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April 9, 2010 9:11 AM
The Conservatives have denied claims up to 40000 public sector jobs could be lost as part of planned spending cuts. Sir Peter Gershon, Efficiency Adviser to the Tories, has said up to 2 billion pounds could be saved on recruitment. Experts told the Financial Times this implied 40000 potential job lo...
April 9, 2010 9:04 AM
The first results coming from Sri Lanka suggests that the ruling alliance led by Mahinda Rajapaksa is well ahead of the fractured opposition in parliamentary elections held yesterday which returned the country's lowest ever voter turnout.<br/><br/>The postal results declared...
April 8, 2010 9:23 PM
Sri Lanka today voted in the parliamentary polls, the first after the military defeat of the LTTE in May last year.According to independent election monitors the voter turnout was estimated at 50 to 55 per cent. The figure appears to be considerably lower than in the presidential election in which n...
April 8, 2010 9:22 PM
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today signed a treaty to shrink their nations' nuclear arsenals, the biggest such pact between the former Cold War foes in a generation.Tenaciously negotiated by even the leaders themselves, the treaty commits their nations to slash t...
April 8, 2010 9:21 PM
Pakistan 's National Assembly today passed by two-thirds majority a package of landmark amendments aimed at stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of his sweeping powers. The ammendments also removed changes made to the constitution by former military dictators.Amid the shouting of slogans against for...
April 8, 2010 9:19 PM
Sri Lanka today voted in the parliamentary polls, the first after the military defeat of the LTTE in May last year.According to independent election monitors the voter turnout was estimated at 50 to 55 per cent. The figure appears to be considerably lower than in the presidential election in which n...
April 8, 2010 8:29 PM
Sri Lanka today voted in the parliamentary polls, the first after the military defeat of the LTTE in May last year.The voter turnout appeared to be considerably lower than in the presidential election when 75 percent of the electorate had voted. Election officials could not immediately give a turnou...
April 8, 2010 8:27 PM
Six world powers, including the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and China, will meet in New York this week to discuss the Iran nuclear issue. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu today said the countries will discuss ways to solve the issue through a diplomatic manner, and d...
April 8, 2010 7:42 PM
In Kyrgyzstan, the opposition alliance headed by former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva formed an interim government. The new government dissolved the parliament and asked the toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to quit.<br/><br/>Russia was the first country which announced supp...
April 8, 2010 7:40 PM
China and Nepal have agreed a solution to a long-running disagreement over the height of Mount Everest. They agreed that the world's highest mountain - which traverses the border of the two countries - should be recognised as being 8,848m tall. <br/><br/>The Chinese previous...
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