Wellington - Greenpeace, an international environmental organization, hailed the beginning of the end of Japanese whaling in the Antarctic on Thursday following news reports of the first cut in the season's target kill for 21 years.

A Greenpeace statement quoted Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper as saying that Japan cut its target of whales to be caught in the Southern Ocean for its so-called scientific programme this year by 20 per cent.

San Francisco - Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s, has died at the age of 61.

The last surviving member of the trio was found dead Wednesday in a hotel room in Portland in the north-western US state of Oregon, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

He died of natural causes, the local medical examiner said.

A week earlier, he had performed as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour, a tribute to Hendrix, in Seattle and Portland, where the West Coast leg of the tour ended.

London, Nov 13: Mitch Mitchell, the British drummer for the legendary Experience of the 1960s and the group''s last surviving member, has been found dead in his US hotel room early Wednesday.

The 61-year-old was found in the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Although a medical examiner claimed that the death appeared to be from natural causes but that there would be an autopsy.

Hendrix died in 1970 and the band''s bassist Noel Redding died in 2003.

State-run telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has made announcement that the company has linked up with IT products company Novatium Solutions to offer Nova netPC enabled with the BSNL broadband. 
 
According to sources, the key factor that will allow broadband penetration is an affordable computing access device and Nova netPC provides the customers to get home a personal computer at just Rs 2,999.

Hanoi  - Vietnamese authorities have warned South Korean firms to cease violating labour laws if they want to continue their Vietnamese operations, a senior government official said Thursday.

"Many South Korean firms have violated Vietnamese law," said Mai Duc Chinh, vice chairman of the Vietnam General Labor Federation. "They failed to set up payroll and salary scale structures for their Vietnamese staff, and the salaries were not commensurate with the work."