NIA team may interrogate Headley this week
NEW DELHI: Eight months after his arrest in the U.S., prospects look bright for Indian investigators to get access to David Coleman Headley (49), an American citizen of partial Pakistani descent who allegedly helped the Lashkar-e-Taiba plan ...
ISI agent held near Air Force station
MOHALI: An Inter-Services Intelligence agent was arrested, with maps of vital defence installations, near the Indian Air Force station at Mullanpur in this district on Saturday. The police recovered a pistol with 20 live cartridges, maps, ...
U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue to cover entire gamut of ties
Washington: The forthcoming Strategic Dialogue between India and the United States will be comprehensive and cover the “entire gamut of bilateral relations,” according to Rahul Chhabra, Indian Minister for Press, Information and ...
U.S. welcomes Indian assistance in Afghanistan
Washington: The United States will not limit any effort by India to offer direct training to the Afghan army, according to Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs. Responding to an observation that ...
Ruling on narco-analysis a setback: CBI chief
CHENNAI: The Supreme Court's ruling on narco-analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests is a setback to scientific investigation, Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ashwani Kumar said on Saturday. “According to us, it is a ...
Not a joke, says India's youngest Everest climber
KATHMANDU: The youngest Indian to climb the world's highest peak says it was his dream to become a world-class mountaineer that drove him to Mount Everest. Sixteen-year-old Arjun Bajpayee from Noida made a successful ascent on the ...
He looked for his father in vain
Mumbai: Dhaval Swali was losing hope rapidly. As he went from compartment to compartment, his father Hamir Swali was nowhere to be found. Mr. Swali was one of the passengers on the Mumbai-bound Jnaneswari Express, which was rammed by a goods ...
Final decision on NCHER rests with Centre, says Kapil Sibal
NEW DELHI: Under criticism from his Cabinet colleagues, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday sought to clarify that the final decision on the proposed National Commission on Higher Education and Research (NCHER) ...
Lancet study on decline in child mortality incorrect, says NGO
NEW DELHI: A new study published in medical journal Lancet on accelerating decline in the deaths of children under five years between 2000 and 2010 as compared to 1990-2000 has got its figures wrong on India, says Save the Children, a ...
How can HRD Ministry run medical education, asks AICC doctors' cell
NEW DELHI: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has come under criticism from his own colleagues in the Congress for his “proposal of transferring medical education” from the Health Ministry to the proposed National ...
FIFA/FOOTBALL Lucio ready to impose Dunga's will
Shy, unpredictable, rarely showing emotion and not bothered by what the media says and thinks. In this era of the passionate huddle, fist-pumping exhortations, sudden displays of delight verging on delirium, those passive characteristics are ...
TENNIS Gabashvili ends Roddick's stay; mixed fortunes for Indians
PARIS: Second seed Rafael Nadal and No.3 Novak Djokovic both reached the last 16 at Roland Garros on Saturday, but Andy Roddick, seeded six, was stunned by Russian qualifier Teimuraz Gabashvili as the seeds began to fall. Gabashvili, ...
