AHMEDABAD: Rahul Gandhi sees shades of Mao Zedong in Narendra Modi. On a whistle-stop tour of Gujarat on Friday that took him to three cities, he faced a barrage of questions on the chief minister's development work.
Finally in Ahmedabad, when yet another student had the same poser for him...
World’s most polluted cities | The Sun |News|Green
CHOKING smog, fume-filled skies and toxic soil - a deadly cocktail of pollutants alien to most Westerners.
But this is the grim reality in Cherepovets, Russia, one of the world's most polluted cities and home to dozens of...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/asia/06india.html?hp
NEW DELHI Senior American military commanders have sought to press India to formally disavow an obscure military doctrine that they contend is fueling tensions between India and Pakistan and hindering the American war effort in...
A big item on President Obamas India to-do list this weekend is securing a $5 billion deal for Boeing to sell 10 of its C-17 cargo planes.
The agreement, for which Boeing and American officials have long laid the groundwork, would be part of a flurry of military equipment deals that...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during midday prayers on Friday, according to government officials, apparently striking at worshipers who denied support to the Taliban.
Officials estimated the death toll at...
THE Chinese authorities condemnation of the Nobel committees selection of Liu Xiaobo, the jailed political activist, as the winner of the 2010 Peace Prize inadvertently illustrates why human rights are worth defending.
The authorities assert that no one has the right to interfere in Chinas...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/09/28/us/politics/AP-US-US-Pakistan-Aid.html?hp
WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning that the United States will set tougher conditions on nations receiving U.S. aid.
Singling out major aid recipient Pakistan...
IAF planning to induct 10 Airborne Warning and Control Systems - The Times of India
.Now this will help us deploy atleast 3 phalcons on pakistan side and others on eastern front
NEW DELHI: Having already procured three Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), the Indian Air Force is...
For sale 50+ nuclear weapons – proceeds to disaster relief Age and Annie's Ramblings
Some people are blinded by the western media as a result of which they cannot look for the misery in Pakistan right now.
This morning, I was asked to give money to the continuing disaster...
there was a riot near kolkata and not a single mainstream media reported it...why?
Normally when the Army is called in to maintain order in the immediate neighborhood of Kolkata, police personnel are injured, places of worship are desecrated, shops of a particular religious community are...
Anti-India mindset hurting Pak relief - Pakistan - World - The Times of India
WASHINGTON: The United Nations has appealed urgently for helicopters to reach tens of thousands of Pakistanis marooned by the calamitous floods while scores of choppers idle in Indian hangars in the face of...
Man...this is awful.guess development has headaches too..
China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km - Yahoo! News
BEIJING (AFP) Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and...
India/Pakistan - A factual comparison - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com
A factual comparison.I am not adding any views or anything.
by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer on Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Indian Population:
1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)
Pakistan Population...
Rory Medcalf: India's Nuclear Example - WSJ.com
U.S. President Barack Obama's nuclear-security summit this week raised speculation in the media once again about a South Asian arms race. There is understandably deep concern in many capitals about the apparent acceleration of Pakistan's...
Sadanand Dhume: The Pakistan Problem - WSJ.com
Those who accuse Barack Obama of cold-shouldering Britain and stiff-arming Israel might find his choice of a country to shower with praise somewhat perplexing. According to the White House, the president opened a meeting Sunday with Pakistani...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/01/world/AP-EU-Russia-New-Bomber.html
MOSCOW (AP) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will build a new strategic bomber, a move that comes as the nation tries to upgrade its aging military arsenal.
Putin said in televised remarks...
WASHINGTON: The US has categorically told Pakistan that it would not get any atomic power plant or civilian nuclear deal on the lines of the one signed with India.
"The United States is working closely with Pakistan to help meet its growing needs. Nuclear power is not currently part of our...
NEW DELHI: Russia is all set to reassert its numero uno status in the Indian defence market with another mega arms deal. The two nations are now
poised to ink the around $1.2 billion contract for 29 more MiG-29K fighter jets for Indian Navy.
A Russian team will arrive in New Delhi this week...
Found this article recently..I think this lady does not represents the true bitterness of pakistanis..
After Mr. Obamas speech at West Point, newspapers and talk shows here were full of heated commentary that those demands would push Pakistan further toward disaster. Approval of...
Pakistan is being bombed daily by terrorists yet if a few sections of society are to be believed all the fault lies with India and US.
They exhibit classic case of mass paranoia just like in the days of cold war and hamper peace process between India and the moderate Pakistan which does not...