Green cover can protect monuments, says expert Indian Express | Advocating the role of trees as a bioshield for national monuments, ethno-botanist Professor Javed Ashraf presented a part of his research titled “Pollution in Medieval Times” at a national-level seminar on air pollution organised by the Department of Botany, M S University on Sunday. Professor As...
After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms The New York Times | SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup. | Although most of the stakes were...
Study sheds light on speed of Arctic change Independent online | Next » 1 2 | By Rod Nickel | Winnipeg, Manitoba - Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings f...
Port pensioners seek clarification The Hindu | The Harbour and Port Pensioners' Welfare Association, while expressing its gratitude to the Ministry of Shipping and the management of VPT for extending medical facilities to pensioners at notified corporate hospitals, expressed regrets at the issu...
Road project to be finished in two years The Hindu | Special Correspondent | Vasan chairs joint review meeting with stakeholders | "It will provide traffic relief to people. It will be a toll road" | "Projects are of vital importance for rapid economic development of State" | CHENNAI: The Ennore-Mana...
To the rescue The Hindu | PHOTO: by special arrangement | SAVING LIVES: A patient being evacuated by the Indian Coast Guard from the Panamanian vessel 'Sea Lion' that was sailing from Sri Lanka to Sudan recently. In another rescue mission, a Coast Guard ship towed to the sh...
Cape Town to Cairo – and back again The Observer | 'OK guys, we're stuck again. Everybody out." | Xander, nine, was already out – he'd been riding on the outside of the vehicle, hanging onto the roof-rack, feet on the runn...
G7 pledges to wipe out Haiti debt Al Jazeera | Group of Seven countries (G7) have pledged to cancel their bilateral debt with earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and urged international lenders to do the same, Jim Flaherty, the Canadia...
In Haiti, Practicing Medicine From Afar The New York Times | In the desperate days soon after the earthquake in Haiti last month, foreign medical volunteers relied on improvised, low-tech devices for consultations and coordination. But American doctors are switching to more sophisticated technology to help i...
Need to know: Audi boost ... BP revolt ... M&S makeover The Times | Economics | Sterling: The pound tumbled to an 8½-month low against the dollar as investors fled to the safety of the greenback amid concern about the continuing fiscal difficulties of some eurozone countries. | UK housing market: Activity sl...
Delhi bomber warns of more attacks via sea route The Times Of India LUCKNOW: India’s security agencies, which woke up to the need for guarding the country’s 7,500km coastline after 26/11, need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps in the light of what arrested Indian Mujahideen member Shahzad has told interroga...
Joan Baez Joins White House's Celebration of Civil Rights Music Rollingstone | Photo: Gallup/Getty | Joan Baez has been added to “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,” a PBS special airing this Thursday, February 11th. Baez joins a lineup that includes her partner at the 1963 March on Washington civil rights rally, Bob Dylan. Three original members of the Free...
Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards The Independent | Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson were today nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards, British theatre's top accolades. | Anderson and Weisz are contesting the best actress category for their turns in A Doll's House and A Streetcar Named Desire respectively, and are up against Imelda Staunton (Entertaining ...
