New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will be in Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit to formally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in Tehran in August. Salehi, who will be in Delhi as the Special Envoy of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, will hand over an invitation to the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During...
09:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Jammu: The Army on Thursday described as "speculative and coloured" reports that Jammu and Kashmir Police were investigating into last week's clash between a group of army officers and jawans in an artillery regiment near Leh. "Army is not aware of any such investigation/report prepared by J&K Police. In fact, SSP Leh in a statement said that the police have not registered any case," a defence spokesperson said. "Since no...
01:48 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Army has submitted a report to the Defence Ministry about the clash between jawans and officers at a firing range near the India-China boundary in Nyoma, Ladakh. An initial report about the incident has been submitted to the Defence Ministry. Details about the entire episode would be provided only after the Court of Inquiry (CoI) instituted in the matter submits its findings, Army sources said in New...
03:28 PM, May 12, 2012
Leh: A group of army officers and jawans clashed in an artillery regiment near Leh following an incident of alleged misbehaviour involving an orderly prompting the army to order a court of inquiry into the incident. The trigger for the clash took place late on Friday afternoon in Nyoma sub-district, located 150 kilometres from here, when a jawan allegedly misbehaved with a Major who is said to have beaten him...
08:58 AM, May 12, 2012
Leh: Tension gripped an army regiment in Leh after a group of officers and jawans clashed following an incident of alleged molestation involving an orderly and the reported capturing of the armoury by the agitated soldiers. The trigger for the clash took place late on Thursday afternoon in Nyoma sub-district, located 150 kilometres from Leh, when a jawan allegedly misbehaved with the wife of a Major who beat him up,...
04:24 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: As many as 115 passengers on board an Indian Airlines plane escaped unhurt on Wednesday when the tyre of an Airbus A-320-200 aircraft deflated while applying emergency brakes after the pilot noticed a fault in one of the engines. According to official sources, the Airbus A-320-200 was about to take off from Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport for Srinagar this afternoon when the pilot noticed the snag. Instead of...
05:59 PM, May 09, 2012
Dubai: Iran is ready to resolve all nuclear issues in the next round of talks with world powers if the West starts lifting sanctions, its foreign minister said on Monday. In an interview with the Iranian student news agency ISNA, Ali Akbar Salehi also hinted that Iran could make concessions on its higher-grade uranium enrichment; a key concern of Western powers which suspect Iran is covertly developing a nuclear weapons...
03:32 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Srinagar: A low-intensity earthquake measuring 4.1 on Richter Scale shook parts of Jammu and Kashmir in the wee hours on Sunday. "An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 occurred at 2:20 am with its epicentre at India-China border in Ladakh region," a disaster management cell official said here. The epicentre was located 209 km east of Leh town near the border between Ladakh and Xinjiang region of China. The tremor, however, was...
12:10 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Dubai: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would not agree to world powers imposing pre-conditions ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks later this week, Iranian media reported on Monday. "Setting conditions before the meeting means drawing conclusions, which is completely meaningless and none of the parties will accept conditions set before the talks," the Iranian parliamentary news agency quoted him as saying. US officials say that getting...
05:07 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Ladakh: It is just the beginning of harsh winters in Ladakh. Come December and mercury dips to a chilling -15 degrees here. But for 78-year-old Chewang Norphel, temperature is just a number as he literally skips to the top of a very rocky mountain near the Numb village. The former civil engineer, fondly called the "ice man", became CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2008 for building more than seven artificial glaciers...
08:50 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Srinagar: The son of Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Minister was on Saturday arrested by police after he and his friend allegedly thrashed a shopkeeper in Leh town. Karma Stalzin, son of Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora, was arrested following a complaint from a shopkeeper in Leh that he and his friend roughed him up, police said. Stalzin had parked his vehicle in front of a shop in Leh town as...
07:26 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Shara, Leh: Tsewang Dorjey is a sub-inspector with the J&K police who set up a nursery school in Shara, a small village in Ladakh where children earlier didn't even start school before the age of 7. Shara is a tiny hamlet 60 km away from Leh, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places of the region. A yellow bus takes the children to their school - Sewa Shera nursery...
08:56 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Los Angeles: One-time financial powerhouse Lehman Brothers emerged from bankruptcy on Tuesday and is now a liquidating company whose main business in the coming years will be paying back its creditors and investors. Lehman, whose September 2008 collapse is often regarded as the height of the financial crisis, will start distributing what it expects to be a total of about $65 billion to creditors on April 17, it said in...
08:00 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Sanaa: Yemen's election commission says that 65 per cent of registered voters in the country cast their ballot for Vice President Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi in this week's single-candidate presidential election aimed at bringing an end to months of political turmoil. The vote, part of a US-backed agreement to ease out of office longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh after almost a year of popular protests, made the Yemeni ruler the...
01:45 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Hedge funds and professional investors are always looking for countries with lower interest rates where borrowing is cheaper and then invest the same in countries with higher interest rates. Earlier, it was the Japanese yen that gave them this opportunity. After the Lehman crash, the dollar became the funding currency of choice. Investors sold dollars where interest rates were low and purchased currencies like the Indian rupee where the interest...
11:42 AM, Feb 22, 2012
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