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Onus on Pakistan as we can’t chase non-state actors: India
U.S., China, Saudi Arabia asked to put pressure on Pakistan

Services chiefs meet Manmohan
NEW DELHI: The chiefs of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday and briefed him on the country’s defence preparedness. The services chiefs also discussed the pay and service conditions in ...

Pakistan armed forces on high alert
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s armed forces are on a “high alert” and all leave of absence has been cancelled for troops on account of the tensions with India, military officials here told journalists on Friday. Also, there were ...

Inflation falls to 6.61%
NEW DELHI: The rate of inflation slipped further to 6.61 per cent for the week ended December 13 from 6.84 per cent a week earlier owing to a fall in the prices of certain food articles and some manufactured goods on account of the cascading ...

Living with the scars, a month after the carnage in Mumbai
MUMBAI: After a sober Christmas, Mumbai commemorated a month of the terror attacks in which 10 gunmen held the city to ransom for three days from November 26, but its usual breezy spirit was missing. This past month witnessed an outpouring of ...

A terrorist’s bullet, not cancer, killed him
Wife of terror victim recounts mayhem at CST, Mumbai

Diaspora to help India turn the heat on Pakistan


“Common friends” trying to defuse India-Pakistan tensions, says Gilani
Fighter jets roar through Islamabad skies; Pakistan expects imminent strikes

Indian High Commission not informed of arrests
ISLAMABAD: Confusion surrounds the reported arrests of four men described by the Pakistani media as Indian nationals for their alleged involvement in a bomb attack in Lahore on Wednesday and Thursday, and a claim by an unknown ...

U.S. favours elimination of perpetrators
Washington: Cranking up pressure on Pakistan, the U.S. has demanded that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks be “eliminated” and pointed out that Islamabad had still a “lot to do” in combating terrorism. ...

Commission preparing for elections, says Chawla
CHENNAI: The Election Commission is slowly preparing for the Lok Sabha elections, Election Commissioner Navin B. Chawla said here on Friday. Responding to a question at the airport, he, however, said no date had been decided. Mr. ...

Cabinet nod for upgrading 30 CSIR posts
It is aimed at realising higher levels of productivity

National highway projects cleared


China joins anti-piracy mission
SANYA (Hainan Province): The Chinese Navy set sail here on Friday for its first deep-sea escorting mission against the spreading piracy menace. The convoy, which includes two of China’s most sophisticated naval destroyers, is ...

Most influential, imitated dramatist of his generation
Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London. ...

Maruti starts exporting A-Star to Europe
First consignment despatched to Mundra Port from Gurgaon

SHOOTING FROM THE HIP
Team of the year
Smith’s knock at Edgbaston was as impressive as Lara’s epic in Barbados, writes Peter Roebuck

CRICKET
Tiwary hits unbeaten hundred
Ganapathy and Ashwin claim two wickets apiece

NEWSCAPE
A message of peace
Pakistan theatre group performs at Thrissur festival

Gilt-free shopping in U.S.
PEABODY: Mary Sullivan went to the North Shore Mall recently not to buy, but to sell. In her coat pocket, she carried a plastic baggie filled with gold necklaces and earrings she had emptied from her jewellery box. And there, in the ...

Prisoners in South Africa embrace yoga
JOHANNESBURG: The prisoners at the Groenpunt Maximum Security prison in the Free State province are among the most violent in South Africa. They have raped, murdered, smuggled drugs or abused children. Many are HIV-positive and can ...

Indian-American doctor honoured
WASHINGTON: Indian-American doctor Tapan Thakur is among the top 10 hospitalists of the United States, according to a list published in the Hospitalist Journal of the American College of Physicians. Hospitalists are internal medicine ...

Cash-strapped families look to colleges in Canada
Over the years, Americans have often turned to their northern neighbour in times of need or convenience, whether to evade the draft or buy prescription drugs. Now, as the U.S. economy heads south, growing ranks of New England students are ...

Snow for sport


Bird flu spreads to more areas in Assam
Guwahati: Bird flu has spread to new areas in Assam, where culling of poultry has been going on since November 27. Sources in the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department said new cases were reported at Manahkuchi of the Hajo and Chayani ...

Steps on to get hostage released: Union Minister
‘Negotiations with the militant group in Afghanistan going on’

Bids received for multi-level parking lots
Chennai: After two rounds of unsuccessful tenders for multi-level parking facilities in the city, the Chennai Corporation has now received bids that have cleared the technical evaluation. The multi-level parking projects have been ...

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