Thoubal: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class XII results were out on Monday. While Chennai had the highest pass percentage, a pleasant surprise was that a boy from Manipur, Mohammad Ismat, topped the all-India exams with 99 per cent. Ismat topped the exams despite electricity being a problem in his village. "I come from Lilong, it's a remote village here. There are a lot of problems regarding electricity...
10:22 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education class XII results were declared on Monday. While among the eight regions, Chennai topped the performance card with a pass percentage of 90.59, Mohammad Ismat, a science student from Imphal, became the all India topper scoring 99 per cent. Meanwhile, girls continued to outperform boys. Over 8 million students appeared for the exam this year, an increase of 5.94 per cent over...
11:34 PM, May 28, 2012
Hiranagar: Opposition People's Democratic Party on Sunday said any solution to the vexed issue of Kashmir should be found within the framework of the Indian Constitution and called for stronger Cente-State relations. "Today the people will demand self-rule and tomorrow they will ask for 'aazadi', this way we cannot find a solution to our problem. The real solution of Kashmir issue lies within the Constitution of India," PDP patron Mufti...
06:39 PM, May 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is a sovereign state and the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) will not allow the country to become an "Indian market", Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said. Saeed, described by India as the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, made the remarks while addressing a news conference with other leaders of the DPC in the southern port city of Karachi. He alleged that both the US and India were...
07:37 AM, May 27, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan Navy on Saturday completed the establishment of a new Naval Strategic Force Command, described by the military as the custodian of the country's nuclear second strike capability. Naval Strategic Force Command headquarters was inaugurated by naval Chief Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila. The event was attended by Strategic Plans Division Chief Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Kidwai and senior naval and military officers. Vice Admiral Tanveer Faiz, commander of...
12:50 AM, May 20, 2012
Dubai: Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being sentenced to death in August last year for the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Iran's state news agency quoted the central prosecutor's office...
02:14 PM, May 15, 2012
Srinagar: The opposition PDP on Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir had become a victim of trust deficit between people of the state and rest of the country and the gap had to be bridged to facilitate a lasting solution to the problem. "Efforts have to be redoubled to remove apprehensions on both sides that have marred chances of reconciliation," PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said. It was unfortunate that over...
04:03 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to take suitable actions for taking back possession of land encroached by Delhi legislator Asif Mohammad Khan for running an illegal zoo. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw hearing a public suit seeking the removal of illegal constructions on DDA land by the legislator, also referred the case...
01:23 AM, May 03, 2012
Jammu: Stressing that dialogue is the only means to solve all vexed problems, PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Sunday said India and Pakistan should take "concrete" steps to take the peace and reconciliation process to its logical conclusion. Addressing public meetings at Simbal Camp area of RS Pura assembly segment, Sayeed said that situation in Pakistan has changed and it was also giving encouraging response to the dialogue process....
02:43 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Srinagar: Twelve years after her son was allegedly arrested by the Nepal police, Zubeida, a 65-year-old Kashmiri widow, has said that she has been running from pillar to post to know his whereabouts. Ghulam Muhammad Sofi, a Kashmiri handicraft trader, was allegedly arrested in Kathmandu on August 12, 2000. "The authorities told us that my son had been arrested in Nepal and later handed over to some unknown intelligence agency,"...
05:55 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday claimed he had an opportunity to carry out "a counter-coup" against the present dispensation under Mohamed Waheed with the help from some military officers but rejected it due to his strong democratic roots. Nasheed, who is also the first democratically elected president of Maldives, also pushed for support from the Indian government and its policy-makers for his party's call for an...
05:01 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Just a day after opening a new integrated check post at the Attari border, India and Pakistan on Saturday said the countries were exploring the possibilities of opening more routes to deepen economic engagements. India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and his Pakistan counterpart Mohammad Amin Fahim directed officials to discuss possibilities of opening new routes and customs stations. "The ministers expressed the wish that discussions may...
12:09 AM, Apr 15, 2012
CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim on Saturday criticised the Trinamool Congress and said the party lacked democractic values. ...
02:25 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Kabul: An Afghan peace envoy was killed along with his son when a suicide bomber targeted him on his way back from Friday prayers along with his son, dealing another blow to Afghanistan's reconciliation process that is turning out to be a tough road. Mowlawi Mohammad Hashem Munib, a former commander of a major Afghan mujahideen group Hezb-i-Islami, was the head of the provincial peace council in eastern Kunar province....
11:02 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Banned Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Amir has appeared in an official video from the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) of the ICC, warning players of the dangers of corruption, which will be also be used by the Indian Premier League in the ongoing fifth season. ...
10:31 AM, Apr 06, 2012
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