150 missing, toll could rise in Assam boat accident
May 1st, 2012 - 12:27 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, May 1 (IANS) Rescue operations continued in the Brahmaputra in Assam Tuesday, a day after a ferry capsized in the river killing nearly 70 people, but with at ... Read more...
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US charges five 9/11 terror suspects
April 5th, 2012 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 4 (IANS) The US Wednesday announced charges against alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.The charges were referred to a ... Read more...
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Lucknow doctor set to lecture surgeons in Pakistan
March 17th, 2012 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, March 17 (IANS) In a first, a Lucknow-based city suregon has been invited to deliver a series of lectures on surgery in Pakistan.The invite has been sent by Dr. ... Read more...
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CBI bid to shield Loop Telecom in 2G scam: NGO (Lead)
December 15th, 2011 - 11:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation Thursday moved the Supreme Court alleging that CBI officers were engaged in diluting the findings of their own investigators ... Read more...
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Mike Tyson to attend Pakistan’s boxing event
November 29th, 2011 - 6:56 pm ICT by IANS
Karachi, Nov 29 (IANS) Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) president Doda Khan Bhutto Tuesday claimed that former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson would attend the opening ceremony of the second ... Read more...
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Saudi king names new defence minister
November 6th, 2011 - 12:00 am ICT by IANS
Riyadh, Nov 5 (IANS) Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud appointed Prince Salman, the governor of Riyadh province, as the kingdom's new defence and aviation minister, following the death ... Read more...
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Mehbooba Mufti set to be re-elected PDP chief
October 25th, 2011 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Oct 25 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti is all set to get re-elected in the poll scheduled for Oct 31, a ... Read more...
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Geojit BNP Paribas forms joint venture in Oman
September 21st, 2011 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 21 (IANS) Geojit BNP Paribas has formed a new joint venture in Oman with the Qurum Business Group (QBG) and National Securities Co, a leading Omani brokerage ... Read more...
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High hopes in Kashmir as India meets Pakistan
July 24th, 2011 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, July 24 (IANS) More tradable items, frequent bus services and further easing of India-Pakistan tensions.The common Kashmiri is eyeing the July 27 meeting between the foreign ministers of the ... Read more...
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Pakistani mastermind of 9/11 charged again
June 1st, 2011 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 1 (IANS) For the second time, US prosecutors have filed charges with a military commission against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pakistani mastermind of Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks ... Read more...
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Malaysia court debates on name after sex change operation
May 26th, 2011 - 12:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Terengganu (Malaysia), May 26 (IANS) The high court here is in a dilemma over whether or not to allow a person to take a feminine name after a sex ... Read more...
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Four sentenced to death in Bahrain for killing policemen during protests
April 29th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANI
Dubai, Apr 29 (ANI): A Bahrain military court has sentenced four men to death for allegedly killing two policemen in Manama last month.The National Safety Lower Court said that Ali Abdullah Hassan ... Read more...
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Lal Masjid cleric indicted for killing Pakistani soldier
April 21st, 2011 - 3:00 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 21 (IANS) Maulana Abdul Aziz, a former chief cleric of the Lal Masjid here, and 20 others have been indicted by an anti-terrorism court for killing a Pakistani ... Read more...
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UAE sends 735 tonnes of supplies for Libyan refugees
April 16th, 2011 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS
Dubai, April 15 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sent 735 tonnes of supplies to help the people affected by the volatile political situation in Libya.The consignment includes food, ... Read more...
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Tamils, Punjabis celebrate festivals in Malaysia
April 14th, 2011 - 12:19 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Lumpur, April 14 (IANS) Tamils and Punjabis settled in Malaysia Thursday celebrated the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi Thursday.The Punjabi community, estimated at over 100,000, have begun the customary ... Read more...
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Holder blames Congress for forcing 9/11 mastermind, accomplices’ trial at Guantanamo Bay
April 5th, 2011 - 12:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 5 (ANI): US Attorney General Eric Holder has held the Congress responsible for not allowing the Obama administration to initiate trials of the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, ... Read more...
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Now, a wedding expo in Malaysia
March 29th, 2011 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Lumpur, March 29 (IANS) Exhibitors from Malaysia and Indonesia are preparing to showcase just about everything that goes into a wedding - be it of a Malay family or ... Read more...
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Malaysia to make new law to fight piracy
March 24th, 2011 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Lumpur, March 24 (IANS) Malaysia is to have a new legislation to punish acts of piracy on the high seas that would be in keeping with the UN laws ... Read more...
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AMU starts Murshidabad campus
March 6th, 2011 - 10:59 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Sunday started classes from its Murshidabad campus in West Bengal with the first set of students for two-year MBA and ... Read more...
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Bangladesh set to dilute anti-graft law
February 27th, 2011 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 27 (IANS) Bangladesh is set to dilute its anti-graft law to keep beyond its purview lawmakers at all levels and require prior permission to probe government officials.Maintaining utmost secrecy, ... Read more...
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Saudi Arabia needs public cinemas, says Riyadh mayor
February 21st, 2011 - 10:13 am ICT by IANS
Riyadh, Feb 21 (IANS) Public cinema houses, which are banned in Saudi Arabia, have got themselves an unlikely supporter. The mayor of Riyadh has said cinemas can be monitored by the government ... Read more...
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Malaysian men getting hitched to foreign women for a price
February 20th, 2011 - 12:55 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 20 (ANI): Some Malaysian men are being paid to marry women from China, Vietnam and other neighbouring countries so that these women can obtain visas to stay longer in ... Read more...
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani wants Pakistan to step-up diplomatic efforts
February 11th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar, Feb 11 (ANI): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani has urged Pakistan to compel India to take urgent steps for amicable settlement of the Jammu ... Read more...
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Sikh teen to continue army training in another camp
January 27th, 2011 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
Ipoh (Malaysia), Jan.27 (ANI): The family of the Sikh national service trainee whose hair was snipped off as he slept at the Sungai Bakap camp has given their consent for their son ... Read more...
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Malay-Sikh hair cutting case: Minister says action to be taken against culprits
January 21st, 2011 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 21 (ANI): Malaysia's Defence Minister, Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, has said that his government will take stern action against culprits who cut off National Service (NS) trainee Basant Singh's ... Read more...
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Probe ordered into Malay-Sikh serviceman’s ‘cutting hair while asleep’ claims
January 19th, 2011 - 5:02 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 19 (ANI): Malaysian Defence Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has reportedly ordered officials to investigate the claims made by a Sikh national service trainee that his hair was cut ... Read more...
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Pakistan Army and ISI is kidnapping and killing people of Gilgit Baltistan
December 18th, 2010 - 10:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 18 (ANI): Mirza Wajahat Hassan Khan left for Dubai unaccompanied on October 28 2010, for a family business venture.He being a sugar patient with a broken knee and hypoglycemia ... Read more...
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Many of 128,000 Malaysian voters above 85 missing from electoral roll
December 13th, 2010 - 6:15 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Dec 13 (ANI): A majority of Malaysians aged 85 years and above don't figure in the country's electoral records.According to a News Strait Times report, the names of most ... Read more...
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No room for terrorism in Islam: Saudi Arab Grand Mufti
November 16th, 2010 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
Arafat, Nov 16 (ANI): Islam is based on justice and equity, and does not admit terrorism, extremism or injustice, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arab, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, has said.Delivering the ... Read more...
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Al-Qaeda may pose security threat to annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca: Saudi Arabia
November 11th, 2010 - 6:05 pm ICT by ANI
Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Nov 11(ANI): Al-Qaeda may attempt to disturb security during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabian Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz has said."We cannot trust them (Al-Qaeda). We ... Read more...
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Al Qaeda’s Al Asiri said to be Yemen parcel bombmaker
October 31st, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct. 31 (ANI): Ibrahim Hassan Al Asiri, a Yemen-based al-Qaeda terrorist, is being touted as the man who prepared the two parcel bombs that were discovered onboard two US-bound jets in ... Read more...
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Two LeT men formally charged for Hyderabad theatre blast
October 29th, 2010 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday filed charge sheets in a Hyderabad court against two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives for the 2006 blast at a movie theatre in ... Read more...
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1,600 orphan couples marry in Yemen’s biggest mass wedding
October 22nd, 2010 - 7:00 am ICT by IANS
Sanaa, Oct 22 (IANS) Sixteen hundred orphan couples tied the knot Thursday in Yemen's biggest mass wedding, Xinhua reported.The grooms and the brides held separate ceremonies. It was organised by the Orphans ... Read more...
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UAE, Algeria sign cooperation agreement
October 17th, 2010 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Algiers, Oct 17 (IANS/WAM) The UAE and Algeria Sunday signed an agreement to boost cooperation and dialogue between their parliaments.Visiting UAE Federal National Council (FNC) speaker Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair and ... Read more...
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Saudi judge mulls ’spine for a spine’ punishment
August 20th, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 20 (IANS) A judge in Saudi Arabia has asked doctors in the country whether they can damage a man's spinal cord as a tit-for-tat punishment after he was convicted of ... Read more...
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