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Pakistan Fight Stalls for U.S.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military has stopped lobbying Pakistan to help root out one of the biggest militant threats to coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say, acknowledging that the failure to win better help from Islamabad threatens to damage a linchpin of their Afghan strategy. Until recently, the U.S. had been pressing Islamabad to launch major […]

President on three-day visit of Kerala from today

President Pratibha Patil will be arriving Kottayam on Thursday on a three-day visit to Kerala during which she will participate in various programmes. She will be accompanied by a 42-member team including her family comprising husband Dr Devisingh Shekhavat, daughter Jyothi Rathode and other members. District Collector Mini Antony told reporters that 28 suites had […]

More rain threatens China’s mudslide-hit region

Rescuers Thursday scrambled to look for survivors in China’s Zhouqu county, where mudslides triggered by torrential downpour killed 1,117 people, as more heavy rains are expected to lash the region Friday. The National Meteorological Centre warned of more landslides in the coming days, with heavy rain of up to 90 mm expected to hit Friday. […]

Address root cause to change Pak’s India focus: ISI Former chief

Washington: A former Pakistani spymaster credited with helping create the Afghan Taliban says Pakistan’s India focus would not change unless what he called the ‘root cause’ of ‘Indian state terrorism in Kashmir’ was addressed. ‘It is for two reasons this kind of terrorism which is going on in Pakistan,’ Hamid Gul, former director of Pakistani […]

China’s Fiscal Revenue Up 25.7% in First 7 Months

China’s fiscal revenue jumped 25.7 percent from a year earlier to 5.11 trillion yuan (about 750 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months, the Ministry of Finance announced yesterday. In July alone, the fiscal revenue reached 778.32 billion yuan (114.85 billion U.S. dollars), up 16.2 percent year on year, the ministry said in a […]

N-bill headed for further delays

The controversial nuclear liability bill is headed for further delay in view of lack of consensus in the Parliamentary panel which is examining it.  The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology was to submit its report to Parliament on Thursday but decided to defer it by a week as it failed to bridge the […]

GOM clears inclusion of caste in census

Decks were cleared for inclusion of caste in the census with a Group of Ministers on Wednesday approving the exercise to be undertaken from biometric stage, capping months of uncertainty over the issue that had divided many parties. The GoM, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met a few days after the deadline ended for […]

Madani will likely to be booked only after Presidents visit

PDP chief Mr. Abdul Nasser Madani who is wanted by the Karnataka Police in the Banglore Bomb blast case is likely to be arrested only after the Presidents visit to kerala which starts today. According to a reported statement of The state Home minister Mr. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan the state police force will provide all possible […]

GOM clears inclusion of caste in census

Decks were cleared for inclusion of caste in the census with a Group of Ministers on Wednesday approving the exercise to be undertaken from biometric stage, capping months of uncertainty over the issue that had divided many parties. The GoM, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met a few days after the deadline ended for political parties […]