HYDERABAD – Over 700 delegates from across the globe will converge here for the fifth Telecom Development Conference May 24-June 4 to set the agenda for pushing the advancement of information and communications technology sector for the next four years. Organised by the 145-year-old International Telecommunication Union, the event is drawing experts, policy makers and executives …
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AGARTALA/GUWAHATI – Industry ministers of northeastern states have sought a time-bound package from the central government for development in the region, Tripura Industries Minister Jitendra Chowdhury said Sunday. The demand was jointly raised by the northeast ministers at a meeting with union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma in Assam’s capital Guwahati Saturday
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more images more images NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a press conference in the capital Monday to mark the completion of one year of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
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Abu Dhabi, May 23 (IANS/WAM) In order to make health care more accessible, Abu Dhabi Sunday launched an electronic directory which contains information about all the physicians in the country. The launch of electronic directory is a step towards improving public accessibility to health care through providing updated information on licensed physicians in the Emirate of … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Abu Dhabi launches electronic directory of physicians .
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ISLAMABAD – Living as they do in a conservative, Muslim-dominated society where pre-marital sex is a religious taboo, many Pakistani women are going under the knife for hymen reconstruction surgeries to regain their lost virginity before marriage. Just look up advertisements in English newspapers or websites or the walls of shops on busy street corners in …
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Pakistani women go under knife to regain virginity
LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants one of the world’s most important economic jobs as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said his closest school friend. Tom Brown said that Brown believes he has “one big job left in him”
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Gordon Brown wants top job at International Monetary Fund
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban has said that Bangkok and some provinces will continue to be under curfew, and the Centre for the Resolution for the Emergency Situation (CRES) has no immediate plan to repeal the emergency decree. Suthep, who is also CRES Director, said the decision on whether to extend the curfew … Read this article on Gaea Times at : No immediate end to emergency rule: Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister .
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KATHMANDU – An Indian minister who wanted to take part in an election campaign ended up in the custody of Nepal police instead since bad geography made her stray into the neighbouring country with armed bodyguards. Vidya Chaudhari, women and welfare minister of Uttar Pradesh state adjoining Nepal, was detained by Nepal police for three hours ..
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KUALA LUMPUR – A society committed to fighting hair loss has caught huge attention in Malaysia. The Malaysian Society for Hair Sciences, which was registered in 2002, educates people on hair loss disorders and the various medical treatment options available to them. The 400-member club, ….
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Malaysian society committed to fighting hair loss gains popularity!
more images more images NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com)- Yesterday was a memorable day for the cadets at the West Point Academy as Barack Obama, the President of USA attended the event and delivered a speech prior to congratulating the graduates. He talked at length about the mission the cadets are going to undertake in the terrains of Afghanistan …
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NEW DELHI – In a seeming breakthrough, the respective Reliance groups led by the brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani Sunday said they have entered into a new and simpler non-compete pact that will help resolve the Krishna-Godavari gas dispute soon. “These developments would eliminate any room for any further disputes between the two groups on matters ….
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NEW DELHI – Usually painted bright orange to help easy retrieval, a black box is a combination of two devices mounted at the rear of an aircraft not the cockpit, since that is the area normally least affected during air crashes, experts explain. It is called black box because of the tragic circumstances in which the …
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?Black box? is generally orange and far from cockpit
MELBOURNE – Songs with violent lyrics can make listeners up to four times more aggressive, according to a new Australian research. For the study, conducted by Macquarie University, over 200 students aged about 21 were divided into groups and played three violent …
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LAHORE – Gherat Khan, a 7th class student of Peshawar Model School who was thrown out of school after he got married, is challenging his expulsion in the Peshawar High Court. Gherat filed a writ petition saying he had been a student of the school for many years … Original article on : Married Pak 7th grader thrown out of school challenges expulsion .
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RANCHI – Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren on Sunday said that the final decision regarding handing over power to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or forming a government with the help of Congress party in the State, will be taken at Ranchi today. Makin a U-turn on ….
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more images ADAKLU-ANYIGBE, GHANA (GaeaTimes.com)-DCE (District Chief Executive) of Adaklu Anyigbe district, Michael Kobla Adzahoo has condemned the general public for their reluctance and aloofness towards the education program which are being organized and regulated for general health awareness. The DCE in his speech towards the general public said that it’s lamentable to have noticed the … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : DCE Condemns Public Aloofness .
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Move afoot in Congress to ban drop-side cribs WASHINGTON ? The baby crib, usually a safe haven for little ones, became a death trap for 6-month-old Bobby Cirigliano. The side rail on his drop-side crib slid off the tracks and trapped his head and neck between the mattress and the malfunctioning side rail
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Dozens of deaths and recalls lead to effort for congressional ban on drop-side baby cribs
Rio de Janeiro, May 23 (IANS/EFE) The number of mobile phone connections in Brazil has climbed to 180 million – or 93.8 cell phones per 100 people, a telecommunications regulator in the country has said. A total of 6.8 million phone lines were activated in the first four months of 2010, said a statement from the …
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93 mobile phones per 100 people in Brazil
more images more images ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR (GaeaTimes.com)- Marc Ravalomanana, the ex-President of Madagascar who is now living in exile in South Africa, issued a statement on Saturday saying that he was not responsible for the mutiny which had taken place in the country back in the year 2009.
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Former Jockey From India Lands In Trouble