BANGKOK: "In India, surveys indicate that around 30 million people are infected with hepatitis B and 19 million with hepatitis C. Since there's a cheap and effective vaccine against Hepatitis B, vaccination can save many lives," said Charles I' Gore, president of the Conference of the Asian Pacific " Association ...

PARIS: BNP Paribas said its net profit rose 13.6% in the fourth quarter on strong growth in its corporate investment banking and international retail banking arms. The bank said it made eural 55 billion ($2.1 billion) in the October- December quarter, up from eurol.37 billion a year earlier. SOURCE-HT

LONDON: Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, the defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war. al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and ...

ISLAMABAD: Residents of Gah Begal village in Pakistan's Punjab province, where Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was born, have complained that the authorities are no longer supporting development programmes launched during then President Pervez Musharraf's regime. The village in Chakwal district still lacks electricity and gas supply, though it witnessed rapid ...

COLOMBO: Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar is expected to reach Colombo on Friday night on a four-day official visit. Kumar's visit is the latest in the high-profile Indian delegations that have visited Sri Lanka in the recent past including foreign minister, SM Krishna in November. A statement from the Sri ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan-based al Qaeda's senior leadership remained committed to acquiring weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, a top Obama Administration official said. In his testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Michael Leiter, Director of National Counter-terrorism Center said, "We assess that al Qaeda's senior leadership in ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan has started construction of its fourth nuclear reactor at Khushab in Punjab province, signaling its ambitious effort to modernize and expand the nuclear arsenal. Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said the latest satellite imageries obtained by it showed that the reactor building was relatively early in ...

LONDON: A man who fathered seven kids with his daughter after raping her over nearly 20 years has been decapitated. Jose Agostinho Pereira, dubbed as the Brazilian ‘Josef Fritzl', was found guilty of repeatedly assaulting the girl, now 28 and sentenced to 63 years in jail for imprisoning her in ...

WASHINGTON: The United States has "focused" its attention on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terror outfit behind the Mumbai terror attacks, as it "could pose a threat" to the US and Europe, according to a senior US official. "In Pakistan, we remain focused on Lashkar-e­ Taiba, the group behind the 2008 ...

TORONTO: Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone man convicted in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing case, has filed a petition challenging his conviction in Canada's worst case of terrorism. After spending 15 years in jail, Reyat was sentenced for another nine years for lying 19 times under oath to save ...

NEW YORK: Hackers broke into a Nasdaq service that handles confidential communications for some 300 corporations, the company said. The intrusions did not affect Nasdaq's stock trading systems and no customer data was compromised, Nasdaq OMX Group said. Nasdaq is the largest electronic securities trading market in the US, with ...

DUBAI: Aegis, the BPO arm of $15-billion Essar Group, said it plans to add about 11,000 people globally, including India, during the financial year 2011-12. "Globally, we should add 11,000 people by March 2012," said Aparup Sengupta, MD and global CEO, Aegis. SOURCE-HT

MELBOURNE: Parents of the Indian toddler who was accidentally knocked down by a compatriot have expressed unhappiness over the "mild" jail term given by an Australian court to their son's killer who will serve a minimum of three years in prison. Gursewak Dhillon, 25, a taxi driver, was on Thursday hand­ ...