Manmohan Is Wonderful PM, Writes Blair...
London : Former British premier Tony Blair describes Manmohan Singh as "the wonderful Indian prime minister" in his best-selling memoirs titled 'My Journey'. Blair, who interacted with Singh on several occasions during his tenure as the British prime minister from ...
Blackberry Data Requests Legitimate: UN Official...
London: The chief of the UN's telecommunications agency urged the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry to allow law enforcement agencies, including those in India, access to customer data, saying governments had legitimate security concerns which should not be ignored. The ...
Debate Rages In France Over Halal Burgers...
FLEURY-MEROGIS, France : The bacon is gone from the bacon burgers, replaced by smoked turkey. At a fast food restaurant outside Paris, a new certificate on the wall proclaims that its beef comes from cows slaughtered in line with Islamic ...
Customers Flock To Kabul Bank To Take Out Money...
KABUL: Managers of Afghanistan's largest bank braced for a run on deposits Thursday, a day after nervous customers showed up in droves to take out their money following the resignation of two top executives allegations of mismanagement and unorthodox lending ...
Eco-Activist Shot Wanted To Do A TV Show On Discovery...
James Jay Lee, the gunman who was shot dead by police after taking a number of hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland, was angry that his idea for a television show was rejected. All three of James Jay ...
US Cautions Its Citizens On India Travel During CWG...
Washington: The US has asked its citizens to be alert and cautious for their security during the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October, but, said it had no specific information on any terrorist threat. "The US government has ...
Lashkar Training Women Jihadis To Hit India...
Indian intelligence agencies have warned that the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiyaba in Pakistan is training hardcore female recruits to go to India to carry out attacks and blasts, reports Delhi tabloid Mail Today in a frontpage news. In a significant breakthrough, Indian ...
US Announces $ 5 Million Each Reward For TTP...
Washington: The United States has offered rewards of up to $ 5 million each for information leading to the location of top two leaders of Pakistan-based Tehreek-e- Taliban (TTP) Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali Ur Rehman. The announcement came soon after ...
Gunman Shot At Discovery Building, Hostages Freed...
Washington: Police shot dead a gunman to safely free three persons ending hours of standoff after he had taken them as hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in the suburb of Silver Spring. The gunman has been identified as James ...
Death Toll In Three Suicide Bombings Reaches 37...
Lahore: A pall of gloom hung over this eastern Pakistani city on Thursday as the death toll in three blasts targeting a Shia procession rose to 37 after several persons succumbed to their injuries in hospital. A low-intensity timed device ...
New York Man Plunges 40 Stories, Survives...
NEW YORK : A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car. Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West ...
Brown As PM Was A Disaster, Writes Blair...
London : Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has branded his successor Gordon Brown's premiership as a "disaster" and said he was "desperately sorry" for deaths in the Iraq war. In a memoir that has become a best-seller even before ...
Pak Military Delegation Detained At US Airport...
Washington: A delegation of senior Pakistani military officials visiting the US was deboarded from a plane, detained, "interrogated and rudely treated" by security officials after one of them made a comment to a flight attendant, prompting the team to head ...
