Iran hosts global oil exhibition

October 1st, 2009 UK's Tate Modern temporarily shuts exhibitionLONDON — Britain's Tate Modern has temporarily closed an exhibition that includes a nude image of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields, following a visit from a London police unit that deals with obscene publications. The Tate said in a statement Thursday that it has temporarily shut the room housing "Spiritual America" by artist Richard Prince.

September 22nd, 2009 Giant cannon, big red blob in Kapoor's London showLONDON — A giant cannon that fires gruesome-looking globs of red wax into a white wall is one of the highlights of an exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor opening this week in London. The British capital's Royal Academy of Arts is hosting a solo exhibition of the Indian-born Kapoor's large-scale and often bizarre-looking work.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to hold talks with the world powers over global challenges including its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will initially present its package of proposals to the five permanent members of the U.N.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran is ready to hold talks with world powers over global issues, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, adding "from our point of view, Iran's nuclear issue is over". Ahmadinejad said: "We are prepared to sit down to hold talks." He, however, said Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights.

July 10th, 2009 Mandela disowns a London exhibitionJOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela has distanced himself from a London exhibition of disputed lithographs bearing his signature, his lawyer said Friday. Bally Chuene said the Belgravia Gallery had scheduled a party and exhibition of artwork purported to be drawn by Mandela for Thursday — two day's before the elderly statesman's 91st birthday.

May 19th, 2009 KARACHI - Advisor to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain has said that Islamabad and Tehran will sign the agreement for the supply of gas under Iran Pakistan Gas Pipeline by the end of this month or next month. He said that Iran has nearly built the site for the supply of gas to at Pak-Iran border.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Late rock legend John Lennon will be posthumously honoured at an exhibition in New York. Instruments and handwritten lyrics belonging to the former Beatle will go on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in the Big Apple later this month, reported femalefirst.co.uk Entitled John Lennon: The New York City Years, the exhibition will also show personal photographs and a self-portrait of the late star.

April 17th, 2009 DHAKA - 'Who are we... we are us,' says the caption to a painting by Anoma Wijewardene, a Sri Lankan painter who is among the South Asian artists displaying their best works at an exhibition here.

April 15th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday said Tehran would offer a new set of proposals to 'secure global peace and justice', IRNA reported. 'The proposals will focus on ways to secure global peace and justice, respect to rights of all nations, and participation of all governments and nations in settlement of international crises,' Ahmadinejad said while addressing a gathering in the southern city of Kerman.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Not just a medium of expression, an art exhibition organised in the capital is giving out a clear message to the public - don't vote for criminals these elections. With paintings such as 'The Truth' - depicting a smirking Ravana wearing a Nehru cap, and one showing a number of wires coming out of the head of a faceless person and titled 'Confused', the exhibition, which is taking place at the Polka Art Gallery, will be on till April 15.

February 24th, 2009 ABU DHABI - Defence and security businesses have not been impacted by the global financial crisis, Alexandre de Juniac, executive vice president of French defence systems company Thales, has said here. 'We are not affected by the economic crisis in our main businesses, because we are heavily relying on government spending and the defence spending has not been reduced at this stage everywhere in the world,' de Juniac said Monday.

January 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat Tourism is hosting the India Travel Mart (ITM) here from Jan 30 to Feb 1, officials said Wednesday. Malaysia and Dubai are partner countries for this international travel and tourism exhibition while Uttarakhand is the partner state.

January 7th, 2009 CHENNAI - The new Global Indian Knowledge Network, or Global INK, launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday, will be of great benefit in helping an organisation from the tiny island state of Reunion near Mauritius to trace the history of its citizens of Indian origin. 'Yes, it will definitely assist us,' said Raphael Tipka, who was manning an exhibition of photographs culled from government archives and family albums showing some of the Indian pioneers of Reunion who arrived as indentured labourers to work on sugarcane farms, as artisans, or as domestic workers to the then French landowners.

January 6th, 2009 CHENNAI - An exhibition showcasing India to the overseas Indians was inaugurated here Wednesday evening as part of the seventh edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)- the three-day annual diaspora meet. 'The interests of non-resident Indians (NRI) and people of Indian origian (PIOs) will be protected through various steps which are being put in place by the Indian government,' V.

January 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The eighth edition of Asia's largest petroleum exhibition and conference, beginning Jan 11, may see a smaller delegation due to economic slowdown and fears over terror attacks, but ministers from 11 countries will attend the event, organisers said here. The five-day 'Petrotech-2009' will be inaugurated here Jan 12 by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.