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…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Monday called for new and innovative approach to address coastal and marine environmental challenges in a more comprehensive manner.
She said degradation of the c…
The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Alban S. K. Bagbin on Monday warned that his Ministry would take tough measures against people who engaged in activities that sabotage the provision of portable water.
He said th…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communication, on
Tuesday said the National Communication Authority had directed that with effect from June 30, 2010,
all new mobile SIM cards would have to be registered in the name of the user or subscr…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has commended the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) for abolishing the shift system in basic schools in Accra, saying "it is an important move towards addressing the challenges confronting basic education…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the judgment which prohibited it from executing its constitutional anti-corruption mandate in relation to the alleged Mabey and Joh…
Mr. Lawrence Amesu, Director of Amnesty International, Ghana, on Friday appealed to Government to abolish the death penalty in the country.
He noted that Ghana was among countries in West Africa that had retained the law on death pe…
The United Nations Foundation (UNF) has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure that women and girls worldwide have access to affordable maternal and reproductive healthcare.
The UNF has seen many important commitments during this year's …
Women and adolescent girls need access to high reductive health services including family planning in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies, Professor Fred Torbgor Sai, a renowned Population, Reproductive and Nutrition expert has said.
…
Zoil Services Limited, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Transport, on Friday, presented 100 life jackets to communities living along the Volta Lake at Wusuta in the Kpando District.
The allocation is under the integrated "Li…
Residents near the taxi rank at Hackman area, at Effiduase, have appealed to the Member of Parliament (MP) to stop their constant harassment by a monkey, bred by one of their neighbours.
Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, MP for New Juaben No…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkawkaw, Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, has presented 3,000 note books to four private second cycle schools in his constituency.
The gesture was his contribution towards supporting private educational instituti…
A 26-year-old Ph D student from south Indian state Andhra Pradesh has drowned in a swimming accident at Burlington City in Vermont.
Sasi Sekhar Kunta from Vijayawada drowned when he and his friends jumped off the Burlington bike-p…
About 2,000 cocoa farmers from eight districts in the Western and Ashanti regions, have passed out, after completing a capacity building course at Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region.
The course was run at the Farmers Field School and…
Mr Charles Asante Bempong, Project Manager of
the Ghana Employers Association (GEA) has called on business establishments to have greater interest in the fight against child labour by refusing to employ children below 18 years.
He …
The Right Reverend Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), has cautioned church leaders to limit their "sweet words" to only their wives in other to avoid
amorous relationships and temptation.
He…
The chiefs and people of Danyame, a farming community in the Dormaa Municipality, have held a durbar to raise funds to purchase a generator for the provision of electricity for the community library.
Launching the appeal for funds, t…
Zoomlion will establish a waste management university next year to undertake fulltime courses in waste management, sanitation and hygiene.
The company is putting in place structures to kick start the university that would have campus…
Members of the Sekondi-Takoradi District Council of Labour (STDCL) have added their voice to the call on the government to impress on the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to reduce the increase in electricity and water tariffs…
The acting Volta Regional Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, (DVLA) Mr Eric Ayisi Addo, has advised owners of taxis with their drivers to regularly maintain their vehicles.
They should also observe road safety rul…
The Eastern Regional Police Command has warned taxi drivers in Accra to be cautious when hired to the Eastern Region to avoid their vehicles from being snatched by armed robbers.
The police explained that, for the past six months, it …
Mr James Ohemeng Kyei, Director of Pharmaceutical Services of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), has accused health facilities of misapplying the Revolving Drug Fund.
The Fund, which is meant for the procurement of essential medicines…
Officials of the Tema West Sub-Metro, at the weekend, presented sanitary equipment valued at GHC100 to the Tema General Hospital (TGH).
Mr Romeo Akahoho, Chairman of the Sub-Metro, who made the presentation on behalf of the Assembly,…