Washington: The United States has asked for a collaborative diplomatic process on resolving the disputes related to the South China Sea, amid reports of the Chinese Navy confronting an Indian Navy vessel off the coast of Vietnam in late July. "We support a collaborative diplomatic process by all claimants to resolve their disputes. I would just stress that we want a collaborative diplomatic process there," State Department spokesman Mark Toner...
10:19 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the Darjeeling dispute has been resolved and a formal agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has also been signed. Mamata said that she has informed the Union Home Ministry about the agreement. Mamata said that the West Bengal Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh would talk to the Center and hold a formal tripartite meeting in Darjeeling and formalise the...
05:14 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: The scroll of honour at the Siachen base camp of Indian Army reads: "Quartered in snow, silent to remain. When the bugle calls, they shall rise and march again." Siachen glacier, the highest battlefield in the world, is the Himalayan watershed that draws a line between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent and that separates Pakistan from China in this region. Siachen (abode of roses) is the world's...
04:35 PM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: Even the nave and the eternal optimist did not think that Allahabad High Courts September 30, 2010 verdict on the Ayodhya Title suit marked the beginning of a closure of a dispute that has literally been around for centuries. None of the litigants was happy about the prospect of having to share the land with the others. The Allahabad High Court passed its orders to maintain cautious neutrality...
03:05 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: It's a land grab with International dimensions. Thousands of villagers in seven border districts of Bihar have lost their land and homes to encroachers from Nepal - triggering a significant rise in violence and conflict along the state's border with the Himalayan Kingdom. The land grab, it appears, has its genesis in a warped century old border treaty. The Indian authorities' inability to ensure pillars demarcating the border ...
07:17 AM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: It's a land grab with International dimensions. Thousands of villagers in seven border districts of Bihar have lost their land and homes to encroachers from Nepal - triggering a significant rise in violence and conflict along the state's border with the Himalayan Kingdom. The land grab, it appears, has its genesis in a warped century old border treaty. The Indian authorities' inability to ensure pillars demarcating the border...
07:17 AM, Apr 28, 2011
The Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal on the division of the river waters has given its verdict on Thursday. ...
02:39 PM, Dec 30, 2010
The Bombay High Court Tuesday ordered the attachment of two properties of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt over a financial row with producer Shakeel Noorani. The decision followed an arbitration award passed by the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) in January this year in favour of Noorani. Noorani's lawyer Ashok Saraogi said his client had in 2002 paid Sanjay Dutt a signing amount of Rs.50 lakh for his film Jaan...
12:15 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Ghaziabad: An industrial dispute at the Indo-Japanese company Allied Nippon in Ghaziabad turned tragic with the workers beating to death an Assistant General Manager of the company. The incident happened at the company site in Ghaziabad. The workers beat Assistant General Manager Yogendra Chaudhary with iron rods and stones after he allegedly tried to intimidate the workers with a weapon and opened fire. Chaudhary allegedly tried to intimidate the workers...
10:59 AM, Nov 14, 2010
The state government has said it's not in a position to release water at this stage as there had been deficient rainfall. ...
02:22 PM, Oct 28, 2010
New Delhi: The three groups involved in the Ayodhya title suit have come together for the first time to look for an out-of-court solution to the dispute, with representatives of Ram Lalla Virajman joining the talks for the first time. Triloki Nath Pandey, who represents Ram Lalla Virajman, joined the negotiations aimed at finding an amicable solution to the 60-year-old dispute. Mahant Bhaskar Das of Nirmohi Akhara, which has been...
07:55 PM, Oct 08, 2010
New Delhi: A day after the Ayodhya verdict was delivered by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad Hight Court, the Centre has decided to adopt a "wait and watch" approach in the dispute. The government, while being cautious in its reaction to the verdict, has decided not to intervene in the matter saying "the government has not been made a party in the dispute". The government will wait for either...
03:46 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Tonight on Face the Nation we discuss whether the Ayodhya verdict can bring closure. ...
07:24 AM, Oct 01, 2010
New York: India struck back at Pakistan for its Foreign Minister's remarks in the UN General Assembly. A day after External Affairs minister S M Krishna said he was disappointed by S M Qureshi's speech that criticised India for the violence in Kashmir, Krishna got tougher during his address at UN General Assembly, telling Pakistan to stay out of Jammu and Kashmir. The two foreign ministers were due to meet...
08:53 PM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: In a new twist to the Ayodhya dispute on the eve of the verdict by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board Kamal Farooqui says a compromise is possible even after the verdict is out. "We may negotiate a compromise even after the Supreme Court order," said Farooqi. The Supreme Court had dismissed on Tuesday a petition...
08:29 AM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court delivered its verdict on the Ayodhya title suit onThursday). Here is all you want to know about the title suit. Ayodhya title dispute December 1949: Idols of Ram Lalla & Sita Mata appear 'miraculously' inside the Babri Mosque. Hindus claim lord Ram has appeared in his birth land, hence land belongs to Hindus. Total of five title suits filed before...
10:49 AM, Sep 28, 2010
Sagardighi/New Delhi: The Sunni Wakf Board has filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya dispute, saying the matter cannot be sorted out through reconciliation. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice KS Radhakrishnan will hear a petition on Tuesday whether to defer the verdict by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court in the title suit case. Meanwhile,...
01:55 PM, Sep 27, 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed for a week the Ayodhya title suit verdict that was due to be pronounced by Allahabad High Court on the same day and will hear the plea for deferment of the judgement next Tuesday. The Court issued notices to the contesting parties on the petition filed by retired bureacrat Ramesh Chand Tripathi challenging the order of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High...
03:47 PM, Sep 23, 2010
New Delhi: In a day from now, we'll witness the judgement in one of the most sensitive cases in modern India - the Ayodhya verdict. And one man who will be watching the developments very closely is the man who was the face of the Ram Temple movement, LK Advani. Lal Kishenchand Advani is India's most travelled Rath Yaatri. The man who flagged off the Ram Temple movement in the...
09:37 AM, Sep 23, 2010
