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  • Thai Ambassador Returns to Cambodia

    Thai Ambassador Prasas Prasasvinitchai who was absent from his post for nearly one year due to strained relations returned to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday evening. Prasas Prasasvinitchai declined to speak to a crowd of reporters on arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport. Thailand recalled its ambassador, Prasas Prasasvinitchai, on November 5 last year […]

    U.S. Gov’t to Appeal Ruling against ESC Research

    The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal as early as this week a judge’s ruling to ban federal funding of embryonic stem cell. Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters the administration will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to lift the preliminary injunction issued on Monday. The injunction, made by District Judge […]

    J-K minister Saroori asked to resign: Chavan

    Jammu and Kashmir PWD Minister G M Saroori on Monday asked to tender his resignation to chief minister Omar Abdullah in the wake of the controversy over alleged impersonation of his daughter during an entrance exam. “The party minister has been asked to resign”, Congress general secretary Prithviraj Chavan said lastnight. The development comes on […]

    ‘Very active effort on to seek political settlement in Afghan’

    A “very active” effort is now on to reach an appropriate political settlement in Afghanistan incorporating renunciation of al-Qaeda and recognition of Constitutional rights of both the war-torn country and neighbouring Pakistan, top US Senator John Kerry has said. “I can report without being specific that there are efforts underway; they are serious,” Kerry, Chairman […]

    Chinese passenger plane overshoots runway, 43 killed

    A Chinese passenger plane with 96 people on board overshot a fog-shrouded runway at an airport in northwest China’s Heilongjiang Province Tuesday night and burst into flames killing 43 of them and injuring 53 others, the state media said. The ill-fated aircraft of the Henan Airlines crashed as it was to land at the Lindu […]

    Border tension: shoot-at-sight orders in Charaipung

    The Assam govt on Tuesday issued shoot-at-sight orders in tension-hit Charaipung sub- division of Sibsagar district bordering Arunachal Pradesh following border dispute between the two states. The order was given by senior minister and government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma who along with Tourism Minister Rockybul Hussain visited the area hit by border clashes since 14th […]

    Brahma appointed Election Commissioner

    Former bureaucrat Harishankar Brahma was appointed as Election Commissioner. A 1975 IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Brahma (60), who hails from Assam, is a former Union Power Secretary. “The President is pleased to appoint Shri Harishankar Brahma as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India with effect from the date he assumes […]

    MHA asks EC to hold Assembly election in Bihar after CWG

    The Government is in favour of holding Assembly elections in Bihar after the Commonwealth Games scheduled in October. The Ministry of Home Affairs is understood to have conveyed it to the Election Commission officials in a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the security arrangements. Official sources said that the decision was […]

    North Korea deploying troops, weapons near Pyongyang

    North Korea is deploying troops, artillery and tanks near Pyongyang in apparent preparation for a massive military parade marking key national events later this year, South Korea said on Tuesday. The military buildup near the capital began in mid—July amid high tensions on the peninsula, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said in a report submitted to […]

    Iran inaugurates new cross-country gas pipeline

    Iran has operationalised the first phase of the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, a USD 1.7 billion project from which India has backtracked. The project, which is Iran’s 7th cross-country gas venture is regarded as the first phase of the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. The pipeline, which extends 902 kilometers from Assalouyeh in the southwest of […]