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The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance’s political management skills may be put to the test in the Rajya Sabha if it manages to form the next government. With just 64 members in a House of 240, the NDA may find it difficult to get its legislative agenda through in...

11. Before taking a stroll in a Japanese flower garden, Take a romantic walk in Nainital. 12. Before you get dwarfed by the statue of “Christ The Redeemer” in Brazil, Get dwarfed by Saint Thiruvalluvar’s statue in Kanyakumari. 13. And before you take selfies at the Arc de Triomphe in...

6. Before you chill on the beaches of Brazil, Give the beaches of Goa a chance. 7. Before you go “Woah” about the bridges in Taiwan, Go “Hoodi-Baba” at Howrah Bridge in Kolkata. 8. Before you feast your eyes on the flowers in Antelope Valley in the U.S.A, Drink in the colours of...

1. Before you get lost in the beauty of Switzerland, Find your piece of paradise in Kashmir. 2. Before you get drenched at the Niagara Falls, Get drenched at the Chitrakoot Falls in Chhattisgarh. 3. Before you surf the sands of the Sahara, Tame the dunes of the Thar. 4. Before...

The first and the loudest to complain against news of the outgoing Manmohan Singh government initiating the process to select a new Army chief was General V.K. Singh, now transitioning to full-time politics as a BJP Lok Sabha contestant. The protest was strange, particularly coming from a...

By Arun Jaitley Looking back at Dr.Manmohan Singh The voting for the 2014 General Elections is over. The result is awaited. We have only the Exit Polls and our own analysis as a base to speculate upon. Dr. Manmohan Singh has announced that he would be stepping down as Prime Minister...

By Sunil Mittal I have been meaning to write this piece for a few weeks, but every time I start, I hesitate to do so as I am reminded of the sermons I received from Shri Yashwant Sinha in this very paper, after I penned down an open letter to the opposition exhorting them to support some very...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN / ISLAMABAD: Entrenched in secret mountain bases along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Uighur fighters are gearing up for retribution against China to avenge the deaths of the associates in Beijing’s crackdown on a separatist movement, their leader says. China has long...

My grandfather was in Sikh regiment , I remember my grandfather telling me that Gurkhas are the bravest warriors

New Delhi, 1982: When India last hosted the Asian Games. (Express archive) Even before it makes a formal case to host the 2019 Asian Games, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is facing a race against time just to meet the deadline for submitting an official bid for the event. The Olympic...

It was around 5.30 in the evening when we reached the Darul Aman Palace, a European-style palace, now in ruins, on the outskirts of Kabul. Quite late for Afghanistan, the security guards informed our Afghan friend in Dari, a Persian dialect widely spoken in Afghanistan, that the palace was...

Myra MacDonald May 7, 2014 On the day that Pakistani television talk show host Hamid Mir was shot and wounded in Karachi, I was visiting the tulip gardens in Kashmir. It is a cliché to cite the tulip gardens, with their clusters of garishly dressed Indian tourists, as evidence of how peace has...

Travelers from Sindh,KP,Balochistan to Punjab to show polio vaccination certificates LAHORE: People traveling to Punjab from other provinces of Pakistan will now have to present polio vaccination certificates. Health Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique told DawnNews on...

In recent years, wild polio virus found in Iraq, Syria; and in sewage in Israel, West Bank-Gaza, Cairo has been traced back to Pakistan : WHO

KARACHI: The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistan due to the rising number of polio cases in the country. The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling...

The international community can no longer ignore the alarming rise in violence directed at Pakistan’s Shia minority. By Waris Husain May 02, 2014 Last month the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Dignitaries from around the world delivered speeches to mark the...

Last transmission from late Maj Birendra Singh of 13th Battalion, The Sikh Light Infantry Regiment, stating; "Not to worry, We'll hold on..."

KARACHI: A Saudi prince has poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai, Balochistan, during which the royal also indulged in illegal hunting in protected areas, says a report. The report titled ‘Visit of Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz...

The first and the loudest to complain against news of the outgoing Manmohan Singh government initiating the process to select a new Army chief was General V.K. Singh, now transitioning to full-time politics as a BJP Lok Sabha contestant. The protest was strange, particularly coming from a...

Will vote for Captain Amarinder Singh (Amritsar)