Ready for talks
SRINAGAR: Talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat's moderate faction would begin as soon as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fixed the dates, senior leader Abdul Gani Bhat said on Sunday. "We are ready for talks, as dialogue is the key to ...
Egypt's envoy kidnapped in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: An Egyptian envoy expected to become Iraq's first Arab ambassador since its new Government took office was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in the country, diplomats said on Sunday. Witnesses said gunmen accosted Ihab ...
Ration card-holders in a fix
SALEM: Many of the new ration card-holders, attached to the AD-017 fair price shop on Ambayiram Chavadi Street here, are in a predicament. They do not know whether their cards, which they received on Saturday, would be treated as "genuine.'' ...
Roger Federer's reign continues
LONDON: Deserted by his mates — read competitors — en route to the icy heights of his own genius, Roger Federer the duellist has metamorphosed into Roger Federer the solo artist. Audiences everywhere come licking their lips in ...
Venus eclipses Davenport for title
London: They hunted with a lot of success in these parts long ago. Fossil records of the game certainly vouch for that. On Saturday afternoon, the two women, Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport, magically sprang out of the cabinet where the ...
Alonso ends Renault's drought in French GP
MAGNY-COURS (France): Formula One World championship leader Fernando Alonso became the first Renault driver since Alain Prost in 1983 to win the French Grand Prix here on Sunday. And it came when there was no French driver in the field; the first ...
Some more truckers to join stir from today
BANGALORE: Bangaloreans are likely to feel the heat of the truckers' strike which will begin on Monday following a decision of the Karnataka Tankers' Association to support the ongoing agitation by sand transporters. The supply of petrol and ...
Maoist killed in encounter
GUNTUR: One naxalite of the CPI (Maoist) was killed in an exchange of fire with the police in Nakarekallu mandal on Sunday morning. The Guntur Superintendent of Police, V.C. Sajjanar, a police party on a combing mission in the Gullapalli ...
Ram Vilas Paswan's condition stable
NEW DELHI: The condition of Union Chemical and Fertilizers Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who suffered a mild heart attack, is stable, sources at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre said on Sunday. Mr. Paswan is in the intensive care ...
