Positive talks are on with China over the border dispute, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said, hoping that desired results would be achieved. ...
01:52 PM, Dec 09, 2012
There is anger on the streets over arrests of girls on Facebook post as people demand change in laws to check abuse. ...
10:35 PM, Nov 20, 2012
The death toll in Gaza has reached 100 as fighting between Israel and Gaza-based militants from Hamas continues. ...
09:06 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Mumbai: The ailing Kingfisher Airlines on Monday offered to pay one month salary to its employees in 24 hours during a closed-door meet with the representatives of its pilots' and employees' unions. Sources said that the airline company further offered to pay the second month salary within a week and the salaries for the third month before Diwali. However, the staff members are said to be unhappy with the offer,...
04:13 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Can the impact of global warming be lessened by deploying sun-shields in space and by injecting sulphates in the upper atmosphere to reduce the amount of solar energy reaching the earth? Environmental scientists and other experts are currently grappling with the proposed geoengineering technologies and are studying the impact they could have on biodiversity. Geoengineering is the deliberate intervention in the earth's climate system to moderate global warming. The...
11:12 AM, Oct 15, 2012
With less than a month to go for Russia's President Vladimir Putin's visit to Delhi, the two sides appear to have "stabilised" the military relationship ...
12:56 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Hyderabad: After camping in New Delhi for 23 days, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao returned to Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hope that the final round of talks with the Congress leadership would be held soon on the Telangana issue. Under criticism from other pro-Telangana groups for his failure to extract a firm assurance from the Congress on the formation of a Telangana state, KCR, as Chandrasekhara...
10:13 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met Punjab Governor Latif Khosa and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday. Upon his arrival in Lahore, Krishna said, "Well, all this is going to help foster a much more cordial relationship between our two countries." "It is my earnest desire and the desire of Dr Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, and the people of India that we would like...
03:47 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers finished their talks on Saturday evening amidst an atmosphere of positivity, and though there were few concrete assurances on the 26/11 trial in Pakistan, both nations signed a new liberalised visa agreement. ...
11:44 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Islamabad: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna began crucial talks with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Saturday to review the second round of resumed dialogue with issues like terrorism to be on top of the agenda. The one-to-one meeting between Krishna and Khar was followed by delegation-level talks between the two sides. Indian officials earlier said that terrorism will form the core of New Delhi's discussions, particularly the slow...
11:45 AM, Sep 08, 2012
The alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks Hafiz Saeed has hit out at India once again saying that dialogue should be suspended till the Kashmir issue is resolved. ...
09:17 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: India and Pakistan will set the ball rolling on a new round of dialogue on Saturday when External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar meet in Islamabad. The two leaders spoke positively about the impending meet. "We look to the future our two countries are able to live together in the atmosphere of friendliness and all-round cooperation, free from terror and violence," said...
08:43 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Three Tibetans were detained on Sunday afternoon when they tried to stage a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi to protest the visit of Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie. The protest was organised by 'Students for a Free Tibet' to highlight their demand for freedom of their homeland from China. Dorjee Tseten, a spokesperson for the organisation, said the three protesters burnt Chinese flag as part...
09:19 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Does India cosying up to Iran and Pakistan send a wrong message to the West which wants to isolate the two countries on the global stage. ...
11:34 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Tehran to attend the 16th NAM summit where he may hold bilateral talks with the top Iranian leadership and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. Does India cosying up to Iran and Pakistan send a wrong message to the West which wants to isolate the two countries on the global stage. Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar for a discussion in World View on Friday at 10 ...
11:45 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Activist Anna Hazare on Friday again accused the government of trying to break the unity of Team Anna by holding secret talks with him. Talking to reporters here, Anna Hazare said: "V Narayanasamy wrote a letter to me and gave it to my team so that they feel Anna is talking with government. They are trying to break our team." "It was their conspiracy to stop me from...
08:09 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The Commerce Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan, which was scheduled for this month, is now expected to be held in September. "Pakistan wanted postponement of the meeting. Hopefully, Commerce Secretaries of both countries would meet in September. Hopefully, there will be good agreement between India and Pakistan," Commerce Secretary SR Rao said. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function of Pharmexcil and Federation of...
10:34 PM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: Conciliation talks between the Air India management and pilots, who went on a 58-day strike in support of their career progression issues, started on Tuesday. The parleys, which were held before the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner, came in the backdrop of Delhi High Court asking both sides to hold talks on daily basis and report back to it on July 13. Sources said both sides stuck to their...
10:11 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Tokyo: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Sunday during which he strongly raised the issue of anti-India activities being carried out from the Pakistani soil, maintaining that New Delhi has given additional concrete evidence of the same. Krishna, who met Khar on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan here, asked Pakistan to take steps to check terror activities directed against India. During...
05:07 PM, Jul 08, 2012
The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks ended on Thursday with Pakistan stating that it was not involved in any terror act in India. ...
10:11 PM, Jul 05, 2012
