Kabul: Roadside bombs and a suicide bomber killed 20 people in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. The deaths came even as armed clashes between insurgents and Afghan security forces have decreased as the fighting season winds down with the advent of cooler weather in the mountainous nation. In one of the attacks, 10 civilians, including a child and four men, died as their vehicle struck...
05:50 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: British barmaid Emma-Louise Hodges has legally changed her name to 'Miss Pussy Galore Honey Rider Solitaire Plenty O'Toole May Day Xenia Onatopp Holly Goodhead Tiffany Case Kissy Suzuki Mary Goodnight Jinx Johnson Octopussy Domino Moneypenny' to include the names of 14 different Bond girls, according to media reports. Formerly Hodges, 28, changed her name by a deed poll because she thought "it would be great to be a...
11:19 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Beijing: Amidst looming national leadership transition and escalating tensions with Japan, China on Thursday appointed a new army Chief of Staff along with several other top officers, sidelining generals associated with disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai. General Fang Fenghui, who was one of the few military commanders regarded as close to President Hu Jintao has been appointed as the Chief of the Headquarters of the General Staff of the...
09:00 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Sunday ruled out any arms sales to Pakistan and stressed that unlike other countries, Russia never created problems for India. "We are always cooperating with India to ensure safety of the region. We never created trouble for India in the region as compared to other countries," he told reporters in New Delhi. Rogozin was responding to a question on whether Russia...
10:17 PM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: India is all set to procure 42 Su-30 MKI combat aircraft and 71 medium-lift helicopters from Russia. The issue was discussed during meeting between Defence Minister AK Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov in New Delhi and an agreement in this regard is expected to be signed during the visit of President Vladimir Putin on November 1, sources said. The 42 Su-30MKIs will add to the firepower...
01:39 AM, Oct 11, 2012
London: Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line 'I'll be back' from his hit film 'The Terminator' has topped a list of the best movie catchphrases. The action star's much-copied saying has been voted the most memorable movie line of all time in a poll by Sky's film streaming service Now TV, reported Express online. Clark Gable's 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn' from 'Gone With The Wind' comes in at...
02:19 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Kabul: Two US Marines were killed and other Americans were wounded on Friday during a Taliban attack on a base in southern Afghanistan where Britain's Prince Harry is stationed, US officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said Harry was on the base at the time of the attack but was unharmed. "Prince Harry was never in any danger," spokesman Martyn Crighton said,...
12:46 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Bollywood actor Lara Dutta while talking to CNN-IBN, said that Grey's Anatomy, an American television medical drama, is her favorite TV show. ...
07:12 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Kabul: A large explosion rattled the headquarters of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the heavily guarded diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday, the force said. Privately owned Tolo TV said four children had been wounded in the incident, but that could not be independently verified. "We are on lockdown while we try get more details on the explosion," an ISAF spokeswoman said, referring to when...
01:37 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Thanzeer was a mere salesman at a CD shop till he met the magic frames of 'Cinema Paradiso' by Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore seven years back. The 1988 classic which narrates the tale of a filmmaker's recollection of his childhood when he fell in love with the movies at his village theatre, went deep into the soul of the 17-year-old and changed his entire world. Just like the protagonist Toto...
05:25 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Washington: A bipartisan group of six American senators has written a letter to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, asking him to address the growing religious intolerance in his country and release the minor Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge. The girl, identified as Rimsha Masih, is reported to have Down's syndrome. She faces the death penalty for allegedly burning pages with verses from the Quran. Seeking to ensure the...
10:43 AM, Sep 01, 2012
The Taliban beheaded seventeen partygoers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province as punishment, recalling the darkest days of rule by the ultra-conservative Islamist insurgents before their ouster in 2001. The bodies were found on Monday in a house near the Musa Qala district where a party was held on Sunday night with music and mixed-sex dancing, said district governor Nimatullah. Men and women do not usually mingle...
03:02 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Kabul: Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border on Tuesday, killing policemen and shoppers buying food to break their daily Ramadan fast. A market bombing in northern Afghanistan brought the overall toll to 46 in the deadliest day for civilians this year. There were no claims of responsibility, but the attacks on opposite ends of the country - the provinces of...
02:37 AM, Aug 15, 2012
Shawal: The Taliban have threatened to kill Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan if he holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border to protest US drone attacks. Although the Pakistani Taliban also oppose the strikes, which have killed many of their fighters, spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said they would target Imran Khan because he calls himself a "liberal" " a term they associate with lack...
11:24 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Thursday called for transparent ties with US based on mutual trust as he met American commander in Afghanistan, days after the two sides struck a deal ending a seven-month blockade of NATO supply routes. "The Pakistan-US relationship should be based on mutual trust, respect and transparency," Kayani said during a meeting in Rawalpindi with Gen John Allen, chief of the International...
04:59 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Twenty-two years after the blockbuster success of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film 'Total Recall,' actor Colin Farrell is stepping into the muscleman's big shoes in a reboot, but if it seems like a dream job, Farrell initially was not so gung-ho. As flattered as the 36-year-old Irish actor was to be offered the part, he admits "there was a part of me that was honestly afraid of judgment...
03:11 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have temporarily stopped the movement of NATO trucks to Afghanistan following an attack by militants even as the Foreign Office on Thursday said a new memorandum of understanding covering the transportation of supplies would be signed soon. The movement of NATO trucks and tankers was temporarily suspended on Wednesday night so that authorities could improve security for the vehicles, officials told the media. Militants carried out two...
06:59 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Washington: A key American Senator on Tuesday threatened to force a vote on ending US aid to Pakistan unless a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden, is released from prison. Senator Rand Paul took to the Senate floor this morning announcing his intention to force a Senate vote that, if passed, would strip Pakistan of all US foreign aid until Dr Shakil Afridi's recent 33-year prison sentence...
07:12 AM, Jul 18, 2012
'Penguin Island' by Anatole France is a strange book so to say or thats what I thought when I first started reading it. It is probably nothing like I have ever read before and maybe that is why I did not have a reference point to compare it with, which in a way was the best way to read this book. So let me straight get to the plot: A...
06:47 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Washington: In the end it was a meeting in a nondescript conference room in Chicago that finally set in motion the long-awaited US apology to Pakistan last week ending a seven-month impasse over NATO supply routes for the Afghan war. The meeting in late May followed months of clamoring by Islamabad, images of flag-draped coffins on TV, and widespread outcry from Pakistanis incensed by the US air attack that killed...
11:36 AM, Jul 11, 2012
