The Taliban on Monday claimed it had not received a "serious response" from the Pakistan government to its offer for peace talks, which could be jeopardized by the stance adopted by the army. ...
02:21 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. ...
01:14 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Rehman Malik calls Pakistan a victim of terror, says need proof to arrest Hafiz Saeed. Indian nurse Jacintha slammed Australian RJs, hospital staff in suicide notes. ...
11:57 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Tuesday said it would be better to wait and watch as to how the new team in Beijing following the change of leadership of Chinese Communist Party would address the struggle of the Tibetans for liberation of their homeland. ...
04:56 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, on Sunday said India, where different religious traditions "live harmoniously", is a model to other parts of world, and should continue to keep this tradition. "India is a model. Different religious traditions live peacefully and harmoniously. Please keep this tradition," Dalai Lama said at the valedictory of the year-long celebration of the 1,960 year-old Malankara Orthodox Syrian church in Kochi. ...
03:24 AM, Nov 26, 2012
The peace-athon has been organised by Kia Scherr, an American who lost her husband and daughter in the terror strikes at the Trident hotel on November 26, 2008. ...
10:39 AM, Nov 25, 2012
London: Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, who became the face of her country's struggle against the Taliban, has been awarded for her bravery and advocation of education for girls in adverse conditions in Swat. The award was given out by World Peace and Prosperity Foundation Chairman Prince Ali Khan, at the Cholmondeley Room of the House of Lords on Monday night. Malala is being treated at a British hospital after she...
09:37 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Dharamsala: Tibetans committing self-immolations were in principle practising non-violence as they had the courage to sacrifice their own life for a cause they believe, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said on Sunday. "I consider these Tibetans burning - certainly these people have courage and determination to sacrifice their own life, so they can easily harm other people - but I think these people, although they practised a little bit of...
11:29 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday freed eight to 10 Afghan Taliban prisoners at the request of peace negotiators to help boost the troubled peace and reconciliation process in war-torn Afghanistan, official sources said. The prisoners, all junior cadres of the Taliban, were freed in response to a request from Afghan High Peace Council chief Salahuddin Rabbani, who arrived in Islamabad with a delegation on Monday for talks with Pakistans top...
04:20 AM, Nov 15, 2012
United Nations: Six Indian peacekeepers and a local interpreter, serving with the United Nations mission in strife-torn Congo, were wounded when their patrol was ambushed in what is being termed as a "targetted and deliberate" attack. The six peacekeepers were part of the Indian contingent serving with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). They were ambushed along with their interpreter while returning from a patrol...
09:56 AM, Oct 19, 2012
London: Actress Angelina Jolie has written an essay sharing how she informed her children about Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot early this month. The 14-year-old girl, Pakistan's first National Peace Award winner, was shot and seriously injured by unidentified gunmen in the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Oct 9. She is currently being treated in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, Britain. In the essay written in Daily Beast, the...
06:25 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Oslo: The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) for contributing to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe for over six decades . An hour before the official announcement, Norway's NRK public radio had said that the EU will win the award. The prize, worth $1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on December 10. The decision by the five-member...
02:31 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Oslo: The European Union will win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its historic role in uniting the continent in an award that plays down the euro zone's debt crisis, Norway's NRK public radio said. The prize, worth $1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on December 10. The decision by the five-member panel, led by Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjoern Jagland, was unanimous, NRK said. "We have had...
02:25 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Islamabad: A 14-year-old Pakistani girl, who emerged as an unlikely champion of peace in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, was seriously injured when a suspected militant attacked her car in the country's restive northwest on Tuesday. Malala Yousufzai, the first recipient of Pakistan's National Peace Award for Youth, was hit by at least two bullets when the gunman fired at her car in Swat, located 160 km from Islamabad....
02:48 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Lucknow: Starting from five students and a Rs 300 loan, a Lucknow school has travelled a long way to become the school with the most number of pupils in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. The 57th and 2013 edition of the book says the City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow had a record enrollment of 39,437 pupils on Aug 9, 2010, for the 2010-11 academic year....
10:42 AM, Sep 23, 2012
Bangalore: India's tryst with Mars will begin in November 2013 to explore the red planet's atmosphere and search for life-sustaining elements, a top space official said late on Monday. "We are scheduling to launch the Mars mission Nov 27, 2013 when the red planet will be closer to the earth for injecting our spacecraft into its elliptical orbit," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Radhakrishnan said. The Rs 470-crore...
01:56 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: Brikesh Singh is getting ready to climb another tree, this time inside a tiger reserve, and stay there for a month - not for fun or to avoid the big cats but to draw the young generation's attention to saving the environment. On September 1, the 32-year-old Greenpeace campaigner, born and brought up in the slums of Mumbai, will climb a tree on the site of a proposed power...
06:27 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday said the situation in Assam was peaceful and under control and 170 people were arrested after registration of 309 cases in the Northeastern state. The Home Ministry said in a statement that by and large normalcy has restored in Kokrajhar and other violence-affected districts after regular patrolling by Army troops and deployment of 6,500 paramilitary and state police personnel. "104 fixed police pickets have...
07:43 PM, Aug 11, 2012
