Iran’s first nuclear power station will be loaded with fuel on Saturday, a showcase for Tehran’s claim that its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful.
Experts say firing up the $1-billion Bushehr plant will not take Iran any closer to building a nuclear bomb as Russia will supply the enriched uranium for the reactor and take away …

IMPHAL, Aug 20: The Centre for Tribal and Endangered Languages, a division of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, will soon produce a white paper on the tribal languages of each state of India.
This was stated by Prof. G. Devi Prasada Shastri, head, Centre …

New Delhi: The country has been put on high alert following Intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based terrorists may strike during the upcoming festive season.
The Centre has asked state governments to take all possible steps to foil attempts by militant groups, particularly Lashkar-e-Taiba, to disrupt peace during ongoing
Ramzan and the upcoming festivals of Raksha Bandhan, Idd-ul Fitr …

Sat, Aug 14, 2010: Myanmar will hold its first parliamentary poll in two decades on Nov. 7, state media said on Friday, ending speculation over the timing of a vote rights groups see as a sham aimed at entrenching military power.
The United States, Britain and human rights groups have said the elections would be illegitimate …

Speculation of a possible US and Israel military attack against Iran has pushed Tehran to take a rather unexpected counter-move.

America’s man with a plan for Iran
The highest-ranking US military officer says America has a plan for thwarting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, while admitting that such a strike would “endanger the security of the region.”

Admiral Mike Mullen, …

An Appeal
August 12, 2010
Dear Co-workers in Christ,
You may be aware that in one of the worst rain related calamities in the Himalayas, two cloud bursts hit Ladakh region, situated in the Northern part of Jammu & Kashmir state on 5th Night and 6th morning of August 2010 resulting in flash floods.
At least 139 are dead …

Atlanta, GA Clarkston veng ah 8/6/2010 (Friday) zan in Kawlgam mi Karen tang val khat leh 8/9/2010 (Monday) zan in Vietman numei khat mi vom ten that lum ci thu ki za hi. A thu pen nua sia ha 3 pawl lai in, Karen te pawl khat mivom te khat sat mel in, mi …

NEW DELHI, August 12, 2010 (TNN): Manmohan Singh overtook Atal Behari Vajpayee to become the third longest serving Prime Minister of India, clocking 2,273 days in office on Wednesday. For a man who took over the country’s top job under extraordinary circumstances, it’s been nothing short of a heady ride.
Manmohan Singh was probably most surprised …

IMPHAL, Aug 10 – Six underground bodies in the North East have jointly called upon the entire people of the region “to boycott and prevent the celebration” of Independence Day.
A joint statement of outlawed Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, Manipur People’s Liberation Front, National Democratic Front of Bodoland, National Liberation Front of Twipra, Tripura Peoples Democratic Front, …

New Delhi: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has been appointed the national ambassador of Unicef and she will support it in promoting child rights, officials said on Saturday.
An agreement in this regard will be signed between the actress and Unicef representative, Karin Hulshof to India on August 10.
“Unicef ambassadors are celebrities with a demonstrated commitment to …

Tokyo, Aug 6 (DPA): The Hiroshima Bell of Peace tolled at 8.15 a.m. Friday, the exact moment 65 years ago when a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing tens of thousands of people in seconds and hundreds of thousands in the decades since.
The first use of nuclear weapons against human …

Aizawl, Aug 05 (PTI) President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to visit Mizoram to attend the sixth convocation of the Mizoram University on September 24, an official statement said here today. The statement said that Patil would arrive at the Lengpui Airport on September 23 and would inaugurate the State Central Library at the New Secretariat …