What an irony that in a week when Iranian protesters were being hailed (not least by the British media) for harnessing the power of Internet through anonymous blogs and “tweets” bloggers in Britain were stripped of their right to anonymity after a...

Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish. A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of...

Five-term Lok Sabha MP Meira Kumar on Tuesday became the consensus candidate of the ruling UPA and the Opposition BJP for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker . Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee led a UPA delegation to submit Kumar’s nomination...

Angry villagers on Monday torched six rail bogies and a station near here, protesting against the cancellation of halts for a train. Thousands of villagers, perturbed at the withdrawal of halts for the Rajgir-New Delhi Shramjivi Express at Khusrupur,...

JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH: Two persons were killed and several injured as violence triggered by the killing of a Dera leader engulfed Punjab and parts Train set on fire Angry followers set a train on fire in Jalandhar. (PTI Photo) More Pictures of Haryana...

The monsoon rains that rolled into Colombo this week could not dampen the street celebrations that erupted when news broke of the Government’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers. The hard-won result would have been savoured by one family above all: that of...

he Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) Friday extended outside support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre even though it had fought against the Congress in the general elections in Assam. The AUDF, a regional party with a...

There is lots of noise in these days about young members of parliament those who have won the recent election. Each and every media organization is accelerating the issue like most important issue nowadays in Indian soil. There is only few slogans and...

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference in occupied Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has pledged to continue freedom struggle till its complete success. According to Kashmir Media Service, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a media interview said that the APHC...

The Sri Lankan Government has blocked access to aid workers trying to help the nearly 300,000 civilians displaced by the army’s victory over the Tamil Tigers, raising the prospect of a humanitarian catastrophe. In the capital, Colombo, President...