Tokyo: The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation decks of the 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower to mark its opening. Some reportedly waited in line more than a week to get the coveted tickets for a panoramic view, though on Tuesday ended up being cloudy in Tokyo. Skytree...
11:50 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: India will take up with Pakistan the issue of early release of Sarabjit Singh, the condemned Indian prisoner currently lodged in a Lahore jail, during the Home Secretary-level talks on May 24-25. This was conveyed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram to Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, who met him in Delhi on Monday to request him to ask Home Secretary RK Singh to raise the issue of Sarabjit during...
02:48 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisty reached New Delhi on Monday night from Ajmer as he set out on his journey back home for a temporary period, after spending almost two decades in India. After receiving his passport from a local court in Ajmer, Chisty boarded Shatabdi Express along with his brother Jamil Chisty and others and reached New Delhi rail station at around 11 PM. Chisty said he will...
12:16 AM, May 15, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Dr Khalil Chisty to visit Pakistan within two weeks of depositing Rs 5 lakh in the registry of the apex court. ...
01:14 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Dr Khalil Chisty to visit Pakistan within two weeks of depositing Rs 5 lakh in the registry of the apex court. The court said that Dr Chisty will have to deposit his passport to the Indian consulate in Karachi upon his arrival in Pakistan. Dr Chisty will return back to India on November 1. Earlier senior counsel UU Lalit had pleaded that...
12:17 PM, May 10, 2012
After the spirited success of his latest '22 Female Kottayam', director Aashiq Abu has announced his next. Also a seemingly different attempt, the movie has been interestingly titled as 'Da Thadiya'. Aashiq Abu will present two new faces Sekhar Menon and Sreenath Bhasi, the popular DJ's as heroes through this movie, which will be another unconventional flick from the director. To be scripted by his regular scriptwriters Abhilash Kumar, Dileesh...
01:55 PM, May 08, 2012
Cuba: The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night. The court hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants should have taken a couple of hours at most. Instead it lasted almost...
05:58 PM, May 06, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is expected to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term for illegally entering and living in the country, their lawyer claimed on Friday. Lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media that the 45-day jail term given to the widows and two grown-up daughters will end on April 17 and all members of the slain Al...
12:41 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow the release and repatriation on humanitarian grounds of Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani given a life sentence in India after being convicted for murder. Zardari made the appeal in a personal letter addressed to the Indian Prime Minister, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. The letter was sent to Pakistan's High Commissioner in India on Friday...
09:47 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Ajmer: Ailing Pakistani scientist Mohammed Khalil Chishty was on Wednesday released on bail from Ajmer jail in a two-decade-old murder case and said he was hopeful that Sarabjit Singh and other prisoners languishing in each other's country would get justice. Freed after over 14-month incarceration, 80-year-old Chishty said he was thankful to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for taking up his case with India. "Zardari made efforts for me, I...
07:52 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Mumbai: Actress Sonam Kapoor, who is known for style statements, is a voracious reader and would like to pen down her autobiography some day. "You know I think I am too young and inexperienced and I don't know if I have the talent to write, but you know everybody is narcissistic. I would like to write about my life one day or the other. I am an actor after all,...
06:57 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Islamabad: The new Special Response Force created to protect Pakistan's nuclear arsenal held a passing out parade on Monday, with a top official saying that "all available resources" had been put in place to effectively guard the strategic assets. The newly raised Special Response Force will be part of the security force of the Strategic Plans Division, which is responsible for maintaining the nuclear arsenal. The passing out parade at...
03:58 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court charged former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters with illegally staying in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in jail, their lawyers said on Monday. In practice, that means 14 days in prison because they have been in detention since March 3. Bin Laden's family members will eventually be deported to their home countries, the lawyers said. "They (bin...
05:05 PM, Apr 02, 2012
London: It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan. When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the al Qaeda leader was 'noncommittal' and refused to give his backing. It was not until three years later before he could be brought around and another five years before...
09:51 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Amritsar: Ten persons were on Thursday arrested near the Golden Temple for allegedly raising pro-Khalistan slogans and brandishing swords. "The arrested Sikh hardliners were raising slogans Balwant Singh Rajoana Zindabad and Khalisthan Zindabad near the Golden Temple," Police Commissioner RP Mittal said. They were remanded to judicial custody in the central jail till April 10. Meanwhile, radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa condemned police action in Gurdaspur town. They demanded judicial...
08:42 PM, Mar 29, 2012
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