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Agartala: Northeast India's first IIIT (Indian Institute of Information Technology) will be set up in Tripura, a minister said here on June 8. Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty informed, "Union Human Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal informed at a...

Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the US will do whatever it takes to protect its forces in Afghanistan. "Without ever getting into the details of what we may or may not do, I think it suffices to say that the United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our...

Although the much-hyped UNHRC resolution ended up as a toothless instrument against the alleged human rights violations and war crimes by Sri Lanka, fresh evidence of brutality by its army against its own citizens continue to taint its image. On Thursday, The Independent newspaper of the UK...

Strange thing happened with me.I was on the yahoo news page and was replying to american poster.My reply was about the attrocites of the American forces against Afgns.I wrote about how their soldiers do piss on their dead bodies,How humiliate their afgan army,How treat their women,How kill...

The Boss of Pakistan says: “It’s time to resolve the Siachen issue”, but what General Kayani forgets is that the Siachen issue was ‘solved’ long ago, in fact, in July 1949. I reproduced here an article that I published 7 years ago on the subject...

The Indian army has been very clear – from Gen VK Singh downwards – that an advantage obtained with so much sacrifice of men and material cannot simply be gifted away through so-called “demilitarisation” for no advantage at all. However, the weak link in the Indian position is the Prime...

Indian farmers will have a chance to learn to optimise crop production from Israeli agriculture experts who will come down to the country to guide them. Agritech Israel international agricultural exhibition, which is held once every three years, has seen huge participation of farmers from...

Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff after a one hour sortie in the Rafale fighter at St. Dizier Airbase, France today. Also seen in the picture are commandant (Squadron Leader) Kubiak Thierry, Commander of the Rafale Squadron and General Jean-Paul Paloméros, Chief of Staff of...

Washington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may pose a challenge to Congress's young scion Rahul Gandhi in India's next parliamentary elections, Time magazine said. Modi, who figured on the cover page of the latest issues of the Asia edition of the prestigious magazine, which hit the...

ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) has revealed in the Supreme Court that Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are active in Pakistan. He was speaking during the hearing of the missing persons case...

ISLAMABAD: Hindu girls are being forcibly kept in various madrassas in Sindh and are later forced to marry Muslims, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Dr Azra Fazl told the National Assembly on Thursday. She was speaking on issue of Faryal Shah (Rinkle Kumari) who was allegedly abducted and forced...

Beijing: Chinese police blocked a prominent human rights lawyer from attending a Beijing dinner hosted by German leader Angela Merkel, the lawyer said on Friday, the latest example of restrictions on unorthodox views in a sensitive year. German diplomats from the embassy in Beijing had early...

The number of connections in the urban areas reached 565.71 million at the end of July whereas it was 562.12 million in June. The overall wireless teledensity in India touched 71.59. The number of mobile phone subscribers in India has now reached to 858.4 million subscribers and there were...