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Spain enters into strategic defence deal with India 27 Oct 2012 - 02:58 am

King of Spain Juan Carlos I chats with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, yesterday....

Krishna quits clearing way for reshuffle 27 Oct 2012 - 02:57 am

NEW DELHI: India’s veteran Foreign Minister S M Krishna announced his resignation yesterday in a move that clears the way for a long-awaited...

Give me a ring if India needs high speed railways: Branson 27 Oct 2012 - 02:57 am

NEW DELHI: British transport mogul Richard Branson said yesterday he would love to help set up high-speed trains in India at a time...

Curfew continues in Faizabad, four officials suspended 27 Oct 2012 - 02:57 am

Lucknow: Curfew continued for the third consecutive day in Faizabad where communal clashes broke out Wednesday, police said. Though no violence was reported...

Fifth accused in Pune serial blasts arrested 27 Oct 2012 - 02:56 am

New Delhi: A suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative who is the fifth accused in the August 1 Pune serial blasts case has been...

President, PM greet people on Eid Al Adha 27 Oct 2012 - 02:56 am

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday greeted the people on the occasion of Eid...

Suicide bomber kills 40 at Afghan mosque 27 Oct 2012 - 02:55 am

KABUL: A suicide bomber slaughtered more than 40 people, including five children, when he struck at a mosque in northern Afghanistan after Eid...

Shot Pakistani girl ‘will rise again’: Father 27 Oct 2012 - 02:55 am

BIRMINGHAM, England: The father of a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education said yesterday she would...

Gunmen kill two anti-Taliban elders in Swat Valley 27 Oct 2012 - 02:54 am

PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot dead two members of an anti-Taliban peace committee in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley, where militants tried to murder schoolgirl activist...

Violence against women on the rise in Peshawar 27 Oct 2012 - 02:54 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s north-western metropolitan of Peshawar is among 14 districts in the country with high incidence of violence against women over the first...

Two Americans killed in Afghan insider attack 27 Oct 2012 - 02:54 am

KABUL: Two American soldiers were killed by a man in an Afghan police uniform on Thursday, the US military said, the latest in...

Death toll in Myanmar unrest surges to 112 27 Oct 2012 - 02:53 am

Sittwe: At least 112 people have been killed and thousands of homes torched in Buddhist-Muslim violence in western Myanmar, casting a shadow over...

S Korea suspends rocket launch 27 Oct 2012 - 02:53 am

SEOUL: South Korea suspended its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit by at least three days yesterday, after a helium leak...

Canadian, Australian tourists found dead in Bangkok hotel 27 Oct 2012 - 02:52 am

BANGKOK: A Canadian and an Australian tourist have been found dead in a Bangkok hotel after a suspected drug overdose, Thai tourist police...

China clears way for Bo Xilai prosecution 27 Oct 2012 - 02:52 am

BEIJING: Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the country’s parliament and stripped of his legal immunity, clearing the way for...

Australia to back Aquino on Mindanao plan 27 Oct 2012 - 02:51 am

CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has assured President Aquino that her government would stand with the Philippines in ensuring the successful implementation...

PDEA, NBI working closer against drug syndicates 27 Oct 2012 - 02:51 am

MANILA: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have strengthened collaborative efforts in combating the proliferation of...

Sans TRO, Arroyo to be arraigned 27 Oct 2012 - 02:50 am

MANILA: Unless the Supreme Court (SC) issues a temporary restraining order (TRO), former President and now Pampanga Rep Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be arraigned...