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April 28, 2010 1:46 PM

Dr Manmohan Singh- Yousaf Raza Geelani meeting tomorrow

The much-hyped meeting between Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Geelani will take place at Thimpu on Thursday evening. Official sources however refused to disclose the nature and substance of summit-level talks. AIR correspondent reports that New Delhi will ...

April 28, 2010 12:36 PM

Religious leaders around world have an essential role to play: Ban Ki moon

UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon has said that religious leaders around the world have an essential role to play in ensuring that the values of equality, tolerance and mutual respect. In a message to the two-day World Summit of Religious Leaders in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, he called for promot...

April 28, 2010 12:34 PM

Suicide bomber kills at least three people

In Afghanistan, at least three people were killed and 35 others injured on Tuesday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern city of Kandahar. Kandahar Police Chief, Sher Mohammed Zazai said the suicide bomber and other militants launched the attack, about one mile from the Kandah...

April 28, 2010 12:34 PM

Sri Lanka for expeditious resettlement of Tamil problem with dignity

Sri Lanka has assured India that it is committed to the political settlement of the ethnic problem in the island nation. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris met his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in Thimpu and said, his country wants an expeditious resettlement of the Tamil Problem with dignity...

April 28, 2010 12:33 PM

Israel reprimands two senior officers

Israel has reprimanded two senior officers over shooting incidents last month that killed four Palestinians in the West Bank. According to Israeli media Haaretz, the chief of Staff of Israeli military Gabi Ashkenazi reprimanded a colonel and a lieutenant colonel. Mr Ashkenazi also removed a first se...

April 28, 2010 12:33 PM

Brazil calls for peaceful settlement of Iranian nuclear programme

Brazil has called for peaceful settlement of the dispute about Iranian nuclear programme. According to Iranian news agency IRNA, Brazilian Foreign Minister Brasil Celso Amorim made the call at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on Tuesday evening.Accor...

April 28, 2010 12:08 PM

No plans to impose martial law: Thai PM

s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he would step down if he believed he was an obstacle to his country's stability. In a BBC interview released on Tuesday, he said the country's problems were not purely political and involved security and what he called terrorist problems, saying Thai...

April 28, 2010 12:08 PM

US Defence Secretary accuses Syria and Iran

The US Defence Secretary has accused Syria and Iran of increasing supplies of sophisticated rockets and missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Mr Gates warned that Hezbollah now has more rockets and missiles than most governments. This is obviously destabilising the whole region, followi...

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