New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world’s highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is. A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized para-military force which was created to guard the Indo-Tibet border, is all poised to [...]
NEW DELHI: Italy has recalled its envoy from New Delhi and has expressed “strong displeasure” at the Indian government’s inability to hand over two arrested marines, accused of murder, to Italian custody. Italian deputy foreign minister, Staffan de Mistura, said that the decision to recall the Italian ambassador from India, was a sign by Italy [...]
NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s crack of the whip vis a vis India’s oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked. Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq as well as Saudi [...]
New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed. The Le Monde, one of France’s most popular newspapers, quoting French intelligence sources however said that the 23-year-old Algerian was shot dead by [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
NEW DELHI: Two lieutenants of India’s most dreaded and wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim, were on Tuesday issued sanctions by the United States in connection with their drug trafficking activities. The United States Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) served the sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon, two of Dawood’s most trusted [...]
New Delhi: A young Australian woman was date-raped by an Indian male, in what is being referred to as a ‘Facebook rape case’ in this part of the world. The Indian police are on the lookout for one Sammy Sidhana, who had established contact with the 22-year old Australian woman on Facebook months ago, before [...]
New Delhi: Stranded in Saudi Arabia for days without required documentation, seven Indian nurses were rescued by the Indian Embassy in the Kingdom, officials said. Efforts are now on at war-footing to repatriate them. Four of the seven nurses, who are mostly from the southern Indian state of Kerala, which produces the highest number of [...]
New Delhi: The first few scented tendrils of fragrance of civil resurgence has started wafting slowly into the north eastern Indian states which border Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. The electoral victories of Aung Suu Kyi has appeared to have triggered off a domino effect across Myanmar to [...]
New Delhi: Accused of playing peeping tom, an Indian student studying in the US, is awaiting a sentence from a US court for spying on his gay room partner, recording his sex life and commenting in public about his roommate’s sexuality. The gay room-mate incidentally committed suicide soon after. Dharun Ravi, an ex-Rutgers student has [...]
New Delhi: India has shown a ‘thumbs up’ sign to the “ongoing process of democratic transition” in Egypt. India’s minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed, who during his fleeting Egypt visit met the cream of the Brotherhood leadership, called for strengthening of bilateral ties between the two countries. Ahamed, who is enroute to [...]
New Delhi: India’s Haj pilgrims will no longer be able to avail government subsidy for their pilgrimage, as the country’s top court ordered that the subsidy be phased out over the next ten years. Over 100,000 Indian Muslims perform Haj by visiting the holiest Muslim site of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Justices Altamas Kabir and [...]
NEW DELHI: A company promoted by Australian cricket hero, Steve Waugh, is linking up with real estate developers to design and plan sports facilities and spaces in upcoming housing townships in India. More than a business idea, the move is aimed at providing leisure and sports grounds to a growing number of middle and upper-middle [...]
NEW DELHI: Journalists have been banned from the Writers’ Building, the seat of power in West Bengal, while government ministers have been banished to the service entrance as the Indian state prepares for the visit of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Unprecedented security measures have been imposed in Kolkata, city for Clinton’s visit during [...]
New Delhi: The world highest battle field, the Siachin glacier, where both Indian and Pakistani troops exchange gunfire sporadically, is now a subject to an icy war of words; albeit interspersed with the odd ember of warmth. Pakistan’s army chief general Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said that India had toughened its stance on the Siachin [...]
New Delhi: The United States government has fined national carrier ‘Air India’ to the tune for $ 80,000 for violation of its new airline consumer rules related to operational transparency. The already beleaguered Air India, which has already suffered a loss of over $ 10 billion in the fiscal ending 2011, has been accused of [...]
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, which cynically mocks at the punch-line of India Tourism’s advertising campaign ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ (Guest is equal to God), a French national, who was beaten up in a crowded train and thrown on a railway platform in the norther India some days back, succumbed to death at a hospital [...]
NEW DELHI: India sent out conflicting signals on international relations and security in this part of the Asian region by announcing the easing of economic ties with its troublesome neighbor Pakistan on one hand and upping the ante along a critical part of its border with China on the other. A top army commander said [...]
New Delhi: Almost two decades after former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi lost his life to a ghastly assassination plot hatched and executed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), his three surviving assassins are now juggling with Indian law to save their lives from the gallows. Already convicted and sentenced to death for Gandhi’s [...]
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