India
Exiled Tibetans meet to discuss views, aspirations
Submitted by William Kaelin on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 08:11.New Delhi - More than 600 exiled Tibetan leaders gathered in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala Monday to air their views and aspirations on the best course of action for the Tibetan cause.
The situation in Tibet was serious and at this "critical stage" all Tibetans had to come together to discuss their views on what future action needed to be taken, Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile said in his opening speech.
Founder of laughter yoga to promote movement in Taiwan
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 05:18.
Taipei - Madan Kataria, the Indian founder of the laughter yoga movement that has spread all over the world, will visit Taiwan next month to promote it, his Taiwan sponsor said Monday.
"We have invited Dr Kataria to visit Taiwan to promote the laughter yoga movement and to meet with members of local laughter clubs," Chen Ta-cheng, director of the Taiwan Laughter Yoga Club, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Five killed in blast in northern Indian town
Submitted by William Kaelin on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 22:32.Five persons were killed and at least three critically injured on
Saturday in an explosion at an army waste dump in the northern Indian
town of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, news reports said.
Indian premier leaves on visit to Oman, Qatar
Submitted by William Kaelin on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 22:30.Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday began a three-day
visit to the energy-rich Gulf nations of Oman and Qatar for talks on
investment, trade and energy.
India's Jet Airways sacks 25 expatriate pilots
Submitted by William Kaelin on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 22:07.Indian domestic airlines Jet airways has terminated the contracts of at least 25 expatriate pilots, news reports said Saturday.
Indians, Indonesians most positive in Asia in face of slump
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 08:11.India and Indonesia have Asia's highest levels of consumer confidence in the face of the global economic slump, according to a survey published Friday.
Indian premier says Obama's journey an inspiration for the world
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 09:04.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday called Barack Obama an inspiration as he congratulated the senator for winning the US presidential election.
India's moon mission on final leg to lunar orbit
Submitted by Anna Tomova on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 09:36.
India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 entered lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into lunar orbit, news reports said. The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well.
Taipei - Taiwan stocks shed nearly 4 per cent in mid-morning trading Thursday, as all Asian markets slumped in reaction to overnight Wall Street falls.
Washington - Buying a new computer usually involves comparing models. Comparisons are more difficult than they used to be, as the number of choices has grown and manufacturers have started marketing computers with specific uses in mind.
Hamburg - Captain John Terry scored a late winner as England downed Germany 2-1 in an international friendly in Berlin Wednesday while Luca Toni helped salvage a draw for world champions Italy against Greece and European champions Spain overcame Chile.
Indian authorities have issued a birth certificate to a Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, easing the way for her Japanese father to take her home, news reports said Saturday.
