Amman: President Bashar al-Assad faces renewed international pressure to end the bloodshed in Syria but, with peace envoy Kofi Annan visiting Damascus, his government blamed Islamist militants for a massacre in which UN observers had implicated his army. Annan, on a mission from the United Nations and Arab League, is scheduled to meet Assad on Tuesday, when he can be expected to urge compliance with the tattered ceasefire deal which...
04:01 AM, May 29, 2012
Beirut: Syrian forces fired mortar shells into a farming village on Tuesday, killing 10 people, among them two young children, and sending panicked residents running for cover, activists said. UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous deplored the ongoing violence and promised to put 300 observers in Syria by the end of the month, up from the 24 in place now, in hopes of calming the situation. "The level of violence in...
03:12 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Hit adult comedy 'Delhi Belly' will now be remade in Tamil and director by R Kannan will start shooting for the film May 7 with Arya in the main lead. The yet to be titled Tamil version will be produced by UTV Motion Pictures and and it will be completed by October. It is slated for a Pongal release in January 2013. The original was co-produced by UTV...
03:33 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Beirut: Syrian state media said on Thursday that anti-regime bomb-makers accidentally set off blasts a day earlier that flattened parts of a residential area in the central city of Hama and killed at least 16 people. Syrian activists gave a different account, however, and blamed intense shelling by the regime. It was impossible to independently verify the conflicting accounts because President Bashar Assad's regime, facing a 13-month-old uprising, has restricted...
07:22 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Geneva: The United Nations hopes to get permission from the Syrian government in the coming days to send more aid workers to help at least 1 million people in need of urgent assistance, a top UN humanitarian official said on Friday. Syria has recognised there are "serious humanitarian needs" and that action is required, but logistical issues and visas for aid workers are still being discussed, said John Ging, director...
11:17 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Shimla: After a spat between the Army and the Himachal Pradesh government on control over Annandale ground in Shimla, the BJP on Thursday sought to distance itself from the controversy saying it was a "closed chapter". BJP National General Secretary JP Nadda and Co-incharge of party affairs for Himachal Pradesh Shyam Jaju, who was in Shimla for a meeting of senior leaders, decried the "sinister moves" of some elements to...
04:23 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Paris: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a new UN resolution authorising an arms embargo and other stronger measures against Syria if it fails to abide by UN-backed cease-fire aimed at ending the bloodshed on its soil. Hillary spoke on Thursday at a meeting of top Western and Arab diplomats in Paris. She stopped short of calling for outside military intervention in Syria but said the time...
02:36 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Monday warned the Army that he would file a defamation case against the defence force for allegedly accusing the Himachal Pradesh state government of colluding with land mafia to grab defence land. Dhumal threatened to sue the Army despite the U-turn taken by the defence forces on Monday over the historic Annandale military ground. He met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
05:16 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Army has denied having issued any statement saying Himachal Pradesh government and its Chief Minister are working with land mafia to take away the Annandale Military grounds in Shimla. On Sunday, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal threatened to file a defamation suit if the Army does not tender an unconditional apology for its statement that questioned the campaign demanding handing over of Annandale ground. Dhumal termed...
03:05 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Army has alleged that the Himachal Pradesh government is colluding with the land mafia in the state to take away the Shimla's Annandale ground from the Army on the pretext of building a cricket stadium and a hotel. The ground has been with the Army since the second world war and rent was being paid by the Army till 2002. The Himachal government now wants the land...
08:08 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Geneva: An initial team of UN ceasefire monitors is due to arrive in Syria on Sunday evening and will be deployed on Monday in an effort to keep the peace plan on track, the spokesman for international mediator Kofi Annan said. The six-person advance team will be joined by two dozen more observers in coming days in line with a UN Security Council resolution adopted on Saturday authorising the deployment...
03:07 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Shimla: The row between Himachal Pradesh government and military over ownership of Annandale ground on Sunday escalated with the Army saying national security cannot be ignored for "game and gimmicks" and the Chief Minister alleging the large ground was under its "unlawful occupation". Chief Minister PK Dhumal also threatened to file a defamatory suit against the Army if it did not tender an unconditional apology for allegedly maligning the image...
10:10 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Cast: Udhayanidhi Stalin, Hansika Motwani, Santhanam, Saranya Ponvannan, Azhagam Perumal, Sayaji Shinde Director: M Rajesh He has a penchant for humour that was revealed in his two earlier films (Siva Manasule Shakti, Boss (E) Bhaskaran). And now director Rajesh ventures into his third film, this time too a comic romantic fun-filled entertainer. Debuting as a hero is producer Udhayanidhi Stalin, this too his home production. Paired with him is the...
04:00 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Beirut: Syria's opposition called for widespread protests on Friday to test the regime's commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that the UN chief described as so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot. Regime forces halted heavy shelling and other major attacks in line with the truce that began at dawn on Thursday, though there were accusations of scattered violence by both sides. The government ignored demands to pull...
02:48 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Beirut: Syria promised to comply with a UN-brokered cease-fire beginning on Thursday but carved out an important condition - that the regime still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the country's year-old uprising. The statement on Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope that a peace initiative by special envoy Kofi Annan could help calm the conflict, which has killed some 9,000 people....
08:32 AM, Apr 12, 2012
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