Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye - Marfo, Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, has commended the United States of America for their immense support towards the development of the region in diverse ways.
The Minister made the statement when Mr. Donald Te…
A lot of upcoming shooters from the hamlets of Uttar Pradesh including Seema Tomar, silver medal
winner at Dorset World Cup, owe their success to Rahul Gandhi as the young Congress MP donated his pistols for their training.
Rahul, …
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Directorates of the Ghana Education Service (GES), have been asked to submit list of all eligible teachers on professional allowances to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the Fair Wages …
The National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC) is to be given development oriented direction with emphasis on job creation and skills training opportunities.
Mr. Alexander Asum-Ahensah, Minister for Chieftaincy and Culture, who an…
Four female teachers died of cervical cancer and another four died of breast cancer all in the Easter Region (E/R) since January this year, raising concern about effects of non-communicable diseases on teachers in the area.
This was …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged the Solar Mining Company not to begin operating until it has obtained the requisite permit from the Agency.
This follows a routine inspection exercise during which the Agency discove…
Assistant Commissioner of Police Agwunbutoge Awuni, the Northern Regional Police Commander, on Monday expressed worry about numerous challenges facing the service in the region including inadequate police personnel with only one vehicle fo…
Mr Patrick Atawoje Kaba, Cocoa Officer for the Asante-Akim North and South Districts, has said the only effective way of tackling the cocoa swollen shoot disease, was to cut down the infested trees.
He has therefore appealed to farme…
Mental Health Associations in the Upper East Region have appealed to the Ghana Health Service, to improve the supply of Mental Health drugs to the various Psychiatric Units in the area, to enable patients get a regular supply.
They c…
On Saturday, May 29th 2010, at the plush Serena hotel in the heart of Kampala, Uganda, the country that Winston Churchill once famously called the “Peal of Africaâ€, twenty-seven (27) of Africa’s finest journalists will be honoured by…
The Effutu Municipal Assembly has handed over a 3-unit classroom block with office, store and toilet facilities to the Municipal Education Directorate.
The facility will be used by junior high school pupils from Ateitu, Osubonpanyin …
The first Anglican Child Development Centre of the Saint Luke Anglican Church at Ajumako Bisease has started fish, vegetable and poultry farming to generate income to support the Centre.
The Project Coordinator of the Centre, Mr Euge…
An Apam District Magistrate Court presided by Justice Charles Wiafe has remanded Theophilus Rockson Ankumah, 32, and Baba Amadu alias Alhaji Mohammed, 38, currently being tried for impersonation, in police custody to reappear on 31st May 2…
Indian-American doctor Jayant Patel, accused of manslaughter in Australia, was not directly responsible for the death of a patient at the Bundaberg Base hospital, an expert surgeon told a court here Tuesday.
Glyn Jamieson from Univer…
Air India Wednesday cancelled another 76 domestic and international flights across the country leaving thousands of passengers stranded on the second day of the strike by the airline's engineers and ground staff.
With the management…
The Headmaster of Potsin T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, Mr Nazir Keelson, has appealed to Africans living in the diaspora to return with their knowledge and expertise to help build the continent.
Mr Keelson expressed regret that …
Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, Chief Executive for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District, has appealed to the chiefs and people of the area to support the Area and Urban Councils for the total development of their localities.
She said it was o…
The Central Regional Coordinating Director, Mr Kwame Oppong, has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to continue to support the Ghana Statistical Service to ensure the success of the 2010 Census.
Mr Oppong who is…
Two female Members of Parliament (MPs), in the
Eastern Region have called on women to support their fellow women who would contest the forth-coming District Assembly elections.
This, they said, would go a long way to increase the …
Four communities in Accra have been identified as
poverty endemic according to a Co-operative Housing Foundation International (CHF) report.
The Accra Poverty Map (APM), an initiative of CHF and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) …
Striking a conciliatory tone, agitating Air India unions Wednesday decided to hold talks with the management over the gag order issue.
"We have been invited by the management for talks and we are going to attend it. We will also meet …
A Chinese national, who was arrested for travelling without valid documents in north-eastern Indian state Arunachal Pradesh's Lohit district, Tuesday claimed he was a dissident and not a spy, police said.
Guan Liang, arrested on…
A children's book carrying a "picture" of Prophet Muhammad sparked protests from some people here who attacked the publishing house and damaged furniture and computers claiming the art work was an insult to Islam.
According to the pol…
The process of analysing the Black Box and other vital components of the Air India aircraft that crashed on Saturday began Tuesday to ascertain the cause of the accident with officials and experts holding a series of meetings here.
Th…
India's Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patil Tuesday held a high-level meeting to review all aspects of setting up a Court of Inquiry into Saturday's Mangalore air crash that claimed 158 lives.
In the meeting, which was attended by …
A nationwide flash strike by over 20,000 employees to protest Air India's gag order disrupted the airlines' operations Tuesday with 50 domestic and international flights getting cancelled and several others delayed by over two hours.
…
Expressing concern over the rising number of divorces among the ethnic Indian community here, the Malaysian Indian Congress has sought the help of religious and social organisation to help arrest the trend.
MIC Vice President G Palani…
In order to attract more Indian students to Canadian universities, the Canada-India Education
Council (C-IEC) has been launched.
C-IEC Chairman and former Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre S Pettigrew who championed the cause of promo…
An ethnic Indian woman executive, who has been charged with cheating more than Rs four crore, has said she will defend herself in court over her
passport tussle with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
P Chitrakala, who was sto…
Over 200 people of Nepali origin displaced during the violent activities in Meghalaya entered Nepal in order to save their lives.
More than 200 Nepali speaking people who had been living in the northeastern state of India, on Tuesda…
Twenty seven foreign nationals, including Indian citizens, have been arrested for working illegally following a major operation by immigration officials at a farm in north-west England.
During an intelligence-led operation at a compan…
In a move that would go a long way in curbing wildlife crime, the Wildlife Crime Control
Bureau (WCCB) has for the first time been given Rs 10 lakhs under the head of "secret service fund" to focus on intelligence gathering.
The sanc…
Noting that India's competitors have moved faster, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday
asked defence scientists to speed up research to achieve self-reliance and deliver critical technologies on time.
"It is a fact our current …
An Indian-origin doctor's weight-loss clinics here have been raided by sleuths from FBI and other agencies as part of a "multi-jurisdictional
investigation" launched by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA).
Agents from the FDA,…
An Indian soldier on a UN peacekeeping mission in strife-torn Congo was killed during a firefight between the Congolese Army and armed assailants.
Hussein Lal, the Indian peacekeeper was stationed along with his patrol in Democratic…
Monica Lakhanpaul, a consultant community paediatrician and senior lecturer at the University of Leicester has been honoured here at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards for 2010.
The event brought together royalty, politicians, me…
Abdul Samad Bhatkal, a prime suspect in the German Bakery blast in Pune, was Tuesday
remanded in police custody till June 1 by a local court in connection with a 2009 illegal arms seizure case.
Samad was arrested by Maharashtra Anti…
The initiative to forge cultural and developmental tie-up between the Spanish city of Barcelona and Kerala capital had a colourful start with a four-day cultural festival getting under way here Monday evening.
Inaugurating the event j…
A worldwide search launched last month to select the lead role in Ashutosh Gowariker's period
film 'Buddha' has received an overwhelming response with as many as 3,700 registrations and over 6,000 photos and videos on its website 'buddha-…
Gearing up its soldiers for future warfare, the Indian Army feels there is an "urgent need" to replace the indigenously developed and manufactured INSAS series of rifles.
"There is an urgent need to develop rifles, carbines and l…
Investigators Tuesday recovered the crucial 'Black Box'--the Digital Flight Data Recorder(DFDR)- from the wreckage of the Boeing plane of Air India's budget carrier, three days after it crashed here while landing killing 158 persons.
…
The Kade District Magistrate Court on Monday granted GHC 1,000 bail with one surety to Appiah Samuel, a farmer, who appeared before it charged with threatening to shoot another farmer, with
the intent to put him into fear of death.
…
Christopher Degbor, a teacher, who doubles as a "susu" collector, was on Monday sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Asamankese Circuit Court for stealing GHC 7,894.60 belonging to his employers, a "Susu" Company.
Degbor who pl…
The Local Civic Coalition (LCC) group in Nangodi in the Upper East Region have expressed concern about the engagement of school children in mining activities in the Talensi Nabdam District.
They explained that most of the school chil…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced
the publication of new guidelines for the production, regulation and control of snake antivenoms and a website with details on the appropriate antivenoms.
The details include where …
Canoe Fishermen at the Tema Fishing Harbour have lauded President Atta Mills for honouring his promise to rehabilitate the Wood Wharf at the harbour.
In a statement issued and initialled by Nii Adjierteh Mator III, Tema Chief Fisher…
Nana Ogyabea Badu Ehuren, a retired Magistrate, has cautioned police personnel, who use their uniforms to swindle and steal, to stop the act because it is against the ethics and conduct of the Police Service.
He said if these nefariou…
A Chief Farmer, Opanyin Kwasi Agyemfra, has suggested to the Government and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to set up Youth Farms in all the regions and districts to encourage the youth to take interest in agriculture to become gainfu…
Search continued for the second day Monday to locate the crucial Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) that will help ascertain the reasons behind the Saturday crash of the Air India Express flight that left 158 people dead.
Investigato…
The Attorney General's Department has taken over the case of Nana Kofi Yirenkyi aka "Jesus One Touch", being tried for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.
The case which was initially handled by the Police has now been taken…