Israel will release all of the aid flotilla goods it seized last month and the United Nations will take care of the cargo delivery and distribution in Gaza, an official from Hamas government said
Wednesday.
Israel attacked a Gaza-bound …
Egypt rejected Wednesday a report issued by U.S. Department of State which criticized Cairo over human trafficking.
Hossam Zaki, spokesman of Egypt's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that his country does not acknowledge the criteria…
A six-year-old Indian boy who mistakenly crossed into Pakistan after stowing away on the Samjhauta Express train was Tuesday handed over to Indian
authorities.
The boy, who identified himself as Rajat Kumar, said his parents were dea…
The sentencing of LeT operative David Coleman Headley is expected to happen only by early next
year, after the trial of co-accused Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana is complete, Headley's lawyer said here.
Headley is expected …
The Tema Metropolitan Council of Labour, on Tuesday, urged the Trades Union Congress to continue to press the Public Utility Regulatory Commission to review utility tariffs to meet the pockets of most Ghanaians.
In a resolution at a…
Ghana's betterment must begin first with Ghanaians changing their individual "world" view, Mr Issah Adams, President of Support Life International, an organisation that promotes complementary natural health therapy in Ghana and abroad has …
A national policy against human trafficking,
protection of victims, and prosecution of perpetrators is ready and would be presented to government by the end of June.
The policy, focusing on the perspective of Ghanaian youth, was dr…
In an effort to boost education delivery and academic performance of pupils and students, Shai Area Progressive Union (SHAU), a civil society organisation, and the District Education Planning
Unit of the Dangme West Assembly have jointly…
A group of 22 Ghanaians made up of professionals and students working on environment-related issues arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) on Sunday to participate in an exchange programme between the University of Duquesne and the Univ…
A group of seasoned farmers at Agona Swedru in the Central Region have come together to form an association called "Agona General Farmers Association".
The members of the Association include retired agriculturists, experienced seed p…
Mohammed Habib Tijani, former Yendi District Chief Executive Officer, on Monday appeared before an Accra District Magistrate's Court on charges of rioting, abetment of murder and murder.
The court did not take Tijani's plea. Facts of…
The Newmont Akyem project, a mining company operating in the Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area has presented DSTV and accessories, to nine communities in its operating areas to enable them
watch the world cup matches.
The beneficiary co…
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to review a lower-court order that would force California to release 46,000 inmates to ease prison overcrowding.
The lower-court order, which would apply to about one-fourth of the state's prison popul…
President of Upper East Regional House of Chiefs, Pe Charles Awia Awampaga II has cautioned politicians to refrain from interfering in chieftaincy matters.
He noted that political interference in chieftaincy affairs was a major cause…
Zoomlion Ghana limited, waste management operators, said on Monday that it welcomes the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) new waste management system intended to bring sanity into waste collection and management in the city.
At a midy…
Mr. Kwadwo Adjei-Dwomoh, the Nkoranza North District Chief Executive, has advised the people in the area to bury their political differences and to unite and initiate programmes that would promote development.
Addressing the chiefs a…
The Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, (MCE) Mr Henry Kweku Hayford, has led a team to distribute free exercise books, provided by the government, to children in basic schools in the Municipality.
The team was made up of the Membe…
Over twenty communities in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region have made an urgent appeal to the government to rehabilitate the broken down Kpinjipe bridge which links them to other neighbouring districts and the regional cap…
A Circuit Court in Cape Coast presided over by Mr Beresford Acquah on Monday sentenced Karim Abdulai, a scrap dealer to 10 years imprisonment for possessing narcotic drugs.
Abdulai 21 who pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and p…
The Greater Accra Regional branch of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday rolled-out a blue print to register foot soldiers for effective coordination and management in the region.
The blue-print made available to …
A New Jersey double intersection with red lights taking 2 1/2 minutes each is frustrating motorists with long waits.
The double intersection, at Clinton Road and Route 23 in West Milford, gives motorists only 7 to 20 seconds to get from t…
A Chinese miner was rescued from a flooded coalmine after being trapped for nearly 11 days, authorities said.
Wang Daoguang, 42, was trapped underground for 262 hours in the Jianon Coal Mine at Jincheng city, the China's northern Shanxi p…
An overcrowded boat capsized in the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district in northern India Monday, killing at least 25 people, officials said.
Police officials said the boat was carrying more than 50 people when it sank in the …
WASH United, an innovative approach to promoting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Ghana, was on Friday launched in Accra by Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, Minister of Water Resources Works and Housing.
The WASH campaign whic…
The final report of the Public Inquiry Commission, probing into the Air India bombing and
Canada's failure to prosecute those responsible for the terror attack, will be released on June 17, officials said Saturday.
"The Final Report …
Ratan Tata's offer that the Indian industry pick up the tab for remediation measures at the Bhopal gas tragedy site would not have been feasible,
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Friday.
"My unders…
An Indian-origin student here has become the target of derogatory remarks with a posting on web-page allegedly referring to him and a fellow South Korean
as "dog".
Srinivas Naidu, a 19-year old Indian-origin student, lodged a police …
Industrial buoyancy and higher rates have pushed up the collection of indirect taxes in India, which include customs, central excise and service tax,
by 49 per cent to around Rs 35,000 crore during April-May this fiscal.
"Indirect …
Research has shown that Cervical Cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women worldwide, and accounting for about 10 per cent of all cancers.
Dr Mrs Lynda Decker, Medical Director of Franklyn Medical Services who made this…
As BP struggles to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an Indian-origin scientist from Texas University has created a special cotton fabric that can clean up crude oil up to 40 times its weight and help in cleaning efforts.
S…
Dr Mrs Berth Ofei-Awuku, a medical officer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Hospital, has advised pensioners to have between six and eight hours rest a day, because enough rest and sleep
enable the body to heal and stay health.
…
Management of Centuries International Cocoa-Chocolate Festival Organisation (CICFO), a private entity, has decided to serve breakfast daily to 40,000 school children in Accra and Tema to promote regular consumption of natural cocoa powder …
Nine farmers in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District have been arrested for illegally farming in the Tano Suraw Forest Reserve.
Large swathes of cocoa and food crop farms they had cultivated were destroyed by a combined team of milit…
Swiss Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Nicholas Lang on Monday called for unity among partners in international peacekeeping noting that there is no one-size-fits-all recipe to assure peace and stability.
He said strengthening coherence, co-o…
Research had shown that cervical cancer is the
second most common cancer affecting women world-wide, and accounting for about 10 per cent of all cancers.
Dr. Mrs Lynda Decker, Medical Director of Franklyn Medical Services, who mad…
"Trees for the Future" an International Ecology Protection Association, has started a programme to raise agricultural production in the Volta Region through organic farming rather than the use of fertilizers.
As part of the project, …
Mr Enoch Osei-Sarfo, acting District Director of Education, Nkoranza, has cautioned that the Ghana Education Service (GES) would not countenance recalcitrant teachers, whose activities would negatively affect the education and well-being o…
Indian-American medical oncologist Sanjay Goel has won a USD 450,000 award for his unique, patient-oriented approach to colorectal cancer
research.
Goel is a researcher at Montefiore Medical Centre and Albert Einstein College of Medi…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday reminded kingmakers across the country to stick to the laid down succession plans and appoint only rightful heirs to vacant stools and skins.
He expressed concern that chieftaincy and land di…
Government is to conduct a verification exercise from June 16 to August 16, to confirm or disprove the existence of ghost names identified on its payroll during the head count exercise conducted in the Public Education Sector (PES) last ye…
The Constitution Review Commission was on Monday called upon to scrap Article 89 of the 1992 Constitution, which established the Council of State.
Mr Neequaye Dzanie, Presiding Member of the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) who ma…
One person was killed while six others sustained serious injuries when a bus on which they were travelling was involved in an accident near Akorabuokrom on the Kumasi-Bibiani road.
The deceased was identified as Michael Agyare, 47, a…
Humphrey Tokro, 60, one time Cameraman of the Graphic Communications Group limited stationed in Ho for several years is dead.
His body was found prostrate by the Ho-Adaklu road near the ECG power station at the outskirts of the munic…
The death is reported of Alhaji Ibrahim Sharubutu, younger brother of the National Chief Imam of Ghana, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu.
Alhaji Sharubutu died yesterday at the age of 82, a statement issued in Accra and copied to th…
A 70-year-old peasant farmer, Opanyin Kofi Mensah, has been registered alongside 52 others in the ongoing voters registration review exercise at Bantama-Osanadze Electoral Area in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District.
The Registration O…
Government would soon come out with a comprehensive package to address the numerous problems facing the Abbosey-Okai business centre in Accra.
Accra Mayor, Alfred Oko Vanderpuje, made this known when he addressed executive members of t…
Mr. Christian Cato, Brong-Ahafo Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service, has said, the biometric passport is to eliminate fraud, usually orchestrated by "connection men."
It is also to streamline the passport acquisition pr…
The Obama administration has decided to object to a Sino-Pak civilian nuclear deal for establishing two atomic reactors in Pakistan, as it comes
before the Nuclear Suppliers Group next week.
Experts have said that the deal appears to…
Ghana would host the 2010 Steering Group Meeting of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) from Wednesday, June 16-17 in Accra.
GNEP is a group of countries including Ghana committed to promoting the safe, secure and peaceful use o…
Vodafone Ghana has appointed Mr. Kyle Whitehill as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to replace Mr. David Venn, who is expected to leave the Company at the end of June, 2010.
A statement issued by Vodafone Ghana in Accra on Tuesd…