AMBON, Indonesia March 31 (NNN-ANTARA) — Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad is scheduled to launch Sail Banda in Ambon on April 17, 2010. “We are making preparation for the launch of the international marine event on April 17,” Sail Banda local committee spokesman Cak Saimima said here on Wednesday. Saimima said the maritime .
DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 31 (NNN-BSS) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all concerned including the technologists, researchers, relevant organizations and individuals to come forward from their respective fields for building a ‘digital Bangladesh’. “You have a great role to play for building a digital Bangladesh and your opinion and work plan would be evaluated .
GENEVA, March 31 (NNN-Bernama) — The United Nations Human Rights in Afghanistan are worsening, marked by setbacks for exacerbating poverty in the country following few reports found that rights abuses, Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Afghanistan Norah Niland said Wednesday. Speaking in Kabul, she said poverty actually kills more Afghans .
NEW DELHI, March 31 (NNN-PTI) — Government today announced incentives worth Rs 625 crore for exporters of garments, engineering, electronics and agro products as the demand for these items in the western economies is yet to pick up.(One Crore: ten million) The garment sector, which is still reporting contraction in overseas shipments, will receive sops .
NEW DELHI, March 31 (NNN-PTI) — India today said it would press for access to Lashkar-e Taiba operative David Headley and his extradition and that his plea bargain with the US authorities is being examined in this context. To demonstrate its keenness to have access to Headley, a Pakistani-origin American, the Home Ministry is sending .
BUJUMBURA, March 31 (NNN-IRIN) — When the first “peace village” was set up in Burundi in 2003, it was meant to foster healing and reconciliation among the country’s three ethnic groups – Hutu, Tutsi and Twa – at the end of a prolonged civil war. Since then, 16 of these villages have been established across .
PRETORIA, March 31 (NNN-UNHCR) — What began as a protest by disgruntled commuters against a decision to reduce the number of trains to Pretoria’s Phomolong Informal Section because of attacks on Metrorail property, quickly evolved into a march against the lack of promised housing, with police engaged in running battles with hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators. .
MINSK, March 31 (NNN-BELTA) — Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) expresses the interests of all Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, says Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko. At a meeting here Tuesday with the visiting OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakh Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, he said: “We .
MINSK, March 31 (NNN-BELTA) — The Customs Union should not be deprived of its fundamental concept, said President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus as he met with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman-in-Office, Kazakh Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev here Tuesday. “If we agreed on the conceptual idea — that .
CARACAS, March 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Russian Premier Vladimir Putin will visit Venezuela on Fri April 2, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced. A statement of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed Putin’s visit to Venezuela during a phone call with Chavez yesterday. The Venezuelan leader expressed his sorrow for the victims .
