London: UK is planning to open up to eight new British Trade Offices in India as part of a strategy to widen focus beyond the metros. Launching the India Institute at the King’s College in London last evening, British Foreign [...]
Washington: US has termed as “untrue” sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Obama Administration in peace talks with the Taliban. “Absolutely untrue”, state department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said, when asked there was a feeling inside Pakistan [...]
Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has wanred that a nuclear-capable Iran represents a threat to the United States and the world. “We see the threats coming from Iran and a nuclear- capable Iran represents a threat to us and [...]
KINSHASA: Congo-Aid workers declared “a humanitarian catastrophe” on Wednesday in southeastern Congo, and blamed the recent deaths of at least 25 people on a feared warlord who broke out of jail late last year. Kyungu “Gedeon” Mutanga’s return to his [...]
NEW DELHI: A European Union warship rescued an Indian dhow and 15 mariners from the captivity of Somali pirates after a three-day action in the high seas recently. On January 17, the EU NAVFOR warship FGS Luebeck located an India [...]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today sought to put a simmering row between his government and the military behind him, saying he had criticised the actions of the army and intelligence chiefs in certain circumstances that no longer prevailed. [...]
KYOTO (Kyodo) – A Japanese medical team said Tuesday it has confirmed that dopamine-generating cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) survived for six months in a monkey brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. The first-ever such confirmation for [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s President and Prime Minister have sent their congratulatory messages to India’s leaders on the occasion of the country’s 63rd Republic Day celebrations, which fall on Thursday. In his letter to Indian President Pratibha Patil, President Tony Tan Keng [...]
Washington: Facing a tough fight for re-election, President Barack Obama today turned the State of the Union Address into a platform to sketch a vision of US still being a world leader to convince voters to give him a second [...]
Los Angeles: Indian director Shonali Bose and three other filmmakers have won the prestigious 2012 Sundance Institute-Mahindra Global Filmmaking award, which recognises and supports independent talent from around the world. Bose, best known for her award-winning English film “Amu” and [...]
United Nations: India today said Israel’s settlement activities in the Palestinian territories undermine efforts by the international community to resolve the conflict between the two sides and asked Tel Aviv to halt its construction to reach a peace deal. Participating [...]
Colombo: Sri Lanka today denied recent reports that its Naval personnel had attacked Tamil Nadu fishermen and damaged over 200 boats at the International Maritime Boundary Line in Palk Strait. “The Sri Lanka Navy has categorically denied these allegations,” the [...]
BEIJING: China is emerging as a major global hub for medical education as it boasts of more than 630 higher learning institutions from the stream with 1.76 million students, including thousands from India. The medical institutes included over 280 colleges [...]
KABUL: A NATO spokesman said Tuesday it was too early to conclude that the Taliban were involved in the killing of four French troops by an Afghan soldier last week. “As we’ve seen with incidents of this type — we [...]
New York: India’s human rights record in 2011 got thumbs down from a global rights group which has criticised the government for its inaction in repealing the controversial armed forces act and for remaining silent on the “gravest abuses” in [...]
WASHINGTON: India has made “sincere efforts” to reduce trust deficit with Pakistan with which it has a history of complicated relationship, a top Indian diplomat has said, as she expressed concern over “difficult terrain” ahead. “We are engaged in a [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha held a secret meeting with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Dubai and advised him not to return to the country, according to a media report today. “Gen Pasha, who has [...]
TOKYO: Japan is asking the UN’s nuclear agency to set up a permanent office in Fukushima to monitor its efforts to contain the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The International Atomic Energy Agency was “carefully considering” the request, said [...]
CAIRO: The Islamists dominated new Egyptian Parliament today held its first session after the landmark polls since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak with a candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood tipped to become its first speaker. The inauguration of the first [...]
London: Fearing arrest, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central figure in the memo scandal, today said he would not visit Islamabad to depose before a judicial panel probing the matter and wants his testimony to be recorded either in London [...]
Washington: India has strongly “objected” to the remark on the Golden Temple by popular US television host Jay Leno, terming it “quite unfortunate”. Leno, the host of the popular “The Tonight Show” on NBC channel, flashed a picture of the [...]
Islamabad: Controversial Pakistani-American Mansoor Ijaz today said he had been assured by the US of its support during his upcoming visit to Pakistan to testify before a judicial panel probing the memo scandal. “I had a conference call with the [...]
Johannesburg: A South African woman is to appear in court today for murder over allegations that she sliced open a pregnant woman, kidnapped the baby and left the mother for dead, police said. The 29-year-old woman from Randfontein, west of [...]
Lahore: Former president Pervez Musharraf was forced to delay his planned return to Pakistan from self-exile after he failed to get any assurances from the military and the Pakistan People’s Party-led government about his security, sources said on Friday. Two [...]
Washington: In a bid to make US the world’s top travel and tourism destination President Barack Obama today announced a new visa policy for “low risk” applicants to attract visitors from emerging economies like India, China and Brazil. Obama travelled [...]
NEW YORK: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined the growing chorus against the proposed anti-piracy bills in the US, saying the two “poorly thought out laws” are not the “right solutions” to the problem of piracy but will only harm [...]
WASHINGTON: Weeks after offering to sell its F-35 fifth generation fighter jets, the US today said it was open to work with India on joint development of a ballistic missile shield. The offer was made by deputy assistant secretary of [...]
Washington: Fearing a catastrophic galactic collision, the US has said it will hold talks with the European Union and other nations, including India, to develop a code of conduct for activities in outer space. “The United States has decided to [...]
Mumbai: Noted American talk show host Oprah Winfrey is expected to be in the city tonight. On December 20, Oprah had tweeted to one of her followers — “YES! I am coming to India next month for 1st time as [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday offered to resign shortly after the Supreme Court served him a notice for contempt of court for failing to reopen graft cases against the President, according to a media report. Gilani [...]
Rome: One Indian is missing in a luxury cruiser drowning incident off the Tuscan coast in Italy while 201 crew members from the country have been rescued, officials said on Monday. As efforts were on to trace the missing Indian, [...]
SANAA, Yemen : Al-Qaida militants seized full control of a town south of the Yemeni capital on Monday, overrunning army positions, storming the local prison and freeing its inmates, security officials said. The capture of Radda in Bayda province, some [...]
New Delhi: India and China today began talks to put in place a mechanism for management of the border between the two nations, an issue that has been an irritant in bilateral relations. National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon led the [...]
UNITED NATIONS: In a strongly worded statement, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop violence against his own people. “I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing [...]
Around 10 days before war broke out between India and Pakistan in 1971, the then President of Pakistan Yahya Khan had given an inkling of his intentions to attack this country after taking a few drinks with an American journalist. [...]
Washington: Claiming that people of Pakistan need a viable alternative in this hour of crisis, former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that he is “prepared to take risk” of his life to return back home from a self-imposed [...]
Claiming that people of Pakistan need a viable alternative in this hour of crisis, former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that he is “prepared to take risk” of his life to return back home from a self-imposed exile. [...]
Lahore: Raising the political stakes, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan on Thursday warned that his party would come out on the streets if the judiciary is “ambushed” by the civilian government in Pakistan on the issue of reopening graft cases against President [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday departed on a one-day private visit to Dubai amidst a standoff between the civilian government and the powerful military on the memo scandal. News of Zardari’s departure was flashed this afternoon by [...]
Washington: The US today said it has neither sought nor received assurances that the Pakistani army will not stage a coup, even as it made it clear that it supports a “civilian-led government” in the country. Acknowledging that Chairman of [...]
New Delhi: Asking other countries to draw inspiration from India in their polio eradication drive, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the country not reporting a single polio case over the last year is a major milestone in the global health [...]
Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested on his arrival in Pakistan as a court conducting the trail of those charged with involvement in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto has declared him a fugitive, a prosecutor said [...]
Beijing: With exports markets declining and FDI inflows slowing down due to global economic crisis, China plans to reorient its foreign trade by stepping up outbound direct investment (ODI) to $560 dollars to make better use of its $3.20 trillion [...]
New Delhi: India on Wednesday took strong objection to the “gross inaccuracies” depicted with regard to Jammu and Kashmir in a map on US State Department website and said it will take up the matter with the American government. “The [...]
Washington: US has said its Afghan policy is based on three principles of “fight, talk and build” while reiterating that the Obama Administration is willing to support any peace process supported by the government of Afghanistan. “We have a policy [...]
Beijing/New Delhi: An Indian diplomat based in Shanghai was ill-treated and had to be hospitalised, prompting India to lodge a protest with the Chinese authorities. The 46-year-old S. Balachandran, a diabetic, was attending a court hearing in Yiwu city near [...]
Washington: The US military has briefed Pakistani military chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on the investigation details of the November 26 NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, a Pentagon spokesman said today. The report was presented to Gen [...]
New Delhi: India today expressed concern over the proposed US Call Centre Bill but said that it is premature to assess the impact of the decision on the domestic IT industry. A bipartisan bill has been tabled in the US [...]
A Russian court today suspended its verdict till December 28 on the demand for banning Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, which a group linked to the Christian Orthodox Church has described as ‘extremist’. “The ruling has been postponed till December 28, [...]
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday returned to Pakistan from Dubai, where he had gone almost a fortnight ago to seek treatment for a heart condition, triggering rampant speculation that he might be on the verge of resigning. Zardari, [...]
Lahore: Smelling a conspiracy in Nawaz Sharif’s move to ask the Supreme Court to probe the memo gate scandal, a close aide of ailing President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that the PML-N chief is playing into the hands of [...]
London: Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden where he is accused of rape and sexual assault. Britain’s highest court said seven judges would hear the [...]
London: Janet Jackson is excited her 13-year-old niece Paris Jackson has landed her first movie role but wishes she had waited longer before beginning her career. It was recently revealed that Paris, daughter of late pop icon Michael Jackson, had [...]
Moscow: Russia will significantly boost the supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to energy-hungry India from 2016, President Dmitry Medvedev has announced. Mentioning the success of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) venture in Sakhalin-1 offshore oil block, Medvedev, who along with [...]
Washington: Nancy J Powell, a career diplomat with wide experience in South Asia, has been named by U.S. President Barack Obama as the next Ambassador to India, the first woman to be nominated for the coveted post. 64-year-old Ms. Powell [...]
Washington: Bradley Manning, a US soldier accused of disclosing secret cables to WikiLeaks, made his first court appearance for a pre-trial hearing during which his lawyers argued that the reserve officer presiding over the proceedings should recuse himself for perceived [...]
Moscow: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today cleared the uncertainty over the start of Kudankulam nuclear project declaring that the first unit will be operational in a couple of weeks. India and Russia, however, did not sign any agreement for the [...]
SYDNEY: Three men who plotted a suicide attack against an Australian army base because they believed Islam was under threat from Western nations have been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison. The men were convicted last year of [...]
London: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has emerged as the most searched celeb on the internet in the UK, according to Google’s list of most popular queries of 2011. The US socialite rose to fame after appearing in reality show [...]
United Nations: India today said the UN Security Council should consider measures against the armed groups in Darfur that have refused to join the peace process in the Sudanese region. Addressing a Security Council meeting on Sudan, India”s Ambassador to [...]
Islamabad: An angry Pakistan today slammed a US move to freeze aid worth USD 700 million, saying it was “not based on facts and takes a narrow vision of the overall situation”, in the latest sign of the fraying bilateral [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that President Asif Ali Zardari was forced to go to Dubai for medical treatment because of “threats” to his life. The government and the President’s family convinced Zardari to go to [...]
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that US would be responsible if Pakistan failed in war on terror (WOT). She was briefing the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS). The minister told the committee that the US Senate has [...]
SEOUL: Six armed North Korean border guards tasked with preventing defections have themselves fled across the frontier into China, sparking a security alert on the Chinese side of the border, a report said. Daily NK, a Seoul-based online newspaper run [...]
OPIUM cultivation in Southeast Asia has doubled since 2006 with significant increases in Burma and Laos this year. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime said the lack of security, political stability and sustainable development was the key reason for [...]
WASHINGTON: The US strongly believes in the civil nuclear agreement with India and was working with New Delhi to get past the “difficulties” associated with it, a State Department official has said. “We believe strongly in this agreement,” State Department [...]
Washington: As ties between the two countries hit a new low, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said US’ relationship with Pakistan has been a “difficult” one and the latter was gripped by a “weak economic leadership”. “It is a difficult [...]
London: To mark Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee on Britain’s throne, UK’s royal family plans to embark on a global tour including to India. The British Monarch will complete 60 years on the British throne next year and the Buckingham Palace [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to be discharged from a hospital in Dubai tomorrow with improvement in his health condition, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said today but did not give any time-frame for his return to Islamabad. [...]
Islamabad: Foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has blamed Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and said they are responsible for various other problems. “We are not responsible if Afghan refugees crossed the [...]
Baghdad: Multiple bomb attacks set oil pipelines ablaze in southern Iraq, partially halting production but leaving exports unaffected, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Wednesday. “Around 9:00 pm (1800 GMT Tuesday), several bombs damaged pipelines transporting oil from the [...]
LOS ANGELES: Indian-origin journalist Davan Maharaj has been named the new editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times in succession to Russ Stanton, who led the paper to three Pulitzer Prizes, the paper announced. 49-year-old Trinidad-born Maharaj [...]
UK: Fresh questions about the extent of James Murdoch’s knowledge of the phone-hacking scandal were raised on Tuesday when it emerged he received an email that included a briefing indicating that the activity had not been confined to a single [...]
Kabul: Voicing cautious optimism, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan has said that he’s seeing signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan’s communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month. Marine [...]
Washington: Struggling to restore flagging ties with Pakistan in the aftermath of the deadly NATO strike, the Obama administration has said it has not cut any civilian aid to the country, noting the move in this regard was part of [...]
KARACHI: Around 50 children, locked up in chains, were rescued by Pakistani police following a raid on a religious seminary, which officials fear was forcing militant training on them. Senior police officials said the children apparently were being prepared for [...]
Washington: Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has expressed confidence that the US and Pakistan can patch up their differences, saying that a good relationship between them was critical to peace in Afghanistan. “Ultimately, we can’t win the war in Afghanistan without [...]
Kuwait: A Kuwait court on Monday charged 31 stateless people with illegal assembly and assaulting police during demonstrations earlier this year to demand citizenship and other basic rights. Twenty-six defendants were present at the start of the hearing, which was [...]
SANAA, Yemen: Several al-Qaida militants escaped early Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such spectacular jailbreak this year. A prison officer said at least 10 [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s defense lawyers urged Malaysia’s High Court on Monday to acquit him on sodomy charges, claiming the man who accused him is a liar. Anwar’s defense was presenting its closing arguments in a trial that [...]
BEIJING: In a move that may cause unease in India, China today announced that it will set up its first military base abroad in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles to “seek supplies and recuperate” facilities for its Navy. The [...]
WASHINGTON: US-based Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai has claimed that he met several Indian ministers on a regular basis during last two decades of his activities in Washington and had “a channel of communication” opened with the Indian embassy. 62-year-old [...]
KABUL: The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Saturday that he does not think this week’s deadly suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine in Kabul will spark a sectarian war between religious groups in the country. In a briefing with reporters [...]
ROME:A boat carrying 55 migrants from Asia — mostly women and children including two newborns — landed Saturday on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy’s Apulia region, custom officials said. They said the migrants, many identifying themselves as Afghans, landed [...]
Tripoli: Libya’s new rulers are ready to forgive the forces of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi who battled rebels trying to topple his autocratic regime, National Transition Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday. “In Libya we are able to [...]
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s navy chief has said the only way to resolve the fishermen issue with India is to work through diplomatic channels, asserting that there is no short-term solution to the problem. “This is not a problem that navy [...]
Moscow: Russia’s election body has declared Premier Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party as the winner of the parliamentary polls amid street demonstrations against the just concluded exercise marred by allegations of fraud and ballot rigging. In a televised sitting [...]
Jerusalem: As it negotiates a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India, Israel has exuded confidence that the landmark pact will help treble the bilateral trade which is set to touch USD 6 billion this year. “Bilateral trade between the two [...]
BEIJING: China has deployed more than 300 armed police to patrol the Mekong River in boats in collaboration with Myanmar, Thailand and Laos after a deadly attack in October, state-run media said on Saturday. Two months ago, 13 Chinese sailors [...]
Bangalore: India is planning to develop a solar-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and scouting for a foreign partner for collaboration. The proposed solar-based UAV would have much longer flight duration – as high as 15 days – compared to conventional [...]
Durban: Asserting that equity has to be centrepiece of climate talks, India on Saturday slammed developed nations for not doing enough to combat global warming as it made an ‘emotional’ appeal for space for basic development for its 1.2 billion [...]
Islamabad: Pakistani people would foil any attempt to overthrow the elected government, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday as speculation mounted in the country of possibility of a silent coup. Dismissing rumours of a coup following President Asif Ali [...]
Durban: As the climate talks in Durban come to a close, India remains at odds with the European Union, which wants a new legally binding treaty that will place all major emitters under an international obligation to reduce their carbon [...]
New Delhi: Amidst a raging controversy over the Indian government’s proposal to monitor content in cyber space, U N Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today said access to the Internet and various social media must not be blocked as a [...]
Pakistan: Pakistan could grant the Most Favoured Nation status to India by October next year, a senior official of the Foreign Ministry said. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said “October next year is the time frame which has been given” [...]
New Delhi/Moscow: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay an official visit to Moscow to attend the annual Indo-Russian summit on December 16–the 12th since the two countries established Strategic Partnership in 2000. The official announcement of Singh’s visit from December [...]
Melbourne: Calling India’s case ‘unique’, Australia on Thursday made it clear that the ruling Labour’s decision to lift ban on uranium sales to New Delhi does not open doors to Pakistan, which is demanding similar treatment. “The circumstances for India [...]
Kabul: Afghanistan today hit back at Pakistan after a shrine bombing killed at least 55 people in Kabul, saying it was up to Islamabad to act after a Pakistani group purportedly took responsibility. Pakistan yesterday urged Afghanistan to provide hard [...]
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is likely to know by December 25 if the Supreme Court will hear his appeal against the recent high court decision to extradite him to Sweden where he faces charges of sexual assault. Assange can [...]
Washington: Just years after US resumed weapons sales to New Delhi, India has jumped to become third biggest arms purchaser from America logging contracts worth over USD 4.5 billion last year alone. Had the US firms bagged India’s biggest ever [...]
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