DMK chief M Karunanidhi withdrawing support to the central coalition some one year before Lok Sabha elections was the second such action in the past decade. He pulled out his 18-member party out of Congress-led UPA on Tuesday and five DMK representatives in the Council of Ministers submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. ...
11:53 PM, Mar 20, 2013
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11:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods say it's fatigue that has forced them to pull out of this week's HSBC Champions in Shanghai. ...
08:51 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Taliban suicide bombers unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks at the diplomatic enclave in Kabul and three other cities on Sunday. Has America blundered by announcing its troop pullout from the troubled nation? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar for a discussion this week in World View on Friday at 10 pm. ...
01:57 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Brussels: NATO's top official said Monday that the alliance will adhere to its plans to hand over security to local forces in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, comments that came after France said it would push NATO to speed up its timeline for the handover of combat operations by a year. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen acknowledged that the final transition phase, which involves handing over lead responsibility for...
08:01 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Too Big To Lead The media speculation around L&T supremo AM Naik's succession reached a feverish pitch last year. Yet no one had much of a clue on how L&T could possibly find a replacement to lead the engineering and infrastructure behemoth. It's another matter that by then, the L&T board had figured out a solution. We were the first to tell you about how they decided to deal with...
10:49 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: The last American troops in Iraq are preparing for their complete withdrawal by the end of the month. This more than eight years after the US invasion which overthrew Saddam Hussein. Iraqi forces will now assume full responsibility of the country's security. Sources say only 150 American soldiers are expected to stay back after the December 31 deadline expires. However, even as they prepare to pull out, there...
09:08 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Baghdad: The top American general in Iraq said on Monday that al-Qaida and other insurgent groups might seek to step up operations after US forces leave at the end of the year. General Lloyd Austin also told in Baghdad that while he expected "turbulence," he did not see the situation completely disintegrating. He noted that security did not collapse after US forces pulled out of Iraqi cities in 2009. "As...
02:33 AM, Nov 22, 2011
London: The Black Eyed Peas have pulled out of the upcoming Michael Jackson tribute concert in Wales due to "unavoidable circumstances". The group was due to take to the stage to pay tribute to the late King of Pop at the Michael Forever show, which will take place in Cardiff, Wales at the weekend, reported BBC online. "It is with regret that we announce the removal of Black Eyed Peas...
06:23 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: Ten years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden's death was a major victory for the US, and was one of the main factors driving the draw-down of US troops in Afghanistan, which President Obama announced this week. Ten thousand American soldiers in Afghanistan will go home by this year end and another twenty thousand in 2012. But Indian experts aren't too worried. They insist that it's part of a...
02:00 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Washington: The United States is still on course to start withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011 despite "fragile and reversible" progress against insurgents, an official review of the US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan shows. The review, set to be formally released by President Barack Obama later on Thursday, says the US strategy will continue to focus on defeating Al Qaeda and the Taliban and continue to move toward the...
08:17 PM, Dec 16, 2010
Baghdad: The US military command in Baghdad said on Friday that the number of forces still stationed in Iraq was 52,000, lower than the figure given on Thursday under the final pullout of combat troops. On Thursday it was said that 56,000 soldiers were still deployed in Iraq. But the military command said that was based on data from August 17 and was already outdated. Under the military drawdown plans,...
03:33 PM, Aug 20, 2010
Celebrations were tempered, however, by fears of renewed violence. ...
12:23 AM, Jul 01, 2009
But 400 military personnel will remain behind to help train Iraqi naval forces. ...
03:20 AM, May 01, 2009
The 500 remaining British soldiers will train Iraqi forces. ...
08:56 AM, Apr 01, 2009
It seems as if the US is playing Big Brother for India and Pakistan. ...
08:12 AM, Mar 20, 2009
Israel completed a troop pullout from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday. ...
12:28 AM, Jan 22, 2009
Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board has refused to extend any support to pacer Mohammad Aamir, whose five-year ban for involvement in spot-fixing could be extended by the ICC after he allegedly violated the terms of his suspension by turning up in a club game in England. "PCB's reluctance to get involved in the issue now, even if the ICC extended Aamir's ban, was because last year when the ICC special...
12:22 AM, Feb 06, 2008
Derby: Dilhara Fernando took three wickets for four runs as Sri Lanka completed their preparations for next week's first Test against England with a morale-boosting 38-run win over the England Lions here on Sunday. Sri Lanka, who'd already beaten Middlesex, won on the fourth and final day after being made to follow-on. England Test call-up Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara, left out of the 12-man squad named earlier on Sunday...
08:51 PM, Jan 28, 2008
Bush has endorsed recommendations on troop withdrawal in Iraq. ...
02:48 PM, Sep 14, 2007
