International

January 6, 2010 7:24 PM

Zambia to use Queen's baton relay for CW Games to fight drug abuse

Zambia has decided to use the Queen's baton relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India to fight drug abuse among children. There is palpable interest in this southern African country as it awaits the aluminium baton for its three-day sojourn in the country. The baton will be arriving in Zambia f...

January 6, 2010 7:22 PM

Lone survivor of atomic bombings dies in Japan

The only person officially recognised as having survived both atomic bombings in Japan at the end of World War II has died from stomach cancer. He was 93. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb. He suffered serious burns a...

January 6, 2010 7:19 PM

India-Pak Parliamentary forum being revived for promoting peace

India Pakistan Parliamentary forum is being revived to promote peace and friendship between the two countries. A decision to this effect has been taken by the speaker Ms Meira Kumar and her Pakistani counter part Ms.Fahmida Mirza who met at the sidelines of the 20th conference of commonwealth speake...

January 6, 2010 6:29 PM

Top US Intell official promises action following US Prez criticism

A top US intelligence official has promised action after sharp criticism from President Barack Obama over a failed airliner bomb plot. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said the intelligence community had to boost efforts to prevent new types of attacks. <br/><br/>Pr...

January 6, 2010 6:21 PM

Australia assures safety of Indian students, but denies racial angle ‘

Australia on Wednesday said, it is taking all steps to the best of its ability to ensure the safety of Indian students but denied that majority of recent assaults were racially motivated. Addressing the media in New Delhi, Australian High Commissioner Peter Verghese said, it is not possible to total...

January 6, 2010 5:39 PM

Iran launching homemade satellite

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the launch of homemade satellite during the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. According to Iranian news agency ILNA, speaking to a group of Iranians residing in Turkmenistan, President Ahmadinejad said the indigenous satellites will ...

January 6, 2010 5:38 PM

Pak court rejects application for acquittal of Mumbai terror suspects

A Pakistani anti-terror court on Wednesday rejected an application seeking acquittal of Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with helping plan and execute the Mumbai attacks. It also turned down an application by the suspects for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arre...

January 6, 2010 5:38 PM

Three al-Qaeda suspects arrested in Yemen

Yemen has said on Wednesday that it had arrested three al-Qaeda suspects and four others giving them shelter. According to Yemen's official news agency Sabanet, the three suspects were injured last night in a raid launched by security forces to arrest an al-Qaeda leader, Mohammad al-Haniq, in of nor...

January 6, 2010 5:36 PM

Iran launching homemade satellite

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the launch of homemade satellite during the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. According to Iranian news agency ILNA, speaking to a group of Iranians residing in Turkmenistan, President Ahmadinejad said the indigenous satellites will ...

January 6, 2010 5:11 PM

Explosion in Russia kills six cops, injures 14

Six Police Officers were killed and 14 others injured in Russia, when a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden car at a traffic police base in the republic of Dagestan bordering Chechnya. The bomber drove his car to Makha-Chkala, the capital of Daghestan, when policemen were lined up for the mor...

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