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Jun 04, Colombo: Both India and the United States have commended the progress in Sri Lanka's path towards national reconciliation and promised assistance to Sri Lanka to attain sustainable peace. On the sidelines of the 2012 Shangri-La Dialogue Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Prof G. L...

The US and Japan were plotting to play China against India for strategic depth in the region, a government newspaper said on Monday, adding that Beijing needs to have a clear diplomatic strategy to engage with New Delhi and deter the “plot”. The usually stringently nationalistic Global version...

Did the 20th century make us big-headed? Maybe so, since forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville found that white Americans' heads are getting bigger and bigger...in size, that is. The researchers studied about 1,500 skulls that dated from the mid-1800s through...

A Chinese teenager was about to end his life when a woman came to his rescue. The woman kissed the boy long enough for firefighters to pull him in from the ledge of the pedestrian overpass. Apparently, the boy felt lonely and helpless, and saw suicide as the only way to end his...

Well, this one's kind of surprising: Grub Street has gotten its hands on papers filed against the Forest Hills branch of Baluchi's Indian restaurants, which allege that the restaurant discriminates against brown people. Say, what? Yes, it seems that some diners were charged a mandatory gratuity...

Three years ago, in 2008 to be precise, a Mumbai girl called Varalaxmi Pillai, daughter of a domestic help, won the Sheriff's Scholarship for Women to the University of Westminster, London. Varalaxmi left her Kanjurmarg home and her job with the travel house Thomas Cook, to start a new life. She...

A woman who defied a driving ban on female motorists in Saudi Arabia has died in a car crash. Another was hurt in the crash in the only country in the world where females are banned from getting behind the wheel. A police spokesman said that one of the women was killed instantly but the...

As the Supreme Court attempts to decide whether rules need to be framed on journalists reporting court matters and other sub-judice cases, a petitioner has suggested following the model of the UK Supreme Court which created a press office to help reporters covering court cases. The Supreme...

Experts have described Maoists as the growing threat to India's internal security, and one of the ways it can be tackled is by focussing on inclusive growth in areas under their influence. While the Indian Government has described the Maoists as the biggest threat to the country, Peter...

Russia, China and India are hotbeds of piracy, and their disregard for copyright laws has landed them on the U.S. Trade Representative's annual list of the biggest intellectual-property offenders. Also joining them as the worst of the bunch are Israel, Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Chile...

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'Weekly Press Pakistan' wishes Israel happy birthday Toronto-based newspaper highlights Israel's contribution to technology, urges Jewish state to 'recognize significance of non-Arab Pakistanis and Ajmi Muslims' "Anyone who denies the existence of Israel, actually denies his own existence,"...

VIENNA: Austria's foreign minister on Thursday slammed India and Pakistan's recent missile tests, insisting states' continued pursuit of nuclear weapons was "flat out irresponsible". "The tests of an Indian long-range missile a week ago and of an intermediate-range missile by Pakistan on...

Kolkata: There are reports that a military training aircraft (believed to be PT6 aircraft) from Bangladesh has made an emergency landing at Salar in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. The plane took off from an airbase Jessore in Bangladesh. The pilot Rashid has been found and is being...

Emerging markets have become a favored destination for businesses looking to expand and India is no exception. In fact, Japan is increasingly looking toward that nation for opportunity. In the last two years alone the number of Japanese businesses in India has doubled. What's pushing the move...

GHARAUNDA (KARNAL), APRIL 23: Israeli agri scientists are imparting training and providing seeds to farmers in Haryana to grow vegetables throughout the year even in the condition of water scarcity. The centre of excellence in vegetable set up by Israel in partnership with India at...