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UNITED NATIONS: The Middle East diplomatic Quartet is to meet in Moscow on March 19, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.
Martin Nesirky told AFP that UN chief Ban Ki-moon “will take part in the Quartet meeting that will take place in Moscow on March 19.”

Jerusalem, Sep 20 (ANI): In an effort to renew the peace process in the Middle East, President Barack Obama will host a tripartite meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the meeting would take place after Obama meets separately with each [...]

Gorakhpur, Sept 19 (ANI): Volunteers of a social service organisation and the personnel of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of Uttar Pradesh Police at Gorakhpur detained four Nepalese women.

Reportedly, as per the statement of the women who were taken into custody at [...]

Washington, September 18 (ANI): People’s negative views toward the leadership and policies of other countries may be an indication that a terrorist act may be carried out, say researchers.

Alan Krueger, [...]

Srinagar, Sep 16 (ANI): The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is hosting a five day global meeting of the deer experts here-from October 9 to discuss conservation plans for the Hangul, which is also known as Kashmir Stag.

The meeting is also expected to chalk out a long-term effective management plan for the conservation of Hangul [...]

Trivandrum/United Arab Emirates, Sept 16 (ANI/Business Wire India): SunTec, the leading provider of Relationship-based Pricing and Centralized Billing solutions, has announced two strategic wins in the Middle East region, one of which has helped the company to gain a foothold in Port Operations Billing – its fifth operating domain.

One of the largest banks in [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): The handshake by world’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has been described as limp, and like shaking a wet fish by a producer of CNN who met the terror mastermind.

CNN producer Peter Bergen, who wrote The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda’s Leader, met the most [...]

Surat, Sep. 8 (ANI): Diamond traders in Surat are expecting good business during the upcoming National Gold and Diamond festival week in China.

The Indian diamond cutting industry was one of the badly hit sectors due to the global recession.

“The upcoming show in Hongkong will provide good market to [...]

London, Sept 1 (ANI): British agents spent more than 10 years in the fruitless hunt for Adolf Hitler’s trusted private secretary, Martin Bormann, following false reports that he survived the war, secret intelligence files have revealed.

Bormann’s whereabouts was one of the biggest mysteries after the Second World War, reports Times Online.

MI5 believed that he died [...]

Aban Offshore | Aban Offshore bags 3371 Crore Rig Deployment Deals
Oil exploration services provider Aban Offshore today said it has secured two deals worth Rs 3,371 crore for supplying rigs.
The company has signed a contract worth $603 million (Rs 2,925 crore) for the deployment of three newly build jack-up rigs (from the deep driller series) [...]

Dubai, Aug. 25 (ANI): Despite the worst recession in modern history, the world’s tallest tower, Burj Dubai, continues to retain its reputation as one of the most expensive addresses in Dubai, according to Middle East property experts.

Apartment prices in the tower are [...]

Jerusalem, Aug. 25 (ANI): Israel is open to discussion on the final borders with Palestine, but the country will surely not return to the line of 1967, Israeli Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor has said.

“Surely, nobody expects Netanyahu to offer more than what Olmert (former PM) offered (to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas)…Final borders are [...]

New York, Aug.19 (ANI): The United States is pushing Pakistan to continue operation against Taliban in the wake of reported death of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud.

However, senior American administration officials believe that Islamabad is still caught between a ‘clear’ and ‘hold’ situation when it comes to Swat and Waziristan.

According to them [...]

Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt), July 16 (ANI): Without the presence of 21st century enfant terrible of the Middle East Mohammad Ahmadinejad, the towering personality of Fidel Castro or the biting wit of Venezuelian President Hugo Chavez, the 15th Non-Aligned Movement Summit meet lacks the glamour element.

The media room has journalists wondering which world leader to chase [...]

Caspian Airlines – 168 killed in Iran plane crash – Caspian – Caspian Air – Russian-made Caspian Airlines Jet – Qazvin – Erevan
An Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed at about 11:30 am, a quarter-hour after take off  on Wednesday, Russian-made Caspian Airlines jet was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan near [...]

London, July 12 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the new president of European Union have receded after he lost support among continental leaders.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was originally Blair’s key backer, is said to have “changed his mind”.

The new favourite is Spain’s charismatic socialist former prime minister [...]

Tokyo, July 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): Toshiba Corporation announced that Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture with JSW that will manufacture and market steam turbines and generators in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Tamil Nadu.

The MOU allows Toshiba JSW to lease land for [...]

New Delhi, July 5 (ANI): Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo has said that Asia’s two emerging giants China and India will become big powers in the future when the current economic crisis is over and the world will be a different place with many centers of political, economic and cultural influence.

Speaking at the 15th anniversary [...]

Jerusalem, June 30 (ANI): Knesset member Otniel Schneller has termed the US demand for a settlement freeze as “extortion”, which could impede Israeli readiness for peace.

The Jerusalem Post quoted Schneller, as saying that Obama administration officials were holding [...]

Rome (Italy), June 29 (ANI): Facing a series of domestic scandals that would have embarrassed Roman Emperor Tiberius, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has decided to take the sobriety route by announcing the program for this year’s [...]