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Thai Premier unseatedSINGAPORE: Thailand?s Constitutional Court on Tuesday unseated politically beleaguered Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat by ordering that his People?s Power Party be disbanded for electoral fraud. Mr. Somchai stands disqualified for ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 01:15
Albright terms Pakistan an international migraine
Washington: Counting many elements, including terror and nuclear weapons, in Pakistan as causes of international worries, the former United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has described the South Asian country as an ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 01:00
Pakistan is to blame for tensions: Musharraf
Islamabad: The former Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, has blamed Pakistan?s current administration for the tensions in ties with India in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, saying it should have made it clear how strong it is about ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 00:45
Bush regrets Iraq intelligence failure
New York: Outgoing U.S. President George W Bush has admitted that he was ?unprepared for war? when he joined Oval office and said his ?biggest regret? during his eight year tenure was the ?intelligence ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 00:30
Chinese Foreign Minister in Kathmandu
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 00:15
China?s AIDS vaccine gives hope
BEIJING: An AIDS vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has completed initial clinical trials with ?good results.? But researchers cautioned that further studies need to be made to verify its effectiveness. Prof. Shao Yiming ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Dec-2008 00:00
Sri Lankan soldiers advance
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan military on Tuesday claimed to have ?extended their full domination? over the Periyakulam hamlet, situated four km east of strategically located Nadunkerni town in Wanni. In a statement, the Defence ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 23:45
Hillary named Secretary of State
U.S. President-elect Obama retains Robert Gates as Defence Secretary
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 01:07
Key LTTE town captured: Colombo
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 00:52
32 killed in Iraq blasts
BAGHDAD: A series of bombs struck U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, said officials. The attacks were a grim reminder of the dangers facing ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 00:37
India urged to avoid Bush-Cheney road
DUBAI: Sections of the Arab-supported media and academics are urging India to avoid the approach adopted by the Americans after 9/11 in the wake of the carnage in Mumbai. An editorial in the Middle East Times also ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 00:22
Malaysia to sound Interpol
SINGAPORE: Malaysia on Monday said it would ask Interpol to verify the ?claim? that some of the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks had used a Malaysian address to gain accommodation in the city to plot the ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Dec-2008 00:07
India, Indonesia favour joint fight against global terror
JAKARTA: India and Indonesia decided on Monday to step up economic cooperation and work together in meeting fresh threats posed by global terrorism, as exemplified by the recent Mumbai terror attacks. In a joint statement issued here at ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 23:52
British cities vulnerable like Mumbai: experts
LONDON: Britain would review its anti-terror strategy in the light of the Mumbai attacks, said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on Sunday as a former head of SAS ? Britain?s elite commando service ? warned that London was ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 23:37
Court disqualifies convicts for polls
Dhaka: Bangladesh?s High Court has disqualified the graft convicts, who were tried under Emergency Power Rules and sentenced to not less than a two-year term, from contesting parliamentary polls. A two-member High Court Bench ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 23:22
Smooth touchdown for Endeavour
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE (California): Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station. Stormy weather ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 23:07
How witnesses write the news
New York: Moments after the terrorist attacks on Mumbai began last week, Twitter exploded with messages. Prasad Naik, aka krazyfrog, tweeted: ?Firing happening at the Oberoi hotel where my sister works.? Next, he reported that she ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 22:52
Pakistan media declare war on Indian counterparts
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 01:13
Citizens screened in Batticaloa
Alarming rise in killings and abductions in Eastern Province
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 00:58
Deliberate attack on Chabad centre: Israel
DUBAI: Israel?s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed to support Indian authorities in the investigations on the Mumbai terror attacks. Mr. Olmert said on Sunday Israel ?would be happy to provide any and all information or specific ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 00:43
Hu: China?s economy faces challenges
BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao has warned that the global financial turmoil will make it harder for China to maintain the pace of its economic development in the near future. China is under growing tension from its large ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 00:28
Heat is on
Source : hindu.com | 01-Dec-2008 00:13
Our citizens not involved in Mumbai attacks: U.K.
Manmohan Singh did not raise the issue: Brown
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 01:22
?Al-Qaeda instructors trained attackers?
MOSCOW: Russia?s Parliament Speaker said the Mumbai terror strikes appeared to have targeted not only India, but all the BRIC nations. ?The attacks look like an act of intimidation and even public punishment of a ...
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 01:07
Nepal to tighten security
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 00:52
Sarkozy: unflinching support to India
Paris: The special medically-equipped Air France plane sent to Mumbai by the French government arrived in Paris on Saturday carrying 77 passengers, including 29 French citizens who survived the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. President ...
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 00:37
Singapore will engage India on Mumbai fallout
SINGAPORE: As Singapore felt deeply ?touched by the tragedy? that befell its citizen, Lo Hoei Yen, who was killed in the terrorist attack at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, the city-state expressed a desire to engage India on the way ...
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 00:22
Security at Colombo hotels to be strengthened
COLOMBO: The Mumbai terror attacks have prompted Sri Lanka to order special security arrangements at hotels in the capital. Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa met hoteliers to review the situation and ordered ?special security ...
Source : hindu.com | 30-Nov-2008 00:07
Saudi King: oil must be $75 per barrel
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia?s King says the price of oil should be $75 a barrel, much higher than it is now, but his Oil Minister indicated on Saturday that OPEC will not decide whether to cut output until the body meets again next ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 23:52
Canada?s opposition may topple government
TORONTO: Opposition parties said on Friday they may seek to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper?s government and form a ruling coalition, charging that the Conservatives have not done enough to rescue Canada from the global economic ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 23:37
Reprieve for stranded Indians in Thailand
SINGAPORE: The ordeal of several hundred Indian nationals, stranded in Bangkok since the seizure of the airports there by anti-government protesters earlier in the week, is beginning to ease. Since Friday, Indian carriers have been able ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 23:22
Scotland Yard team leaves for India
English cricketers were due to check into the Taj; change of plan saves them
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 01:18
?A reminder of LTTE methods?
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka?s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told Parliament on Friday that the government is confident that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran?s overtures to India while delivering his ?Hero?s Day? ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 01:03
Medvedev?s India visit as scheduled
MOSCOW: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai will not cause any change in Russian President Dmitry Medvedev?s plans to visit India next week. ?There are no plans to postpone the President?s visit scheduled for early ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 00:48
FBI team to assist probe
New York: The U.S. is rushing a team of FBI investigators and forensic scientists to Mumbai as counter-terrorism officials were reported to be stunned at the level of coordination in the terror attacks. The FBI team would coordinate ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 00:33
Investment in India will be affected: Lee
SINGAPORE: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai ?will have fallout on India?s investment climate and international confidence [in India] for some time to come,? according to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Mr. ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 00:18
India sought French help to tackle terror
Paris: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked French President Niocolas Sarkozy for help to restructure and streamline India?s anti-terrorism agencies when the two met in Paris during an India-EU summit late September, Roland Jacquard, ...
Source : hindu.com | 29-Nov-2008 00:03
She ran barefoot to escape
New York: A leading Spanish politician, Esperanza Aguirre, ran barefoot through the blood spattered corridors of the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai to escape the bullets of terrorists who laid siege to it. ?I didn?t even know ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 23:48
Thai protesters in no mood to budge
SINGAPORE: Thailand's beleaguered government on Friday began preparations to "restore law and order as soon as possible" and to "get the Bangkok airports to resume operations as soon as possible." The Suvarnabhumi international airport ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 23:33
Singaporean, Thai nationals killed
SINGAPORE: Announcing that a Singapore national, Lo Hoei Yen, ?was a casualty? in the Mumbai attacks, the city-state on Friday night reiterated its ?commitment to work closely with the international community in combating ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 23:18
Bush, Obama condemn Mumbai terror attacks
President-elect calls up Ronen Sen for details
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 01:11
U.K. intelligence suspects Al-Qaeda hand
LONDON: British intelligence agencies suspect Al-Qaeda is behind the Mumbai attacks, pointing out that taking Western hostages fits in with the pattern of its previous operations, especially the 2002 Bali bombings when ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 00:56
Israel?s concern over trapped nationals
DUBAI: Israeli media is reporting that eight Israelis are trapped inside Nariman House in Mumbai where a Jewish centre is located following the attacks on Wednesday. The Jerusalem Post , quoting Moni Ender, a spokesman ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 00:41
Prabakaran reaches out to India
COLOMBO: Conceding that the LTTE is pitted against the Sri Lankan military in an ?intense war as never before,? LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran on Thursday said he wanted to ?build a constructive relationship? with ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 00:26
Messages of outrage from Europe
Paris: Horror-struck Europeans were glued to their television screens on Thursday as the terror attacks and accompanying hostage drama in Mumbai was beamed in real time into their rooms. European nations are planning to send a special ...
Source : hindu.com | 28-Nov-2008 00:11
Stand-off continues in Thailand
SINGAPORE: The stand-off between Thailand?s Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and Army Commander-in-Chief Anupong Paochinda remained unresolved until nightfall on Thursday. With speculation rife about possible moves by the Army, Mr. ...
Source : hindu.com | 27-Nov-2008 23:56