A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 80.48 points or 0.40 percent in the pre-noon trade Thursday. Selling pressure was seen in the banking index (bankex), capital goods and IT sectors, while marginally good buying was seen in metal sector. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange […]
India and China will hold border talks here Feb 10-11. The Indian delegation will be led by National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, while the Chinese delegation will be led by State Councillor Yang Jiechi. Besides the India-China boundary question, the two sides, during the 17th round of border talks, will also discuss bilateral, regional and […]
India needs nuclear power for civilian use till the time renewable energy is able to replace the use of fossil and nuclear fuels, Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said Thursday. “We have to use nuclear energy till the time when renewable energy comes to such a level that we are able to […]
Good relations between India and Pakistan remain elusive due to cultural intolerance, a leading Pakistani daily said Thursday. The Dawn criticised Shiv Sena activists for disrupting a media briefing of an Indian music group and the Meekal Hasan Band from Pakistan in Mumbai Tuesday. “It is difficult to keep reined in rightwing elements that are […]
DMK parliamentarians have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of ministers, elected leaders and representatives of fishermen of India and Sri Lanka, according to a memorandum released here Thursday. In the memorandum submitted to Singh in New Delhi Wednesday, the parliamentarians, citing the continued arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka […]
The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi Thursday decided to recommend to Lt.Governor Najeeb Jung to set up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. “We have decided to recommend to the Lt.Governor to form a SIT on the killing of Sikhs in 1984 riots. This is a blot on the […]
Fourteen people were killed and seven injured when their bus plunged into a river in western Nepal, police said Thursday. The bus fell into a river at Chidipani village in Palpa district early Thursday morning, Xinhua reported. The identities of the deceased are yet to be established. The injured passengers have been rushed to a […]
Two Indian-origin men in the British city of Leicester have been jailed for three years and eight months for attacking an elderly man in a robbery bid. The Leicester Crown Court sentenced Harbans Singh and Varinder Singh for robbing and knocking to the ground an 80-year-old pensioner, leaving him with injuries on his hands and […]
The government has no reports of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency approaching riot-affected youths in Muzaffarnagar, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Thursday. “As per available information from central intelligence agencies, they do not have any input to suggest that Pakistan’s ISI contacted youths of families belonging to the minority communities who were affected during the […]
Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike Thursday in protest against the death sentence handed down to its chief in a 10-year-old arms smuggling case. Fourteen people, including two former Bangladeshi ministers and Indian separatist leader Paresh Baruah, were awarded death penalty by a court in the country’s southeastern port city of Chittagong […]