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March 30, 2010 10:02 AM

Tahawwur Rana not to change his 'not guilty' plea: lawyer

<br/>Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, charged with conspiring in the Mumbai attacks, will not change his 'not guilty' plea and will go ahead with the trial, His lawyer said this in Chicago. Speaking to reporters, Rana's lawyer Patrik Blegen said he wa...

March 29, 2010 8:19 PM

17 guilty Indians to get legal assistance

Seventeen Indians, who were sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani and injuring three others in January last year in Sharjah, UAE will be provided legal assistance. An officer of the Indian consulate in Dubai told AIR that consular access has been asked to meet the convicted men. According to UA...

March 29, 2010 8:16 PM

Obama to deny al-Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama has vowed to deny al-Qaeda safe haven and reverse Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan. Obama who made a surprise visit to Kabul and met President Hamid Karzai yesterday said, the mission of America is to disrupt and dismantle, defeat and destroy al-Qaeda and its extremis...

March 29, 2010 8:10 PM

India-US finalise negotiations on procedures for reprocessing of spent fuel

India and the US have finalised negotiations on arrangements and procedures for reprocessing of American-origin spent fuel. This is a key step for implementation of the historic civil nuclear deal signed in September 2008. The negotiations were held as per a clause in the 123 Agreement that mandated...

March 29, 2010 5:15 PM

India to get more advanced F-16s than Pakistan's

American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin today assured India that the F-16s being offered to it would be much more advanced than the fighters provided to Pakistan. Lockheed Martin's Vice President-Business Development (India) Orville Prins told a group of visiting Indian journalists in Dallas t...

March 29, 2010 5:14 PM

NLD not to take part in first elections in two decades in Myanmar

Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) says it will not take part in the country's first elections in two decades. An NLD spokesman said the party had decided not to register because of unjust electoral laws.The laws recently announced by the junta required the NLD to exp...

March 29, 2010 2:11 PM

Rio Tinto executives handed lengthy jail terms

<br/>A Chinese court has found four executives of Rio Tinto guilty of bribery and secrets theft and has handed over lengthy jail terms to all of them. Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Shanghai court after being found guilty of accepting br...

March 29, 2010 1:43 PM

Obama vows to deny al-Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama has vowed to deny al-Qaeda safe haven and reverse Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan. Obama who made a surprise visit to Kabul and met President Hamid Karzai yesterday said, the mission of America is to disrupt and dismantle, defeat and destroy al-Qaeda and its extremis...

March 29, 2010 1:41 PM

Obama vows to deny al-Qaeda safe heaven in Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama has vowed to deny al-Qaeda safe heaven and reverse Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan. Obama who made a surprise visit to Kabul and met President Hamid Karzai yesterday said, the mission of America is to disrupt and dismantle, defeat and destroy al-Qaeda and its extremi...

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