Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said more studies were needed to ensure genetically modified aubergines were safe for consumers and the environment.

The GM vegetable has undergone field trials since 2008 and received approval from government scientists in 2009.

Raymond Joseph said in an interview with CNN that an official he contacted in Port-au-Prince described “a catastrophe of major proportions” in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

“The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best,” the envoy told CNN.

For Hardy, an engineer from Hamburg in northern Germany, “the river was refreshing”.

Servers from Google and other Western companies were targeted last month in an attempt to hack into email accounts of Chinese human-rights activists, among others, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond wrote in a company blog.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Jaffna peninsula, 400 km north of the capital, and met government troops, civilians and the clergy amidst tight security.

Former presidents, besides Rajapaksa, had not been able to visit the minority Tamil populated Jaffna peninsula mainly due to the security issues.

“The encounter is over. Two terrorists have been killed. We are ascertaining if there are any more terrorists inside the hotel who may be dead,” Kuldeep Khoda, DGP, told reporters.

“We have successfully taken out Basu’s brain. It was more or less in a good condition,” hospital’s anatomy department head Ashis Dutta told IANS.

The doctors carried out the dissection Wednesday afternoon. The process continued for almost one-and-half hours.

Today’s earthquake rocked Haiti once more. It was the second earthquake in Haiti in 8 days, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was about 59 km north-east of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

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That’s a system backed not by the people’s will, but by raw military power. Its guiding principles are control and paranoia. All media, all information, is censored. If you politely disagree with the system, you are locked up for 11 years, if you’re lucky. If you were in China writing what I am writing here in India, you would simply disappear.

Singh and his wife left a dinner party in Essendon, in the city’s northwest, between 1.30 am and 2 am and drove to their nearby home in Grice Crescent. He dropped his wife at home and had gone to park his car when he was attacked, local media reported. Police said that as he was getting out of the car, four men attacked him, pushing him back against the vehicle and pouring an unknown fluid on him. One of the men then ignited the fluid with a lighter before all the attackers fled. The victim, who is now in a stable condition in the hospital, ran from the car while peeling off his clothes.

Denying any racial angle to the attack, detective acting senior sergeant Neil Smyth said it is not yet known who the four men could be or their relationship to the victim. He said investigations indicate the attack was random.

Christened ‘Mushkil Aasaan’, the pilot project provides for positioning mobile ticketing vans near shopping malls and busy market places for the convenience of railway passengers.

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Protesters also detained the AP Express at Mandamarri, the Kerala Express at Bellampally and the Singareni Passenger at Rebbena stations during the day which saw rallies and dharnas in favour of Telangana.

Fast-unto-death camps continued. Police made preventive arrests of 147 agitators during the day.

Government employees struck work by resorting to a pen down agitation for the second successive day on Tuesday.

The Beat will shortly be launched in over 150 markets around the world, including Europe, Asia and North America.

The car with a 1.2-litre petrol engine will be available in three variants in India and offers a mileage of 18.6 km per litre.

The award committee, headed by Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, took the decision to withdraw the medal after a meeting Monday, an official said. The recommendation will now be sent to President Pratibha Patil.

As an orchestra played, a video screen proclaimed the building’s height after years of mystery: 828 metres, a full 319 metres taller than the Taipei 101 tower, formerly the world’stallest building.

‘The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between DPRK (North Korea) and the USA,’ Pyongyang said in a joint New Year editorial with Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Xinhua reported.

According to technology blog Gizmodo the Nexus One will be sold unlocked on a Google website for $530. The phone will work on GSM cellphone networks and will be offered at a subsidised price of $180 in the US by fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile with a two-year talk and data contract costing $80 a month.

The order, issued by North Korea’s state security bureau and going into effect Jan. 1, aims to “forbid the circulation of foreign currency,” China’s state-run CCTV television said in a brief report late Wednesday. The Daily NK, a Seoul-based online news outlet, said the order prohibits all individuals and organizations apart from banks from possessing foreign currency. It said the decree was posted in public and at workplaces, and went into effect December 28.

There was no mention of the new ban Thursday in official North Korean state media. In Seoul, a South Korean official confirmed the ban, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media on intelligence matters. The order comes weeks after the government revalued North Korea’s currency, the won, as part of a far-reaching currency overhaul aimed at curbing runaway inflation and reasserting control over the economy.