An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit the south Yellow Sea off Shanghai coast Wednesday morning.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Center the quake hit at 9:19 a m (Beijing Time).
The epicentre was monitor…
The Indian Embassy here celebrated the World Hindi Day with Egyptian students displaying their mastery in the language.
During the celebration on January 10 at the Maulana Azad Centre for India Culture, Egyptian students studying Hind…
Bone-chilling cold continued to sting east and north India on Tuesday with the mercury nosediving to seven-year lowest in Kolkata and killing 13 more people in Uttar Pradesh.
West Bengal capital Kolkata recorded a low of 9.9 degree …
Floodwaters entered the low-lying areas of Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as
the Brisbane river breached its banks, forcing thousands in the Queensland capital to flee their homes in the midst of frantic rescue efforts.
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The South Korean legislature is expected to pass a bill next month that would lower the legal adult age from the current 20 to 19 to reflect rapid social changes and global trends, parliamentary and judicial officials said Wednesday.
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Police said Wednesday they will reinvestigate the death of a female college student whose mother's plea for a fair probe led to an online rally by thousands of supporters.
The mother of the victim said in a posting Friday on Daum, a ma…
The beleaguered Northeast region of the United States hunkered down -- again -- Wednesday as another blizzard blanketed the area.
Blizzard conditions in New England Wednesday, created nightmares for travelers and residents along a line th…
Israel extradited five top criminals to the United States Wednesday for trial on murder, money laundering and other charges, officials said.
Underworld king-pins Meir Abergil and his brother Yitzhak were taken to Ben Gurion International …
South Korea is interested in boosting defense deals with Israel and procuring advanced weapons and technology, a Haaretz report says.
In a report Wednesday, the newspaper said with growing concern over North Korea's "intense aggression, S…
The chief and people of Kandiga in the Kassena-Nankana East District have appealed to the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure that people in the Atosale/Azaasi Electoral area exercise their franchise in the just ended district assembly ele…
91 days of action, drama and entertainment…and when M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars drew to a close in 2010, fans of the continental reality series kept asking … would the romances, relationships and friendships survive outside the famous Bi…
Patrons of the Wassa West National Health Insurance Scheme have appealed to the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly to relocate the scheme from the Tarkwa Community Centre to a more spacious and convenient place.
They said the present l…
Na Bohagu Mahami Abudulai Sheriga, the Overlord of the Mamprugu Traditional Area, has commended the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga for successfully mediating in key conflicts in his area.
He mentioned especially the conflict…
Teachers have been urged to help students move away from rote learning to the application of scientific and mathematical principles to solve societal challenges.
This was one of the views expressed at the 62nd Annual New Year School …
Mr Joseph Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has met representatives of two families at Ziavi-Gboxome and Sokode-Gbogame in the Ho Municipal Area and thanked them for giving land for the citing of the Volta Region University of Health…
The weather over southern Ghana on Tuesday morning will be misty and foggy, according to the weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
The forecast said later in the day, the weather would become dry and hazy over a…
An Akim Oda magistrate court in the Birim Central Municipality, has sentenced an unemployed man, Kwaku Mensah, to six years imprisonment in hard labour for causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing.
Mensah, 28, pleaded guil…
The District Director of Health Services in Awutu-Senya District, Mrs Patricia Antwi, has appealed to the Assembly to provide more public places of convenience and portable water to deprived communities in the area.
She said this was…
The Western Region recorded 11 deaths and 99 injuries in a number of road accidents during the Christmas festivities.
Alhaji Sumani Mbo, Regional Chairman of the Road Safety Committee, told the GNA in an interview at Takoradi that th…
Alhaji Sumani Mbo, Western Regional Manager of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), on Tuesday reminded Ghanaians that using unapproved stretches and routes along major roads network was a crime punishable by law.
He said in an…
An Anaesthetist, at the Juaben Government Hospital Dr Henry Brenya-Sarpong, has invited the media to join in the campaign to promote healthy lifestyles among the people.
They should find space to educate the people on the need to avo…
A local court Tuesday ruled in favor of a 25-year-old man who was injured in the military while preparing for a martial arts screening for promotion, recognizing him as a "National Meritorious Person" who deserves state compensation.
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More families will receive childcare allowances this year as part of government efforts to boost the nation's declining birthrate, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
During a Cabinet meeting, the government approved a revised enforce…
Claiming that its troops had "never crossed" the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, China Tuesday said it always respected bilateral agreements on maintaining peace and tranquility in border areas.
"China's border personnel ha…
The families of ten Indians, who have been jailed for murdering a compatriot after a drunken brawl here, have been apprised of the details of their case.
On January 4, all the 10 Indians were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for p…
Flight operations at the IGI (Indira Gandhi International) airport were normal for the second consecutive day Tuesday due to absence of dense fog.
"As there was no dense fog at the airport and
visibility was good, flight operations r…
Delhi Tuesday remained under the grip of cold wave with the minimum temperature settling below the normal level.
The minimum temperature was recorded at 4.6 degree Celsius, two degrees below normal for this time of the year.
The …
Three pilgrims were killed and eight injured when a bus carrying them met with an accident, police said today.
The injured were immediately admitted to hospital.
The bus carrying pilgrims from Kasaragod was on its way to Saba…
A mother along with her two daughters committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of their house at nearby Olavanna here, police said.
The deceased have been identified as Soumya (34), Diya(4)Dilsha (6 months), they said.
Ace Indian athlete Preeja Sreedharan, who won a gold and a silver medal at the recent Asian Games, was picked as the 'Newsmaker 2010' by the Manorama News channel.
Preeja was adjudged the Newsmaker through SMS and online votes condu…
An ancient ritualistic performance that has been conducted for over 4,000 years in India is set to be performed once again in a remote village in
Kerala this April.
The 'Athirathram' ritual which literally means
'building up of the …
The three-volume encyclopedia on the A to Z of Indian music across 2000 years, the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India released recently, will soon be available in digital format.
"We are preparing a digital version of the book …
Any future inter-Korean dialogue should serve as a venue for North Korea to affirm its commitment to denuclearization, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday, dismissing the North's recent offers of dialogue as falsely motivated.
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An Indian-American is among Four persons charged by US authorities as part of a wide-ranging
investigation involving the multi-billion-dollar Galleon Group hedge fund scam, the biggest insider trading case in the country.
Sunil Bha…
North Korea on Tuesday repudiated a South Korean view that Pyongyang is not being sincere about its push for dialogue, insisting that both sides sit down first at a table to test each other's resolve to iron out differences through talks.
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Mrs. Vivian Anafo, the District Chief Executive of the Talensi/Nabdam, has appealed to the chiefs and people of the Sekoti Traditional Area to firmly hold the aspects of culture which were productive to promote economic development.
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The Omanhene of Asokore Traditional Area, Nana Susubribi Asante Krobea, has raised his concerns about the poor academic performance of schools in rural communities.
He said the consistent fall in the percentage passes scored by schoo…
The Methodist Church of Ghana will mark 50 years of its independence from the mother Church in the United Kingdom (UK), this year.
It attained autonomy status in 1961, four years after Ghana’s political independence.
The Rig…
The Omanhene of Agogo Traditional Area, Nana Kwame Akuoko Sarpong, has charged the people of Agogo to take advantage of the construction of the Afram Plains Super Highway to push the development agenda of the area forward.
He said th…
Mr Moses Asaga, the Member of Parliament for Nabdam, has been honoured by the chiefs and people of the Sekoti Traditional Area for his hard work and dedication that has brought development to the area.
He was decorated with a white sm…
Two members of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) who allegedly broke into the party’s headquarters last week, were on Tuesday granted bail by the Adjabeng District Magistrates Court “Two”.
The accused persons, Dr Somtim Tobiga a…
Fifteen (15) people perished on Tuesday when two Yutong buses on which they were travelling collided head-on just about a kilometre from Nkenkaasu on the Kumasi-Techiman highway.
Many other passengers suffered deep multiple cuts and…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday advised Muslim leaders and scholars to educate their members against infighting and other kinds of squabbles that undermine unity and development.
“Muslim communities are among the most depr…
The Co-ordinator of the International Union of Food (IUF), Mr Kirill Buketov, has said the Union was committed to a dignified life for “those who plant, harvest, process, prepare and serve the food we all depend on.”
For this reason,…
The management of Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has warned the public against patronising devices imported into the country purportedly designed for the elongation of the male sexual organ and the breast.
The devices, which are imported…
An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced three persons to 50 years imprisonment each for raping a woman after robbing her and the husband at gun point in Weija, a suburb of Accra.
The three, Fred Agyapong, Christopher Gbetoryeku a…
The Adansi Traditional Council (ATC) has distributed a total amount of GH¢6,500 as bursaries to 53 students in tertiary and second cycle schools at a ceremony at Fomena in the Adansi North District.
Twelve of the beneficiaries were …
Four communities in the North-Tongu District of the Volta Region, have called on government to implement plans to address the economic problems confronting communities downstream the Volta Lake following the construction of the Akosombo Da…
Ghana Meteorological Agency has predicted that the dry weather conditions being experienced in the country would last till the end of January.
The sudden prevalence of cold dry winds, which typify the harmattan season, is the result …
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern about the spate of suspicious incidents on the Tema motorway and called on the Ghana Police Service to get to the bottom of it.
Flight Lieutenant Rawlings was speaking when h…