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According to a new poll more than half the Americans believe leaders of other countries around the world respect the first black US president, a year after Barack Obama came to power.

According to a new Gallup poll for the first time in five years people also believe the US is seen favourably in the eyes of the world. Fifty-one percent now say the US is viewed favorably, up from 45 percent a year ago.

Framed pictures of Ankik Dhar (23), his sister Anindi (19) and friend Shilpa Goenka were covered in garlands on Monday, as school mates and former classmates gathered to mourn them.

The three youngsters were killed in Saturday’s blast at German Bakery in Pune. The memorial was held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan in Salt Lake, Kolkata, where the three youngsters had studied till they moved to Pune a few years earlier.

Zinc yesterday traded with the positive node and settled 1.38% up at 101.8.

With Congress MPs and legislators refusing to quit to protest the terms of reference of the Srikrishna committee set up by New Delhi to study the demand the all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) heading the movement for separate statehood to Telangana is on the verge of a split.

Congress leaders from Telangana, who met here Monday night decided to chalk out their own course of action on the issue, alleging that the JAC was acting at the behest of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao.

Government of quake-devastated Haiti will temporarily be housed by Canada.

More than 200,000 people died, according to the latest estimates, in the deadly earthquake which hit Haiti Jan 12.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who visited Haiti on Monday to take stock of Canadian relief operations, announced $12 million would be spent to raise a temporary base for the

Haitian president, prime minister and key ministries and departments.

According to the UN telecom agency, demand for cellular phones throughout the world remains firm in spite of the slump, with the number of individual mobile cellular subscriptions expected to reach 5 billion in 2010.

Advanced services and mobile phones in rich nations and augmented take-up of mobile banking and mobile health-care services in poorer countries is motivating the sustained demand.