A Silicon Valley start-up,founded by an Indian American entrepreneur, plans to mine the moon and is in the process of building robotic rovers that will search the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements.
Moon Ex…
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) started smoothly in the Kumasi Metropolis on Monday morning with no reports of any problems from the centres.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah, accompa…
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) took off smoothly in the Accra Metropolis.
According to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC),
372,826 candidates have been registered for the examination.
The …
Mrs Edith Asare Mensah, Senior Nursing Officer (Public Health) of the Ghana AIDS Control Programme (GACP), has advised female porters to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS
and other diseases by using condoms.
She said contrary …
Chiefs in the Volta Region have been urged to lead their people to invest in the emerging fish farming industry which promises immeasurable financial gains and economic prosperity.
Mr Henry Gidi, President of the Global Agricultur…
A taxi driver, who is accused of murdering
a two-and-a-half-year-old school boy, Kwabena Agyei Henaku, at Madina appeared before a District Magistrate’s Court in Accra on Monday.
Emmanuel Amanor, 32, whose plea was not taken, is fac…
Gandhian Anna Hazare on Sunday said civil society activists were planning their next strategy to ensure a tough Lokpal Bill and that much more needed to be done to fight corruption in the country.
"We are planning our next strategy. N…
Six Indians were allowed to enter Sri Lankan waters "ignoring" immigration procedures to identify the body of an Indian fisherman, a media report has said.
They arrived to attend the identification and post mortem of the Indian fish…
A 107-year-old woman in India's capital Delhi may have become the world's oldest patient to have a partial hip replacement, and hopes to be walking again within a fortnight.
Lily Wauters, a 101-year-old British woman is recorded by …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Youth Wing on Monday urged candidates sitting the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to desist from taking part in any malpractices during the examinations which began earlier in the d…
Victor Kwadwo Boafo, a driver’s mate charged with conspiring with a bank clerk to steal his master’s GH¢800 from his accounts at the Akim Bosome Rural Bank has turned prosecution witness against the bank clerk Patrick Coomson.
This w…
A 42-year-old farmer, Daniel Kwasi Asante, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison in hard labour for intentionally causing harm to two persons.
He pleaded guilty to both counts of harming Mr Daniel Asante and Miss Juliana Oforiwaa…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il donated more than 165 million yen (US$1.94 million) in educational funds to pro-North Korea residents in Japan on the occasion of his late father's 99th birthday, the North's state media said Sunday.
The…
A Silicon Valley start-up,founded by an Indian American entrepreneur, plans to mine the moon and is in the process of building robotic rovers that will search the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements.
Moon Ex…
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) started smoothly in the Kumasi Metropolis on Monday morning with no reports of any problems from the centres.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah, accompa…
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) took off smoothly in the Accra Metropolis.
According to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC),
372,826 candidates have been registered for the examination.
The …
Mrs Edith Asare Mensah, Senior Nursing Officer (Public Health) of the Ghana AIDS Control Programme (GACP), has advised female porters to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS
and other diseases by using condoms.
She said contrary …
Chiefs in the Volta Region have been urged to lead their people to invest in the emerging fish farming industry which promises immeasurable financial gains and economic prosperity.
Mr Henry Gidi, President of the Global Agricultur…
A taxi driver, who is accused of murdering
a two-and-a-half-year-old school boy, Kwabena Agyei Henaku, at Madina appeared before a District Magistrate’s Court in Accra on Monday.
Emmanuel Amanor, 32, whose plea was not taken, is fac…
Nii Amasah Namoale, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, has charged agricultural institutions in the country to introduce entrepreneurship in their curriculum.
This he said would help inculcate entrepreneurial skills that will encourage …
Dr E. Addo-Yobo, Head of Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi, has urged heads of educational institutions to participate in voluntary blood
donation campaigns.
He said the support of head…
Motion on notice for an order for committal for
contempt order, has been filed against Dr Edward Mahama and six other leading members of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), at the Adjabeng
District Court in Accra.
The PNC member…
Residents in four communities in the Man-Momo Electoral Area in the Adenta Municipality will now
have access to water from boreholes on daily basis.
This followed the inauguration of four new boreholes in beneficiary communities, na…
Mr Tettey Nettey, President of Meridian Pre-University on Saturday commended the
Government and teachers for amicably resolving the operational hiccup encountered during the migration of teachers onto the Single Spine Salary Structure.
…
An explosion outside a synagogue in Santa Monica, Los Angeles earlier this week was caused by an intentionally placed homemade explosive instead of a mechanical failure, police announced
on Friday.
The announcement is a revision of an ea…
A new research has found that about nine million people in the United States identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
About 1.8 percent of adults identify themselves as bisexual, 1. 7 percent as gay or lesbian,…
The National Police Agency said on Wednesday that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have left 12,468 people dead and 15,091 others unaccounted for in Japan by 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific …
A gunman entered an elementary school in Rio Thursday and shot dead 12 children and himself.
Among the dead are 10 girls and two boys, all between the ages of 12 and 15. At least 11 children were injured and taken to hospitals. Most of th…
Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh government Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking its permission to intervene in the petition filed by CBI, India's premier investigating agency, for restoration of the stringent charge culpable hom…
Radioactive water leaks were found Friday at
Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi prefecture after the 7.4-magnitude aftershock shook northeastern Japan Thursday night, Kyodo News Agency
reported.
Radioactive water spilled from pools h…
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale hit the sea near Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan at 23:32 p.m. (1432 GMT) local Time Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Tsunami warnings have been lifted so far…
Two killed, more than 100 were injured in the
northeastern Japan's earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale Thursday night, Kyodo News reported.
Japan's weather agency considered the quake as the aftershock of the devastating March …
China on Friday expressed concern over Japan's move to discharge radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) released 11,500 tonne…
The Madina Divisional Police Command, Chief
Superintendent of Police (CSP) Paul Ayitey said at the weekend that the Division has apprehended a number of hardened criminals who are facing
prosecution.
This he said has created a sign…
Five Indian-American students have been named 2011 Truman Scholars by the Harry S Truman
Scholarship Foundation.
Ishan Nath from Georgia, Anjali Bipin Thakkar from California, Veena Irene Patel from Iowa, Niharika Sanjay Jain from Lo…
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…