Chinese share prices went up marginally Friday with heavyweights leading the way. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index finished up 31.92 points, or 0.94 percent, to 3,433.35. The Shenzhen Component Index closed at 12,048.2 ...
Yang Bozun, a blind Paralympic swimmer from east China's Tianjin, sold out his record-breaking gold medal and donated a total of 30,000 yuan (4,318 U.S. dollars) to the earthquake-hit areas of China's Sichuan province. "I have been ...
People across the country and all over the world have offered help after the recent earthquake disaster. At the same time, a nationwide conservation activity also began in China. Central government organs began to reduce public spending in ...
The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) sent a letter on May 29 to the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and invited chairman Chiang Pin-kun and Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Kao Koong-lian to lead a SEF delega ...
A conference with earthquake relief troops in Chengdu was organized by the Political Department of the Chengdu Military Region Earthquake Relief Headquarters on May 29. At the conference, Lieutenant General Lu Dengming, deputy chief command ...
Beijing's consumer price index rose 6.5% in April, according to the latest statistics from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and the National Bureau of Statistics Beijing Survey Organization. Food prices rose 21.6%; while non-food ...
The triple defending champion, bidding to join Bjorn Borg as the only man to win four successive titles, looked as if he was about to pay a heavy price for a grueling Roland Garros schedule which has seen him play
After drawing the first game with the black pieces, Anand was in his elements in the second, squeezing out the defensive resources in fine fashion. The victory helped the Indian ace to take an early lead in the four-game match,
All the other 17 players featured in India's historic Nehru Cup win in August last year and subsequent World Cup qualifier in October. The new trio were though part of playing XI in the two friendlies against Chinese Taipei on
Based on the complaint, metropoliton magistrate D L Patel on last Tuesday directed the police to investigate the matter. One Malav Shah of Neptune Exim, a company exporting textile products, in his complaint said that Engineer and his wife Julie
Two other guards were wounded when the roadside bomb blew up their truck at Qarghayi, about 100 kilometres east of Kabul, Laghman province police chief Abdul Karim Omaryar told. It was not clear if the bomb was newly planted by
Under the exercise, Ariyalur, Villupuram, Namakkal, Krishnagiri, Thanjvaur, Thiruvarur, Ramanathapuram and Nilgiris districts would have new police chiefs. Deputy Commissioner of Police, headquarters, Coimbatore City, has been transferred and posted as SP of Ariyalur District in place of M S
The raids which began simultaneously at over four dozen places continued, a senior IT official said. Besides Jabalpur, the raids were going on at Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Neemuch and several other places with over 40 teams of police with Income
The government today took a decision in this regard. These IITs are in addition to three new such institutions in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar which have been given the go ahead for starting courses. "The results of JEE is
No major Hindi films except "Tashan" and "Bhootnath" were released since the tournament began on April 18. While Tashan" was a box office disaster, "Bhootnath" did relatively well. Even on the small screen, Shah Rukh Khan hosted "Kya Aap Paanchvi
The couple are moving their furniture into the Miraval area property, in the heart of the southeastern Var region, in time for Jolie, 32, to give birth to twins. "They are settling in and bringing their furniture," while American owner
The court it will announce a new date for verdict on June 16. Bijal Joshi, a resident of Usmanpura area of the city was allegedly gangraped by four people at a hotel on the night of December 31, 2003. She
Official sources said the SCW, which took up the matter on its own, initiated its probe into the complaint lodged against the Bijepur MLA by a 35-year-old woman of Barapali in Bargarh district and recorded her statement during the day.
Sixty-six-year-old Yeddyurappa, who successfully led the party to victory, took oath along with 29 ministers who included five of the six independents whose support helped BJP reach the majority mark in the 224-member state assembly. Governor Rameshwar Thakur administered the
Verma, a Delhi-based businessman and the son of former MP Veena Verma and poet Srikant Verma, was in jail since July 2006 for his alleged involvement in leaking of the classified documents from the Directorate of Naval Operation here. "On
