NEW DELHI - The Union Ministry of Tourism has launched an initiative on 'Safe and Honourable Tourism' which would essentially promote the cause of protecting women and children from the negative aspects of tourism.
NEW DELHI - The Indian Navy has deployed the INS Savitri, an Offshore Patrol Vessel with a Chetak helicopter and marine commandos, for surveillance of exclusive economic zone of Seychelles and Mauritius from the end of November till the early part of January 2010.
KOLKATA - Security measures have been stepped up in West Bengal, a day after bomb explosions rocked the neighbouring Assam state.
NEW DELHI - A group of visually challenged people gathered under the banner of the National Federation of Blind (NFB) to stage a protest demonstration here today, demanding implementation of three percent reservation in state jobs.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Closing arguments began Monday in the genocide trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief, with the prosecution accusing Kaing Guek Eav of having pursued his role with zeal despite his expressions of remorse for atrocities.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured.
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine army says it has found 21 bodies in the country's restive south after gunmen hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections.
BOSTON - A convicted murderer serving a life sentence goes before a judge to ask for electrolysis treatments as she seeks a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation.
PARK FALLS, Wis. - The quest for alternative energy is raising fears that too much logging debris such as limbs and bark will be removed from the nation's forests.
JACKSON, Miss. - Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.
MONTREAT, N.C. - Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev.
LONDON - British police have charged four men, including a father-son duo, with attempting to wage violent jihad after arresting them in northern England.
LONDON - Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse.
BHOPAL - Three people who raped and murdered a 10-year-old tribal girl at the famous tourist destination of Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district last week have been arrested, police said Monday.
PATNA - Police Monday seized about 250 quintals of ammonium nitrate used in making explosives from a Bihar village and arrested three people.
BEIJING - The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China has risen to 104, with four workers still trapped underground, state media said Monday.
NEW DELHI - Security was increased around the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus Monday, a day after four outsiders were held for allegedly misbehaving with women students and police used batons and teargas to disperse agitated students.
BHUBANESWAR - At least 20 people have been arrested from a town in Orissa's Koraput district on charges of rioting and arson.
NEW DELHI - Violence broke out on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late Sunday evening when four outsiders in an inebriated state were caught teasing women students and Delhi Police had to resort to baton charge and teargas to disperse the agitated students.
KABUL - Four US and three Afghan soldiers were killed in a series of roadside bomb attacks and firefights with insurgents in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
ISLAMABAD - Constitutional experts in Pakistan have expressed divergent views on whether the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) would lose its efficacy after its expiry on November 28 or not.
NEW YORK - Ace figure skater Tai Babilonia is all set to skate almost nude as part of an animal rights group's campaign.
LONDON - Sara Foss, a British mother to 13 kids, has pledged to continue giving birth until twins are born.he 39-year-old Foss, who will give birth to her 14th child in April, is all set to get pregnant again so that she can fulfil her dream.
WASHINGTON - A man with an online name SAL9000 is all set to marry his virtual girlfriend from a dating simulations game called 'Love Plus'.
SRINAGAR - The mercury dropped to minus 23.5 degrees Celsius in Leh, the weather office said Monday.
LONDON - A deep hostility prevailed between British and American military commanders in Iraq, classified government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph, have revealed.
LAHORE - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has said that India does not have the right to decide the issue unilaterally and the Kashmir dispute must be resolved in accordance with UN resolutions.
LONDON - Lardy men can now gracefully cover up their "moobs" and flaunt six pack abs, thanks to the Body Sculpt vest from supermarket Asda.
LONDON - The British taxpayer is reportedly paying up millions of pounds a year to "bribe" foreign murderers, rapists and other prisoners to go home after a 60 per cent jump in cases, The Telegraph reports.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand's glaciers are melting away, according to an annual survey of the snowline on 50 glaciers in the South Island, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) announced Monday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm.
LONDON - Police and army experts say they're urgently checking the safety of about 1,800 bridges in northern England amid some of the worst storms ever recorded in Britain.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said.
LONDON - An analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission has determined that the East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials who were detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding Shiite Iraqi militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.
Mullah Krekar, the founder of the militant organization Ansar al-Islam, but his whereabouts is very much open to all.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has accused India of supporting insurgents in Pakistan, including areas bordering Afghanistan.
LONDON - Women worry about their bodies 252 times a week on an average, says a new survey.
BOSTON - Northeastern University is dropping its football program after 74 years, saying it's too expensive to maintain.
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