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WASHINGTON: French finance minister Christine Lagarde on Tuesday clinched the top job at the IMF, keeping the international lender in the hands of a European at a time of growing concern over a possible Greek debt default. Lagarde will become the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund when her five-year term as managing [...]

ITANAGAR/SHILLONG: In one of the worst helicopter crashes in Arunachal Pradesh, 17 persons including three crew members were killed and six others injured when it caught fire and plunged into a gorge in Tawang district on Tuesday. The Pawan Hans Mi17 chopper was flying to Tawang from the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati [...]

Veteran actors Vinod Khanna and Farooque Sheikh will share screen space together in Rahhul S Anand’s Chhoti Si Duniya. The film is set around the medical fraternity and has been scripted with the help of leading medical professionals. The film marks the launch of Rahhul S Anand’s son Rohitt and is also a tribute of [...]

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Reduced vegetable production in India is an outcome of decline in the pollinating insects and it may limit people”s access to nutritional diet, scientists have warned. Indian researchers said there was a “clear indication” that pollinator abundance was linked to productivity. They added that the loss of the natural service could [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Acupuncture does not appear to help in stroke recovery, reveals a new study. Acupuncture is often used to supplement traditional stroke rehabilitation, although its effectiveness is uncertain. This study, perhaps the most comprehensive to date as it includes trials published in English language and Asian journals, was a systematic review conducted [...]

New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): After the visit to Jammu and Kashmir by the All Party Delegation, the Government of India has announced an eight-point package to provide a healing touch to the people of the violence-hit state. The package is expected to make a beginning towards sorting out the internal dimensions of the Kashmir [...]

Beijing, Sept 27 (ANI): The move of US President Barack Obama and Southeast Asian leaders for a peaceful resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and America’s strong intentions to expand its influence in the region, is a challenge to the bilateral negotiation mechanisms in solving the territorial disputes, according to Chinese analysts. [...]

Beijing, Sep 27 (IANS) China has begun work on an extension to the world’s highest rail link which will connect the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to the region’s second largest city Xigaze. The new section from Lhasa to Xigaze is the first extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which opened in July 2006, China Daily reported [...]

Beijing, Sep 21 (IANS) Even as winter is on its way in China, people are looking forward to the comfort of their homes and having some entertainment. Most of them plan to have Superman ‘delivered’ at 1,000 yuan an hour or a pole dance tutor at 800 yuan. While food, drink or shopping bags have [...]

Washington, Sep 21 (IANS) US President Barack Obama said Monday that China’s rapid economic development is in the interest of US economy. ‘It’s good for us that China has done well,’ Obama said at a town-hall-style meeting telecast live on CNBC before heading to Pennsylvania to raise money for a Democratic Senate candidate, Xinhua reported. [...]

Beijing, Sept. 20 (ANI): Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya summoned Japanese ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa on Sunday evening to express his strong indignation and protest against Japan”s prolonged detention of a Chinese skipper. “The incident created by the Japanese side has severely damaged China-Japan relations,” said Wang. According to a Xinhua news report, [...]

Beijing, Sep 20 (IANS) China has now set its sight on planet Venus, where it hopes to land a space probe by 2015. A probe to Mars and the country’s first moon landing have also been chalked out. The first unmanned space laboratory, Tiangong-1, will be launched in 2011, after which there would be the [...]

Beijing, Sep 20 (IANS) Typhoon Fanapi hit China’s Fujian province Monday, uprooting trees, ripping off branches and knocking down billboards, but there has been no casualties, officials said. Officials of the Fujian provincial flood control headquarters said Fanapi hit Gulei township in Zhangpu county at 7 a.m. and lashed coastal areas with winds of speed [...]

Beijing, Sep 18 (IANS) Troops from five countries that make up the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) – China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan – took part in a firing drill in Kazakhstan. This was the third joint training of the Peace Mission 2010 anti-terror exercise, and involved tanks, armoured vehicles, fighter planes, bombers, rockets and [...]

Matybulak (Kazakhstan), Sept.17 (ANI): The Chinese Government has said that it is committed to making its military more transparent. “All the equipment we brought here are relatively good and advanced ones,” the China Daily quoted Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff of the People”s Liberation Army (PLA), as saying. The equipment includes tanks, [...]

Washington, Sep 17 (ANI): In what has been called the largest collision in the world—when India rammed into the Eurasian continent—the Indian plate was pushed about 500 kilometers under Tibet, reaching a depth of 250 kilometers, a new method has revealed. While the collision resulted into the world”s highest mountain range, but the tsunami in [...]

Beijing, Sep 16 (IANS) Prisoners in China are ‘corrected’ before their release from jails by an institution which help the inmates lead a new life without committing crimes again. The Sunshine Halfway House, a ‘community correction institution’ in Beijing that was established two years ago, helps prisoners prepare for the outside world, China Daily reported. [...]

Beijing, Sep 16 (IANS) China’s press watchdog has ordered 15 websites to remove videos which were unauthorised or had copyright issues. The 15 sites, including youku.com, ku6.com and video.baidu.com, took up more than 80 percent of the country’s video market share, Wang Ziqiang, a senior official with the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), [...]

Washington, Sep 14 (ANI): A novel mechanism as to why the long-term, high-dosage use of the well-known arthritis pain medication, Vioxx, lead to heart attacks and strokes has been discovered by scientists. The groundbreaking study, by a research team from the University of California, Davis and Peking University, China, may pave the way for a [...]

Beijing, Sept. 14 (ANI): Chinese billionaire Chen Guangbiao recently made an important decision. Rising from his bed, he sat and penned a letter, in which he promised to give his entire fortune to charity after he leaves the world. The letter dated September 5 was later posted on his company website, bringing the 42-year-old billionaire [...]