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Pakistan misled us on Saeed’s arrest: Shinde 18 Dec 2012 - 06:45 am

New Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde yesterdaysaid Pakistan had misled India on the arrest of Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the...

Google takes Chandni Chowk market online 18 Dec 2012 - 06:44 am

New Delhi: Google India yesterday unveiled a special project intended to make Chandni Chowk, the iconic market of old Delhi, easily accessible to...

Vehicle collision 18 Dec 2012 - 06:43 am

Wreckage of vehicles seen at the site of the collision of a truck, jeep and a car in Maihar Tehsil of Satna district,...

Upper House passes promotion quota bill 18 Dec 2012 - 06:42 am

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha (Upper House) yesterday passed a constitution amendment bill to provide reservations in promotions for the Scheduled Castes (SCs)...

Woman gang-raped in Delhi bus, battles for life 18 Dec 2012 - 06:42 am

New Delhi: A 23-year-old woman was battling for life here yesterday after a gang of men tortured and raped her in a moving...

Landmine kills 10 young Afghan girls 18 Dec 2012 - 06:40 am

KABUL: A Taliban car bomb targeted a US company in Kabul yesterday, killing one person and wounding at least 15 shortly after a...

Bomb attack kills 17 at Pakistan market 18 Dec 2012 - 06:38 am

Jamrud: A car bomb killed 17 people including women and children and wounded dozens more when it exploded near a bus queue at...

Pakistani Islamists denounce peace moves with India 18 Dec 2012 - 06:38 am

WAGAH: About 10,000 Pakistani Islamists held a rally at the Wagah border with India on Sunday, denouncing peace moves between the nuclear-armed rivals...

Over 3 million in Pakistan to benefit from British aid 18 Dec 2012 - 06:37 am

ISLAMABAD: Over three million internally displaced people in Pakistan will benefit from winter assistance from Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID). The aid...

France says Afghan officials to meet Taliban near Paris 18 Dec 2012 - 06:33 am

PARIS: France said on Sunday officials from the Afghan government, the Taliban rebel movement and other factions would meet this week near Paris...

Japan’s Abe vows no compromise on islands 18 Dec 2012 - 06:32 am

TOKYO: Japan’s premier-in-waiting Shinzo Abe came out fighting yesterday after his sweeping election victory, saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty...

Warning over Malaysia polls 18 Dec 2012 - 06:30 am

KUALA LUMPUR: A pressure group calling for free and fair polling in Malaysia warned yesterday that the country could see its “dirtiest elections...

Philippine congress approves birth control bill 18 Dec 2012 - 06:29 am

MANILA: The Philippines’ Congress passed yesterday a bill on promoting state-funded contraceptive, underscoring President Benigno Aquino’s influence on the legislature and his defiance...

Newtown buries its dead after massacre 18 Dec 2012 - 06:26 am

People visit a memorial for the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown yesterday. NEWTOWN, Connecticut: Funerals began yesterday in the little...

Chavez allies sweep Venezuela vote 18 Dec 2012 - 06:25 am

CARACAS: Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez swept to victory by taking nearly all of Venezuela’s 23 states in elections on Sunday, but...

British Queen to attend Cabinet in historic first 18 Dec 2012 - 06:25 am

LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II is to attend a British Cabinet meeting today, Downing Street announced, the first such visit in more than a...

Zuma challenged for ANC leadership 18 Dec 2012 - 06:25 am

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa: President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will go head to head in the battle to lead South Africa’s...

Most Italians oppose second term for Monti 18 Dec 2012 - 06:24 am

ROME: Most Italians are against technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti running for a second term in parliamentary elections expected in February, a poll...