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  • India, China to hold crucial border talks ahead of Wen’s visit

    Special Representatives of India and China will hold the crucial 14th round of border talks in Beijing on Monday to resolve the long-running boundary dispute between the two countries, ahead of a key visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to New Delhi. National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon, the designated Special Representative of India who is arriving […]

    Syria assures full support to India on UNSC seat

    Syrian President Basher al-Assad on Saturday assured full support to his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil on the issue of India’s quest for a permanent seat in the reformed UN security council. “We support India’s effort for a permanent seat in the UN security council,” Assad said after talks with Patil. Syria also condemned terrorism against all forms as […]

    India hopes SL will work for ‘genuine’ national reconciliation

    India said the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lankahas provided an unparalleled opportunity to the govt inJaffna to address the Tamil issue in the spirit of understanding and mutual accommodation and hoped that it would work towards “genuine” national reconciliation. “We are convinced that a meaningful devolution process (for the minority Tamil community) building upon the […]

    U.S. and SKorea push ahead with war games

    The United States and South Korea prepared for war games on Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery bombardment that has raised fears of more clashes between the bitter rivals. The North, meanwhile, worked to justify one of the worst attacks on South Korean territory since the 1950-53 Korean War. […]

    Satellite jointly built by ISRO successfully launched

    Advanced communication satellite HYLAS, built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with Europe’s space leader EADS-Astrium, was successfully launched from French Guyana on Saturday. Thirty five minutes after the lift-off (00.09 hrs IST) at Guyana Space Centre at Kourou in European Ariane-5 V198 launch vehicle, HYLAS separated from the launch vehicle after reaching its […]

    Omar takes stock of work in flash-flood affected Leh district

    Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took stock of the rehabilitation and reconstruction work in flash-flood affected Leh district and directed the local administration to help in completion of the work before the onset of winter. Omar, who visited the affected areas of Phyang and Choglamsar on Friday, inspected the rehabilitation works at various […]

    Adarsh scam: Key papers go missing

    Key papers pertaining to the scam-ridden Adarsh housing society are missing from the Urban Development Department in Mumbai, police said. Police have registered a case of theft after a secretary of the department, Gurudas Bajpe, gave a written complaint to the Marine Drive police on Friday night about the missing documents. “We have registered a case against […]

    New Andhra CM meets Sonia, PM

    New Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday held meetings with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of party leaders, during which the names of his Cabinet members are understood to have been finalised. Reddy arrived in New Delhi on Saturday morning on his maiden visit to the capital […]

    Jagan violating party discipline, says Jaipal Reddy

    Attacking rebel Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Union Minister and senior party leader from Andhra Pradesh S Jaipal Reddy said he was violating party discipline and termed his actions as “very undesirable”. “Everybody knows that the channel is owned by him (Jagan) and the channel is run for his own politics apparently. The channel […]

    Sonia on three-day Rae Bareli visit from Monday

    Congress President Sonia Gandhi will undertake a three-day tour of her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli from 29th November. “On the first day of her visit, the Congress President will tour her constituency and is likely to visit some villages,” chief of Congress media department Akhilesh Pratap Singh said in Lucknow. He said on the second […]