The Congress Party will hold a three day Plenary at Burari in New Delhi from Saturday when leaders are expected to discuss on various issues before the party. The Plenary is important as it will decide the strategy ahead for the party with 2011 scheduled to have elections to the assemblies of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Assam […]
The United States military has denied mistreating the army private suspected of leaking of thousands of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks. Bradley Manning, the suspect has been held in solitary confinement at a US Marine prison near Washington since July after being charged with eight counts under federal law, including transmitting classified information to […]
Social-Democratic leader Almazbek Atambayev elected as Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister in Friday’s Jogorku Kenesh. After hours long discussions and voting, 97 parliament members approved the government program, 92 members approve the government institution structure, and 88 voters agreed the nomination of main government leaders, including Atambayev’s post as prime minister. In early Friday, Ata Zhurt leader […]
The debate on socioeconomic reform plans proposed by Cuban leader Raul Castro continued for the third day Friday at the Cuban legislature. Addressing the day’s session, Minister of Economy and Planning Marino Murillo said the Cuban economy should be “export-oriented” in the coming years and the government should not continue subsidizing state-owned companies that lose […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he was under a “very aggressive investigation” and feared his extradition to the United States is “increasingly likely.” Assange was released on bail in London two days ago after spending nine days in jail on an extradition request by Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on rape allegations. […]
President Pratibha Patil has issued a show-cause notice to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), which is in the thick of a controversy over the affairs in the campus, asking it to explain why a meeting of the varsity’s court scheduled for December 19 should not be annulled. She also directed that the meeting be put on […]
The NIA on Friday listed alleged LeT operative T Nazeer and PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani’s wife among the accused in its charge sheet in the 2005 Tamil Nadu bus burning case and said the incident was a revenge against Madani’s continued detention in the Coimbatore blast case. Madani was acquitted in August 2007 in […]
Firing a fresh salvo at the BJP government in Karnataka, Governor H R Bhardwaj on Friday charged that Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has “failed” to check illegal mining in the state, accusing his administration of being “totally blind” to corruption. Bharadwaj’s comments were quickly condemned by the BJP with its State unit BJP President […]
NEW DELHI – Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as an Indian prime minister-in-waiting, believes Hindu extremists may be a greater threat to his country than Islamist militants, a leaked US diplomatic cable said Friday. Gandhi, scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, told US Ambassador Timothy Roemer last year that there was “some support” among Indian Muslims […]
Notwithstanding the opposition from the Army and the Defence Ministry, the amendments to the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, aimed at making it “more humane”, are likely to be placed soon before the highest government body on security issues. Government sources said the proposal for the amendment, which is strongly backed by Home Minister […]
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