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    India, Japan likely to seal trade pact in Oct: Anand Sharma

    India and Japan are likely to sign an ambitious bilateral market opening pact to enhance their USD 10.4-billion trade during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to that country in October. India’s Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar would be travelling to Tokyo in the first week of September for an “in-principal agreement” on the proposed Comprehensive Economic […]

    International

    Canadian Police Make Arrests in Alleged Terror Plot

    Canadian police and intelligence agents launched early morning raids at two homes on Ottawa Wednesday and have arrested two people on alleged terrorism offences. Police arrested a husband and wife at in a middle-class neighborhood. Neighbors describe the couple as Middle Eastern in their late 30s. Investigators seized computer equipment from the couple’s home. Police […]

    International

    Taliban Attack Kills 8 Afghan Police

    Taliban attack against police checkpoint in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan left eight policemen dead, provincial governor Mohammad Omar said. “A group of Taliban rebels raided a police checkpoint in Siab area outside provincial capital Kunduz city at 05:30 a.m. local time leaving eight policemen dead, Omar told Xinhua. One more police constable sustained injuries […]

    Breaking News

    Curfew in parts of Srinagar, restrictions in some towns

    Curfew on Thursday remained clamped in parts of Srinagar besides restrictions in Bijbehara, Anantnag and Budgam towns in view of protests and a strike called by the separatists across the Kashmir Valley. District Magistrate, Srinagar, Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo said that areas under the jurisdiction of police stations of Bemina, Qamarwari, Nowhatta, Khanyar, M.R. Gunj, Safakadal […]

    Breaking News

    Over 4,000 Killed in Past 6 Years in S Thailand

    More than 4,000 people have been killed and 7,000 injured in separatist attacks in southern Thailand in the past six years, local media reported Thursday. Bangkok Post online quoted an official report as saying that 11, 047 violent incidents had occurred in the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since 2004. The […]

    National

    Bill to protect whistle blowers introduced in Lok Sabha

    A landmark bill to protect whistle blowers was today introduced in the Lok Sabha. The bill provides for adequate protection to the persons reporting corruption or willful misuse of power. It also has the provision for a regular mechanism to be put in place that will encourage such persons to disclose the information on corruption […]

    National

    PM expresses serious concern over public order in J&K

    The Prime Minister has said despite the curtailment of militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the public order dimension has become a cause of serious concern. Addressing a conference of State DGPs and IGs in New Delhi , Dr. Manmohan Singh said there is a need to re-visit the standard operating procedures and crowd control […]

    National

    Rahul addressing huge tribal meeting in Orissa

    AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi has been accorded a warm traditional welcome by tribals at Jagannathpur of Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of Orissa today. He is addressing a huge meeting of tribals at Jagannathpur on the occasion of ‘Tribal Rights Day’ being observed by youth Congress.

    National

    PM for recalibration of promotion system of police officers

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh advocated the need for re-calibration of the promotion system in the police forces to reward those who perform better, especially in troubled areas.  He said a successful stint in an extremism-affected district should result in greater career benefits to the officers.  “Within the police forces, the current system of promotion is […]

    International

    Bangladesh directs schools against forcing veils on women

    Bangladesh  issued a strict directive asking authorities at schools and other seminaries not to force girl students to wear veils or bar them from participating in sports and cultural activities. “No female student can be forced to wear religious clothing or ‘burqa’ (veil) in educational institutions or be barred from taking part in sports and […]

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