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Husband of NRI woman vows to catch her killer (20 November 07:39) |
| The estranged husband of an Indian-origin woman who was murdered this week with her hand chopped off has vowed to catch her killer. Geeta Aulakh, a 28-year-old mother of two, died on Monday ... |
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200 sites spread Qaidas message in English (20 November 06:27) |
| Increasing number of English-language websites are spreading Al-Qaida's message to Muslims in West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often... |
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Pentagon to review Fort Hood shootings (20 November 03:40) |
| Defence Secretary Robert M Gates on Thursday announced a Pentagon review of the shootings at Ford Hood, Texas, to help ensure that “nothing like this ever happens again.”
A former Army s... |
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Pakistani politics Anti-Americanism peaks (20 November 03:34) |
| These days, politics here look more and more like a movie Pakistanis have seen before. Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner, if the nationalist media is... |
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Air France A380 set for first transatlantic flight (20 November 03:15) |
| An Air France A380 superjumbo, the world's largest civilian airliner, is to set off on the first Air France flight across the Atlantic bound for New York with 538 passengers aboard.
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ISI helped Taliban leader escape to safety (20 November 02:57) |
| Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan's ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he has ... |
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Oprah to end talk show focus on own channel (20 November 02:36) |
| Oprah Winfrey is giving network television one of her trademark aha moments. infrey, the billionaire queen of daytime television, is planning to announce Friday that she will step down from ... |
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Oprah Winfrey to call it quits (20 November 11:52) |
| After more than 20 years at the top of the day-time talk show game, Oprah Winfrey’s calling it quits. Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's production house, announced that the media mogul w... |
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US wants India Pak to resume talks Clinton (20 November 09:07) |
| The Obama administration encourages India and Pakistan to get back into dialogue process which was halted by the Mumbai terrorist attack, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. "We ... |
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Oprah Winfrey calls it quits (20 November 08:48) |
| After more than 20 years at the top of the day-time talk show game, Oprah Winfrey’s calling it quits. Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's production house, announced that the media mogul w... |
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Headley attended Pak military school (20 November 08:46) |
| While his links to the 26/11 attacks are being investigated, more information is emerging on the background of Lashkar man and American national David Headley, who till his 16th year was kno... |
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Headleys father was a Pak diplomat (19 November 08:31) |
| Fresh details are emerging on David Headley - one of the men at the centre of the 26/11 terror trail. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Headley, who is under the custody of the FBI in ... |
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Yoga here is about winning! (19 November 07:07) |
| The competitors stood nervously on stage, awaiting the judges’ decisions. As each name was called the crowd cheered, and the winner stepped forward to claim a prize, bowing his or her head... |
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NRI woman killed bail for accused (19 November 07:05) |
| Police have released all the six persons on bail, who were arrested on Wednesday for the alleged killing of Geeta Aulakh. The 28-year-old was found dead with her hand cut off in West London.... |
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Who was Geeta Aulakh (19 November 06:34) |
| The British-born Punjabi woman, Geeta Aulakh, was working as a receptionist at Sunrise Radio in London. The Sunrise Radio is a community radio station at Southall owned by Indian-origin busi... |
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Queen sounds poll bugle (19 November 06:00) |
| Rarely has the Queen's speech at the annual state opening of Parliament in Britain attracted such controversy. But with barely 6 months left for the next general elections, the opposition sa... |
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2611 documentaries ready for 1-yr mark (19 November 05:45) |
| "The first 360-degree view of terrorism" – that’s the promise the writer Fareed Zakaria makes at the beginning of "Terror in Mumbai," a new HBO documentary about the attacks in that city... |
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Krishna Qureshi meet at lunch in Kabul (19 November 05:03) |
| The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers along with Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik met over lunch in Kabul on Thursday, after Hamid Karzai was sworn-in as Afghanistan president ... |
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Pak army Links to Headley-Rana (19 November 04:32) |
| The arrests last month of two Chicago men accused of planning an attack on a Danish newspaper have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated ... |
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Makeover that went wrong for Palin (19 November 03:55) |
| The most elusive fashion stylist in America was nervous. Sitting on a reporter’s sofa, dressed in yoga pants and a hoodie, she tucked her slender legs underneath her, averted her eyes and ... |
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Death sentences to Mujib killers A chronology (19 November 03:29) |
| Following is the chronology of the protracted legal process of Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination:
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High-end stores getting around recession (19 November 03:07) |
| All around Saks Fifth Avenue, merchandise is sold out. The $2,520 Marni shearling vest? Gone. The $5,295 Brioni leather bomber jacket? Only one left. The $1,995 over-the-knee, Christian Loub... |
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Karzai sworn in as president of Afghanistan (19 November 02:40) |
| Hamid Karzai was sworn in as the president of Afghanistan for second term on Thursday.
"I swear to uphold the Constitution of the country and protect the people of Afghanistan," Karzai said ... |
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Moshe doesnt remember Mumbai attack (19 November 02:26) |
| Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do — he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his p... |
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US wants India to lift FDI cap in defence insurance (19 November 01:48) |
| The Obama administration wants India to lift the cap in both defence and insurance sectors, a top US official said. "One thing that I think the Indian government could do would be to lift th... |
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Taliban strikes in Peshawar again with new blast (19 November 12:37) |
| At least 15 people have been killed and 20 injured in the latest terror attack in Peshawar in North West Pakistan. The blast, a suicide attack, targeted the court on Khyber Road. The bomber ... |
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US House welcomes Manmohan Singh (19 November 11:42) |
| The US House of Representatives adopted unanimously by voice vote H Res 890 to commend the maturing of India-US relations and to welcome Prime Minister to the United States.
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Hamid Karzai set for 2nd term (19 November 11:40) |
| Kabul looks like a fortress as Hamid Karzai is all set to take over for the second consecutive term as the president of Afghanistan on Thursday. Security forces dot the streets in the Afghan... |
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Bangladeshs verdict on assassination of its founder (19 November 11:27) |
| The Bangladesh Supreme Court has upheld the death penalties for five ex-Army officers convicted for killing the country’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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US House resolution on India-US ties (19 November 10:44) |
| The US House of Representatives adopted unanimously by voice vote H Res 890 to commend the maturing of India-US relations and to welcome Prime Minister to the United States.
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Final verdict on Mujibur murder trial (19 November 10:34) |
| Bangladesh keenly awaits the final verdict of its founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's murder trial as the Supreme Court is set to pronounce the judgment on Thursday, more than 34 years after he ... |
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Will poison water sources Taliban (19 November 09:29) |
| The Taliban have threatened to contaminate water sources and reservoirs with poisonous materials to pressure the Pakistan army to stop military operations in South Waziristan. The cantonment... |
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Rana bail hearing postponed (19 November 09:25) |
| The bail hearing of terror suspect Tahawwur Rana has been further postponed to December 1.
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Sarah Palin angry over Newsweek cover (19 November 08:55) |
| Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, is unhappy with Newsweek after it featured her on the cover of its magazine.
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India priority not China US (19 November 08:39) |
| The White House has now gone into damage control after anger in New Delhi over the US-China statement that the two sides "support the improvement and growth of relations between India and Pa... |
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Taliban declare guerrilla war against Pak army (18 November 08:51) |
| "We have not been defeated. We have voluntarily withdrawn into the mountains under a strategy that will trap the Pakistan army in the area," Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told journalists on ... |
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US-China joint statement (18 November 08:33) |
| The United States and China agreed that regular exchanges between leaders of the two countries are essential to the long-term, sound, and steady growth of U.S.-China relations.
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Obama admits will miss deadline to shut Gitmo (18 November 08:17) |
| President Barack Obama admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, C... |
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I have never tweeted says Obama (18 November 06:18) |
| Facebook and Twitter are being seen not just as social networking sites, but also as a tool to do some serious talking and business. So how often does US President Barack Obama use it? Well,... |
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Rise of the phoenix (18 November 04:06) |
| A country which was at the heart of the silk route is now reinventing itself as the most lucrative business gateway in Central Asia.
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Award-winning chef for Obama-Manmohan dinner (18 November 02:46) |
| Award winning African-American chef from New York Marcus Samuelsson has been invited by the White House to cook for the First State Dinner of the Obama Administration on November 24, in hono... |
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Indian-origin woman murdered hand cut off (18 November 02:44) |
| An Indian-origin woman has been murdered in west London and her right hand severed in a case that led to the arrest of her India-born husband and five others. People were shocked to find Gee... |
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Who is Dr Mukesh Haikerwal (18 November 01:54) |
| Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, 48, is an Australian General Practitioner and a former president of the Australian Medical Association. When he took over unopposed in 2005, he was, at 44, one of the yo... |
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New advice on breast cancer (18 November 01:13) |
| In a world with few givens, there have always been a handful of life guidelines that American women could follow. Never date your best friend’s ex. Always have at least one good pair of sh... |
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Joe Bidens motorcade 2 accidents in 1 week (18 November 01:12) |
| A police car assisting Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade collided with another vehicle on the West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday as Biden was on his way to appear on a television show, t... |
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Obama Manmohan to talk China next week (18 November 12:54) |
| US President Barack Obama will share impressions and thoughts of his maiden visit to China with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he arrives here for a high-profile state visit next week. S... |
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Pak armys success vs Taliban worries US (18 November 12:06) |
| This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, cleared of the militants who once claimed it as their capital. But its brick buildings, intact and thick w... |
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US House to discuss Indo-US ties ahead of PMs visit (18 November 10:53) |
| Days ahead of the state visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a resolution commemorating the Indo-US relationship has been schedule to be taken up for debate in the US House of Representat... |
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Swat Taliban leader Fazlullah alive (18 November 10:35) |
| Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Taliban in Pakistan's Swat valley, has claimed that he fled to Afghanistan after evading troops conducting operations against militants and threatened to laun... |
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French boy arrested for planning to shoot teachers (18 November 09:21) |
| A 13-year-old French boy stole his father's hunting rifle and took it to school with the intention of shooting his teachers, but his family and police intervened before anyone was hurt, poli... |
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