Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday expressed hope that the positive trends seen in Indo-Pak relations in 2011 would continue this year to boost the agenda of development and prosperity in the region. Khar made the remarks when Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal paid a courtesy call on her. She said "2011 had been a positive year for Pakistan-India bilateral relations". She expressed the hope that "this...
09:31 PM, Jan 03, 2012
London: Predictive text, a marvel of mobile phones that has made it quicker and easier to communicate with people, has been blamed for errors that can sabotage relationships by leaving users fuming. Predictive texting is a facility that makes SMSing faster especially for phones with non-qwerty keyboard. The latest submissions to the DamnYouAutoCorrect website show how the simple predictive text misspelling of the words 'at Pam's' resulted in a very...
11:41 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a man who wears many hats and juggles many roles. He has closely observed and written about Indian politics and education for more than twenty years now. On Sunday, Mehta won the Infosys Prize 2011 for Political Science & International Relations. Some time back, when CNN-IBN caught up with him, he had said he was going through some sort of a professional identity...
08:45 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Jammu: Violating the ceasefire yet again, Pakistani troops fired at a BSF patrol party leaving a jawan injured in Samba district. Pakistani troops fired on the patrol party along the International Border (IB) in Khowara belt in Samba district last night, a senior BSF officer said on Thursday. In the firing, a BSF jawan was injured, he said, adding that he has been admitted to a hospital. "It was a...
11:58 AM, Dec 31, 2011
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12:04 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Ancient India and China never coveted others lands. Both feared the marauding hordes from Central Asia who ultimately assimilated into both the Indian and Chinese fold. India was protected to an extent by the Himalayas whereas the Chinese had to build a great wall, but both the obstacles were breached a number of times. China was influenced by Indian ideas when Hieun Tsang and others before him visited India and...
01:16 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Washington: Amid growing uneasiness in the US over the rise of Chinese military power, Washington on Tuesday asserted that its interest in the Asia-Pacific region is not targeted towards any specific country, but towards the general peace and security of the region. "The United States views the Asia-Pacific region as a top priority. Our policy is focused on the region and not on any one country in particular," George Little,...
06:38 AM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: The extension to trade for four days in a week and the proposal to raise infrastructure at the trade center have given businessmen in the valley much to cheer about. LoC trade is now worth more than Rs 800 crore three years since it began. Custodian Officer, Salamabad Nazir Ahmad Baba said, "If the items are increased, the quantum of trade will increase. There are number of unemployed...
07:03 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama held talks in Bali on the sidelines of ASEAN Summit on Friday. This was the their first meeting since Obama's visit to India in 2010. According to the sources, Singh and Obama held discussions on nuclear civil cooperation and future bilateral ties. Addressing the press in Bali Obama said, "This is an outstanding occasion to discuss how we can...
07:17 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Through the centuries, the enticing aroma of spices lured Indian sea traders to the shores of a sprawling archipelago. Made up of over seventeen thousand islands scattered across 5 thousand kilometers, Indonesia was a land of promise that sparked the curiosity of Indian traders and merchants who came in pursuit of commercial and economic activity. From the majestic splendour of Prambanan, the largest Hindu temple complex in Yogyakarta in Central...
01:25 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Shekhar Naik is a man on a mission. His team of visually impaired cricketers are all set for their Pakistan series - the first time since 26/11 that any sports team from India will be playing in Pakistan. And they're very excited. Shekhar Naik Lachma said, "We believe India and Pak are one, we want to prove that." Not only are Naik and his boys confident that they...
08:53 AM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Most Favoured Nation status, granted by Pakistan to India, will be formalised by the end of January. Pakistan's Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood, ahead of Day two of talks with India, said the process has been endorsed by the Pakistani Cabinet. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Mehmood said Pakistan is looking forward to increase trade relations with India. Mahmood said, "The Pakistan cabinet has endorsed the MFN process and...
08:58 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The India-Pakistan Commerce Secretary-level talks began on Monday, with the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) issue among the main agenda items of the parleys that seek to normalise bilateral trade relations. Pakistan's Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood, accompanied by a team of officials, will hold discussions with his Indian counterpart Rahul Khullar for the next two days to resolve some of the contentious trade issues. These include India seeking clarity...
10:15 AM, Nov 14, 2011
This week on The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha brings the funny side to the SAARC Summit and TMC's demand for a roll-back in fuel prices. ...
12:15 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Addu (Maldives): Recent measures to normalise trade between India and Pakistan are encouraging signs towards the realisation of a 'new silk road' connecting south and central Asia, a US official said on Friday. Robert O Blake the Assistant Secretary of State for Southern and Central Asian Affairs said that the concept of making Afghanistan a hub of economic activity will provide an 'alternative to insecurity and extremism'. Blake was speaking...
08:18 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says the current talks between India and Pakistan have the backing of the Army. ...
08:06 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Strategic Affairs Analyst Sushant Sareen said that Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna should lay out the exact reasons why the trust deficit with Pakistan has been bridged. ...
02:07 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Addu: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Maldives on Thursday, the atmospherics seem right. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday said "animosity is in the past" and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar had said "this relationship is on the right track. Better than ever in the past." But while building the next steps in...
07:09 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Addu: India and Pakistan on Wednesday acknowledged that the trust deficit between them was "shrinking" and termed terrorism as a threat to both countries. The common acknowledgement came as External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, a day before the meeting of the prime ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the SAARC summit. During the meeting, both leaders discussed issues of bilateral...
12:53 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: Technology giant Infosys has been ranked as the country's best company for investor-relations practices such as corporate governance, financial disclosure and online dissemination of shareholder-related information. In the first-ever such rankings for India, compiled by Investor Relations Global Rankings (IRGR), Infosys has been ranked on the top in all the four categories - corporate governance practices, financial disclosure procedures, IR website and online annual report. Infosys was followed...
10:48 AM, Nov 06, 2011
