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NEW DELHI: India’s top court rejected Friday a plea to dismiss criminal cases against the nation’s most celebrated artist M.F. Hussain filed by Hindu extremists over his controversial religious paintings. The ruling came weeks after Hussain, a Muslim who has riled Hindu radicals with his portrayals of Hindu goddesses, sometimes in the nude, announced he [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muttahida Kissan Mahaz (PMKM) has demanded of the government to move a resolution in Untied Nation (UN) through its attache on the water terrorism launched by India. Addressing a gathering at Rampura Moza Ghwind, a village situated at zero line of Pakistan-Indian border, the PMKM President Ayub Mayo and PMKM Punjab President [...]
LAHORE: Almost all leading newspapers in India published on Saturday a railways department’s advertisement that shows capital New Delhi located across the border in Pakistan. According to ZeeNews, the Eastern Railway’s ad appeared to announce the inauguration of Maharaja’s Express, from Kolkata to Nalanda. The railways authorities, however, absolved themselves of any responsibility, saying it [...]
CHICAGO: The charming Pakistani-American man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a Chicago court. David Coleman Headley, 49, admitted to using a friend’s immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark on behalf of two [...]
WASHINGTON: Another terrorist attack in India could reignite India-Pakistan tensions in 2010, increasing the risk of miscalculation between two nuclear states, warns commander
VASCO: India on Wednesday said 42 militant training camps were operating in Pakistan and accused the country’s government of making little effort to close them. The accusation came after the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met last month for the first official talks since the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which India blames on Pakistani [...]
MUMBAI: A week after Amitabh Bachchan accepted Kerala`s request to become the state`s brand ambassador to promote tourism, the move is apparently facing stiff opposition. “I would not like to name those who have expressed their displeasure in inviting Big B to promote Kerala tourism. A few social and cultural personalities have said that this [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s home-grown missile interception system failed to shoot down an incoming missile during a test Monday, a Defence Ministry official said. A medium-range and nuclear-capable Prithvi II surface-to-surface missile was fired from a test site in the eastern state of Orissa, but the interceptor missile failed to take off due to a technical [...]
NEW DELHI: Indian Home Secretary Gopal Pillai has said that a bombing that killed 16 people in Pune last month was carried out by home-grown Islamists with alleged links to militants in Pakistan, reports Reuters. “All the evidence which is coming currently is showing that it is the IM (Indian Mujahideen), rather than a Hindu [...]
MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai said on Sunday they have arrested two men they say were preparing to attack several targets in India
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was informed by the law enforcing agencies that India is involve in the string of coordinated explosions in Lahore. PM chaired a high level meeting in Islamabad to review the security situation prevailing in the country. The law enforcing agencies informed that evidence of Indian involvement was found in [...]
NEW DELHI: Russia will build up to 16 nuclear reactors for power stations in India, Russia’s deputy premier said during a visit
NEW DELHI: Even as Pakistan struggled to deal with a spate of deadly terror attacks on Lahore on Friday, it also had to cope with a dire warning from India that another cross-border attack on its soil would invite a swift and decisive response from New Delhi. The warning came from Home Minister P. Chidambaram [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States continues to worry that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, RSS, VHP & Bajrang Dal can cause a war between India and Pakistan, a senior US military commander told a congressional panel on Wednesday. Lt-Gen Francis Kearney, deputy commander, US Special Operations Command, told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that while the United States [...]
NEW DELHI: United Nations report claims that Asia is “missing” about 96 million women — the vast majority in China and India
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has become the new ‘battlefield’ between India and Pakistan as Indian agents have taken ‘revenge’ in Kandahar on Thursday by killing five Pakistanis. The Indians had earlier accused Pakistani agents of killing 17 people, including nine Indians, in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse. Pakistan has refuted the Indian allegation. The Afghan secret [...]
NEW DELHI: India said Friday it was open to talks with Pakistan but no meaningful progress could be made until Islamabad controls the “terror machine” operating on its soil. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was a strong advocate of dialogue with Pakistan but Islamabad must not allow territory under its control “to be [...]
It is unfortunate that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor hijacked a successful trip by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Riyadh. Tharoor’s remark that Saudi Arabia could be an interlocutor for talks between New Delhi and Islamabad was embarrassing. Tharoor may be indiscreet but I suspect that somehow, he got the impression that [...]
NEW DELHI: At least 63 people, more than half of them children, were killed in a stampede triggered by a massive rush for free food and clothes at a Hindu temple in northern India on Thursday, police said. Thousands of people had gathered at the old temple at Kunda village in Uttar Pradesh state for [...]
HYDERABAD (India): An Indian navy plane performing aerobatics at an air show crashed into a building in the city of Hyderabad on Wednesday, killing both pilots and injuring four people on the ground, police said. A.K. Khan, police commissioner, said the pilot unsuccessfully tried to eject from the Kiran aircraft as it went down and [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
