5 UN non-permanent Security Councils
United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected — Chad, Chile, lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia — to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms from January 2014.
japan Typhoon, mudslides kill 18
Tokyo: Rescue workers were combing through piles of debris from Typhoon Wipha that reported at least 18 deaths and 45 people missing. It also destroyed dozens of homes on a Japanese island, officials acknowledged that evacuation could have saved lives.
‘Drop piracy charges against Greenpeace’
Moscow: Eleven Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that “excessive charges of piracy” laid against 30 Greenpeace activists are dropped, said Greenpeace.
Rare indigenous rice species revived in China
Beijing: A rare red-coloured indigenous Chinese rice species which was on the brink of being extinct due to its low yields is being revived in the country.
UK parliamentary panel slams lanka
Colombo: Ahead of next month’s Commonwealth Summit, British parliamentary committee accused the Government of pursuing an inconsistent policy towards Sri lanka despite continuing human rights violations in the country.
Myanmar’s force for press freedom dies
Bangkok: Sein Win (91), a renowned journalist in Myanmar who championed Press freedom, endured three stints in prison, died on Thursday.
Malala gets honorary citizenship in canada
Islamabad: Canada to offer honorary citizenship to Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai. She will become just the sixth person to be granted honorary Canadian citizenship after Nelson Mandela.
li-Fi to replace Wi-Fi in China IJ
Beijing: Chinese scientists have developed a new cheaper way of using internet through signals sent through light bulbs dubbed as ‘li-Fi'— a light bulb with embedded microchips — that can produce data rates as fast as 150 MBPS, instead of radio frequencies as in ‘Wi-Fi’.