Kochi: Six Students Federation of India (SFI) activists were injured after a march organised to the Kanayannur Taluk office turned violent on Friday. As many as 100 SFI activists took out a march against the delay in arresting the culprits involved in the murder of SFI Idukki district secretary Aneesh Raj. The march was part of the SFI's state-wide protest. Among the six injured, SFI district joint-secretary Shyam Shankar and...
08:13 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Doha: International envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday criticised President Bashar al-Assad for failing to comply with a peace plan to end the Syria conflict and said his forces were carrying out atrocities, arbitrary arrests and other abuses regardless of the world outcry against him. At a meeting with members of the Arab League, Annan gave a bleak assessment of the situation in Syria 15 months on from the start of...
03:21 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Beirut: Peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated and impatient" a week after a massacre in Syria of 108 people shocked the world, and there were signs Russia might be moving closer to the West's position on tackling the crisis. President Vladimir Putin denied that Russia, which has a base in Syria and supplies it with weapons, was providing the government with the means to crush rebels,...
01:45 AM, Jun 02, 2012
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11:49 PM, May 31, 2012
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10:34 PM, May 31, 2012
Beirut: As UN officials cited eyewitness accounts of shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats on Tuesday in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the massacre of more than 100 people. UN special envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus to try to salvage what was left of a peace plan, which since being brokered six weeks ago has failed...
03:22 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition continues to gun for the government over the recent hike in petrol prices. The ruling AIADMK on Tuesday will be holding demonstrations in Tamil Nadu to demand its immediate rollback. It is being seen as a move to upstage rival DMK which is planning a similar rally on Wednesday. Jayalalithaa said the hike in petrol price could have been avoided by reducing the profit of the...
07:03 AM, May 29, 2012
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
Amman: The UN Security Council will meet on Sunday to discuss the killing of at least 109 people in the Syrian town of Houla, a council diplomat said, a sign of mounting outrage at the massacre which the government and rebels blamed on each other. Images of bloodied and lifeless young bodies, lain carefully side by side after the onslaught on Friday, triggered shock around the world and underlined the...
04:12 AM, May 28, 2012
Damascus: Syria's foreign ministry spokesman has denied government troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people dead. Friday's assault on Houla, an area northwest of the central city of Homs, was one of the bloodiest single events in Syria's 15-month-old uprising. Jihad Makdissi told reporters in Damascus at a Sunday news conference that Syria is being subjected to a "tsunami of lies"...
03:53 PM, May 27, 2012
Beirut: The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists said was an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a UN peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. The bloodied bodies of children, some with their skulls split open, were shown in footage posted to YouTube purporting to show the victims of...
12:24 AM, May 27, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday launched her protest rally in Kolkata demanding a rollback on the petrol price hike. The rally began in Jadavpore and stopped at Hazra, covering a distance of 5 km. Mamata had earlier expressed her displeasure at the petrol price hike but had clarified that her party would not pull out of the UPA. The Trinamool Congress is the second largest ally...
07:42 PM, May 26, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead her party Trinamool Congress,the second largest ally of the UPA government at the Centre, in Kolkata on Saturday to protest against the steep hike in petrol price. Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo, will lead the procession from Jadavpore to Hazra crossing, covering a distance of 5 km in south Kolkata, senior party leader and panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee said. "It will...
04:49 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: With the party and the government coming under attack over the steep hike in petrol price, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy is understood to have met Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and discussed the issue. The meeting comes against the backdrop of Congress President's concerns over the Rs 7.54 a litre increase and the party hinting at the possibility of at least a partial...
02:42 AM, May 25, 2012
Cairo: Millions of Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in their history, voted on Thursday with the Muslim Brotherhood saying their candidate had an early lead over fellow Islamists and rivals who served ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Counting started after polls closed at 9 pm (1900 GMT) with no reliable exit polls available. The Brotherhood said on its television channel that its candidate Mohamed Mursi was ahead...
01:43 AM, May 25, 2012
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