New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.
Obama's invitation to Singh was delivered by US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during his recent visit here, sources said. Singh has accepted the invitation and will be travelling to Washington, the sources said.
The Prime Minister's visit to Washington could be clubbed with his tour to New York when he travels there to attend the United Nations General Assembly, they said....
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09:20 AM, May 18, 2013
Ahmedabad: City police on Thursday registered an attempt to murder case against three men including two brothers for allegedly trying to burn a man alive. Harshwardhan Shah, the complainant, alleged that brothers Parag and Devang Dave, along with another unidentified man, accosted him near his house in Isanpur area late Wednesday night, and had a quarrel with him over the will of Daves' aunt. Following this, they allegedly set him...
01:15 AM, May 17, 2013
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013. The song was his cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn are scheduled to return to earth. ...
11:22 AM, May 13, 2013
Five people have plunged to their deaths trying to escape a burning government building in eastern Pakistan. The photos were clicked by an Associated Press photographer. ...
01:36 PM, May 10, 2013
Faridkot: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killing in a Lahore jail has left the family of another prisoner of war in Pakistan, a worried lot. Surjit Singh, a BSF sepoy who is a prisoner of war for the past 42 years in Pakistan, remains untraceable and his wife Angrez Kaur and son Amrik Singh continue to live between hope and despair. About a year back, Amrik sought Pakistan Human Rights activist...
01:19 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Human rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday refuted the claims made by Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur. Dalbir Kaur had claimed that Burney demanded Rs 25 crore from her to ensure Sarabjit's release from Pakistan. Rubbishing Dalbir Kaur's claims, Burney tweeted, "I was shocked to hear nonsense & false accusation by Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarbajit Singh, I was the one who helped her every time....
02:36 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur appealed on Thursday to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan, where her brother breathed his last in the wee hours of the day after remaining comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail. "Pakistan is a coward. It's time to wage a war against it," said Kaur, while addressing a...
12:03 PM, May 02, 2013
Manchester: A British court has ordered Blackburn to pay 2.25 million pounds ($3.5 million) in compensation to former manager Henning Berg. The former Blackburn defender's spell in charge of the second-tier club was brought to an end 57 days into a three-year deal in December, following a run of one win in 10 matches. Blackburn argued that managing director Derek Shaw acted without authority from owner Venky's - an Indian...
08:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Islamabad: The attack on Sarabjit Singh could have serious implications for Pakistan-India ties, said a Pakistani daily, adding that the fate of the Indian death row prisoner was caught in the problematic relationship between the two countries. Sarabjit was admitted to a Lahore hospital after a murderous attack on him in Kot Lakhpat jail April 26. He is in coma. His family has arrived in Pakistan on a special visa...
11:13 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Bangalore: All efforts are being made to exert pressure on Pakistan to ensure best medical treatment for Sarabjit Singh, Union Minister Manish Tewari said on Sunday. "All of us are extremely concerned about the condition of Sarabjit," Tewari told reporters, rejecting criticism of opposition parties that the attack on Singh in a Pakistani jail is a reflection of failure of India's foreign policy. Tewari said no civilised world would tolerate...
02:44 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Lahore: The main accused in the brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail have told investigators that the attackers planned to kill him to take revenge for bombings he was accused of carrying out in Lahore. According to a preliminary report prepared by Deputy Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Malik Mubashir, the accused Amer Aftab and Mudassar, both death row prisoners said they hated Sarabjit because...
12:53 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi/Lahore: With Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh continuing to be in a coma and battling for life in state-run Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, India has offered medical assistance to Pakistan in treating him and has said Delhi will use the incident as an additional ground to push hard to get him back to his homeland. "The best we can, we will. Right now there is very little we...
08:00 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Lahore: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh had spoken of a threat to his life from a fellow prisoner after the execution in India of Afzal Guru but Pakistani authorities failed to provide him adequate security, his lawyer said on Friday. "Sarabjit told me and a CID (Crime Investigation Department) official after the execution of Afzal Guru that a prisoner in Kot Lakhpat Jail had issued death threats. I brought...
01:45 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Cuttack: After running from one hospital to another, parents of an 11-year-old girl with burn injuries staged a dharna in front of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence in Cuttack. The incident took place on Friday when the parents of the child were unable to admit their daughter to a hospital. The child was later admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital here with over 50 per cent burn injuries...
10:50 PM, Apr 20, 2013
London: Margaret Thatcher's funeral this week may be the costliest political advert in history, if critics are to be believed - but her death is reminding Conservatives that their current prime minister pales against her ideological conviction and power. Pollsters say David Cameron may get a small lift in the polls from public nostalgia for such a historic figure, even as figures on the right of his party pine openly...
06:25 AM, Apr 15, 2013
A man allegedly set his wife on fire for disagreeing with his choice of youth with whom he wanted his daughter to marry, police said on Tuesday. ...
12:59 AM, Apr 03, 2013
A 27-year-old North Texas man, who was one of the first to receive a full face transplant in the US, has married another burn patient, transforming their pain into bliss. Dallas Wiens married Jamie Nash, 29, on Saturday at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, The Dallas Morning News reported. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The 16-year-old girl from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, who had set herself on fire on Wednesday, succumbed to her burn injuries in Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Sunday. ...
11:36 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Millwall beat fellow second-tier club Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in an FA Cup quarter-final replay on Wednesday. ...
07:34 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Edinho will play his first I-League match against Pune FC March 24. ...
01:41 AM, Mar 13, 2013
