New Delhi | 7 hours ago
UAE foreign minister to visit India
New Delhi, May 16 - United Arab Emirates - Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan will be on a two-day official visit to India from Thursday when he is likely to discuss the entire gamut of bilateral relations with his counterpart S.M. Krishna, including energy security.During his stay here, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan is also scheduled to meet India's top politica ... read more

New Delhi | 8 hours ago
Harmful for country to give up n-power option: PM
New Delhi, May 16 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday asserted that it would be harmful for the country to give up the option of nuclear power as an additional source of energy and said the government was committed to foolproof security of nuclear power plants.I think the policy that we have now is that we must do everything in our power to ensure foolproof safety of the nuclear plants. That ... read more

New Delhi | 11 hours ago
Rajya Sabha disrupted over weavers, Tamil Nadu road
New Delhi, May 16 - Less than two days after it passed a resolution against disruptions, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned thrice Wednesday for various issues, including the plight of weavers.The upper house was adjourned thrice till 2 p.m., losing half the question hour, and subsequently half the zero hour. The first two disruptions came in the question hour as the house took up the first question on ... read more

Islamabad | 16 hours ago
Chisty delighted to be back in Pakistan
Islamabad, May 16 - Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty, who was in an Indian jail for a 1992 murder and reached here on a plane sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, said it felt great to be back in Pakistan from a point of virtually no return.Interior Minister Rehman Malik Tuesday night received 80-year-old Chisty, permitted by the Indian Supreme Court May 10 to visit Pakistan during the pendency o ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Will support Indian military action against pirates: Somali leader
New Delhi, May 15 - Against the backdrop of Somali pirates currently holding over 60 Indian sailors as hostage, the African country's Puntland state backs military operations to rescue them and to fight piracy, even as its President Abdirahman Mohammed Mohamud Farole is in India to work out a naval capacity building agreement.'I always support the military operations to fight piracy,' Farole told ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Disclose who leaked army chief's letter: BJP
New Delhi, May 15 - The Bharatiya Janata Party Tuesday asked the government to disclose how a sensitive letter on defence preparedness written by Army chief V. K. Singh to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was leaked.Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha during zero hour, BJP MP Balbir Punj asked the government to disclose who was behind the leak. 'Forty-seven days have passed and we do not know who was re ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Rekha takes oath in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi, May 15 - Veteran film actor Rekha Tuesday took oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha.The actor, who was April 27 nominated by the president to the upper house, also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before taking oath. A leading actress of the Hindi film industry in the 1970s and 1980s, Rekha took her oath in English. Wearing a golden silk sari, she sat in the upper house till halfway thr ... read more

Thiruvananthapuram | 1 day ago
Pitroda has drawn up projects to change face of Kerala: Chief Minister
Thiruvananthapuram, May 15 - Noted innovator, tech evangelist and policymaker Sam Pitroda has drawn up some 10 major projects for Kerala's resurgence that promise to change the face of the state, says Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.We are confident that given Pitroda's acumen in projects that he will present, this is certainly going to change the face of the state in the near future, Chandy, current ... read more

Islamabad | 1 day ago
Zardari sending plane to fly Chisty home
Islamabad, May 15 - Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said Tuesday.Zardari, during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last month, had pleaded for clemency for Chisty, given his advanced age.The Indian Supreme Court May 10 per ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
No Indian push on unconstitutional polls: Maldivian president
New Delhi, May 14 - Assuring the world that his nation was committed to democracy, Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed, who is on his first official visit to India, said Monday New Delhi was not pushing the Indian Ocean nation to do anything unconstitutional on holding presidential elections.Waheed, who was propelled to the Maldivian presidency under extraordinary circumstances after incumbent Moh ... read more