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NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday that 641 Indians, including 436 fishermen, were languishing in Pakistani jails. He told the Rajya Sabha that the lists of prisoners the two countries had exchanged on March 31 were being checked. A final list would...

NEW DELHI: Minutes before the Olympic torch relay began, an eerie silence enveloped Rajpath. The only sound that broke the hush was the strains of kirtan from nearby Rakabganj gurudwara. The shrine functioned as usual, seemingly unmindful of the almost war like situation that prevailed...

ISLAMABAD - Around a dozen men gang raped two women in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab to avenge a love marriage, the police said on Friday. “The men abducted the women, one of them pregnant, and raped them in a nearby jungle for two days last month in the Rohallanwali area of...

Karachi: Dozens of Muslim workers beat to death a Hindu colleague at a factory in Karachi on Tuesday for alleged blasphemy. According to the media reports the worker named Jagdish Kumar, 25, was tortured and killed at the garments factory after a heated debate on religion. Narrating the...

A few days ago, Irfan Habib, a noted researcher and author of TO MAKE THE DEAF HEAR — Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades sent his thoughtful piece on the legendary Bhagat Singh. Incidentally, Bhagat Singh was hanged on Pakistan’s Republic Day - March 23 though nine years...

An Australian man and his daughter have asked for understanding after revealing on national TV they have an incestuous relationship, and have a daughter. John Deaves, 61, appeared on the TV show 60 Minutes with daughter Jenny, 39, and nine-month-old Celeste - to whom he is both father and...

A high-powered committee appointed by the government to overhaul the working of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has called for major administrative changes that would give DRDO a significant say in defence purchases. The committee headed by P Rama Rao, a former...

New Delhi, Apr 3 For the first time, India and Germany will undertake a bilateral Navy exercise from April 8 off Kochi in the Arabian Sea. According to officials at the German embassy, New Delhi, taking forward the defence cooperation between India and Germany, the German Navy will be...

BEIJING (AFP) — China has warned it would step up a controversial "re-education" campaign for Tibetans after a fresh protest showed a huge security crackdown had failed to extinguish nearly one month of unrest. The statement in the state-run Tibet Daily newspaper called for Buddhist monks to...

Beijing-New York (PTI): Muslim extremists in Xinjiang had tried to stage an "uprising" against the Chinese rule in the restive oil-rich region last month when Beijing was engaged in quelling pro-independence protests in Tibet, the local government said on wednesday. A "small number of...

Ordinary people were kept well away from the Olympic torch as it arrived on Chinese soil for the first time. Only a few thousand handpicked guests were invited to take part in the ceremony held in the gigantic Tiananmen Square. Earlier there had been no opportunity to see the flame travel...

The banned group’s general secretary rode a post-Babri Masjid jihadist tide New Delhi: A thick red line ran through the words ‘democracy,’ ‘secularism’ and ‘polytheism,’ followed by an emphatic “No!” Some of the other slogans the Students Islamic Movement of India had plastered across...

GAZA — Israeli aircraft and troops attacked Palestinian positions in northern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 46 people and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest day of fighting in more than a year. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded, the military said. Hamas militants...

Pointing out that the number of civilian deaths has jumped sharply after the election of Rajapakse Government and that "the present government displays little appetite for peace," Director of Small Arms Survey in Geneva, Robert Muggah, in an article appearing in Canada's The Star, recommends...

slamabad - Nationwide riots continued early Friday following the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, with angry mobs torching dozens of vehicles and government buildings, ransacking several banks and shops, and clashing with police. At least 15 people were killed in...

Nation celebrates Quaid’s 131st birthday LAHORE: The 131st birthday anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is being celebrated by the nation on Tuesday (today) with solemn pledge to imbibe Quaid's motto, Unity, Faith and Discipline and to transform the country into a true Islamic...

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- A 48-hour hostage standoff at a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir ended early Tuesday with the death of three militants and the rescue of the two hostages, a police official said. "All the hostaged civilians have been safely rescued from the...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A deal between the government and the Maoists to abolish monarchy has injected fresh hope for peace in Nepal but ethnic tensions in the southern plains are expected to remain a major challenge. After months of pressure from the former rebels, the government agreed on...