New Delhi, September 17: Zhai Zhigang has been named as China’s first “spacewalker” astronaut, who will be part of the country’s third manned space mission, which will last from September 25-28.

The other astronauts, who will be on board the spacecraft Shenzhou VII, are Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng.

The most likely takeoff time for Shenzhou VII is 9:10 pm on Sept 25, according to the website China. com. cn.

Upon the spaceship’s entry into orbit a scheduled 582 seconds after liftoff, Jing will remain in the descent module while Zhai and Liu will move to the vacuum orbital module.

Zhai is expected to conduct a 40-minute spacewalk between Sept 26 and Sept 27, with Liu as his substitute.

Beijing, Sept. 17: A third child has died in China’s southeastern Zhejiang Province after consuming contaminated milk. The death toll till Tuesday was two, China's Ministry of Health said here on Wednesday.

Health Minister Chen Zhu told reporters on Wednesday morning that the first two deaths had occurred in northwest Gansu Province. They included a five-month-old boy who died on May 1 after his family refused further treatment and an eight-month-old girl whose family also refused an operation and removed her from hospital on July 22 on which day she died.

Both had suffered kidney failure.

Beijing  - The death toll in a mudslide in northern China rose to 259 Tuesday, one week after a dam burst at an illegal mine, burying a market, an office building and several houses in mud.

ew Delhi, Sept. 16 : Emerging powers like India and China are the central feature of our times and the United States no longer can act on global issues on its own.

Saying this, Philip Gordon, Senior Fellow, US Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, added that the United States needs to engage with rising powers since increasingly, New Delhi and Beijing’s global views have become important.

He was speaking at the session on ''The Geopolitics of Emerging Global Powers'' organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Aspen Institute India here today.

Beijing - Chinese authorities evacuated about 460,000 people at the country's eastern seaboard ahead of Tropical Storm Sinlaku, local media said Monday.

About 30,000 fishing vessels were recalled to their harbours in Fujian province, the state-run news agency Xinhua said.

Sinlaku, which had hit Taiwan over the weekend, weakened on its path towards the Chinese coast and brought winds of up to 126 kilometres per hour and heavy rainfalls in Fujian and the neighbouring Zhejiang province.

However, it was still hard to predict where and when the storm would make landfall in China.

Beijing - Two brothers were arrested in a scandal over contaminated baby milk in China, as a second infant died, state-run media said Monday.

At least 430 babies fell ill with kidney stones and two died after being fed with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu.

The brothers, who are among 19 suspects detained in the wake of the scandal, are accused of having delivered 3 tons of toxic milk per day to San Lu from their private milk collecting station, the Xinhua news agency said.

The older brother confessed to having spiked the milk with the banned chemical melamine to increase the milk's protein content. He said he lost money because San Lu repeatedly rejected his milk because of quality problems.