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New Delhi: Terming the Persian Gulf region India's "natural partner", Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Sunday reiterated that India supports Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and will join hands with the international community to counter problems of piracy in the Indian Ocean...

Peter Rakobowchuk The Canadian Press OTTAWA—It won’t look like a scene from Star Wars, but the man in charge of space development for the defence department predicts the initial steps of the next major conflict are more than likely to start in orbit and Canada should be prepared. There...

Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil’s visit to the UAE draws great importance as it is part of the efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries in economic, trade, labour, political and cultural avenues. The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al...

No War, No Peace For two years, India has been grappling with a heightened threat perception on its borders with China. VK SHASHIKUMAR on the complex preparations for a war that may not happen CHINESE PREMIER Wen Jiabao is to visit New Delhi in the middle of December. His visit would mark...

ISLAMABAD - The United States has renewed pressure on Pakistan to expand the areas where CIA drones can operate inside the country, reflecting concern that the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is being undermined by insurgents' continued ability to take sanctuary across the border, U.S. and...

UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly committee that deals with human rights issues adopted separate resolutions by strong majorities, condemning human rights violations in Iran, Burma and North Korea. While the US voted "yes" for the resolutions on all three countries, India voted "no"...

LONDON: A man playing video games was so enraged by the crying of a 15-month-old girl who was seeking his attention that he hit her hard, rupturing her internal organs and leading to her death. Gary Alcock was angry with his girlfriend's daughter, 15-month-old Violet Mullen, when she began...

Nicolas Sarkozy was today urged to break his silence over the most potentially damaging corruption scandal of his career: an inquiry into whether he authorised illegal kickbacks from arms sales to Pakistan to fund a political campaign. L'affaire Karachi is the most explosive corruption...

Airshow China, which opened in Zhuhai on November 17, 2010, is expected to map out future relations in the aerospace industry among Russia, India and China, the three largest countries in Eurasia. The trade show should provide answers to several questions. The main question is whether China's...

The idea is to reach $20 billions in trade by 2015 The high-level meeting on Thursday to prepare for next month's summit meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev saw progress in the expansion of ties beyond the traditional military, space and...

Russia and India are highly likely to sign a fifth-generation fighter design contract in December, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday. Russia's Sukhoi holding and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) agreed in early 2010 to jointly develop a fifth-generation fighter...

NEW DELHI: India and African nations are eyeing trade worth $70 billion over the next two years as the world’s third-largest economy has shown its keenness to reach separate free trade agreements with each country on the continent. “Free trade agreements (FTA) between India and different...

Pakistan to arm jets with Chinese missiles BEIJING - PAKISTAN has confirmed it will buy Chinese missiles and flight systems to equip its 250 JF-17 Thunder jet fighters as it seeks to deepen military cooperation with Beijing, state media said on Thursday. Rao Qamar Suleman, air chief...

In late 2009, websites monitoring China's armed forces reported that Shenyang Aircraft, a leading military aircraft manufacturer in the country, made a test flight for a fighter jet that closely resembled Russia's Sukhoi Su-33. Photographs of the jet emerged a few months later, confirming a...