismic" wallpaper being developed by scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in western Germany is embedded into a masonry wall imparting "horizontal reinforcement" to the earth's sharp lateral movements during an earthquake. "It's particularly beneficial where there are many stone and brick buildings...
01:32 PM, Jul 23, 2011
Berlin: Germany and France have reached a common position on a second bailout of Greece in their effort to prevent the country's debt crisis from spreading through Europe, officials said on Thursday. The accord came after seven hours of talks late into Wednesday night between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin, sources in both governments said. Details of the common position were not revealed, but...
08:46 AM, Jul 21, 2011
