A delegation of Muslim leaders on Saturday met Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan at Raj
Bhavan here in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and condemned the burning of Quran in the US.
The delegation led by former MLA Suh…
Giving in to demands from anti-corruption activists, the Indian government on Saturday
issued a gazette notification on formation of a joint committee headed by senior minister Pranab Mukherjee to draft an effective Lokpal Bill.
Th…
South Korea is working to launch a committee
that will deal exclusively with disasters and accidents caused by disasters, such as the radiation leak from a nuclear power plant in Japan, a government official said Saturday.
The committ…
Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr
threatened Saturday to resume activities of Mahdi Army militia against the American troops if they stay in the country after the end of 2011.
"If the occupiers will not get out (of Iraq) by the en…
Egypt's Ministry of Health confirmed Saturday
that one person was killed and 71 others were injured in the turmoil in central Cairo's Tahrir Square earlier in the day.
According to official MENA news agency, the injured people have been …
A teenager, who was part of the deadly
suicide bombing in a shrine which killed 50 people and injured 100 others in Pakistan's Punjab province this week, said Friday that 300 more boys have been trained for attacks.
Omar Fidai, 15, was i…
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday strongly condemned the "abhorrent violence" committed against protesters in Syria.
"I strongly condemn the abhorrent violence committed against peaceful protesters by the Syrian government today and o…
A special exercise embarked upon by personnel of
the Value Added Tax (VAT), Operations of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Police Service revealed that Tiantai, an Accra-based Chinese restaurant was operating without issuing VAT …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend launched the services of Glo 1 submarine fibre-
optic cable linking Ghana to the rest of the world expressing the hope that it would help deepen service delivery.
He said: “It is our…
The Indian High Commission in Ghana has presented
solar cookers and a motorbike to the Ho Nurses Training School.
The cookers, which were made in India, are to replace the school’s gas cookers to cut the cost involved in using gas, …
Forty-five-year old Millicent Marfo met her
untimely death at Akim-Swedru when she was knocked down by a reversing car.
Police Superintendent James Sarfo Peprah, the Eastern Regional Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Uni…
The credit union concept is to encourage
the habit of savings and not purposely for granting loans to members, Mr Samuel Annor, Manager of the Central Region Chapter of the Credit Union Association (CUA) has stated.
He said it was u…
Hundreds of people attended on Friday the funerals of the 12 children killed in the massacre in a Rio public school on Thursday morning.
So far, six children were buried in three different cemeteries in Rio's western region. Other five ar…
A rare Amur tiger was born in Ukraine's Yalta Zoo at the start of April, local media reported on Tuesday.
"There are very few Amur tigers in the world, so every time a tiger is born it is a great success not only for the zoo but also for …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO began pumping nitrogen gas into a stricken reactor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday to prevent the risk of a hydrogen explosion.
Workers injected nitrogen gas into the conta…
An Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday Iran's Majlis (Parliament) will set up a committee to investigate the delay in the launch of the country's first nuclear power plant, Mehr news agency reported.
Nuclear expert Mohammad Hassan Ghafourifar…
Mr Joseph Samuel Annan, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, on Thursday stressed the need to re-examine the Export Development and Investment Fund’s (EDIF) efficiency to ensure that the purpose of its establishment is met.
“There …
The Teachers and Educational Workers' Union (TEWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has assured its members that the union is making progress in its discussions with stakeholders on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
It the…
A Community Health Nurse has said people who bleach their skin “buy cancer of the skin and other diseases’ since bleaching destroys the skin’s ability to fight off all manner of germs.
She added that doctors who perform surgical oper…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Thursday alerted the public to the clandestine production and distribution of some alcoholic beverages by Fire and Silver Enterprise.
The beverages are; Sankofa Super Quality Brandy, Sankofa Super Qu…
Mr Worlanyo Siabe, Upper West Regional Director of Community Water and Sanitation Agency, has appealed to the six beneficiary districts of the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project to endeavour to pay their share of the five per c…
Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) pensioners in the Koforidua Zone of the National Pensioners Association have threatened to demonstrate against new pension indexation.
The pensioners expressed discontent about the …
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) is marking this year’s World Health Day on the theme: “Antimicrobial resistance: No action today, no cure tomorrow.”
A statement issued by Dr Alex Dodoo, President of the PSGH and Mr Dennis …
The Accra Community Centre Magistrate’s Court Two n Thursday remanded in prison custody, Francis Adjiri, a 29-year-old hawker, for allegedly assaulting an Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) city guard.
Briefing the media, Mr Yaw Twum…
Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs Goran Hagglund and his delegation concluded their visit in Indonesia on April 5-7 after fortifying cooperation between the two countries in health sector.
Minister Hagglund and his delegation…
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and American actress Angelina Jolie expressed "deep shock" over reports of the drowning of 213 people off the southern coast of Italy, a UN spokespers…
The Accra Community Centre Magistrate’s Court Two on Thursday remanded into prison custody Francis Adjiri, a 29-year-old trader, for allegedly assaulting an Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Guard on Wednesday, April 6.
Adjiri pleade…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 26-year old unemployed man who stole two laptops and cellular phones from students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to 12 months imprisonment.
Theodore Essan Men…
Half Ton Man: This is the story of American Patrick Deuel, a morbidly obese man who is literally eating himself to death. Weighing in at 76 stone, Patrick was the world's largest man until he was forced to undergo a life saving gastric byp…
Half Ton Man: This is the story of American Patrick Deuel, a morbidly obese man who is literally eating himself to death. Weighing in at 76 stone, Patrick was the world's largest man until he was forced to undergo a life saving gastric byp…
The Upper West Regional Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has warned that it would not allow any group of teachers or faceless personalities to destroy the structures of the Association.
In a statement rea…
The Police Service has established a Marine Police Unit, to handle offences contained in the Fisheries Act 2002 and Fisheries Regulations 2011, Mr Ransford Ninson, Western Regional Police Commander, announced on Wednesday.
Speaking a…
The Headmaster of Half Assini Senior High School, Mr Kojo Edjah, on Wednesday, expressed his disappointment about the unannounced power outage at the school, which nearly marred the WASSCE, which was taking place at the school.
The h…
The Otinibi Basic School, in theGa East Municipality, would soon get a Dining Hall and a Kitchen, to facilitate the smooth implementation of the School Feeding Programme in the area.
The facility, financed by Prembaf, a non-governmen…
The Western Regional Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), on Wednesday, pledged its unflinching support to the association and its leadership.
Speaking at a press conference at Fijai, Mr Kwasi Agyemang-Antwi,…
The first batch of students, under the Senior High School (SHS) four-year Education Programme, on Wednesday, began the 2011 West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSSCE) with English Paper Three (Oral English).
…
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) on Wednesday took delivery of medical items valued at €90,000.00 to assist enhance the quality of health care provided at the facility.
These included 70 electronic control hospital beds, 70 mat…
The Dean of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) School of Medical Sciences, Professor Harold Amonoo Kwofie, on Wednesday lauded the decision by the Cuban Government to post specialists and medical doctors to teach at the School.
He sa…
The Central Region Council of the Ghana National Association of teachers (GNAT),on Wednesday pledged support for national leadership of the Association.
The group asked the leadership not to be distracted by agitations by “some few d…
The Kumasi branch of the World Lebanese Cultural Union, has donated items valued at about GH¢10,000.00 for the upkeep of children at the Mother Theresa Missionaries of Charity New Life Home, an orphanage in Kumasi.
These included …
Ghana on Wednesday climaxed activities marking the International Theatre Day with theatrical dance production titled; “Bukom,” which reflects typical social lifestyle of indigenous coastal citizens.
“Bukom” portrayed the mannerism of…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday cut the sod at Kwame-Danso in the Sene District of Brong-Ahafo Region for work to commence on the 31 kilometre Atebubu-Kwame Danso road.
The President performed the ceremony on the second …
Nearly 70 percent of the fish resources in the Pearl River, the third longest river in China, are under threat as a result of excessive damming, overfishing and water pollution, according to a study.
Estimates suggest that more than 260 f…
Current climate talks have not closed the gap that could keep the world from getting warmer, an analytical paper released on Wednesday said.
"Bangkok climate talks have not changed the gap between emission reduction pledges and what is ne…
The Internet saw a massive volume of more than 286 million new threats last year, with social network websites and mobile devices increasingly targeted for attacks, according to a new survey by security software company Symantec.
The repo…
NASA and co-researchers from the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in December 1969, the U.S. space agen…
Workers managed to stop highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific Ocean from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant early Wednesday morning by injecting a chemical compound, the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPC…
Experts continue identifying radioactive iodine 131 as they study samples of atmospheric aerosols taken in the air above Vladivostok, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
According to Itar-Tass, samples are taken on the ground, …
Communities in the Wa Municipality would be provided with 60 boreholes fitted with hand pumps under the sustainable rural water and sanitation project funded by the World Bank.
With 88 boreholes in 58 communities, the Municipality cu…
The Eastern Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) on Thursday re-affirmed its support for the national leadership of the association.
It assured the leadership of GNAT that the branch was solidly behind…