Centre invites Hurriyat for talks on January 22
NEW DELHI, JAN. 13.To give fillip to the peace efforts concerning Jammu and Kashmir, the Government today invited the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) for talks with the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, here on January 22. The formal ...
Bush announces steps to build strategic ties with India
WASHINGTON, JAN. 13.The United States President, George W. Bush, has announced the next steps in the strategic partnership with India which will see the two countries stepping up cooperation in the realm of non-military nuclear activities, ...
Sangma prefers NDA to Congress
NEW DELHI, JAN. 13. About five years after it broke away from the Congress on the issue of Sonia Gandhi's leadership, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seems prepared to lose one of its founding members, P. A. Sangma, after the former Lok ...
We are ready, says Ansari
JAMMU, JAN. 13. The All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), led by Moulana Abbas Ansari, today welcomed the Centre's invitation to it for holding talks with the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, in New Delhi on January 22, and said it was ready ...
One killed in stampede
NANDED, JAN. 13. One person was killed and another injured in a stampede as the crowd jostled to get a glimpse of film personalities on the concluding day of the Nanded Lokutsav, a cultural festival, here last night. Over two lakh people had ...
'Pakistan may buy diesel from India'
NEW DELHI, JAN. 13.Pakistan may start buying petroleum products such as diesel from India at it made ``better economic sense", said the Pakistan Petroleum and Natural Resources Secretary, M. Abdullah Yusuf, today. He told reporters during the ...
Plane crash
MOSCOW, JAN. 13.Thirty-seven persons were killed when an AN-24 turbo-prop plane crashed shortly after take-off from the Takshent airport tonight. The passenger plane was on a local flight and crashed in bad weather conditions, the Itar-Tass said. ...