New Delhi: India has pledged support to new Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed who spoke with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on telephone on Wednesday and sought a meeting with him, a day after the dramatic regime change in the archipelago nation. "Waheed spoke to Manmohan Singh to reaffirm the close ties between the two countries. (He) said he looked forward to an early opportunity of meeting the prime minister," the Prime...
04:51 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Beit Hanoun (Gaza Strip): Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday tried to block UN chief Ban Ki-moon from entering the Gaza Strip and pelted his armoured convoy with shoes and sticks, accusing him of being unfairly biased toward Israel. The incident cast a shadow over Ban's visit to Gaza, which was meant to draw attention to humanitarian issues in the crowded seaside strip. Ban was in Gaza on the second day...
08:57 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
08:57 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
09:37 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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02:32 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Beirut: The UN Secretary General on Sunday demanded that Syria's president stop killing his own people, and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. In a keynote address at a conference on democracy in the Arab world, Ban Ki-moon said the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny. "Today, I say again to President (Bashar)...
03:45 PM, Jan 15, 2012
United Nations: As tensions continue to simmer between Iran and the Western world, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has asked the parties to resolve their differences through peaceful means, but stressed that it is Tehran's responsibility to prove their nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only. Iran is the world's fourth largest oil producer and has threatened to block oil deliveries that pass through the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions...
11:48 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: Sky gazers are in for a celestial treat as Jupiter and Moon will converge in a beautiful conjunction, an event which can be seen after sunset on Tuesday. Conjunction, also known as appulse, is a phenomenon in which celestial bodies appear near one another as seen from the Earth. The bright pair of Jovian planet and the moon can be seen with naked eyes, Planetary Society of India...
11:04 AM, Jan 03, 2012
United Nations: The General Assembly has approved a budget of $5.15 billion to cover the United Nations' regular operations in 2012-2013, cutting its two-year budget for the first time in 13 years by 5 per cent. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who proposed a 3.2 per cent budget cut in October, thanked the 193-member world body for agreeing to "cut fat" at a time when governments and people everywhere are struggling because...
01:26 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Los Angeles: Michael Jackson's daughter says she was inspired to be an actress after seeing her father in the film 'Moonwalker'. "My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act," Paris Jackson told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, according to a transcript of the episode to air Thursday. "I saw that and I said, `Wow, I want...
11:04 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: This year's last total lunar eclipse on Saturday presented a celestial spectacle for people all over the country, including those in the national capital, in the pre-dusk hours. In a clear sky over the national capital, the full moon slowly slipped into the earth's darker shadow starting just after 5:02 pm. "The lunar eclipse started at 5:02 pm and could be seen with naked eyes," Director of Nehru...
09:12 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Hyderabad: There will be a total lunar eclipse on Saturday which will last for 52 minutes. It will be the longest till 2018, according to the Planetary Society, India. India is the best place to watch the eclipse as it will be visible from various parts of the country in different phases from the beginning till the end. The moon entering the shadow of earth and leaving the shadow will...
11:35 AM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst a raging controversy over the Indian governments proposal to monitor content in cyber space, UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon on Friday said access to the internet and various social media must not be blocked as a way to prevent criticism and public debate. In his speech on the eve of the Human Rights Day which was released at the United Nations Information Centre here, he said,...
12:59 AM, Dec 10, 2011
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