Colombo: Sri Lanka is blowing hot and cold against India following the passage of a resolution in Geneva that raised questions over rights violations during the war on the Tamil Tigers. While President Mahinda Rajapaksa warned that countries which voted for the resolution will have to worry about consequences of terrorism, a minister mildly praised India for dilution of the impact of the resolution. India was one of 24 nations...
02:48 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Colombo: 'India is a loser', the Sri Lankan media on Friday proclaimed in comments, a day after Colombo faced censure at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, saying New Delhi had failed to carry other South Asian nations with it on the issue. "India has failed to carry Asia, or at least South Asia with it. In other words, Sri Lanka has won against India in Asia," the pro-government...
01:58 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: India voted in favor of a US-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka calling for Colombo to investigate human rights violations during the war with LTTE. While Colombo has called India's anti-Lanka vote a big disappointment, the opinion is divided back in India with some calling it a monumental error made under US pressure. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy said, "It's...
07:36 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Colombo: Ethnic Tamil lawmakers in Sri Lanka asked the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday to press the government to investigate alleged wartime abuses and share power with the ethnic minority to prevent the country sliding back into violence. Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 with government troops crushing the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, but there have been lingering accusations that both sides committed war crimes during the...
12:10 AM, Mar 16, 2012
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09:03 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Aston Martin has lifted the wraps off the images of its V12 Zagato production model, ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. Like the Aston Martin One-77 supercar, the V12 Zagato will also be handcrafted and will be a limited edition with only 150 examples being made. Aston says that it takes around 2,000 man-hours to make this car with the paint alone taking up an additional 100 hours. Extensive use...
04:37 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Scientists, who in September said they discovered sub-atomic particles can travel faster than light, have fine tuned their experiment and the result seems to confirm the startling finding. ...
02:12 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Satara: BJP leader LK Advani on Thursday dared the UPA to make public names of 700 Indians who had stashed their money in a multi-national bank in Geneva and wanted to know what the governments' compulsion was in "protecting" them. "What is the government's compulsion, I wish to question. Is it right that the government is not declaring the names of the Indians having black money, because they are Congress...
02:58 AM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Black money debate has returned to haunt the UPA, even as the Income Tax Department has started probing accounts of 782 Indians in a Swiss bank for suspected black money. A list of the top Indian black money account holders of HSBC bank in Switzerland could make things more difficult for the Centre, as the list includes the who's who of the country - one reason why...
09:07 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Income Tax department is looking at 782 Indian accounts in HSBC Geneva for suspected black money. Sources said a probe into some of the Indian account holders with over Rs 3000 crores in deposits are being probed. The list was not officially given by the Swiss government, added the sources. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says the government will reveal more foreign banks when there is enough information...
01:45 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Moscow: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il repeated his readiness to return to stalled nuclear talks "without any preconditions" in an interview with the Russian state news agency Itar-Tass published on Wednesday. The comments came amid a flurry of intensified diplomacy by Russia, China and the United States on trying to end North Korea's nuclear programme after talks collapsed in late 2008. The United States and North Korea plan to meet...
02:42 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Geneva: President Pratibha Patil on Sunday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi in the picturesque Swiss city of Geneva on the occasion of his 142nd birth anniversary. Patil, drove to the statue of Gandhi here in the tranquil Ariana Park located on 'Avenue of Peace'. She offered flowers at the statute, where a group of Indian children sang 'Ram dhun'. She later undertook a 'parikarma (round of the statute) in the...
03:39 PM, Oct 02, 2011
New Delhi: Nothing travels faster than light, that is one of Physics' most basic laws. Now scientists say they have seen something that can and that can prove that Einstein could actually have been wrong. Scientists at the CERN Nuclear research centre in Geneva fired neutrinos, which are tiny sub atomic particles, from their lab to another one, 730 km away. The neutrinos hit the target faster than even light...
09:23 AM, Sep 24, 2011
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