Operation Flowers Are Blooming
India had taken an active security role in the Indian Ocean since the mid 1980s. In 1986, India's security role in Seychelles crystallised over a series of coup attempts against President René led by the Seychelles Minister of Defence, Ogilvy Berlouis. Many of...
A close aide to US President Barack Obama has warned the president about the imminent downfall of the ruling monarchy in Saudi Arabia.
Bruce Riedel, an adviser on foreign policy to US President Barack Obama and also director for Near East and North African Affairs in the US National...
The Census Bureau forecasts that the U.S. will become a minority-majority population for the first time in 2043, according to its first set of new population projections based on the most recent 2010 U.S. Census,
This means that non-Hispanic whites will, for the first time, comprise less than...
The growing influence of China and India in
Africa is being watched with skepticism. Many
see the rising Asian economic powers as new
colonial masters exploiting resource-rich Africa
solely for their own benefit. In August 2012, US Secretary-of-State Hillary
Clinton brought the scorn of...
Despite numerous sanctions and pressure on Iran by the U.S. and the EU, Turkey has always supported the country's position in its nuclear program, TRT Haber TV channel quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying.
According to Erdogan, Turkey's relations with other countries...
In a Developed Car Market, Indian Vehicles are Scored a Notch above Chinese ones just below the Korean ones.
First drive: Australia
Indian Designed and Indian Made Cars are Better than Chinese Designed and Chinese Made Cars.
Indian Engineering > Chinese Engineering.
If you admired the Aston Martin Vanquish which
James Bond drove in Die Another Day, then you
must feel proud of the fact that it was designed
by an Indian. So, Dilip Chhabria, who started off
as an auto designer in 1993, is on his way to
becoming a niche auto manufacturer. Avanti His firm...
A small group of protesters, most of whom were reported to be women, destroyed an Iranian police post protecting the French embassy in Tehran on Tuesday and threw stones at visitors before being arrested, a diplomat inside the embassy told AFP.
The violent demonstration lasted 90 minutes and...
'My culture of origin is infecting America with fear of speaking the truth'
Islamic countries indoctrinate children with hatred toward Israel and teach them Israel has no historic claim to the land or the city of Jerusalem, Nonie Darwish, founder of Arabs for Israel, told WND’s Greg...
Google rose one per cent to $761.78 at the close in New York, gaining a market capitalization of about $249.9 billion. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, fell less than one per cent to $29.49, for a valuation of $247.2 billion.
Google beats Microsoft's market value
ON the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, I would like to express my greetings to those Chinese and overseas Chinese who work, study and live in western Saudi Arabia on behalf of the countrys Consulate General in Jeddah.
China has undergone...
AFTER months of negotiations and investing in consultancy fees and feasibility studies over Bangladeshs controversial Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB), Malaysia may potentially face a raw deal or be at a losing end over the project.
Malaysia got connected with the US$2.9 billion (RM8.9...
The Indian Confederation of Indigenous Tribal People (ICITP) has vehemently condemned the systematic attack on the indigenous Jumma tribes in Bangladesh's Rangamati district and urged upon the Bangladesh government to diffuse the tension immediately.
ICITP (North East Zone) president Jebra...
Nasa's Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found clear evidence its landing site was once awash in water, a key ingredient for life, scientists said Thursday.
Curiosity, a roving chemistry laboratory...
The $15,000 that factory worker Li Jianli saved up to buy his white Toyota Corolla turned out to be nowhere near the costliest part of the deal. He nearly paid with his life.
Li was out in the central city of Xian on a recent Saturday afternoon looking for an apartment for his...
Heard Sunny Leone, who has definite plans to pursue a career as an actor in Bollywood, has yet to find her dream home in Mumbai.
Our source told us that Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber (who also helps her in writing and creating their own brand of adult movies) are seriously hunting for an...
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple's iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in northern China on Monday after about 2,000 workers staged a riot at a company dormitory.
It was not immediately clear how long the shutdown would...
China aims to become a world technological power by 2049 and strives to be a leading nation in innovation and scientific development, according to a government document released on Sunday.
The document, released by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, or the...
British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran's supreme leader, said in an interview published last Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam.
Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 fatwa from...