8 Indian-Americans get medal for community service
New York, (IANS) Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this year’s Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100 immigrants for their community service. The eight, Peter Bheddah, Ravishankar Bhooplapur, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, Dr. Leena N. Doshi, Dr. Surendra V. Jain, Hasu P. Shah, Rajendra Singh and Dr. John P. Thomas were [...]
Rome, (IANS/AKI) A 20-million euro ($25 million) hotel complex and land owned in Italy by the family of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been seized. The complex is on the picturesque southern island of Pantelleria. Before his death, Gaddafi was rumoured to be planning to build a holiday village on Pantelleria, located halfway between [...]
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Annular solar eclipse to occur on May 20. Ring of fire solar eclipse will be visible in USA, Japan. In US it will be visible in Albuquerque, California and many other places This Sunday, May 20th, the sun and the moon are going to put up a mega astronomical show – an annular solar [...]
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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman (NVONews.Com) Washington DC: President Obama’s election-eve decision to support the same-sex marriage has much to do with cold politics of the United States. Party sources said that since one out of six of his fund-raising bundlers is gay, he is bound to support the cause. The Democrats need their money as [...]
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Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) The near certainty of Greece’s departure from the eurozone, and doubt about what could happen in the aftermath of this, has seen global stocks take a further battering Wednesday. Asian stocks accelerated their slide in the Wednesday trading session, with the Korean and Hong Kong stock indexes shedding more than three percent. [...]
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Minsk, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is to put up for sale a batch of 18 Sukhoi Su-30 multirole fighter aircraft, rejected by India on concerns about their engines and returned to Russia in 2003, a defense official said Wednesday. “The 18 Su-30s previously used by India and then returned, are in an aviation repair plant in [...]
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Saudi Arabia wants Gulf Cooperation Council to be region’s European Union. It has proposed transformation of GCC into Gulf Union on the line of EU Jeddah (NVONews.Com) Fearful of the wave of popular revolt in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia on Monday pushed ahead efforts to forge a single federation with its five Persian Gulf [...]
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Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia, killing 45 people May 9, was a replacement aircraft for one that had been withdrawn due to engine problems shortly before the flight. A Superjet 100 aircraft with the tail number 95005, which earlier performed demonstration flights in Kazakhstan and [...]
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Moscow, (IANS) Russia will continue to try to secure the return of its citizens held in Libya and also continue to insist that the rights are observed, a foreign ministry official said. “Russia will strive for the soonest return of our citizens,” the ministry’s spokesman for human rights Konstantin Dolgov was quoted as saying by [...]
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NVONews.Com News Desk, Europe debt crisis is still to ease, but politicians in Greece are showing that they are unmindful of the tough days ahead for their people. Ancient Greece’s contribution to democracy is a reference point in political science text books. But in this post-modern world the country is unable to form its own [...]
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China, Japan, South Korea have been compelled by global economic slump to come together. This seems to be a tough time for even the best performing economies of the world, says Soroor Ahmed of NVONews.Com Global recession has compelled the leaders of the second, third and 12th largest economies of the world to bury their [...]
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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman (NVONews.Com) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Fidel Castro‘s Cuba, late on Friday, to country’s capital, Caracas, after fully recovering from cancer. He was in Havana for the last several months for radiation therapy. Fifty-seven year old Chavez has undergone surgery twice in the past year in Cuba to remove [...]
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Beijing, (IANS) The toll due to hailstorms and torrential rains in a mountainous county in northwest China has risen to 40, officials said late Saturday. At least 18 people were still missing while 30,000 residents have been evacuated after storms hit Minxian county in Gansu province three days ago, Xinhua reported. Around 360,000 people have [...]
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Islamabad, (IANS) A policeman was killed and 11 other people were injured Saturday in a massive blast that targeted a police vehicle in Peshawar, a media report said. Geo News said an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted the police van that was used to transport prisoners. One policeman was killed and four were injured. Seven [...]
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