Bhubaneswar, Nov 20 (IANS) Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Friday ruled out military action against Maoists who he described as "terrorists". "The Maoist organization itself is a terrorist organization. Every act of the ...

Dhaka, Nov 20 (IANS) Bangladesh is determined to nab six former army officers linked to the assassination of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who are believed to be living in foreign ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist Shekhar Singh is among the persons being considered for the post of chief information commissioner (CIC), government sources said here. "Shekhar Singh ...

Madrid, Nov 16 (DPA) Spain will do its best to encourage Turkey's entry into the European Union during its EU-presidency in the first half of 2010, government sources said Monday. King Juan Carlos ...

New Delhi, Nov 15 (ANI): Uttarakhnad Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal is planning to convene a conference of chief ministers of Himalayan states in Dehradun shortly to discuss the issues of development, the ...

Colombo, Nov.14 (ANI): Days after General Sarath Fonseka resigned as Sri Lanka's Chief of Defence Staff, his resignation letter reveals that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was so afraid of a military coup ...

Berlin, Oct 23 (DPA) Israel has asked Germany to supply it with two warships free of charge, a German newspaper reported Friday. The Israeli state hopes Germany would help strengthen its defence forces ...

London, Oct 18 (IANS) A British victim of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, who faces a life in a wheelchair, is to receive government financial support after a decision to compensate ...

Guwahati, Oct 15 (IANS) The sixth Assam Pay Commission is understood to have Thursday recommended central pay scale for the state's nearly 500,000 employees, officials said. The Pay Commission report was submitted ...

Seoul, Oct 12 (Xinhua) North Korea Monday test-fired five short-range missiles off its eastern coast, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing government sources. The missiles were launched from the bases between North ...

Seoul, Oct 12 (DPA) North Korea Monday test-fired two short-range missiles off its eastern coast towards the Japan Sea, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, quoting government sources. Further details were not ...

Yangon, Oct 9 (DPA) Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi Friday held a rare meeting with foreign diplomats, presumably to discuss Western sanctions imposed on the state, sources said. Suu Kyi was ...

New Delhi, Oct.8 (ANI): The blast that occurred outside Indian Embassy in Kabul this morning wasmore powerful than the last year's blast, sources here said. According to them, the blast created a "deeper ...

Yangon, Oct 7 (DPA) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Wednesday with a representative of the ruling junta to discuss her proposals to get sanctions dropped against the regime that ...

Yangon, Oct 2 (DPA) A Myanmar court Friday rejected an appeal lodged by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi against an 18-month detention sentence, government sources said. Suu Kyi's lawyers had opened the ...

Yangon, Oct.2 (ANI): A court in military-ruled Burma has thrown out opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her house arrest sentence. According to the Daily Express, Suu Kyi had appealed ...

Thekkady, (Kerala) Oct 1 (ANI): Rescuers on have been able to fish out five more bodies from the Thekkady Lake, taking the death toll from Wednesday's boat tragedy to 40. According to Kerala ...

Thekkady, (Kerala) Oct 1 (ANI): Rescuers on Thursday fished out five more bodies from the Thekkady Lake, taking the death toll from Wednesday's boat tragedy to 37. The tragedy occurred when the state-run ...

Frankfurt (Germany), Sep.24 (ANI): Top government sources are putting the media in the dock for drumming up the incursion issue and reiterated that there is no imminent threat or a significant rise ...

Frankfurt (Germany), Sept. 23 (ANI):Highly placed government sources have specific inputs that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed is not under house arrest in Lahore, but is living in protective custody in that city.The ...

Ranchi, Sep 14 (IANS) Villagers are protesting the expansion of the Birsa Munda airport here as their land will be acquired for the project. The state government has decided to acquire ...

Lahore, Sep. 9 (ANI): Amid reports of US' massive expansion plans for its Islamabad embassy, India too is planning renovation and expansion work for its embassy. According to sources, the Indian embassy has ...

Washington, Aug. 30 (ANI): The United States had offered 'millions' to keep the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, under house arrest in UK, but Scotland went ahead with the controversial decision ...

New Delhi, Aug.23 (ANI): The Indian Government has reportedly approached Interpol and requested it to issue a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Sources said that ...

Chandigarh, Aug 21 (IANS) Seeking early polls, the Congress government in Haryana led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday recommended the dissolution of the state assembly nearly six months before the expiry ...

Chandigarh, Aug 21 (IANS) Seeking early polls, the Congress government in Haryana led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday recommended the dissolution of the state assembly nearly six months before the expiry of ...

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Assam Governor Syed Sibtey Razi has been asked to demit office following complaints that his aides and staff allegedly made money for transfers and postings when he ...

Islamabad, Aug 8 (Xinhua) A senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban Saturday denied its chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike and said his recorded message would be ...

Lahore, July 29 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's younger son Salman Shahbaz has decided to 'gift' his imported Siberian Leopard to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government. Sources said, Sharif was ...

New Delhi, July 23 (ANI): India on Thursday denied Pakistani media reports claiming that a dossier, blaming India for being involved in supporting revolutionaries in Balochistan, the terror attack on Sri ...