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Ten years on from the huge earthquake that razed swathes of India's western state of Gujarat, the BBC finds the place transformed from a pile of rubble in a neglected backwater into an economic powerhouse. How? Kutch is a remote region in the arid borderlands of north-west India. For centuries...

November 30, 2010 India's Leadership Unknown to Much of World Even in Asia, median of 44% have no opinion by Julie Ray WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As India seeks to cement its place as a world leader with its bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, Gallup surveys find India's...

EUROPE BRACES FOR A MUMBAI-STYLE ATTACK The nightmare scenario of a Mumbai-style massacre inside Europe has loomed closer to reality.The German interior minister has issued a warning that there were "concrete indications of a series of attacks planned for the end of November". The threat is to...

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PESHAWAR: Five Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a check post in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said Friday. The militants launched their attack overnight on Talab check post in mountainous Sararogha district of South Waziristan region...

RAJKOT: Bibben Sama is on cloud nine and her joy is understandable. She is the only Muslim candidate of BJP to have come out winner in the polls for six municipal corporations across the state. She and her husband Habib Sama, who tirelessly led her campaign, said she got support of voters...

Cheraman Juma Masjid is a mosque in Kodungallur in the Indian state of Kerala. Believed to be built in 629 AD by Malik Bin Deenar, it is considered as the oldest mosque in India, and the second oldest mosque in the world to offer Jumu'ah prayers. Constructed during the lifetime of Muhammad, the...

A British terror suspect killed in a drone attack was being groomed to head an al-Qaeda splinter group in the UK, the BBC's Newsnight has learnt. The man, named in Pakistan as Abdul Jabbar, died in the north west of the country in September. Newsnight spoke to a "a trusted, senior security...

With an aim to augmenting logistical support for paramilitary forces in the anti-naxal operations, Indian Air Force will start withdrawing its 20 helicopters from the UN peace-keeping missions from November. The "phased withdrawal" of the choppers from three peace-keeping missions in Africa...

The Pakistan Taliban has apparently urged the government to reject international aid for victims of the catastrophic flooding. If foreign help is banned, the Taliban itself would provide the cash needed to deal with the worst floods in the country's history, according to spokesman Azam Tariq...

The Pakistani army has carried out 238 extrajudicial killings of people in the Swat Valley since September last year, says a report from Human Rights Watch. It documents cases where members of the army allegedly took away Taliban suspects, who were later found dead, their bodies riddled with...

Dharmendra Pareek (now 47) joined the Border Security Force (BSF) in the year 1987 as an assistant commandant drawing around Rs 2400 a month. During the 1971 Indo-Pak war he was eight years old. The ‘blackouts’ (power cuts in all facilities including households as precaution against enemy air...

EXCLUSIVE: The man who trained the Times Square bomber A Pakistani extremist on Faisal Shahzad’s desire for fame. One week following the attempted bombing of New York’s Times Square, a Maclean’s investigation has learned that the man allegedly behind the latest plot to attack the U.S. had...

Pakistan faces Taliban resurgence Guest columnist Ahmed Rashid on how Pakistan's long term counter insurgency strategy could begin to unravel as the Pakistani Taliban return with a vengeance. The local Taliban are back in the seven tribal agencies that make up the Federal Administered...

This song was composed by Music Maestro A.R. Rahman on 50th foundation year of the state Gujarat, India.

Two videos have emerged which appear to show a top Pakistani Taliban leader alive, contradicting US claims he was killed in a US drone attack in January. In the footage apparently recorded in April, Hakimullah Mehsud referred to reports of his death as propaganda, and threatened attacks on major...

NEW DELHI: In fresh advisories, the US, UK and Australia on Saturday warned of "imminent" terror attacks in New Delhi, particularly in market places like Connaught Place, Greater Kailash and Chandni Chowk, which are "attractive targets" for terrorist groups. Highly placed government sources...

KARACHI: Wearing shalwar kameez and a cap on his head, a young man stood at a traffic signal near the Empress Market apparently waiting for a friend. Humidity had settled in after the sizzling heat of the day as pushcart vendors and gypsy women selling dry-fruit under umbrellas had packed up...

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