Lucknow: Seeking to fulfil his party's election promises, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday made provisions for unemployment allowance, waiving farm loans and giving laptops to students in his maiden state Budget for 2012-2013. Amidst walkout by BSP, Yadav presented the Budget saying that he has inherited a shattered economy that has been marred by corruption. The Budget proposed no new tax, while listing several incentives for a...
03:50 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Tampa: The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al Qaeda, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al Qaeda ads on Yemeni tribal websites. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday that experts based at the State Department swapped al Qaeda ads on Yemeni websites bragging about killing Americans with ones showing the deadly impact of al Qaeda tactics on Yemenis...
10:54 AM, May 24, 2012
Sanaa: A suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an al Qaeda affiliate threatened more strikes if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. The attack, which also wounded more than 200 people, underscored the threat Yemen faces in its fight to dislodge Islamist militants entrenched in the south and threatening vital...
01:39 AM, May 22, 2012
Washington: The revelation that militants sought to attack an airliner with an improved "underwear bomb" in a plot foiled by US and allied authorities shows their determination to build bombs that can pass through airport security, US officials said. The Obama administration said on Monday that authorities in the Middle East recently seized an underwear bomb which they believe al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate had intended to give to a suicide...
08:30 AM, May 08, 2012
Sanaa/ Yemen: Al-Qaeda militants staged a surprise attack on Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a US drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. It was not immediately clear if the pre-dawn attack on the military base in the southern Abyan province...
04:36 PM, May 07, 2012
Bangalore: Tech Mahindra Ltd and Satyam Computer Services Ltd, which are in the process of a merger, aim to hire up to 10,000 staff for the combined entity in 2012/13 to meet an expected rise in demand for technology services. The companies also plan to complement their parent Mahindra & Mahindra group's move to become a major defence manufacturer, Tech Mahindra CEO Vineet Nayyar said on Tuesday. Tech Mahindra bought...
02:38 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court will formally charge slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's widows and other family members with illegally entering and living in the country next week, a defence lawyer said on Monday. The court is expected to frame charges against three widows and two of Bin Laden's grown up daughters on April 2, lawyer Muhammad Aamir told the media. The Federal Investigation Agency had filed a case against...
08:31 PM, Mar 26, 2012
The summit touch upon key issues like role of ICT in education and encouraging public-private partnership. ...
09:17 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Tuesday. A Yemeni brother-in-law of bin Laden has arrived in Pakistan to take away his two Yemeni widows, the mass circulation Urdu language Jang newspaper quoted official sources as saying. Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in an early...
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Sanaa: Yemen's election commission says that 65 per cent of registered voters in the country cast their ballot for Vice President Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi in this week's single-candidate presidential election aimed at bringing an end to months of political turmoil. The vote, part of a US-backed agreement to ease out of office longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh after almost a year of popular protests, made the Yemeni ruler the...
01:45 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Aden: Yemen sealed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power on Tuesday by electing his deputy to shepherd the country away from the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh's 33-year rule, but the president's sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies. "Elections are the...
04:54 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Muscat: Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is seeking exile in neighbouring Oman but the sultanate is reluctant to host him for fear of harming relations with Yemen, diplomats said on Tuesday. Saleh left Sanaa on Sunday and headed to the United States for medical treatment after a brief stopover in Oman. He had said in a parting speech that he would return to Yemen. A foreign diplomat in Muscat...
02:16 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Sanaa: Outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh apologised for "any shortcoming" in his 33-year rule before leaving Yemen for the United States on Sunday, paving the way for a transfer of power after a year of unrest. "God willing, I will leave for (medical) treatment in the United States and I will return to Sanaa as head of the General People's Congress party," outgoing president Saleh told senior party and government...
12:17 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Sanaa: Yemen's parliament approved a law on Saturday granting outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution over the killing of protesters, in a bid to push ahead with a plan to ease him out of power and end nearly a year of unrest. The law, backed by a majority of voting members, stops short of giving full immunity to Saleh's aides. Parliament also supported the candidacy of Vice-President Abd-Rabbu...
02:32 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Sanaa: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would go to the United States in order to allow an interim government to prepare for an election to replace him, but did not specify when he would leave. Saleh, speaking to reporters after forces loyal to him fired at protesters demanding he face trial for killing demonstrators over 11 months of protests, said he had no designs on staying...
12:17 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Sidi Bouzid: Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world. The festive mood in Sidi Bouzid was tempered somewhat, however, by reminders that democratic change in Tunisia has yet to ease poverty and high unemployment - bread and butter...
08:24 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Sanaa: Fighting overshadowed the first meeting on Saturday of Yemen's new unity government, tasked with trying to avert civil war after a power transfer brokered by the country's Gulf neighbours. Clashes in the southern province of Abyan killed 11 militants and two soldiers while a soldier was killed in overnight fighting in the capital Sanaa between supporters and opponents of outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh, officials said. State news agency...
03:51 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Islamabad: Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release. In a video message posted on militant websites, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said Warren Weinstein would be released if the United States stopped airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. He also demanded the release of all al Qaeda and...
03:22 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Sanaa: At least 25 people have been killed and dozens wounded in northern Yemen, where Shi'ite Muslim rebels have attacked Sunni Islamist Salafi fighters with bursts of shelling, a Salafi spokesman said on Sunday. The shelling, which killed 10 people on Saturday, continued on Sunday afternoon, he said, bringing the death toll to 25 with a further 48 wounded in the latest flare-up in Damaj, about 150 km north of...
12:21 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Sanna: Yemen's official news agency says the vice president has called for a presidential vote to be held on February 21 in line with a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a nine-month political crisis. President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a US-backed Gulf Arab proposal earlier this week in the Saudi capital Riyadh under which he agreed to pass power to the vice president within 30 days and hold early presidential...
12:38 AM, Nov 27, 2011
