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New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) India needs eight lakh more “modern medicine” doctors and 1.5 million additional nurses to keep pace with growing demands in the health sector, Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss said today. Replying to questions on compulsory rural postings of doctors, Ramadoss said the country was facing a shortfall of medics and required [...]

Berlin – A German union seeking pay rises for Berlin airport staff vowed to disrupt operations at two capital-city airports, with workers to walk off the job for three and a half hours on Tuesday.
Officials said Monday that in the period to be affected, after 6 am Tuesday, 50 takeoffs and 30 landings were timetabled [...]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday refused to grant any immediate legal relief to former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh seeking restoration of his membership to the state assembly.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan refused to grant any immediate legal relief to Singh saying that it would rather [...]

Islamabad, Feb 22 (PTI) Pakistan will proceed with its probe into the Mumbai attacks after getting India’s response to a set of 30 questions seeking more information on the terror strikes, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. “We are waiting for their response and we will take our next step in light of the [...]

Vienna – The Austrian Defence Ministry admitted Friday that its smoke grenades could have been the cause of a car pile-up in which a Czech woman burned to death in January.
The accident occurred on January 22 on a motorway near Vienna. Six vehicles crashed in dense fog near an army training site where five smoke [...]

Cairo – Chief Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad is expected in Cairo for high-level talks with Egyptian authorities Thursday, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
His visit comes after talks between Hamas and Egypt ended on Wednesday without a final agreement on a truce.
Egypt had originally set Thursday as the deadline for Hamas to agree to a [...]

A legal notice has been received by India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki, a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corp from Honda Siel Cars, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, since the former claimed in advertisement that its SX4 sedan is bigger than the Honda’s segment Leader City and is loaded with more features. The company received [...]

Sana’a, Yemen  – Somalia’s former Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned last month amid an internal power struggle, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a Tuesday seeking political asylum, Yemeni officials and a Somali diplomat said.
Yemeni officials said Yusuf had expressed his wish to receive political asylum in Yemen until he decides a permanent residence.
A [...]

Stockholm – Over half of all Swedish girls aged 15 to 18 who access chat rooms and so-called communities on the internet have received unwanted sexual invitations or have been sexually harassed, Svenska Dagbladet reported Tuesday.
The Stockholm daily published the statistics drawn from the annual Youth Barometer, a national survey of 12,000 youths aged between [...]

The Bombay High Court on Friday has adjourned by a week the hearing of an appeal in response to public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the Censor Board’s decision seeking an ‘A’ certification for Ghajini.
The petition, filed by Pratibha Nathani, a social activist and a professor of Political Science professor at St Xavier’s College, said that [...]

Harare – Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday following more than two months abroad seeking counsel from regional leaders, but says he will not be “bulldozed” into a power-sharing government with Robert Mugabe.
At Harare airport the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) told reporters that he was “glad [...]

San Jose, Costa Rica – The Costa Rican government is seeking international aid in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, news reports said Tuesday.
According to Costa Rican authorities, the death toll in the 6.2-magnitude quake has risen to 20 and damage has been estimated at around 100 million dollars.
Eight bridges, 7 power lines, 61 [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): American country music singer Merle Haggard is suing an environmental awareness group for using his name and image illegally to solicit money.
The suit was filed on January 8 against Nashville, Tennessee environment advocates the Green Train, and the papers claimed that the group forged his signature and exaggerated his involvement in [...]

Washington, Jan.8 (ANI): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking to fill thousands of posts as it embarks on the biggest recruitment drive in its 101-year history.
According to the Scotsman, the vacancies include 850 special agents, besides a further 2,100 “professional staff positions”.
Jobs include intelligence analysts, fingerprint experts, language specialists and electronics technicians, presumably [...]

Islamabad, Jan.8 (ANI): After accepting that the lone surviving Mumbai gunner is a Pakistani national, Islamabad has now refused to give any official support to Ajmal Amir Kasab.
“Kasab has committed a heinous crime. He will not be provided any official support or consular access,” the Daily Times quoted Pak Foreign Office Spokesman Muhammad Sadiq, as [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): American actress Patricia Arquette has filed for divorce from her actor husband Thomas Jane, and is also seeking full custody of their 5-year-old daughter Harlow.
In the papers filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court on January 5, Arquette, 40, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for her to decide about ending [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): ONS (one night stand) and BPO (Beautiful People Only) are among the key phrases that Brits are using to bag nights of nookie.
Horny Brits are using a series of coded messages to arrange hot dates. And industry leaders believe that it is now a fully-fledged web sex language.
Sex-starved housewives have advertised [...]

New York, Jan 6 (ANI): Model Liskula Cohen has filed a lawsuit against Google in a bid to unmask the blogger who called her a “skank” and an “old hag” on a Web site meant to ruin her image.
The Vogue model, who has posed for Giorgio Armani and Versace, wants to force Google to reveal [...]

Washington – The United States is pushing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would require Hamas to halt rocket attacks into Israel but would also open crossings into the isolated enclave, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to more than a dozen counterparts over the weekend [...]

Washington – The United States is pushing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would require Hamas to halt rocket attacks into Israel but would also open crossings into the isolated enclave, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to more than a dozen counterparts over the weekend [...]