Enniskillen (Northern Ireland): Russian President Vladimir Putin faced further isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up to pressure him into toning down his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Following an icy encounter between the Kremlin chief and US President Barack Obama late on Monday, the G8 leaders will seek to find resolution to a war that has prompted powers across the Middle East to square off on sectarian lines.
The sticking point again will be Putin, who faced a barrage of criticism from Western leaders for supporting Assad and the Syrian's president's attempt to crush a 2-year-old uprising in which at least 93,000 people have been killed.
"It's a clarifying moment to see what kind of commitments the Russians are willing to make in a leading world forum," a British official said before the leaders met for dinner at a remote, heavily guarded golf course outside of Enniskillen....
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07:34 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Hyderabad: Twenty two legislators belonging to TRS and BJP along with two Independent MLAs associated with them were on Monday suspended from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for two days for constantly disrupting proceedings of the House on Telangana statehood issue. Of the total suspended members, 17 belonged to Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), three to Bharatiya Janata Party and one Independent each associated with these parties. These members stayed put in...
02:36 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Hyderabad: Apparently frustrated by the delay in the formation of a separate Telangana state, a student of Osmania University in Andhra Pradesh committed suicide early Saturday, police said. The body of Bandaru Srinivas, an engineering student, was found hanging from a tree opposite the library on the Osmania University campus. He hailed from Mahabubnagar district of Telangana region. Srinivas' friends said he was depressed over the delay in granting statehood...
06:28 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Mumbai: A day after the new Eastern Freeway in Mumbai was inaugurated, there was a glitch over its opening to the public. Jurisdiction issues resulted in delay and the traffic police did not allow movement till noon. Almost 17 kilometre long, it is dubbed as India's longest flyover in an urban area in Mumbai. The much-awaited Eastern Freeway was thrown open on Thursday ahead of its schedule, after angry citizens...
01:26 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: The battle lines are drawn as the apex body fighting for separate statehood to Telangana region is determined to defy prohibitory orders and go ahead with Friday's march to the assembly to press for its demand. Police in Hyderabad have gone on high alert, imposing orders banning meetings and rallies, closing flyovers and roads leading towards the assembly building in the heart of the city. The assembly has turned...
04:57 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Police have made heavy security arrangements in Hyderabad in view of the 'Chalo Assembly' protest om Friday by deploying about 10,000 police personnel from the state and 20 companies from the central para-military forces. After refusing permission for the protest, the police have started checking vehicles at entry points to foil the attempts of the protesters to get into the city. The police have also intensified surveillance...
01:41 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday said there was need for a consensus on setting up a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) but his ministry did not have plans to move the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on the issue. Shinde said that the government has to think about the opposition to the proposal to set up NCTC from some non-Congress chief ministers. "We will have to...
04:57 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Hyderabad: A local court took cognisance of a complaint against a police official for not registering FIRs against union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and P Chidambaram over allegations that they "cheated" people in Telangana by making "misleading" statements about statehood. The second metropolitan magistrate's court took cognisance against the station house officer (SHO) of LB Nagar police station under Section 166 (a) of the Indian Penal Code (public servant disobeying...
01:01 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Consensus seems to be eluding Congress over the issue of Telangana with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday refusing to set any deadline for deciding the statehood issue. His statement came close on the heels of claims made by Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress General Secretary looking after party's affairs in Andhra Pradesh, that the issue will be resolved within this month. "This entire matter is under process...We...
11:30 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Hyderabad: Telangana issue and the demand to set up a steel plant in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday disrupted the proceedings of the State Legislative Assembly here. TRS members trooped into the well of the House as soon as the session began for the day and raised slogans demanding that the Assembly pass a resolution favouring formation of separate Telangana. The TDP members also stood near the Speaker's...
12:26 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over the possibility of withdrawing the FIR against those booked for allegedly resorting to a violent protest at in January 2012. "We met Shinde over the Karbala issue today (Monday). The FIR (First Information Report) filed against people who indulged in violence was discussed," Dikshit told IANS. In January 2012, a violent clash had erupted between police and...
05:27 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Hyderabad: BJP president Rajnath Singh has asked the UPA government to table a bill in parliament to carve out a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, saying his party would extend unconditional support. Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad on Monday night, Rajnath Singh said that if the government convenes a special session of parliament to table the bill, the BJP would support it. At the public meeting at...
05:18 AM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The Congress on Sunday said it will take a decision on the Telangana issue in June 2013. Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters that the party would hold some more consultations before taking the decision. Azad, who is incharge of the party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, advised party leaders from Telangana to wait for the decision. Referring to two MPs and some others who quit the...
04:16 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Meerut: A head constable of Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself. According to the police, head constable Sanjay Sharma (38) was posted at Nauchandhi police station in Meerut district since December 2012. He was residing in police line with his wife and two children. On Sunday, Sharma accompanied his wife to Jaydevi Nagar where her parents were residing and shot himself after locking himself up...
02:23 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Hyderabad: Congress MPs G Vivek, M Jagannath and senior party leader K Keshav Rao, who had quit the ruling party over Telangana issue, formally joined TRS on Sunday in the presence of its president K Chandrasekhar Rao at a public meeting in Hyderabad on Sunday evening. A few former ministers and leaders from Congress, TDP and other parties also joined TRS on the occasion. Slamming Congress for not keeping its...
12:20 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: With Telangana issue returning to haunt Congress, Sonia Gandhi on Friday held deliberations with senior leaders in the wake of two sitting MPs and a prominent state leader deciding to join TRS, which is spearheading the statehood movement. Gandhi held confabulations with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and AICC general secretary in-charge for the state Ghulam Nabi Azad and her political secretary Ahmed Patel on the...
02:12 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Sydney: Chief executive James Sutherland says Cricket Australia may consider implementing a social media policy after opening batsman David Warner became embroiled in an expletive-laden Twitter exchange with two journalists. Warner is reportedly expected to plead guilty at a hearing on Wednesday to breaching Cricket Australia's Code of Conduct after expressing anger in a series of tweets at newspaper articles. The 26-year-old opening batsman could be fined, suspended or ordered...
12:24 PM, May 21, 2013
Pudukottai: With the break-up of UPA in Tamil Nadu, Congress leader and former Union minister EVKS Elangovan on Sunday said there was a possibility of his party heading a new alliance sans the two major Dravidian parties - DMK and AIADMK - for the next Lok Sabha elections. Rejecting the charges against Congress over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, he said people were not aware of the party's good work...
01:27 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: In a firm message to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday night voiced India's serious concern over the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh and told his counterpart Li Keqiang that in the absence of peace and tranquility along the border, bilateral ties will suffer as the two leaders held hour-long cordial but candid talks. 57-year-old Li, on his first foreign trip since becoming Prime Minister two months...
12:33 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday began talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on all crucial bilateral issues within hours of his arrival here when he affirmed that his visit will "inject new vigour" into bilateral ties and strengthen mutual trust. The Prime Minister is also hosting the Chinese Premier at a private dinner, ahead of a formal banquet on Monday. 57-year-old Li, accompanied by a senior-level...
08:27 PM, May 19, 2013
