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New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) India has kicked off preparations to host leaders of the five-nation BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping in March with a competition to design a logo for the 2012 summit. This will be the fourth BRICS summit that will bring together the leaders of the emerging economic powers to discuss a host [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Twelve years after the fateful hijacking of the Kathmandu-New Delhi Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and the infamous release of notorious militants to free hostages, India has toughened its anti-hijacking policy but still remains vulnerable to such assaults. The review started immediately after the end of the week-long hijack crisis Dec 31, 1999, which culminated with [...]
Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia has criticised UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for defending the NATO operation in Libya and ignoring data on civilian casualties collected by a number of UN member states. Ban came to the defence of NATO in response to charges that the alliance overstepped its mandate to impose a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians and [...]
New Delhi/Islamabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Seeking to push forward their revived peace process, India and Pakistan will hold two-day talks starting Monday in Islamabad to discuss conventional and nuclear confidence-building measures. Senior officials of the two countries will focus, among other things, on implementing the cross-Kashmir trade and travel CBMs that were unveiled during the talks between foreign ministers in [...]
Seoul, Dec 22 (IANS) South Korea said Thursday its response to the death of Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), was meant to show that Seoul held no hostility towards Pyongyang. Kim Jong-il, the 69-year-old supreme leader of the nuclear-armed North Korea, died Dec 17 while on a train journey. ‘Various measures we’ve taken [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Amid differences over a host of issues with China, the government Wednesday said it has taken note of the potential misuse of business visas and added that these are being issued in greater numbers to Chinese nationals. ‘Business visa does not permit nationals of other countries to work in India,’ Minister of State for External [...]
Islamabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said his country wanted new rules of engagement with the US with a guarantee to respect its sovereignty and assurance of ‘no Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future’. Gilani said in case any credible and actionable information was available, it must be shared with Pakistan for necessary action. He stressed [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Wednesday gifted copies of the Bhagavad Gita to Russia’s Deputy Ambassador Denis Alipov here to protest the likely ban on the Hindu holy book in his country. A delegation of BJP members, including party leader Bal Apte, Rajya Sabha member Smriti Irani, Vijay Jolly, and others went to the Russian [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday sent a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev condemning the likely ban on Bhagavad Gita by a Siberian city court. The letter by Overseas Friends of BJP, copies of which were sent to the media, said a ban on the Hindu scripture will hurt the sentiments of millions of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday condoled the death of North Korea’s top leader Kim Jong Il Saturday, and expressed his sorrow to his family. ‘Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condoled the passing away of General Secretary of the Worker’s Party, Chairman of the National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) hutan’s Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley Tuesday said that happiness is the purpose and ultimate desire of every human being and for real sustainable growth, the needs of body and mind have to be attended to equally. ‘As human beings, we have needs not only of the body but of the mind and it is [...]
Riyadh, Dec 20 (IANS/WAM) The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have welcomed a proposal from the Saudi king for a Gulf Union. Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is the current chairman of the GCC, had made the proposal at a session of the GCC supreme council Monday in Riyadh. A statement issued by the [...]
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) South Korean and US intelligence services failed to pick up any clues even after 48 hours of Kim Jong-il’s death last Saturday, demonstrating an extensive intelligence failure, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The North Korean leader died on a train at 8.30 a.m. Saturday in that country. Kim was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un. [...]
Islamabad, Dec 20 (IANS) Former Pakistani envoy to the US Hussain Haqqani has said that his job as an ambassador was a ‘tough and thankless assignment’. Haqqani was asked to deal with US officials after the covert US raid in Abbottabad town May 2 that killed Osama bin Laden and ensure the world did not think Pakistan had been harbouring [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) A move by a Russian court to ban the Bhagavad Gita, first reported by IANS, remained a hot issue Tuesday with political parties raising a storm even as the government said the matter had been taken up at the ‘highest levels’. The strong reaction in India led to Moscow’s envoy here denounce the ‘madmen’ in [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Indian government had advance notice of a move in a Russian court to ban the Bhagvad Gita as an extremist text in the form of a letter to Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) dispatched as early as Nov 1. But not much appeared to have been achieved. However, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday told [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) India and China are set to hold the 15th round of boundary talks here mid-January after these were deferred following the Chinese objection to the Dalai Lama speaking at an international Buddhist conference in Delhi. The two sides are also expected to sign a landmark border mechanism to curb incidents of intrusion. Both sides are [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Tuesday warned of protests outside Russian establishments in India if the Bhagavad Gita was banned in that country. ‘Bhagavad Gita is not just a book but is (God) for the Krishna devotees and all Hindus,’ VHP international working president Pravin Togadia said in a statement. ‘The principles taught in the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) India Tuesday described a legal move to ban the Bhagavad Gita in Russia as the work of ‘misdirected and motivated individuals’ and said it had taken up the issue with highest levels in the government there. The statement from External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna in the Lok Sabha came a day after a belligerent opposition [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Indians have been urged to invest in Sri Lanka, now that the long drawn ethnic conflict has ended. The appeal was made Tuesday by Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam at a roadshow for the Sri Lanka Expo 2012 that will be held in Colombo in March 2012. Kariyawasam invited Indian entrepreneurs to make use [...]
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