Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday stopped short of admitting the arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), but confirmed that a ‘breakthrough’ has been made. “I cannot say...

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is expected to be blessed by the slaughter of one cow in each of its stadiums, the Makhonya Royal Trust proposed last week The move is, according to the Trust’s chairman Zolani Mkiva, “true African”...

Almost one year after the horrifying terror attacks in Mumbai, the state police is caught in the middle of a blame game. While the former police commissioner of Mumbai, Hasan Ghafoor has retracted his statement that a few senior cops refused to be on...

This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and a whiteboard their teacher, Li Peng, is waiting to finish the group’s second...

Two persons were killed and 10 persons, including three railway personnel and the Station Master, sustained injuries in an explosion on the platform of the Sholavandan railway station near here on Tuesday evening. The dead were identified as S....

Pakistani officials are saying that India’s launch of a nuclear-powered submarine over the weekend threatens regional peace. Pakistan’s complaint comes barely two weeks after it had agreed to resume peace talks with India. According to the...

The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a top secret meeting have raised alarm bells that one of the world’s poorest nations may be aspiring to join the nuclear club — with help from its friends in...

Despite the election of younger heads of government in such countries as Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States, the face of politics in India is still one of relative seniority. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has heart trouble, is...

In a stunning disclosure, a Madras High Court judge told an open court on Monday that a Union minister had called and tried to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to a medical student and his doctor-father in a CBI case concerning a forged...

INDIA and the world remember the protests by students and workers at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing and China’s ruthless suppression through tanks. But the world, particularly India, has forgotten the imposition of the Emergency which had...