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The International Fellowships Programme (IFP) run by the US-based Ford Foundation will end in 2010, an organisation official said on Sunday. “The IFP was launched in 2001 to broaden access to higher education and help build a new generation of ... Read More »
India to have 3rd largest number of Internet users by 2013
The number of internet users worldwide is expected to touch 2.2 billion by 2013 and India is projected to have the third largest online population during the same time, says a report. “The number of people online around the world ... Read More »
Common ancestor of humans and monkeys evolved from primates in Asia
Washington, July 1 (ANI): A new fossil primate from Myanmar suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, not Africa, as was earlier believed by researchers. A major focus of recent paleoanthropological research ... Read More »
Asian couple accused of Kiwi bank loan blunder have split
Wellington, May 26 (ANI): The brazen Kiwi couple who are at the centre of an embarrassing multimillion-dollar bank loan blunder appear to have parted ways in Asia, New Zealand police said Tuesday. Leo Gao, 29, and his girlfriend Kara ... Read More »
Swine flu reaches Asia; global cases rise to 365
The first case of swine flu was confirmed in Asia as health experts said the world appeared better prepared to fight an epidemic now than a few years ago and vowed a vaccine was only months away. Confirmation by Hong ... Read More »
Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group
Washington, April 30 (ANI): In a new research, an international team of scientists has determined that the Native Americans, who came to the New World, descended from a single ancestral group. “Our work provides strong evidence that, in general, Native ... Read More »
A ‘RAW agent’ will be caught in Pakistan tomorrow!
New Delhi, Apr.26 (ANI): It is as certain to happen as Bilawal Bhutto will one day become Prime Minister, as certain as some Indian politician will accuse a ‘Pakistani agent’ of tampering with EVM machines, as certain as match fixing, ... Read More »
Focus on internal threat rather than India, US tells Pak
Washington, Apr.25 (ANI): The United States has once again urged Pakistan to focus more on the Taliban threat that is challenging its very existence rather than its arch rival India. Addressing the House Appropriations Committee, CENTCOM chief General. David Petraeus ... Read More »
Convincing Pak internal terror bigger threat to it than India proving “tough sell” for US
Lahore, Apr.23 (ANI): The United States is finding convincing Pakistan that the internal threat posed by extremism is a bigger threat to it than India, a “tough sell”. Delivering a lecture at the Harvard University, Central Command chief General David ... Read More »