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Over 120 feared killed in Papua New Guinea ship tragedy

More than 120 people are feared dead after a ship with over 350 on board sank off Papua New Guinea's north coast, even as ships and helicopters are continuing to search for missing people,......

Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea coast; over 100 killed

Over 100 people, mainly students, are feared killed after a ship with over 350 on board sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, even as over 200 passengers were saved by Australian......

UK envoy in Papua New Guinea has Indian lover

Divorcing his longstanding wife, the British High Commissioner in Papua New Guinea, Simon Scaddan, who had earlier served in India, now has an Indian 'lifelong companion', Pablo Ganguli, a tabloid......

Govt to launch plastic notes to counter fake currency

With the introduction of polymer notes, the government aims at ending the menace of counterfeit currency in the next five years, reports Vicky Nanjappa In yet another bid to fight......

Mauritius president among Pravasi awardees

Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag is among the 15 persons and organisations selected for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards for this year. Purryag, who has ancestral roots in India, has been......

Poor nations guinea pigs for US drug trials

American pharma companies, taking advantage of a Congressional provision, have been carrying out clinical trials in poor and developing countries where the drug might never be available, a new......

Slow approvals put India's drug trials industry at risk

Slower government approval for testing new medicines is threatening India's aspirations to be a fast-growing, low-cost hub for clinical trials, and has prompted some drugs firms to shift operations......

Govt takes steps to regulate drug trials

After over 2,242 deaths during clinical drug trials in last five years, government plans to regulate the $500 million sector by bringing changes in drug laws to make lapses by pharma MNCs a......

Clinical trials are creating "havoc": SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Centre for its failure to stop illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by multinational companies, saying the drug trials are creating "havoc" in the......

Strauss-Kahn settles lawsuit with hotel maid

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who had accused him of sexual assault have settled the lawsuit she had filed against him for an undisclosed......

Review: Sanctum is no Avatar

Shaikh Ayaz reviews Sanctum. Post YOUR reviews here!James Cameron and 3D have become inviolably inseparable, especially after Avatar.So, when the maker of some of the greatest money-churners of our......

An event worthy of a pioneer

The venue for the New York press conference for Amelia was surprising: A small airport in New Jersey, an hour's drive from New York City. But the unusual venue was a natural choice. As......

Mira Nair's Amelia takes flight

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart is an American icon. But to filmmaker Mira Nair, who has directed the biopic of the legendary aviatrix and women's rights advocate, Earhart's appeal extends far......

Harry Potter heads for $1 billion gross

The commanding worldwide success of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- which grossed nearly $400 million worldwide in just five days -- is yet another example of Hollywood summer movies......

U-19 WC: Ravikant's fiver helps India enter quarters

Medium pacer Ravikant Singh returned with a five-for as Indian colts thumped minnows Papua New Guinea by 107 runs to enter the quarter-finals of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, in Townsville,......

India grouped alongside Windies for U-19 World Cup

Former champions India have been grouped with West Indies, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the preliminary stage of the ICC Under-19 World Cup to be held next year in Australia. The event......

Afghanistan win to keep WC dream alive

Afghanistan ended Papua New Guinea's 100 percent record in their cricket World Cup qualifying group with an impressive eight-wicket win in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.Uganda pulled off a sensational......

India win under-19 World Cup opener

Although the scorecard might suggest otherwise, India had a reasonably tough work-out against Papua New Guinea at Kinrara Oval in the first round of matches of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup......

India play Papua New Guinea in opener

India will kick off their Under-19 cricket World Cup campaign against East Asia-Pacific qualifier Papua New Guinea in a Group B clash at Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.The team, fresh from......

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People speak for new guinea

QNA

Q. Sepic river. Will you please identify it?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. more

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Q. In what plate techtonic does mariana trench happen?
Chandaka Negi: A. longest river on the island of New Guinea more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/in-what-plate-techtonic-does-mariana-trench-happen/25295074/answers/25567770

Q. What do you call SABU DANA in English?
Mohd Yousuf: A. The Mariana Trench is the deepest trench in any of the world's oceans. It's in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands (south of Japan and...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-do-you-call-sabu-dana-in-english/24602350/answers/25295094

Q. Which religion is in the danger of extinction in the next 100yrs?
Ankit Shivam: A. tapioca::New Guinea and the Moluccas where it is called sagu more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-religion-is-in-the-danger-of-extinction-in-the-next-10/24544745/answers/24602398

Q. why turkey the nation and turkey the bird are given the same name ?
Angel: A. Many many religions are in danger of extinction. Most of them being small tribal religions in third world countries where Islam and Christianity...... more

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Walk the dark side

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Globalisation makes poor more vulnerable

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Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, USA

Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship is a well known fellowship program for international students to study in USA. It is a non-degree program.... ...

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IMF Executive Board Completes Second Review Under the Extended Credit Facility for Guinea and Approves US$27.4 Million Disbursement

/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the second review of Guinea's... ...

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