July 30 last date for admission to IGNOU programmes
July 24th, 2012 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Tuesday said the last date to apply for its various master's and bachelor's courses is July 30.Admissions are ... Read more...
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IGNOU opens admissions to courses on Gandhi
June 25th, 2012 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Graduate students wanting to study Mahatma Gandhi in post graduation can apply for admissions to three courses at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).The ... Read more...
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‘Paresh Baruah trying to collect funds to strengthen ULFA’
February 13th, 2012 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Feb 13 (IANS) After Sheikh Hasina came to power, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has lost its investments in Bangladesh and its commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah is ... Read more...
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Maoist threat emerging in Assam: Pillai
February 13th, 2012 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Feb 13 (IANS) The Maoists are beginning to threaten Assam, former central home secretary G.K. Pillai said here Monday."The strategy of the Maoists is to fish in troubled waters ... Read more...
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Northeast quieter, except for Meghalaya: G.K. Pillai
February 13th, 2012 - 4:59 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Feb 13 (IANS) Insurgency related violence is on the decline in the northeastern states barring Meghalaya, which has seen a sudden spate in violent activities by militants, former union ... Read more...
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Pakistani Muslim scholars to preach peace
August 2nd, 2011 - 7:55 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 2 (IANS) An independent think tank in Pakistan plans to rope in prominent Muslim scholars for a programme to promote peace and religious harmony in the country saddled ... Read more...
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Middle East unrest can subside US focus on Pak, Afghanistan: Expert
March 24th, 2011 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 24(ANI): Pakistan cannot replicate the ongoing wave of unrest in the Middle East, however it will have to suffer the implications of the Arab turmoil, such as diversion of the ... Read more...
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Public reaction to Taseer killing depicts the real Pakistan
March 12th, 2011 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 12(ANI): Celebration of former Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination and garlanding of his murderer Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri with roses by hundreds of lawyers depicts the real Pakistan, Pak ... Read more...
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Global design competition for Nalanda university
February 21st, 2011 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) As the historic Nalanda University is set to be rebuilt, Vice Chancellor Gopa Sabharwal said Monday that a global design competition for the building's architecture will be ... Read more...
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Pakistan lacks effective counter-terrorism policy: PIPS report
January 17th, 2011 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan 17(ANI): The internal security situation continues to be a pressing challenge for Pakistan, as the rule of law is lacking not only in KPK and FATA but all across the ... Read more...
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Hard-line militants now targeting Pak’s most popular brand of Islam- Sufism
January 7th, 2011 - 5:42 pm ICT by ANI
Kasur, Jan 7(ANI): Pakistan's most popular brand of Islam, Sufism, has been condemned as un-Islamic by fundamentalist groups and has repeatedly come under extremists' attacks, as in 2010 alone, minority hard-line militants ... Read more...
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Young Pakistan is moderate, finds results of new study
September 24th, 2010 - 5:57 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sep 24 (ANI): Pakistani youth are serious about their own religion, but do not want to impose it on other people, a new study conducted by Pak Institute for Peace ... Read more...
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Lok Sabha nod to Nalanda university
August 26th, 2010 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Thursday passed a legislation to establish a transnational university at Nalanda in Bihar with many MPs expressing the hope that the proposed varsity would ... Read more...
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Pak unlikely to take out nurtured ‘India-centric’ terror outfits from its soil: Experts
May 7th, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 7 (ANI): In wake of the failed Times Square bombing plot, which apparently had originated from Pakistan, the United States is mounting pressure on Islamabad to take on all those ... Read more...
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Taliban, Pak Punjab terror groups’ coalition fast turning into a ‘witches’ brew’: Experts
May 7th, 2010 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
New York, May 7 (ANI): When it was being believed that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been dealt a heavy blow by the Pakistan Army and continuous US drone strikes, the ... Read more...
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‘Arrest of Afghan Taliban leaders in Pak aimed at derailing Afghan reconciliation’
March 11th, 2010 - 6:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar.11 (ANI): The recent surge in action by Pakistan against key Afghan Taliban commanders hiding inside the country is actually aimed at destabilising the budding reconciliation process in Afghanistan, experts ... Read more...
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Militancy as a tool of policy can no longer work in Pak: Analyst
January 12th, 2010 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan 12(ANI): Zahid Hussain, an analyst and author of Frontline Pakistan, has said that Pakistan has realized that militancy as a tool of policy would not work.The comment comes after a ... Read more...
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Pakistan entering dangerous phase of militancy: Experts
January 11th, 2010 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 11 (IANS) Pakistan is entering a dangerous phase of militancy as the spate of terrorism and violence in the year gone by suggests, security experts said Monday.
A new ... Read more...
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Suicide attack during volleyball match questions Pak Army’s success claims
January 3rd, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan.3 (ANI): Friday's deadly suicide attack at a volleyball match in Pakistan's northwestern town of Lakki Marwat, in which over 90 people were killed, has raised questions about the Pakistan Army's ... Read more...
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Fleeing Pak extremists spreading like cancer in country’s teeming cities
December 19th, 2009 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec. 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army might have been claiming that it has forced the militants to flee their dens in the tribal regions along the Afghan border, but fears have ... Read more...
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Taliban now terrorise 80% of Afghanistan after eight years of war: Report
September 12th, 2009 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Sep. 11 (ANI): Almost eight years after the war began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 carnage, the Taliban insurgency has spread across 80 percent of the country.The ... Read more...
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India keen to establish Mahatma Gandhi institute for peace
July 11th, 2009 - 12:25 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal met the UNESCO director Koichiro Matsuura and discussed the setting up a Mahatma Gandhi institute for peace studies in the country. ... Read more...
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Gandhian studies catching on at Panjab University
July 5th, 2009 - 9:21 am ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
Chandigarh, July 5 (IANS) Not many years ago it was a university department that students applied to only to avail themselves of hostel accommodation and library facilities. But there has ... Read more...
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ISI exists primarily to fight India: Expert
March 24th, 2009 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.24 (ANI): Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) appears primarily to exist to fight India and to maintain a constant link between its political and military wings.
It spends most of its time ... Read more...
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Laws have failed to contain radicalisation in Pakistan
November 26th, 2008 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Nov 26 (ANI): Human rights and social activists in Pakistan have said that though several laws have been promulgated in the past to counter terrorism, but steps taken by the ... Read more...
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Pak safe haven has turned Qaeda, Taliban combo into an out-of-control Frankenstein
September 11th, 2008 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sept 11 (ANI): Over the past seven years after 9/11, al-Qaeda has spread its violent tentacles across Pakistan, while its ally the Taliban have staged a bloody comeback both in ... Read more...
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Failed policies, poor strategic choices have overstretched US military: Lieven
September 9th, 2008 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore , Sep 9 (ANI): Failed policies and poor strategic choices have overstretched the American military and economy, said Anatol Lieven, professor at the Department of War Studies at Kings College ... Read more...
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Missing Manipur kids ‘join’ separatist group?
July 12th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Imphal, July 12 (IANS) In a startling disclosure, a separatist group in Manipur has claimed that two children who went missing July 6 have voluntary joined their outfit. "The two boys are ... Read more...
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Pro-talks ULFA leaders mobilise masses for peace
July 9th, 2008 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, July 9 (IANS) Leaders of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who favour talks with the government are mobilizing people in their quest for peace in Assam, defying the group's ... Read more...
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Suddenly, Gandhian studies have a lot of takers!
July 5th, 2008 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
Chandigarh, July 5 (IANS) Call it a post "Munna Bhai" phenomenon, but students in and around this city are suddenly showing a keen interest in courses like Gandhian studies, environment ... Read more...
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Government’s dual policy for northeast separatists attracts crticism
July 5th, 2008 - 11:45 am ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Guwahati, July 5 (IANS) The issue of ongoing peace talks between the government and various separatist groups in the northeast has triggered a debate, with experts and rights leaders ... Read more...
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ULFA truce welcome, but no cause for euphoria(News Analysis)
June 28th, 2008 - 4:40 pm ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Guwahati, June 28 (IANS) The ceasefire announced by one of the crack units of the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has changed the security and insurgency dynamics ... Read more...
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War of words makes Bodo politics murkier
June 12th, 2008 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, June 12 (IANS) Weeks after a frontline separatist group submitted its charter of demands to the government paving the way for peace talks, the political scenario in Assam's Bodo tribal heartland ... Read more...
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Attacks, clashes in Pakistan claim 3,448 lives in 2007: PIPS
January 5th, 2008 - 3:03 pm ICT by admin
Lahore, Jan 5 (ANI): The security situation in Pakistan remained "highly unsatisfactory" as terrorist attacks continued throughout 2007, resulting in 3,448 deaths from 1,503 attacks and clashes.
The assassination of former premier Benazir ... Read more...
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NGO wants ‘Chowk’ named after Bhagat Singh in Lahore
December 7th, 2007 - 1:10 pm ICT by admin
Lahore, Dec 7 (ANI): The Institute of Peace Studies, an NGO, has requested the District authorities to name the Shadman Chowk in Lahore, where freedom fighter Bhagat Singh was hanged by the ... Read more...
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