Thousands of Australian Protest on Climate Change

Tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday rallied on the streets across Australia to urge the major political parties to take action on climate change. Both Labor Party and the coalition have failed to take decisive action to cut Australia’s pollution levels in the run-up to the federal election, Walk Against Warming rallies in Australia’s […]

PM to visit Leh on Tuesday

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a day long visit on Tuesday to Leh which has been hit by cloudburst and flash floods that claimed about 200 lives and left over 400 injured. Dr. Singh will visit some of the hospitals where the injured in last Friday’s cloudburst are undergoing treatment, a PMO spokesman said […]

N Korea and S Korea exchange warnings ahead of war games

South Korea urged the North on Sunday to end its military provocations but Pyongyang threatened Seoul with the “severest punishment” over massive joint war games planned with the United States. The rivals exchanged tit-for-tat warnings as the South unveiled a roadmap for the reunification of the Korean peninsula on the eve of the 10-day exercise […]

Strategic partnership with India unconditional priority: Russia

The strategic partnership with India is an “unconditional priority” of Russia’s foreign policy, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday as he congratulated India on its 64th Independence Day. In his messages to President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Medvedev wrote: “The strategic partnership with India is an unconditional priority of Russia’s foreign policy. […]

Pharmacist back from US among 18 killed in Iraq unrest

An Iraqi pharmacist back from studies in the United States was among at least 18 people killed in a spate of attacks across the country over the weekend, officials said today. More than 20 others were wounded in the violence, the latest in a surge of killings in August and as Muslims observe the holy […]

Dream of turning Delhi into world class city coming true: CM

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said her dream of making Delhi a world-class city is “finally coming true” with the city witnessing rapid development in the last decade. Dikshit noted that the city has made rapid development in almost all sectors in the last decade though she stressed the need to focus upliftment of […]

P D P Chief Abdul Nasser Madani prefers to surrender in Court

DPRK warns US and ROK against ‘repeated provocation’

The military of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sunday warned the U.S. and South Korea that the DPRK would beat back mercilessly their “repeated provocation”, the official news agency KCNA reported. According to the KCNA, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army Sunday released a statement to accuse the […]

S. Korea Proposes Three-stage Reunification

Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday proposed a three-stage reunification with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and called for developing new relationship with Japan. Lee made the remarks at the celebration of the country’s 65th National Liberation Day, or 65th anniversary of Korea’s independence from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. Lee said that the […]

Sindh, Balochistan hit by flash floods; Ban appeals for aid

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday appealed for more aid to Pakistan for the 20 million victims, as flash floods wrecked havoc in Sindh and Balochistan provinces rendering thousands homeless, leading to large scale migration of people from the affected region. After causing havoc in the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Punjab provinces and in the northern […]