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Melbourne, Mar 20(ANI): A new report has revealed that Australia and the United States are the world’s worst-performing nations when it comes to efficiently spending their defence budgets.
According to the analysis prepared by global consultants McKinsey, both the countries came at the bottom of a list of 33 countries ranked according to the efficiency.
Brazil, [...]

London, Mar.20 (ANI): Eleven England Test stars, including the rested captain Andrew Strauss and fast bowler James Anderson, have refused to sign the central contracts offered to them last October, and it is not because of their participation in the Indian Premier League, but more to do about better pay and perks.
It is the second [...]

(Reuters) – A gunbattle broke out between two armed men and security forces outside a high security space center in southern India early on Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said.
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The gunbattle occurred in Byalalu, on the outkirts of IT hub Bangalore.
The Home (Interior) Ministry sees ISRO buildings as a high priority target for [...]

New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): The Union Budget addressed the importance of infrastructure for sustained economic development and allotted money to boost the growth potential would be realized only if infrastructure does not become a severe and critical handicap.
The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in February aims at developing infrastructure in the [...]

SANTIAGO, Chile, March 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — World Vision began
distributing hundreds of blankets and some water containers to Santiago’s
earthquake survivors over the weekend as it prepared to start an extensive
response in the hardest hit areas south of the capital. Many of the
communities in Chile where the aid group already works–including Lota [...]

Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), Sep.18 (ANI): India and Turkmenistan on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a programme of cooperation.

The bilateral agreement was signed after delegation-level talks between visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Turkmenistan counterpart Rashid Meredov

Both Krishna and Meredov signed the MOU.

Krishna also called on the President of [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): India has withstood global financial storm and mitigating the impact of scanty rains is government’s top priority, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here today.

“Despite the global economic crisis, we grew by 6.7 per cent last year. This year, we are getting mixed signals and [...]

London, Aug. 24 (ANI): As the raw polling station data declared Hamid Karzai’s as Afghanistan’s re-elected president in a landslide victory, allegations of vote-rigging have begun to surface. arly figures from campaign team observers suggest Karzai has won 72 per cent [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): In a new twist to the deadly swine flu pandemic, it has been found that the strain of influenza, A/H1N1, can now be transferred from humans to pigs, and can spread rapidly in a trial pig population.

For the study, Dr Thomas Vahlenkamp and a team of virologists from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in [...]

New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): A vacation bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Ganguly, has directed the Central Government to publish all steps taken to protect Indian students in Australia.

The web sites of ministries of [...]

London, May 2 (ANI): The Taliban is planning to bring down one of the eight Chinooks operating in Afghanistan, in the hope that the attack will weaken Britain’s resolve to continue the campaign in Helmand.

British Chinook helicopter routinely carry more than 40 armed troops, and aliban insurgents are actively seeking to bring down one of [...]

Wellington – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rejected Monday a call by one of his government ministers for a referendum on ditching Queen Elizabeth as head of state and turning the country into a republic.
“My view is that New Zealand is likely one day to become a republic, but it’s unlikely to occur under [...]

Washington, Apr 27 (ANI): Hindus have asked Australia to create a “bill of rights” as a high-priority.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Australia was one of the few Western countries that did not have a charter of rights.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, [...]

Islamabad, Apr. 8 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, has expressed dissatisfaction over the shallow US intelligence about the creation and recruiting powers of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“I am deeply, deeply dissatisfied with the degree of knowledge that the United States government and our friends and allies have on [...]

Ropar (Punjab), Feb 24 (ANI): Union Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, in Punjab today.

This new IIT is part of the eight new IITs that have been established in the country by the Union Ministry of Human Resource [...]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): Union Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, in Punjab tomorrow.

This new IIT is part of the eight new IITs that have been established in the country by the Union Ministry of Human Resource [...]

London, Feb.9 (ANI): At least 20 foreign intelligence agencies, including agencies in France and Germany, are attempting to steal Britain’s most sensitive secrets.
Details of the spy plots were revealed in a government security document obtained by The Sunday Telegraph that states that Britain is “high priority espionage target” for 20 foreign intelligence agencies.

Russia and [...]