Washington: With the deepening of the India-US relationship and deterioration in the ties between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan is moving closer to China, a US Congressional report has said. "As US-India ties deepen and US-Pakistan ties appear to deteriorate, many observers see Islamabad becoming more reliant than ever on its friendship with Beijing," said the latest report on Pakistan by the independent Congressional Research Service. "US-Pakistan acrimony in the wake...
07:31 AM, Oct 28, 2011
Washington: RAW and ISI, the intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan, should end their confrontational course and initiate a process of rapprochement to stop "harming" each other, former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf has said. "Afghanistan always has been anti-Pakistan because Soviet Union and India have very close relation in Afghanistan. And the intelligence agency, KGB, RAW and KHAD of Afghanistan have always been in cooperation and talking since 1950s. So...
12:32 PM, Oct 27, 2011
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna also said that India is not sending it's troops to Afghanistan. ...
08:23 AM, Oct 15, 2011
India and Vietnam sign Extradition Treaty agreeing to intensify co-operation across sectors. ...
01:44 PM, Oct 12, 2011
London: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been installed at the 'Parc de L'Etoile' in the City of Strasbourg in France. The statue, gifted by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) to the city of Strasbourg, stands on a pedestal prepared by the city - in which are embedded four urns containing soil brought from Porbandar, Rajkot, Pieter Maritzburg in South Africa and Sabarmati, venues associated with important events...
05:42 PM, Oct 06, 2011
Washington: The US-Pak ties have strained following the detention of American diplomat Raymond Davis in Lahore and the Abbottabad raid which killed Osama bin Laden, affecting the bilateral military cooperation, President Barack Obama has told the Congress. "Bilaterally, the fallout of the raid resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden continued to complicate the United States-Pakistan relationship, further strained by a series of media reports based on alleged leaks...
08:53 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Washington: General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is the most powerful man in Pakistan, according to top US military commander Mike Mullen, who said that the Army chief controls the military run ISI, which supports terror groups like Haqqani network and LeT, using them as proxies. Standing by his statement that Haqqani network is the 'veritable arm' of the ISI, Mullen asserted that Pakistan Army uses terror groups like Haqqani network and...
01:53 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Washington: The unusual decision of Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, to send a blunt message to Pakistan reflects that bilateral relations are in trouble and likely to deteriorate further, an influential American think tank has said. In a blunt statement, Mullen identified the Haqqani network as "a strategic arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency," which thereby made the spy agency complicit in the September...
10:36 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will convene an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss the worsening US-Pakistan relations. Under fire, ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, is also expected to brief the political leadership. A rally was staged by schoolchildren in Karachi against the US, who is considered to be the enemy after differences arose between both nations on the relations between the ISI and the Haqqani network....
07:21 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Bangalore: With a 23-year-old Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, student committing suicide after her boyfriend quietly dumped her by updating his status on a social networking site, the need to discuss the minutiae of Facebook break-up etiquette has become more pressing. Of late, incidents of couples washing their dirty linen on social networking sites have risen in the city. The case of Malini Murmu, a first year MBA student...
11:09 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New York: With investors falling in and out love with Wall Street at a rapid pace, some financial advisers are finding themselves playing a new role -- that of marriage counselor. In general, people don't appear to agree about one of the most critical investment decisions of their married life: How they plan to retire. Advisers say they often find themselves in the middle of financial misunderstandings. A key reason:...
07:00 PM, Sep 06, 2011
It is impossible to turn away from this story once begun, so be forewarned and prepared to read it in one sitting. Though this is only to feel the loneliness of missing a great friend, and to want to begin all over again. Unlike many big stories that try the readers patience with unnecessary details, Nairs novel efficiently contains a multi-generational family saga, loves, deaths, secrets, ruin, and rebirth. We...
02:52 PM, Sep 05, 2011
![Shabia Ravi Walia]( "Shabia Ravi Walia")
It's been hardly a decade that the term fatherhood has been implying more than just fathering a child or paying for your child's education. Truly, ...
02:07 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Islamabad: Indian forces fired across the de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir early on Wednesday, killing three Pakistani soldiers, the Pakistani army said on Thursday. It said Indian forces opened 'unprovoked' fire across the so-called Line of Control (LoC) - which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan - in Neelam valley. "The soldiers were moving from one post to another when they came under fire. Three...
09:40 AM, Sep 02, 2011
London: Scientific theory has it that people are attracted to the opposite sex who have similar facial features. An American entrepreneur has now launched a website that helps people find their look-alike mate. The online dating agency "FindYourFacemate.com" uses sophisticated facial recognition software to pair off people with a partner who is "facially compatible" to them, says the Daily Mail. The website's 54-year-old founder Christina Bloom said she started investigating...
05:22 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Between men and women exists a sexual hierarchy based on how attractive one finds the other, and thats how biological it gets. In Shinie Antonys new novel, When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, theres a single woman in her mid-30s waiting to be swept off her feet. Throw in a married man out to have fun, and you have your average adulterous affair. Well, not so average as it turns...
11:48 AM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: In his three years of working life, Siddhanth Desai has had four career switches and almost double the number of job changes. In hindsight, the 26-year-old wonders if he focussed too much on his relationships. The pressure of expectations, coupled with his own disillusionment, is making him raise these existential questions. Welcome to quarter life crisis. Siddhanth, who ditched his "mundane" marketing profile to move to the more...
12:39 PM, Aug 28, 2011
London: Men may have been known for straying in relationships but the reality is women are more likely to get caught up in a love triangle, says a study. Almost a quarter of women asked during the study were found to have been romantically involved with more than one individual at a time, while just 15 percent of the men admitted to two-timing, Daily Express reported. Of those love triangles...
12:45 PM, Aug 23, 2011
![Madhuri Banerjee]( "Madhuri Banerjee")
All women want to know everything about a man but the minute they reveal everything, the women find him boring. It is also vice versa. ...
03:43 PM, Aug 05, 2011
