Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:12:47 +0000

Wellington, Aug 31 (ANI): The betting scandal charge levelled against four Pakistani cricketers could in all probability dent the composition of the side for their next tour of New Zealand later in the year. The allegations of spot fixing which emerged during the fourth test against England at the weekend have thrown a dark shadow over [...]

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:46:30 +0000

Chicago, Aug 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Former Illinois Governor – Rod Blagojevich has been convicted on just 1 count of speaking the untruth to the federal agents. The jury wasn’t able to convict him on any of the leftover 23 counts. The prosecutors were devastated at the result and they revealed that they plan [...]

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:06:38 +0000

New Delhi, Aug.18 (ANI): Project managers responsible for providing back-end support systems during the October Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, has expressed concern over the non-availability of new Infostrada Content Management System (ICMS). Hairul Sukaime, Infostrada Sports, Project Manager and Phillip Garrett, Infostrada Sports, Assistant Project Manager are reported to have said that with just [...]

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:06:18 +0000

New Delhi, Aug 18 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will visit Hyderabad on Wednesday evening to inaugurate the International Mathematicians Congress, which would be held from August 19 to 27. The International Mathematical Union is organizing the Congress in collaboration with the University of Hyderabad. Over 3000 delegates from all over the world are taking part in [...]

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:48:17 +0000

New Delhi, Aug.12 (ANI): Union Finance Minister and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha, Pranab Mukherjee, on Thursday said that the Central Government will not allow caste-based census to affect the integrity of the head count in the country. Assuring members of the Lok Sabha on this issue, Mukherjee said that the [...]

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:50:39 +0000

New Delhi, Aug. 11 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday said that the Prevention of Torture Bill will meet United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT) Standards. Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday said: “India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention against [...]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:45:12 +0000

New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The teams for the Davis Cup World Group tie and the Commonwealth Games will be picked Friday by the selection committee and executive committee of All India Tennis Association (AITA). The selection committee will also decide the probables for the November Asian Games. India will be playing the Davis Cup World [...]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:11:19 +0000

London, Aug. 10 (ANI): Indian American engineer Noshir Gowadia has expressed disappointment over the US Government accusing and charging him of spying for China. Gowadia was convicted on 14 of 17 counts, including conspiracy, violating the arms export control act, tax evasion and money laundering. He was acquitted on charges of knowingly communicating national defence information. The [...]

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:27:41 +0000

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Terming the situation in Kashmir as one “of total anarchy”, with the government “clueless” about dealing with it, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Sunday that the presence of security forces in the Valley should not be diluted. “In the Kashmir Valley, [...]

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:45:11 +0000

August 7, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): It is a known fact now that the moment promos of Dabangg hit the air, the makers of We Are Family had no qualms in pre-poning the film’s release. Owing to Salman Khan’s action entertainer building some instant hype on the basis of a two minute promo, it [...]

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:34:49 +0000

New Delhi, Aug 4 (ANI): Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo called on Home Minister P. Chidambaram here on Tuesday. Both leaders discussed a wide range of bilateral issues with the intention of furthering mutual interests and friendship. Yeo, who is currently on a five-day official visit to India, said the meeting was intended to cement ties [...]

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:05:28 +0000

New Delhi, Aug.3 (ANI): Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo, who is currently on a five-day visit to India called on the External Affairs Minister, S.M. Krishna, in the national capital on Tuesday. Both the leaders are believed to have discussed issues of bilateral, regional and international significance. On Monday, Yeo participated in the sixth meeting [...]

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:35:25 +0000

August 3, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): ‘Dinner For Schmucks’ happens to be the latest motion picture in which the actor, Steve Carell, has been a protagonist. Sandra Bullock, the actress of ‘The Blindside’, is now steadily reintegrating herself with the world of entertainment. It has now been reported that the two have enrolled [...]

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:01:15 +0000

New Delhi, Aug 3 (ANI): Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo, who is currently on a five-day visit to India, took part in the sixth meeting of the Nalanda Mentor Group (NMG) here on Monday. Yeo evinced keen interest in the deliberations of the NMG, which is headed by Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen. Yeo is [...]

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:13:09 +0000

July 31, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): 30-year-old Jessica Simpson happens to be the celebrity of ‘Price Of Beauty’. She is a renowned American vocalist and actress. It has now been reported that the gorgeous Jessica is in discussions about accepting the responsibility of a judge in ‘American Idol’, which is one of the [...]

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:00:17 +0000

Islamabad, Jul 28 (ANI): To have an adequate deterrence and curb on terrorism effectively in the country, the Pakistan Government has introduced a comprehensive legislation in the Senate in this regard. Interior Minister Rehman Malik introduced the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2010 to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, which contains several measures to make the law harder [...]

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:08:25 +0000

Kathmandu, July 21 (ANI): The voting process for electing a new Nepal Prime Minister will take place on Wednesday. The race for the prime minister’s post will be between the big three leaders of the major three parties. UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, Nepali Congress (NC) Parliamentary Party Leader Ram Chandra Poudel and CPN-UML [...]

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:04:49 +0000

New Delhi, July 16 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Friday said that he was satisfied with the deliberations undertaken by the Indian and Pakistani delegations in Islamabad during his three-day visit, and ruled out fixing time lines for resolving bilateral issues between the two countries. Addressing a news conference at the airport here soon [...]

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:56:39 +0000

Srinagar, July 11 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is holding a cabinet meeting with his ministers to discuss the agenda of Monday’s all-party meet, which has been called to discuss the present situation in the Kashmir valley. Official sources said the Chief Minister will discuss the agenda of Monday’s meeting with his [...]

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:44:19 +0000

New Delhi, July 11 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has requested People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti to attend the all-party meet on Monday to discuss the present situation in the Kashmir valley. Official sources said Dr Singh called upon Mufti and appealed her to attend the all-party meet convened by Jammu [...]

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:18:07 +0000

Beijing, July 11 (ANI): While Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out handing over the accused November 2008 Mumbai terror attack “non state actors” to India, he remains only “hopeful” of bringing the perpetrators, who wrecked the relationship between both countries, to justice. In an interview to a television channel on the last day of [...]

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:25:11 +0000

Srinagar, July 10 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday made a fresh appeal to the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to attend the all-party meet on Monday to discuss the present situation in the valley. There are reports that Abdullah has written a letter to PDP President Mehbooba Mufti requesting her [...]

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:48:19 +0000

Islamabad, July 6 (ANI): In an unexpected shift of strategy, Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has asked the Gilani government not to link the controversial Kashmir issue with the renewed deliberations with India. Haider said that instead of linking the resolution of Kashmir issue with the ongoing negotiations with India, the [...]

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:06:42 +0000

London, July 2 (ANI): Former West Ham United defender Calum Davenport has been cleared of head butting and biting his sister in a drink-fuelled attack. He was also cleared of trying to throttle his sibling during a drunken row in which he allegedly branded her a “form of cancer”.According to The Sun, Davenport was accused [...]

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:23:10 +0000

Melbourne, July 1 (IANS) Indian American doctor Jayant Patel, who was dubbed “Dr Death” and held guilty of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm on patients at an Australian hospital, was Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison. The sentence was read out in Brisbane Supreme Court. “In view of the verdicts of the jury, there [...]

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:31:47 +0000

Melbourne, June 29 (IANS) Jayant Patel, an Indian origin doctor, was Tuesday held guilty of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm on patients at an Australian hospital. Sixty-year-old Patel, dubbed as “Doctor Death”, was held guilty by a court in Brisbane of manslaughter of three patients and causing grievous bodily harm to a fourth patient, brisbanetimes.com.au [...]

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:50:24 +0000

Melbourne, June 29 (IANS) Jayant Patel, an Indian origin doctor, was Tuesday held guilty of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm on patients at an Australian hospital. Sixty-year-old Patel, dubbed as “Doctor Death”, was held guilty by a court in Brisbane of manslaughter of three patients and causing grievous bodily harm to a fourth patient, brisbanetimes.com.au [...]

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:08:11 +0000

June 27, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Peter Jackson is the brains behind ‘Lord Of The Rings’. He, purportedly, is in deliberations now to come back to Middle Earth and embrace the directorship of ‘The Hobbit’ movies. Jackson is taking into consideration the thought of stepping in and substituting the Mexican, Guillermo del Toro. Toro had [...]

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:22:27 +0000

Islamabad, June 24 (ANI): The two-hour-long foreign secretary-level talks, which took place at the Pakistan Foreign Office here, included a mind reader among the officials taking part in the deliberations. Director General (South Asia) Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi, who sat on Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir’s immediate left, is known for his ability to read faces and [...]

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:22:01 +0000

By Arun Kumar Washington, June 24 (IANS) The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy did not cast a shadow on the deliberations of the India-US CEOs Forum to enhance India-US business ties, according to Commerce and Industry Minister, Anand Sharma. “The subject never came up,” he told reporters Wednesday. “It’s a matter which is sub judice back home. And [...]

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:01:26 +0000

Brisbane, June 23 (ANI): The jury involved in the manslaughter trial of controversial Indian origin surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel has begun its deliberations after Justice John Byrne spent four hours summing up the trial. The trial is in its 14th week and has sat for 53 days during which 76 witnesses have given evidence. According to [...]

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:22:19 +0000

Srinagar, June 22 (IANS) The tendency to disrupt the question hour during the proceedings of parliament and the state assemblies needed to be checked, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said Tuesday. Addressing reporters here at the end of the two-day conference of presiding officers’ of parliament and the assemblies here, she said the conference [...]

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:32:23 +0000

New Delhi, June 20 (ANI): The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram will meet for the third consecutive day on Sunday to discuss environmental issues and the clean up of the toxic waste affected site in Bhopal. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will be making a presentation on the issue before the [...]

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:58:36 +0000

New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) Saturday backed the inclusion of all fields, including medicine and law, under the proposed apex regulator for higher education in the country, despite resistance from the health and law ministries, official sources said. A meeting of CABE, the highest advisory body on education, was [...]

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:23:12 +0000

Kolkata, June 19(ANI): In what seems to be a serious exercise to improve the present West Bengal government’s performance prior the ensuing elections to the state legislature, leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in Kolkata on Saturday. Senior party leaders present at the meeting took stock of the performance of the state government [...]

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:07:32 +0000

New Delhi, June 19 (ANI): The Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the matters related to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy is scheduled to meet here on Saturday. The GoM in its first meeting on Friday deliberated on presentations made by the ministries of Steel, Fertilizers and Chemicals. The GoM is expected to submit its recommendations [...]

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:29:58 +0000

Islamabad, Jun.14 (ANI): The United States has put up stiff conditions on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, stipulating that they cannot be used against India in any future conflict. Pakistan is slated to receive 18 F-16s from the US by the end of this month. According to sources, the stipulations were laid down [...]

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:41:20 +0000

New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday attended a cabinet meeting after a month’s gap as she had been away in Kolkata to campaign for her Trinamool Congress party for the civic polls in West Bengal. “Mamataji attended today’s cabinet meeting and actively participated in the deliberations,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika [...]

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:32:08 +0000

Busan (South Korea), June 5 (ANI): Reiterating the need for building a consensus on the Framework of the G-20 and for refining the Mutual Assessment Process in the second stage, India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: “Since policy actions have to be taken at the country level, we have to see how this important [...]

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:56:22 +0000

Busan (S.Korea), June 4 (ANI): India and South Korea, on Friday said they will put ‘development’ on top of the G-20 agenda. The commitment was made after Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee held discussions with Il Sakong, the chairman of Presidential Committee for the G-20 Finance Ministers Summit. The two days of talks will bring [...]

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:39:40 +0000

Washington, June 3 (ANI): United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said in an opening statement, ahead of the first U.S-India strategic dialogue, that terrorism and nuclear security would be a priority consideration during the deliberations. She also said that U.S. acknowledges India has an important role to play in Afghanistan region. [...]

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:51:12 +0000

Ranchi (Jharkhand), May 31 (ANI): Hectic political parleys continued in Jharkhand on Monday, as uncertainty over the formation of a new Government prevailed in the state following former Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s resignation. Shibu Soren resigned from his post on late Sunday evening after he called on the State Governor M O H Farook.Soren submitted [...]

Sat, 29 May 2010 13:19:06 +0000

New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal, during his 10-day visit to the US beginning Monday, will focus on increasing cooperation in the education sector and attracting American universities to set up their campuses in India, an official said Saturday. Sibal is accompanying External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna for the [...]

Sat, 29 May 2010 12:04:39 +0000

Guwahati, May 29 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s suggestions for taking the peace talks with rebels in Assam forward has been welcomed by some of these groups, including the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Chidamabaram has, however, said that the onus for initiating the next round of peace talks lies with the Assam [...]

Tue, 25 May 2010 14:08:32 +0000

May 25, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The White House of Barack Obama is having discussions with the fervent American campaigners, who espouse the just treatment of gays in the US military. Also involved in the deliberations are American legislators and the bureaucrats of the Pentagon. The discussions fundamentally revolve around a legislative push to [...]

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:21:42 +0000

London, May 25 (IANS) Two boys have been convicted of the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl even though she admitted in court that she lied about her ordeal, a media report said Tuesday. The defendants, who were both 10 at the time, are the youngest people ever to be convicted of the sex offence, Telegraph.co.uk [...]

Tue, 18 May 2010 10:21:36 +0000

Islamabad, May 18 (ANI): Welcoming the resumption of talks between India and Pakistan, Kashmir Committee chairman Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that the Kashmir issue and the Kashmiri leadership should also feature in upcoming deliberations. During a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal here, Rehman demanded the participation of the Kashmiri leadership in any upcoming [...]

Mon, 17 May 2010 15:17:10 +0000

Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Eyeing a 14 percent growth in the current fiscal, the state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is now undertaking modernisation and expansion of its five integrated steel plants. In the first phase, the production capacity will increase from 14 million tonnes to 23.5 million tonnes. “Commissioning of the Salem steel plant [...]

Sun, 16 May 2010 07:16:38 +0000

Lahore, May 16 (ANI): Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawwar Hasan has asked the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) led Government to initiate peace talks with the Taliban, saying if dialogue can be restarted with India then there should also be no harm in deliberations with the extremist outfit. “If composite dialogue can be held with India [...]

Thu, 13 May 2010 22:19:44 +0000

LOS ANGELES (BNO NEWS) — NBC Universal has decided to cancel its long-running procedural drama ‘Law & Order,’ according to a report from Deadline Hollywood on Thursday. The media and entertainment company wouldn’t immediately confirm or deny the report. Deadline Hollywood reported that, after long deliberations, NBC Universal decided to cancel the veteran crime drama. “This [...]

Tue, 11 May 2010 09:36:52 +0000

Islamabad, May 11 (ANI): Rubbishing former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s claims that the Kashmir issue was about to be resolved during former President General Pervez Musharraf’s, participants of a seminar titled “The Near Agreement. What it was” have described such assertions a mere ‘delusion’. Speaking during the seminar, Nazir Ahmed Shaal, Executive Director Kashmir [...]

Tue, 11 May 2010 07:09:13 +0000

Islamabad, May 11 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for the first time has admitted that the failed Times Square bombing plot, purportedly planned by a Pakistan origin man, has adversely affected the relationship between Islamabad and Washington. A private television channel quoted Qureshi as saying that Pakistan’s relations with the US has been ‘damaged’ [...]

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:27:43 +0000

May 10, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Will Smith has put his name down for being a component of the cast in ‘Men In Black 3’. This is the third motion picture in the smash hit franchise. The franchise is about secret agents or spies, who are in charge of keeping a watch over [...]

Sat, 08 May 2010 05:03:10 +0000

Islamabad, May 8 (ANI): The death sentence awarded to Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving November 2008 Mumbai carnage gunman, would not affect any future talks between New Delhi and Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said. Talking to reporters here, Qureshi clarified that the Mumbai special anti-terror court’s judgement against Kasab would [...]

Thu, 06 May 2010 15:11:57 +0000

By Alka Pande – CNS The need to involve men to check violence against women has recently emerged as a strong tool for effective handling of the issue. Understanding the need and to share their views and experiences on the issue, activists from six North Indian states will gather at Lucknow – the capital of the [...]

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:10:38 +0000

Islamabad, Apr 28 (ANI): Pakistan on Wednesday distanced itself from the alleged spy ring, in which an Indian diplomat has been arrested. Islamabad said it was for New Delhi to probe the issue as it involves an Indian national. Interacting with media, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit said it was India’s internal matter and [...]

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:17:07 +0000

Islamabad, Apr.27 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Islamabad is making all efforts both through the diplomatic and backdoor channels to resolve all pending issues with New Delhi. Interacting with media persons on board his special aircraft enroute to Thimpu, where he would be attending the 16th South Asian Association for [...]

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:05:11 +0000

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A bill proposing punishment for torture inflicted by public servants or torture inflicted by someone with the consent of public servants was introduced in the Lok Sabha Monday. Introducing the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said: “The proposed legislation, inter alia, defines the expression ‘torture’, provides [...]

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:18:42 +0000

Multan, Apr.24 (ANI): Urging India to sit at the discussion table, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said dialogue is the only way forward for both nuclear-powered countries. Interacting with reporters on the sidelines of the 10th convocation of the Bahauddin Zakaria University here, Qureshi said the back channel engagements with India were at a [...]

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:52:34 +0000

Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar Thursday accused Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi of violating the “confidentiality” clause signed by the board and the franchisees by declaring the ownership stakes. Manohar said the new IPL Kochi franchise were contemplating legal action against the Board of Control for Cricket in India [...]

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:06:26 +0000

April 19, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Legendary actor, Al Pacino, will be depicting the character of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a HBO telepic. The film will mention the tale of Dr Kevorkian. He was notorious for his backing in terminating the lives of those, who were incurably sick and in tremendous pain. The [...]

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:21:43 +0000

Brasilia (Brazil), Apr.16 (ANI): Leaders of India and Brazil on Wednesday reaffirmed their concern for climate change and its adverse impacts, and committed themselves to work in close coordination, including in the BASIC group towards achieving a comprehensive, balanced, and effective outcome at the 16th Session of the Conference of Parties to the United [...]

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:15:31 +0000

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Sunday that its position on the women’s reservation bill has not changed, and the remarks of party leader Gopinath Munde about a quota for other backward classes (OBCs) in the bill should be seen in context of his presence at an OBC meeting. “There [...]

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:05:43 +0000

Jammu, April 10 (IANS) The Indian Army’s Northern Command Saturday concluded a two-day exercise aimed at practicing its response to nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) disasters, an official said. On first day of the exercise, held in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharmashala area, Friday, deliberations were held on the situations which would be encountered and “the response [...]

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:38:04 +0000

Washington, Apr.10 (ANI): While diplomatic observers here are hopeful of a brief encounter between Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the upcoming nuclear summit, speculations are also rife that the two leaders may hold a detailed meeting in Bhutan later this month. Diplomatic observers said [...]

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:16:34 +0000

New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Army chief General V.K. Singh Thursday cited “inside drawbacks” and “training problems” as possible reasons for the massacre of 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarh. He declined to comment on whether the army would fight the rebels. “The political leadership of the country has to decide whether the [...]

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:13:29 +0000

April 8, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): You may have to shell out cash for utilizing the toilet on a Ryanair flight in the near future. The CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, has enunciated that the air carrier is looking into the issue of fitting coin slots to the toilet doors of its aircraft. The [...]

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:51:41 +0000

April 8, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): US Airways and UAL Corp’s United Airlines are intensely involved in negotiations for the purpose of amalgamation. This information had been mentioned by the New York Times on Wednesday. Such an agreement would generate one of the biggest airlines of the planet. Any such transaction is not likely to [...]

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:54:58 +0000

Islamabad, Apr.8 (ANI): China has assured Pakistan that it would support the latter during the forthcoming nuclear summit in Washington on all issues, including Islamabad’s long standing demand for a civil-nuclear deal with the US. According to sources privy to a special meeting of the parliamentary committee on national security, which was presided over by [...]

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:05:25 +0000

New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Senior officials from SAARC countries will study and deliberate upon India’s performance management system at a two-day workshop that starts Tuesday. The workshop, to be inaugurated by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar, will be attended by senior officials of member countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) –India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, [...]

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:30:22 +0000

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) In a move aimed at sharpening skills of its MPs taking part in deliberations of parliamentary panels, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to form “shadow standing committees”, comprising senior members and experts, to provide guidance on bills, policy matters and financial issues. BJP leaders said that shadow standing [...]

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:53:49 +0000

Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): Pakistan is trying hard to push India to resume the composite dialogue in order to resolve all outstanding issues between the two countries, and is vying to garner more international support in this regard. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir held a meeting with all foreign ambassadors and high commissioners stationed in Islamabad to brief [...]

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:16:41 +0000

Islamabad, Mar.5 (ANI): Pakistan has urged India to set aside its preconditions and work together with it on the roadmap presented during the foreign secretary level talks in order to make deliberations more meaningful in future. Addressing a regular briefing here, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said the ball is in New Delhi’s court as it [...]

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:38:59 +0000

London, Mar. 3 (ANI): An Auckland High Court jury has ended the third day’s deliberations in Indian-origin south Auckland liquor store owner Navtej Singh’s June 2008 murder without a verdict. The jury that was adjourned after 15 hours of deliberations was meant to ascertain whether seven people are guilty of various charges in connection with the [...]

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:06:08 +0000

Auckland, Mar. 2 (ANI): An Auckland High Court jury has ended the second day’s deliberations in Indian-origin south Auckland liquor store owner Navtej Singh’s June 2008 murder without a verdict. The jury that was adjourned just before 5pm was meant to ascertain whether seven people are guilty of various charges in connection with the June 2008 [...]