TOKYO, Oct. 23 Kyodo -
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday he personally favors a plan to
transfer the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to the nearby U.S. Kadena

Nasheed said conflicts will also increase due to climate
change while the refugee problem will become serious.

New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) With global warming threatening
to render an estimated 300,000 people refugees every year,
climate change is a far bigger challenge than international

New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) European aviation major
Eurocopter has opted out of the race for supplying 22 attack
helicopters to the Indian Air Force, leaving contenders from

In January, the IAF lost Surya Kiran aerobatic team's
Kiran MK-II training aircraft at Bidar in southern state of
Karnataka when Wing Commander R S Dhaliwal piloting the

Kolkata/New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) An Indian Air Force
(IAF) MiG-27 fighter jet on a routine training sortie Friday
crashed in a tea garden near New Jalpaiguri in India's eastern

Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST),
Mumbai's public transport authority, has been asked to ply
additional buses between Ghatkopar and Thane for the

Thane, Oct 23 (PTI) In a freak mishap, a portion of an
under-construction bridge and a bulky water pipeline, passing

New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) India's Railway Minister Mamata
Banerjee has announced compensation packages for those
affected in the mishap when a pipeline bridge fell on a local

SANA'A, Oct. 23 (Saba) - Head of the GCC Executive Council of the
Health Office Tawfiq Bin Ahmed Bin Khouja arrived in Yemen in Friday