New Delhi - An India-United States civilian nuclear deal would entail huge costs for India and was a sign of the "mutual desperation of the leadership of both countries, India's left parties said Thursday.
US President George W Bush signed a domestic legislation on Wednesday enabling the deal which would allow US companies to export nuclear materials and technology for India's civilian nuclear energy programme, ending a three-decade ban.
Washington, Oct 9: Pakistan has indirectly hit out at the just concluded Indo-US nuclear deal, saying such policies that create nuclear disparities in South Asia could destabilise the region and the entire world too.
Pakistan permanent representative at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva, Zamir Akram said this in his address to the UN General Assembly’s First Committee.
Washington, Oct 9: Democratic White House nominee Barack Obama has opened up a stunning 11-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain, his largest edge of the entire campaign, in the latest Gallup Poll.
Obama, whose support has shot up in several national polls since the economic meltdown started dominating the news, now tops McCain 52 to 41 percent, the New York Post reported.
That’s the most support Obama has registered in the survey, taken before Thursday night’s debate.
Washington, Oct 9 : Scientists have obtained geochemical clues about the composition of volcanic ash used in Maya pottery between the 7th and 10th centuries, which could also help them determine where potters obtained their raw materials.
Researchers have long known that Maya of the Late Classic period, an archaeological interval that stretched approximately from 600 to 900, used a mixture of volcanic ash and clay to make pottery.
Taipei - Former US Major League baseball player Cory Bailey and two Taiwan players were suspended from games Thursday due to their alleged involvement in match fixing, Taiwan baseball authorities said Thursday.
"If players are involved in match fixing, we will terminate contracts with them and seek damage," Lee Wen-pin, secretary-general of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (PBL), told reporters.
Bailey, 37, has played in US Major and Minor leagues since 2001 and played for Japan's Yomiuri Giants in 2003.
He played for Taiwan's La New team 2004-2005 before returning to play for Chicago Cubs.
Washington, Oct 9 : A new research has found that frozen arctic soil contains nearly twice the greenhouse-gas-producing organic matter as was previously estimated, which reveals new clues to climate change.
For the research, School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences professor Chien-Lu Ping and a team of scientists used jackhammers to dig down more than one meter into the permafrost to take soil samples from more than 100 sites throughout Alaska.
New Delhi - An India-United States civilian nuclear deal would entail huge costs for India and was a sign of the "mutual desperation of the leadership of both countries, India's left parties said Thursday.
Washington, Oct 9: Pakistan has indirectly hit out at the just concluded Indo-US nuclear deal, saying such policies that create nuclear disparities in South Asia could destabilise the region and the entire world too.
Washington, Oct 9: Democratic White House nominee Barack Obama has opened up a stunning 11-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain, his largest edge of the entire campaign, in the latest Gallup Poll. 
Washington, Oct 9 : Scientists have obtained geochemical clues about the composition of volcanic ash used in Maya pottery between the 7th and 10th centuries, which could also help them determine where potters obtained their raw materials.
Taipei - Former US Major League baseball player Cory Bailey and two Taiwan players were suspended from games Thursday due to their alleged involvement in match fixing, Taiwan baseball authorities said Thursday.
Washington, Oct 9 : A new research has found that frozen arctic soil contains nearly twice the greenhouse-gas-producing organic matter as was previously estimated, which reveals new clues to climate change.
