Khaleda accepts invitation to visit India
DHAKA: Visiting External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh said on Sunday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would attend the 13th SAARC Summit to be held in Dhaka in November. Mr. Natwar Singh, who met Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at the ...
India will go ahead with fencing, says Natwar
DHAKA: External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh on Sunday made it clear that India would go ahead with the fencing of the border with Bangladesh. The fencing would help curb smuggling, and illegal migration and contribute to peace for people ...
Al-Umma activist held after 8 years
TIRUNELVELI: An Al-Umma activist from Melapalayam near here, who had been evading the police for eight years after being charged with involvement in a triple murder at his native place in 1997 and the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts in 1998, was ...
CRICKET England holds its nerves to win a humdinger
BIRMINGHAM: I think we can call it the greatest Test match ever played even though there have been two ties. England beat Australia by two runs when it seemed it had lost in the second match of its attempt to regain the Ashes. Victory came after ...
Surveillance on Babbar Khalsa stepped up
NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have put the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and two other extremist organisations on their watch-list in the run up to this year's Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort here. The BKI was behind ...
TALK DOES THE TRICK Oratory wins him a trip to London
CHENNAI: Three Rs — Reuse, Re-fusion and Recycle — would provide a solution to the question of reconcilingenvironmental sustainability and material progress. These were the winning words of Ajay Augustine, a Plus Two student of ...
Call for Bihar bandh
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation have called for a Bihar bandh on August 24 and invited all parties, barring the RJD and the Janata Dal (United), to join the ...
MSR unhappy over allocation of portfolio
KARIMNAGAR: Minister for Sports, Culture and Cinematography M. Satyanarayana Rao has complained that he has not been allocated the portfolio of his choice. Speaking at a function here on Sunday, Mr. Satynarayana Rao alleged that Anantapur ...
