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Sharia Courts, fatwas illegal: Supreme Court New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment on Monday and declared that no legal sanctions have been given to the Sharia Courts and religious decrees or fatwas are illegal if they tread on the rights of an individual. The apex court...

Clinton reveals how Obama forcibly prevented China's 'secret' meeting with India to isolate US WASHINGTON: At the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December 2009, US President Barack Obama forced himself into a room where the then Chinese premier Wen Jiabao was holding...

Visa fraud case: US dismisses case against Devyani Khobragade A New York court on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against diplomat Devyani Khobragade that had precipitated a crisis in relations between India and the US. “Khobragade's motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground of...

Friends we all know, last year Chinese media was spitting venom against India during India -China military standoff especially 'The Global Times'. It is the same media which took a complete U turn in less than 6 months after Japanese prime minister and emperor had back to back visits. India...

China's vegetarian population touches 50 million: Report BEIJING: Motivated by wildlife protection campaigns and Buddha's teachings, more than 50 million Chinese defied deep-rooted tradition of meat eating and turned vegetarians, making the Communist nation one of the fast emerging countries...

SC brings up ‘Brutus’ during marine case hearing NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday referred to Brutus from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar while dealing with the alleged violation of naval guards by Italian ambassador Daniele Mancini to bring back two marines facing trial in India...

India to erect floating fence along Sir Creek border with Pakistan NEW DELHI: India will soon erect a 'floating fence', anchored by submerged metallic meshes, along the disputed Sir Creek border area with Pakistan. The 96-km strip in the Rann of Kutch marshes is notorious for illegal...

HAPPY DUSSEHRA Happy Dussehra or Vijayadashami to all members. With this 9 days fast ends and only 20 days left for Diwali :yahoo: Will be celebrated on 24 October 2012 in India. Effigy of Ravana burns Garba dance in Ahmedabad during navaratri festivities Navaratri Golu, dolls and figurine...

India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017 The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines. Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

Here is the the analysis of NAM submit by Israel's Media. Israel is disappointed by the gathering of huge number of head of nations in Tehran when Israel thought Iran is most Isolated nation in world. Israel is also disappointed by "close" friends such as India and Thailand when they did not...

Bulk of N-E rumours sourced from Pak: Home Secy New Delhi: As the exodus of North-East people continues from several metro cities, Home Secretary RK Singh on Saturday said the bulk of the rumours against them that triggered panic were originated from Pakistan. Addressing a press conference...

Strange neighbours Pakistan and India are strange neighbours. Their relationship is deeply grounded in mistrust. On the onset of a typical crisis, the bilateral mechanism to manage such events collapses almost instantly. Anticipating the entanglement, regional and extra regional well wishers...

Let the sea be calm If Vietnam and India insist on jointly tapping oil resources in the disputed waters of the South China Sea as reported, they may risk setting off a new round of tension in the troubled waters. Their relationship with China will be at stake too. According to Indian media...

U.S. Loses AAA Credit Rating as S&P Slams Debt, Politics Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending enough to reduce record budget deficits. S&P...

Whither India-Russia relations? A Russian TV channel screens a Hindi movie every Friday night complete with dubbing or subtitles. And Bollywood song and dance routines are a hit with Russian teenagers. But there are other undercurrents. Seven of us - all Indians - boarded the Krasnaya...

Don't engage pre-1953 arrangement of J&K: Advani BJP on Thursday warned the government against any attempt made under international pressure to enforce the pre-1953 arrangement in Jammu and Kashmir which gave the state a separate Constitution and flag, saying this would lead to a forceful...

Bharti Africa inks $400-mn network expansion deal with Huawei Press Trust of India, June 1 , 2011, (New Delhi) Chinese telecom vendor Huawei has bagged an around $400-million order from Bharti Airtel for modernising and expanding its 2G and 3G network infrastructure in African countries. As...

US has told Pakistan to act against LeT: Roemer The US had told Pakistan that it now needed to act against the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), US ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer said on Tuesday while stressing that his government had been building enormous pressure on Islamabad to target...

Dragon’s Terrorist Designs By Lobsang Yeshi (The myth of the Tibetan Terrorism- A Study) ‘From the much abused clichés of ‘liberation’ and ‘globalization’, ‘Terrorism’, today has emerged as the latest global tool of tyranny and subjugation, and China is using it to the hilt’...

BRICS countries embrace strong economic recovery, structural shift By Fei Liena, Liu Yunfei, Jiang Qiaomei BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- As leading emerging economies, the BRICS nations are taking the lead to move out of the world financial crisis and regaining robust growth. They were...