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Over 200 deities to join Himachal's Mahashivratri

Punjab Newsline Network

Monday, 20 February 2012

MANDI: The festival of Mahashivratri is marked in a unique way in this town, popularly known as Chhoti Kashi, as it sees a congregation of over 200 deities from hundreds of village temples.

Baby put on sale online in Mexico

Monday, 13 February 2012

An advertisement that appeared on a Mexican website to sell a "beautiful baby" for its organs has caused outrage and indignation on social networks.
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Live peacefully, get good education, Laden told his kids

IANS

Monday, 13 February 2012

LONDON: Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get a good education, his brother-in-law has revealed.

Russia may spend $12 bn on satellite navigation system

IANS

Wednesday, 08 February 2012

MOSCOW: Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 billion) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-20, the Kommersant daily said Wednesday.

China plans to create 45 mn jobs

IANS

Wednesday, 08 February 2012

BEIJING:China Wednesday put forth a plan to boost employment during the 2011-15 period, which aims to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.

Pakistan lost $94 billion dollars to corruption

IANS

Monday, 06 February 2012

ISLAMABAD: The country has lost Rs.8,500 billion ($94 billion) in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the rule of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

80-year-old school in Pakistan lacks furniture

IANS

Sunday, 05 February 2012

ISLAMABAD: A school in Pakistan does not have any furniture, even though it was started over 80 years ago -- before the country was born. The Government Boys' Primary School near Chiniot town in Punjab province has three classrooms, none of which were completed. The school was started in 1929. Pakistan was created in 1947 with the partition of the sub-continent.

Romney coasts to second victory in a row

IANS

Sunday, 05 February 2012

WASHINGTON: Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney coasted to a sweeping victory in Nevada caucuses, his second consecutive win in the Republican nomination contests for the right to challenge President Barack Obama in the November poll.

Iran launches satellite

IANS

Thursday, 02 February 2012

MOSCOW: Iran has successfully launched an observation satellite, Iranian news network Press TV reported Friday.

Sikhs urged to celebrate March 14 as Environment Day

IANS

Wednesday, 01 February 2012

WASHINGTON: Washington-based Sikh organization EcoSikh is appealing to Sikhs around the world to celebrate March 14 as a Sikh Environment Day for the second year. Guru Har Rai, a nature and animal lover, became the seventh Sikh Guru on this day in 1644.

South Africa expands foothold In Indian tourism market

Punjab Newsline Network

Wednesday, 01 February 2012

By Naresh Kumar Sharma
South Africa Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk is currently on a two-day visit to India to promote South Africa as a tourism destination and highlight the potential and importance of India as a source market for tourism to South Africa.Speaking at a networking event in Mumbai on Sunday, Van Schalkwyk said: “The number of Indian tourists travelling from India to South Africa has steadily increased by over 122 percent between 2005 and 2010 and South Africa is continuing to attract Indian tourists in great numbers – with 67 039 Indian tourists travelling to South Africa between January and September 2011, 29% more than over the same period in 2010.”

India, China rise makes Asia important:US

IANS

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

WASHINGTON: With the rise of China and India as world powers, Asia is becoming more important to America as Asian markets and suppliers drive the US economy, according to a senior US official

10 killed, 18 injured in Florida highway pileups

Punjab Newsline Network

Monday, 30 January 2012

WASHINGTON: As many as 10 people were killed and 18 injured overnight in pileups on a highway in the US state of Florida, due to fog and smoke from a brush fire, media reports said Sunday.Ten people were killed in the crashes, which the Florida Highway Patrol said involved at least 12 passenger cars and about seven semi trucks, the CNN reported.

US Military Sending ‘Mothership’ too Middle East

Punjab Newsline Network

Monday, 30 January 2012

A media report says the U.S. military plans to send a floating base for commando teams to the Middle East, where relations with Iran are tense and other nations are in the midst of political upheaval.The Washington Post newspaper on Saturday cited unspecified U.S. Navy documents saying the service plans to convert an aging warship into a staging base for the commandos, calling it a “mothership.”

'Egyptians believe Islamists will make a better nation'

IANS

Sunday, 29 January 2012

NEW DELHI: A year after the people's uprising in Egypt that toppled the 30-year regime of president Hosni Mubarak, a university scholar says Egyptians believe it is time to govern the newly-democratic country in an "Islamist way". "There is this simple conviction among people that with Islamists, things will be better. Or else, the Tahrir Square is always there," Mustafa Riad, professor of English literature at the faculty of arts in Ain Shams University in Cairo, said during an interview here.

Manmohan Singh a genuine person, Gilani

IANS

Sunday, 29 January 2012

ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a "genuine person" who desired to resolve all issues including Kashmir with Pakistan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. "We have resumed comprehensive dialogue with India, and are in the process of normalising trade relations with India, which will benefit the people of both the countries," Gilani said Saturday in Davos, Switzerland.

Algeria wants to learn English from India

IANS

Sunday, 29 January 2012

NEW DELHI: With only five percent of its people able to speak "good English", Algeria has invited Indians to teach the language in its universities, according to the envoy of the largely Arabic and French-speaking North African nation. Some 100 institutes affiliated to 13 Algerian universities need nearly 250 English teachers and his government is keen to have Indian educators, Ambassador Mohammed Hacene Echarif said during in an interview.

UNICEF appeals for $1.2 bn to help children in 2012

IANS

Saturday, 28 January 2012

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for $1.28 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to children in over 25 countries this year, with nearly one-third of the total amount earmarked for the crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Hindi introduced in Pennsylvania school district

IANS

Saturday, 28 January 2012

PENNSYLVANIA: A school district in Pennsylvania (USA) is offering Hindi, official language of India, to its pupils from the next semester. Students in this course offered by Bensalem Township School District (BTSD) will reportedly learn speaking and writing Hindi and expressing themselves in Hindi. They will be taught “conversational Hindi using authentic written and visual materials” and will be “consistently engaged in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication”.