South Africa may fall victim to a terrorist attack during the World Cup it is hosting in less than two weeks, according to a report in the Sunday Times, quoting an investigative group and other sources.
Srinagar-born Farah Pandith, US Representative to Muslim Communities from around the world, in defending President Barack Obama's decision to invite delegates from largely Muslim-majority countries and those with sizable Muslim minorities for his Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit, said this was a pledge he had made in his Cairo speech in June last year during his outreach to the Islamic world and "something he wanted to do."
According to the Global Hunger Index dated November 2009, India ranks 65th out of 88 countries, with a hunger rate of 23.9.
A spectator was struck and killed on Saturday while watching the first leg of the Dakar Rally being run across Argentina and Chile this month.
Mitsubishi will pull out of cross country rallying, including the Dakar Rally which the Japanese team has dominated in recent years, as part of cost-cutting measures caused by the global economic downturn. With Wednesday's announcement, Mitsubishi Motors became the latest Japanese automaker to scale back their motorsport activities following Honda's shock exit from Formula One in December.
Even as the economic crisis ravages global markets, the two billionaires are making investments in firms from America to Australia. According to reports, Soros snapped up a five per cent stake in Australian firm Sphere Investments. In October, he acquired over five per cent of Australian mining firm Legend International. Buffett has bought preferred shares worth $ 5 billion from Goldman Sachs. In addition, he has acquired preferred stocks worth $ 3 billion dollars in GE.
"We are ready with our money but it's so difficult to get a business visa to India,'' said Dr Abdul Rahman A Al Rabiah, managing director of Alrabiah, a consulting and engineering services company. Quoting instances, Rehman said, "Business leaders who have five-year multi-entry visa into the UK and Europe are merely given a three-month visa for India.''
If the world wants to tide over the present crisis, the farmers must shift their agriculture methods to confront soaring food prices that threaten to drive millions of poor people around the world into even deeper poverty. Basic foodstuff prices have all risen sharply in recent months, sparking violent protests in many countries. Unesco attributed the trend to increased demand in emerging market powerhouses China and India and alternative use of corn and soybeans for biofuels
The Dakar Rally was cancelled for the first time in its 30-year history due to security concerns in Mauritania where four French tourists were killed last month.
A decline in cereal production in several low-income food-deficit countries this year could lead to a tighter food supply situation with 28 countries facing serious food scracity, according to a new United Nations report.
Elected along with India on the board of UNAID were the US, Russia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Guatemala and Monaco.
Tottenham Hotspur striker Ahmed 'Mido' Hossam has been left out of a 23-man squad named by Egypt coach Hassan Shehata on Tuesday for the weekend's African Nations Cup qualifier against Mauritania.
An official of the Indian Foreign Service before joining the UN, Khare's appointment assumes significance as it comes ahead of next year's Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Timor.
The total tax burden on Indian companies is one of the highest in the world and in fact more than that of businesses in major economies like the US, UK, China and Japan.
'There is no doubt that the US would like all their friends to agree with them. We are not in the habit of doing that,' says former diplomat Arundhati Ghose.
Foreign secretaries of the two nations met in Istanbul. Pakistani hardliners have condemned it.
It got the maximum number of votes [47] in a secret ballot.
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