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Prabakaran must give up: FonsekaRules out sanctuary for LTTE chief
Source : hindu.com | 06-Oct-2008 01:12
Russia begins withdrawal from Georgia
MOSCOW: Russia began dismantling checkpoints in the buffer zones inside Georgia despite Friday?s deadly car bomb blast across the border in South Ossetia which Moscow blamed on Georgian secret services. A Russian military spokesman said ...
Source : hindu.com | 06-Oct-2008 00:57
Thai leader held for ?treason?
SINGAPORE: A proactive leader of the opposition People?s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), Chamlong Srimuang, was arrested in Bangkok on Sunday, on charges of ?treason.? This added a dimension to the unabated political crisis, ...
Source : hindu.com | 06-Oct-2008 00:42
First-ever Everest skydive successful
KATHMANDU: Three adventurers skydived from above the world?s tallest peak, Mount Everest, on Saturday. Wendy Smith (New Zealand), Neil Jones (Canada) and Holly Budge (Britain) dived from 29,500 ft ? 2,500 ft higher than the ...
Source : hindu.com | 06-Oct-2008 00:27
Europe rushes to save failing banks
STOCKHOLM: Governments across Europe scrambled to save failing banks on Sunday, working largely on their own a day after leaders of the continent?s four biggest economies called for tighter regulation and coordinated response to the ...
Source : hindu.com | 06-Oct-2008 00:12
Mittal heads list of super-rich losers
London: NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has lost £16.6 billion in the global credit crunch owing to plummeting stock markets in the last four months, media reports said here on Sunday. The 58-year-old Mr. Mittal heads a list of ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 23:57
Air France will do what it takes to be India?s favourite
PARIS: It?s all about an India focus at Air France?s headquarters in Paris. The Indian welcome, ?namaste,? newspapers, vegetarian food and films on board its flights make up the current agenda. More destinations in ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 23:42
Deal will trigger new crises, says Iran
Dubai: Under pressure over its atomic programme, Iran on Sunday warned that the India-U.S. nuclear deal has ?endangered? the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and will trigger a ?new crises? for the international ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 23:27
O. J. Simpson guilty of robbery, abduction
LAS VEGAS: Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O. J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. The ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 01:20
Capture of Kilinochchi imminent: Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: The military on Saturday claimed at least 11 LTTE cadre were killed and 21 others injured ?as intense fighting? broke out between troops and LTTE at Akkarayankulama, on the outskirts of Kilinochchi. Two days ago, the ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 01:05
U.S.: top Al-Qaeda leader killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: The U.S. military said on Saturday it has killed an Al-Qaeda leader suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad as well as recent bombings and the 2006 videotaped execution of a Russian official. American ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 00:50
Rock stars of the world unite
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 00:35
U.S. won?t send diplomats to Iran
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran in part over fears that it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling. The proposal to send U.S. diplomats ...
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 00:20
China slams U.S. arms sale to Taiwan
$6.5-billion package includes Apache copters, Patriot missiles
Source : hindu.com | 05-Oct-2008 00:05
Pursuing a Gandhian mission in Sri Lanka
NGO committed to ideals and philosophy of Gandhiji celebrates his 139th birth anniversary
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 23:50
Brown move surprises Mandelson
LONDON: Peter Mandelson, one of the most controversial figures of the Blair era and currently the European Union?s Trade Commissioner, is back in government, seven years after he was forced to resign over allegations that he tried to ...
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 01:25
Secret passage of LTTE hit: Colombo
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 01:10
No aggressive conversion: Pope
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI cautioned Roman Catholic bishops in former Soviet republics on Friday against aggressive means of gaining converts, an issue that has complicated attempts to reconcile his church with Orthodox Christians. ...
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 00:55
U.S. offers new ideas to North Korea
SINGAPORE: United States envoy Christopher Hill has held talks in Pyongyang to dissuade North Korea from re-starting its nuclear weapons programme. No details were made public until nightfall on Friday. According to the U.S. State ...
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 00:40
21 killed in U.S. missile attack
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 00:25
Scotland Yard chief forced to quit
LONDON: Ian Blair, the controversial head of Scotland Yard, has been forced to resign following a wave of damaging headlines about his conduct including allegations of racism and his role in the controversy over the way his officers shot dead ...
Source : hindu.com | 04-Oct-2008 00:10
Nepal?s plea
KATHMANDU: The Maoist-led government has formally requested the various armed groups of the Terai region for talks. A Cabinet meeting on Friday decided to form a three-member committee to start the process of dialogue with the 14 armed ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 23:55
New era of AIDS care in S. Africa
Johannesburg: South Africa?s new Health Minister has pledged to ?get things right? over AIDS, after years of denialism by the former President, Thabo Mbeki, and blunders by her predecessor, who at one stage suggested beetroot ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 23:40
Dresden war death toll re-assessed
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 23:25
Pirates in no mood to surrender
MOGADISHU: Pirates holding a hijacked ship off Somalia gave no indication they planned to surrender, as six U.S. warships circled the vessel on Friday with clearance from the Somali government to attack it, and a Russian frigate headed toward ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 23:10
Boy feeds zoo animals to crocodile
SYDNEY: A blank-faced 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock. The boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 22:55
Medvedev: end of U.S. dominance
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 01:18
Chavez?s call
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called for changing the world?s financial system. He said the current world financial crisis could be more serious than the one in 1929. The current system follows a development model ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 01:03
Indian migrants allege harassment
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 00:48
Attempt on Wali Khan?s life
ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan was unhurt after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Pashtun leader?s home in the North West Frontier Province on Thursday, but four others including his bodyguard were ...
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 00:33
Another census move in Sri Lanka
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 00:18
Graduates face a test in villages
Source : hindu.com | 03-Oct-2008 00:03
LTTE military complex bombed
COLOMBO: The Air Force on Thursday claimed to have bombed the LTTE?s ?military headquarter complex? in Kilinochchi even as the military announced that its troops are 3.5 km away from the Kilinochchi town. Sri Lankan Air ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 23:48
Bid to prevent N. Korea's "re-nuclearisation"
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 23:33
Wary savers turn to gold
Tucked away beside the ornate entrance of the Savoy hotel in central London are the discreet premises of ATS Bullion. Over the last few days staff there have witnessed an unprecedented phenomenon: queues. The customers are wary savers ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 23:18
Congress leaders sound hopeful
Because of more insurance for people?s bank deposits
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 01:20
Rice seeks to reassure opponents of nuclear deal
Washington: With the United States Senate beginning a debate on a legislation that will give its stamp of approval to the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought to reassure opponents of the deal, saying that a ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 01:05
Another U.S. strike in Pakistan?
ISLAMABAD: Yet another missile strike by suspected U.S. drone in a Pakistani tribal region has killed at least six people. The missile strike reportedly targeted the home of a militant commander near the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 00:50
Iraq takes over control of Sunni militia from U.S.
DUBAI: The Iraqi government has started establishing control over a key Sunni militia as part of its effort to tighten its grip over the multi-ethnic nation. The government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki will now pay members of the Iraqi ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 00:35
Hu calls for rural uplift, food safety
Promises more policies favourable to farmers, agriculture
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 00:20
Beginning of LTTE end: Colombo
COLOMBO: The Air Force on Wednesday bombed six ?identified targets? of the LTTE in the north amid charges by the pro-LTTE TamilNet that at least two civilians were killed and 13 injured in one of the raids. The raids ...
Source : hindu.com | 02-Oct-2008 00:05
Last Czar rehabilitated
MOSCOW: Russian monarchists have won their years-long battle to have Czar Nicholas II recognised as a victim of Communist repression. Nicholas II and his German-born wife and five children were killed by revolutionary firing squad in ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Oct-2008 23:50
Gorbachev to form political party?
MOSCOW: A Russian billionaire has said he is teaming up with the former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, to form a political party that will challenge the country?s recent steps away from democracy. Alexander Lebedev, a former ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Oct-2008 23:35
Of faith and pain relief
LONDON: Scientists have uncovered an ancient and elaborate source of pain relief that is based purely on the power of the mind, according to research published on Wednesday. Brain scans of volunteers who were subjected to electrical ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Oct-2008 23:20
Kayani asserts control over Army
Source : hindu.com | 01-Oct-2008 01:14
Karzai seeks Saudi help for Taliban talks
KABUL: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday he has asked the Saudi Arabia?s king to help facilitate peace talks with the Taliban in order to bring an end to the Afghan conflict. Mr. Karzai said there have not yet ...
Source : hindu.com | 01-Oct-2008 00:59