New Delhi: A Class 12 student from Sharjah (UAE) became the regional topper in Delhi in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) results, which were declared in New Delhi on Monday. "Anant Srinivasan from Delhi Private School in Sharjah has scored 98.2 per cent in Delhi region of the CBSE. He is the regional topper," a senior official of the CBSE said. The CBSE examinations conducted in the Gulf...
07:15 PM, May 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head. S. Irudayarajan, chief of the migration unit of the autonomous research institute, told IANS that the next round of the study would be based on the 2011 Census. "Our previous studies were based on the 2001 Census. This...
02:14 PM, May 25, 2012
Tehran: Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. The threat comes after the famous search engine left the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula nameless on its online map service. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says that if Google does not restore the name of the Persian Gulf, it will face "serious damages." Mehmanparast told the semiofficial...
04:30 PM, May 17, 2012
London: Formula One is showing no signs of slamming the brakes on plans to race in Bahrain in April despite continuing violence in the Gulf kingdom a year on from a forcibly-suppressed uprising. Both the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) and commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone made clear after Tuesday's anniversary was met with tear gas and petrol bombs that the fourth race of the season remained on track. "The FIA,...
02:26 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Washington: As tensions mounted in the Persian Gulf, Iranian Navy high-speed boats taunted two US vessels earlier this month in the Strait of Hormuz. The US Department of Defence on Friday claimed that Iranian patrolling vessels in the Persian Gulf have provoked its war ships, the CNN said. CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Star, quoting anonymous officials from the Department of Defence, said there were two disturbing close encounters between Iranian...
01:32 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Sana'a: A Yemeni criminal court has sentenced 10 Somalis to 10 years in prison after convicting them of piracy in Yemen's territorial waters, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The court based in Mukalla, the provincial capital city in Yemen's southeast province of Hadramout, said that the convicts were arrested while they were targeting Yemeni and foreign ships in the Yemeni territorial waters in the Gulf of Aden as their...
09:58 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Brussels: NATO said on Friday it plans to end its seven-month bombing campaign in Libya at the end of the month, leaving the battle-scarred country's new authorities on their own to ensure security after the death of Muammar Gaddafi and the ouster of his regime. The alliance made a preliminary decision to end the campaign on Oct. 31 and will make the formal decision next week, Secretary General Anders Fogh...
11:59 AM, Oct 22, 2011
Mumbai: Voicing concern over growing incidents of piracy close to the Indian shores, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday stressed the need to ensure adequate control over maritime activity for security reasons. "As our maritime sector, including shipping ports, ship-building and ship repair is of vital significance to our economy, we should collectively make every effort for growth of this sector. However, we should also ensure adequate Indian control over...
01:14 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Three piracy attempts in last four days in the Gulf of Aden have been thwarted by the Indian Navy which neutralised eight armed Somali pirates, Navy officials said on Monday. "Naval warship INS Sukanya thwarted the piracy attempts by Somali pirates in Gulf of Aden yesterday morning and September 20. In a swift operation, the Naval warship saved the two merchant vessels MV Fairchem Bronco and MV Conquerer...
05:38 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Tehran: Iran's first nuclear power plant has started adding electricity to the national grid, media reported on Sunday, coming on stream on Saturday night after years of delays. "The Bushehr nuclear power plant joined the national grid on Saturday at 23:29 with the power of around 60 megawatts," the ISNA news agency reported. Hamid-Khadem Qaemi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation, told Iran's Arabic language TV station al-Alam the plant...
04:53 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: A preliminary probe by DGCA has blamed the pilot of the Gulf Air plane, which had skidded off the runway in Kochi international airport, for not following universally accepted parameters for landing in rains and on a wet runway, sources said on Tuesday. "It was an incorrect landing by the Gulf Air pilot", said the sources. There are detailed universally-accepted parameters laid down by DGCA and other international...
07:41 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Kochi: The Gulf Air plane from Bahrain, which had skidded off the runway into a muddy area while landing at the international airport in Kochi, was towed back to the taxibay early on Tuesday. After a night-long operation, the aircraft was lifted at 6 am with the help of huge cranes. A 100-member expert team from Mumbai was at the spot to assist the operation. Airport sources said the runway...
10:27 AM, Aug 30, 2011
Kochi: A Gulf Air flight from Bahrain overshot the runway at Kochi airport on Monday. 137 passengers were on board, seven have been injured and the others are safe. Airbus 320 Gulf Air was coming from Bahrain to Kochi. It overshot the runway while it was landing at the airport around 3:55 am on Monday. Airport operations were affected and the authorities said that operations have partially started after they...
07:09 AM, Aug 29, 2011
London: The British government warned on Monday that several hundred tons of oil may have leaked into the North Sea from a Royal Dutch Shell rig. The Department for Energy and Climate Change said it estimates that the leak from a flow line at the Gannet Alpha platform off the Scottish coast that began last week could have spilled several hundred tons of oil into the sea. It said the...
08:41 PM, Aug 15, 2011
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06:32 PM, Jul 01, 2011
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