India playing emotion card on fishermen’s killing: Italy
Rome: Indian authorities are pandering to emotions over the arrest of two Italian Marines for last week’s killing of two Indian fishermen, Italy’s Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has said. Indian authorities are pandering to emotions and local politics, Italian news agency AKI quoted the minister as saying Monday. A security detail of Italian More...
India won’t do a China with Google, Facebook: Sibal
New Delhi: Allaying fears of a China-like crackdown on companies like Google and Facebook, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal has said the government has no plans to censor the social media but they have More...
Strauss-Kahn questioned over alleged prostitution ring
Authorities on Tuesday questioned former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as they investigate an alleged prostitution ring operating out of two hotels in France. Last year, Strauss-Kahn urged More...
Grief, fear constant as Syrian families take shelter
Dark-haired and swaddled in a white blanket, baby Fatime is just 24 hours old, the picture of innocence in her grandmother’s arms. But the world she has been born into is anything but innocent. Her mother More...
More Kingfisher flights hit, government rules out bailout
New Delhi/Mumbai: Around 35 flights of Kingfisher Airlines were cancelled Monday, disrupting operations for third day in a row and the government queered the runway ruling out a bailout for the cash-strapped carrier. More...
Police to question Italian crewmen for three days
Kollam: The two crew members of an Italian ship who allegedly shot dead two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast can be questioned by police for three days, a Kerala court said Monday, while sending them to 14 More...
Rape case handling shows Mamata in poor light
The efforts of the West Bengal administration, led by the state’s first woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to play down an Anglo-Indian woman’s complaint of being “raped at gun point” More...
Pakistani PM hints at early elections
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday hinted at the possibility of holding early parliamentary elections. The parliamentary elections are scheduled in early 2013. The prime minister said the issue of More...
Kolkata ‘rape’ case: Now police say offence ‘must have occurred’
The alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman took another curious turn Friday with the police, who had earlier found “discrepancies” in her statement, conceding that an offence must have occurred, though More...
Shelling continues in Syria as protesters hit the streets
Shelling continued in the besieged Syrian city of Homs early Friday and demonstrators hit the streets, a day after the United Nations General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution condemning the brutal government More...
