Washington In a step forward in the implementation of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, officials from both the countries will be meeting in Vienna next week to discuss the “arrangements and procedures” under which US spent nuclear fuel will be reprocessed in India.

The negotiation, which under the 123 Agreement has to be completed within a year it begins, is slated to be launched in Vienna next week, informed authoritative sources.

The US delegation would be led by Richard Stratford, Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs in the State Department and Washington’s point man for nuclear negotiations with India.More

The death toll from a suicide blast at a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s northwest Peshawar city has risen to 14, while 57 people were injured, a police official said Wednesday.

Early reports suggest at least two men shot their way through a security barrier and rammed a pick-up truck packed with explosives into the five-star Pearl Continental hotel late Tuesday, causing massive devastation.More

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for calm as Indian students led “vigilante” patrols on Wednesday after a second night of
protests in the wake of attacks on foreign students in Sydney and Melbourne.
Scores of Indian students took to the streets of western Sydney, leading to two police arrests, after attacks in both Sydney and Melbourne which have sparked diplomatic protests and fears of an international student exodus from Australia.Read more

India’s lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber’s history.
Meira Kumar is also a member of the “untouchable” Dalit class, the lowest rung in the centuries-old caste system in the country.

The speaker conducts the proceedings of the house. She will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women.Read

The jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that disappeared overnight as it entered an area of strong turbulence probably crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the CEO of Air France said Monday.

Brazilian and French ships and planes were looking for any sign of the missing plane, authorities said.

The first three hours of what was to have been an 11-hour flight appear to have been uneventful, CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said.

But about 4:15 a.m. Paris time, Flight 447’s automatic system began a four-minute exchange of messages to the company’s maintenance computers, indicating that “several pieces of aircraft equipment were at fault or had broken down,” he said.More

New Delhi has warned Canberra the lucrative Indian education market could be at risk if Australia doesn’t do its utmost to ensure the safety of students from the sub-continent.

India has conveyed to Australia its “deep anguish” over a recent spate of attacks on its students, warning growth in the education sector could be jeopardised if nothing is done to stop the violence.

Education-related travel is Australia’s biggest service export to India, valued at $2 billion in 2007/08, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.more

Chandigarh: Megri a 10 year old web solutions company has relaunched
its 9 year old site www.voteindia.com as Indian Political and Voting
Portal. Earlier the vote India is used just as to do voting various
topics and remain as success. Keeping in view the need of time, on the
starting of India Lok Sabha Election 2009 it is re –launched as
Political and Voting Magazine.
Vote India is daily showing 7 featured issues or news in addition to
news or stories relating to various political parties and region wise.

The portal is not restricted to elections only in future we will
bringing more burning or hot issues relating to India and will have
voting or polling on those subjects
About Megri
Megri is a web solutions company which is offering all services i.e
domain registration, web designing, web promotion, web programming,
search engine optimization, Internet marketing and web advertising.
Megri is managing various web properties on India, UK and
International topics which include portals, web directories, community
forms, search engines, blogs and webmasters tools.Read more

The ‘Jai Ho’ trust by the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ filmmakers
has hired a social worker to ensure the welfare of Rubina Ali Qureshi
after her father allegedly tried to sell her for nearly $300,000. Read the rest of this entry »

Rafiq Qureshi, the father of Slumdog Millionaire starlet Rubina Ali, has been arrested over claims that he tried to sell his daughter for 200,000 pounds.

A complaint from the 36-year-old man’s ex-wife initiated the arrest. Read the rest of this entry »