Beijing - China on Monday said "serious differences" remained in its dialogue with the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, with little sign of progress in the most recent talks.
Talks earlier this month were "frank and sincere" but stalled on the long-standing differences between the two sides, Zhu Weiqu a vice-minister of the ruling Communist Party's United Front Work Department, told reporters.
Beijing - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit China's remote north-western province of Qinghai on Monday, the government said.
The quake struck at 9:22 am (0122 GMT) with an epicentre in Qinghai's Haixi prefecture, an area mainly inhabited by Mongolians and Tibetans, some 700 kilometres from the nearest city, Golmud, the China Earthquake Administration reported.
The epicentre was close to the Da Qaidam salt lake at an altitude of 4,000 metres on the Tibetan Plateau, in an area with a population of about 16,000.
Sydney, Nov 10 : The Border-Gavaskar Trophy, considered one of the game''s prized possession, now appears destined to return to Indian hands because of Ponting’s blunders on the fourth day, said an article in The Daily Telegraph.
The paper blasted the Aussie captain for running behind at least 13 overs on the fourth day, as he talked tactics to contain the Indians and opting for wrong bowlers choices on the penultimate day of the last Test, especially when the hosts are leading 1-0 in the four match series.
London, November 10 : An international team of researchers has found that simple decision-making tasks do not involve the brain’s frontal lobes, where many of the higher aspects of human cognition like self-awareness are thought to originate.
The team led by scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Italy’s University of Chieti instead says that the regions that decide are the same brain regions that receive stimuli relevant to the decision and control the body''s response to it.
While the same principle has been shown in primates, some researchers still believe that the brain has a general decision-making module that involves the frontal lobe independently of the neural systems for perception and action.
New Delhi, Nov 10: Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari today left for Maldives on a two-day visit, where he will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected President of Indian Ocean Island Republic, Mohammed Nasheed on Tuesday.
Nasheed was elected as the President of Republic of Maldives in the first ever multi-party Presidential elections held on October 28, this year.
Beijing - China on Monday said "serious differences" remained in its dialogue with the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, with little sign of progress in the most recent talks.
Beijing - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit China's remote north-western province of Qinghai on Monday, the government said.
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Sydney, Nov 10 : The Border-Gavaskar Trophy, considered one of the game''s prized possession, now appears destined to return to Indian hands because of Ponting’s blunders on the fourth day, said an article in The Daily Telegraph.
New Delhi, Nov 10: Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari today left for Maldives on a two-day visit, where he will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected President of Indian Ocean Island Republic, Mohammed Nasheed on Tuesday.
