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Why Israel fears a free Egypt By Aaron David Miller Friday, February 4, 2011 Having dealt with the Israelis for the better part of 40 years, I have learned never to dismiss or trivialize their foundational fears. As both former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and current premier...

Keep Politics Out Curb terror, whichever direction it comes from Malegaon in Maharashtra, the Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan – belatedly but with gathering momentum, evidence is emerging of a network of fundamentalist Hindutva organisations...

Digvijay endorses 26/11 as RSS plot, proves Karkare call It's difficult to ignore Digvijay Singh: Barely hours after creating a furore by saying the RSS, Mossad and the CIA were behind 26/11 in a new book, the veteran Congress leader has furnished call records that prove that he, indeed, did...

Is Iran About to Test a Nuclear Bomb In North Korea? By Reza Kahlili On December 24, a research report from the South Korean Foreign Ministry Institute indicated that North Korea would carry out another nuclear bomb test after the beginning of the year. -- South Korean media reported...

‘Pandit Godse’ a patriot... did not come from Italy: Sena Mumbai: Even as a mention of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in the souvenir of a recent Marathi literary meet in Thane led to protests by the NCP and Congress workers, forcing the organisers to hastily withdraw it, the Shiv...

IN PRINCIPLE Rise of the east in a new clash of civilizations MINHAZ MERCHANT As this adolescent century unfolds, four competing civilizations will shape it. This new contest of civilizations could determine the balance of power between nations and regions for generations...

CHANGING STANCE India dilutes stand to join pipeline via Pak TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The government on Tuesday cleared the way for India joining later this week a US-backed project, which may cost over $10 billion, for wheeling gas from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan and...

Taking down America By Alfred W McCoy A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don't bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a...

01/12/2010 'Nothing will stop Pak Army from supporting anti-India militants' London: Four militant groups, including India focussed Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), receives covert support from Pakistan's influential army and "no amount of money" from America will change the policy, according to a...

Bomb Kills Iranian Nuclear Scientist By WILLIAM YONG and ALAN COWELL TEHRAN — Unidentified assailants riding motorcycles launched bomb attacks early on Monday against two Iranian nuclear physicists here, killing one of them and prompting accusations that the United States and Israel were...

Wikileaks: S Arabia had urged US to attack Iran London: Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region urged US to attack Iran and destroy its nuclear facilities, The Guardian reported citing the secret US diplomatic communications leaked Sunday by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. The...

The rise of Muslim innovators By Christopher M. Schroeder Friday, November 26, 2010 The sold-out gathering had the earmarks of a typical Silicon Valley event: more than 2,400 hungry entrepreneurs and investors, most young adults, tethered to their mobile devices - sharing, debating...

Oops ... wrong man! Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the "senior Taliban leader" flown secretly to Kabul and paid a large amount of money to open negotiations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and President Hamid Karzai's administration, was not who he claimed to be. The...

I recieved this mail in my inbox today. Thought of sharing with you guys. Fighter Indians are poor but India is not a poor country”. Says one of the swiss bank directors. He says that “280 lacs crore (280,00,000,000,0000) of Indian rupees is deposited in swiss banks which can be...

Obama In The Neighbourhood Pakistan needs to effectively size up the post-Cold War reality of India-US ties Sherry Rehman There are no two views in Pakistan that the endorsement of a permanent UN Security Council seat for India by US President Barack Obama on his India...

Hundreds killed in Cambodian festival stampede At least 345 people have been killed in a stampede during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said. Huge crowds had gathered on a small island for the final day of the Water Festival, one of...

Maoists are 'patriot of a kind': Arundhati Bhubaneshwar: Glorifying Maoists as 'patriot of a kind', controversial writer Arundhati Roy accused Prime Minister and Union Home minister of "violating the Constitution and PESA (Panchayat Extention of Scheduled Areas) act by allowing corporates to...

AN ATOL EXCLUSIVE Pakistan opens its door to US ops By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani Embassy in Washington has lifted all scrutiny mechanisms for granting visas to defense-related American officials. Under the new procedures, implemented two weeks ago, officials will be...

At 17k cr, Tejas cost zooms 3000% Project Was Approved In ’83 For 560Cr, Final Rollout Only By ’18 Rajat Pandit | TNN New Delhi: India will spend Rs 17,269 crore in the overall developmental programme of Tejas light combat aircraft, which was first approved in 1983 at a...

Highest resolution photo: 80gigapixel London panorama London: An 80 gigapixel image of London shows the city in unprecedented detail and glory, qualifying as the world's largest, highest-resolution panoramic photo that even reveals life inside buildings. It is so detailed that users...