Benin backs India's bid for UN seat.Byline: Nilofar Suhrawardy NEW DELHI New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. : In his first official engagement after undergoing a heart bypass surgery Bypass surgery A surgical procedure that grafts blood vessels onto arteries to reroute the blood flow around blockages in the arteries (arteriosclerosis). in January, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with Benin President Bon Yayi in New Delhi on Wednesday. Singh joined the African nation's leader in a photo opportunity at his residence, after which the two men engaged in delegation-level talks. The talks were followed by the signing of several agreements that covered small-scale industries, cultural and scientific cooperation and diplomatic exchange. Bon Yayi is on a five-day state visit to India. Yayi pledged support to India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. "We would like to support India in its candidature for UN. We believe that we will be able to create a better order in the world with a more reinforced Security Council," Yayi told media. Doctors have been closely monitoring 76-year-old Singh's health since the January surgery. Meanwhile, India successfully test fired supersonic cruise missile cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to BrahMos in Pokhran in Rajasthan yesterday. "The Block II BrahMos missile was successfully launched at 1030 hours this morning," the officials of Defense Research and Development Organization said. They have developed the weapon system in collaboration with Russian scientists. The missile "took two-and-a half-minutes to strike its target in the Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan," they said. The new version of BrahMos was test launched yesterday as it had failed to hit its target in the previous test on Jan. 20. The failure was due to it having deviated from its course mid-way, after a successful take off. The "defect" in the software of missile's homing device Noun 1. homing device - the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective guided missile - a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices had been rectified leading to its successful test yesterday, sources said. The test, earlier scheduled for Feb. 20,was postponed due to technical glitches. Meanwhile, President Pratibha Patil Pratibha Patil (Marathi: प्रतिभा पाटील) (born December 19, 1934) is the 12th and current President of India. She is the first woman and first Maharashtrian to hold this post. approved the government's recommendation to appoint Navin Chawla Navin Chawla is an Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India. Career He is an IAS officer of the 1969 batch. He was appointed as election commissioner in 2005 to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of B B Tandon as Chief Election Commissioner of India. as the next chief election commissioner. With the present CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. N. Gopalaswami retiring on April 20, Chawla will take over on April 21. Copyright: Arab News 2009 All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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