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Delhi, Hurriyat talks can"t succeed without Pak, c..
Pakistan on Friday claimed that any talks between the Indian government and separatist Kashmiri leaders will not be successful without its involvement....
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Swaraj to succeed Advani as leader of Opposition
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani is understood to have indicated that he will not complete his five-year term as the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and make way for his deputy Sushma Swaraj. Highly placed party sources said Advani also conveyed to Arun Jaitley that the latter would continue to be the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Though Advani did not specify when he would hang up his boots, he is unlikely to continue for long....
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India"s 10 richest people
The nation is now home to 52 billionaires, up from 27 last year and only two short of what India had at the peak of its stock market boom in 2007....
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Pakistan"s five military officers, linked to Headl..
Some serving and ex-military officers are among five people arrested in Pakistan in connection with the LeT plot to carry out a major terror attack in Mumbai, using American national David Coleman Headley, a media report said on Thursday....
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Headley"s father was a Pakistani diplomat: Report
Fresh details have emerged about David Headley, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October for plotting terror attacks in India, with the United States media reporting that the terror suspect was born to a Pakistani diplomat father and an American mother.At the age of 16, Headley, who was born Daood Gilani, was taken out of Pakistan, where he attended a military school, and brought to Philadelphia by his mother....
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"R R Patil is a symbol of the impotent rage of a n..
Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt has said the reinstatement of R R Patil as Maharashtras home minister, a few days before the anniversary of the terror attack on Mumbai, was the governments way of telling citizens that what they feel is not important. In an open letter to All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Bhatt said the attitude behind all the political manoeuvring has hurt him.R R Patil sits here as the symbol of the impotent rage of a nation, he said....
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She saw Jihadis 2 days before 26/11?
26/11 survivor Anamika Gupta on her unforgettable encounters with the terrorists....
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Jharkhand: BJP promises Re 1 rice, 10 lakh jobs
The party also promised to would provide salt at 25 paise per kg to BPL families, state unit president Raghuvar Das said while releasing the manifesto in the presence of Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh. Construction of three lakh houses to be allotted to those not having accommodation and ration cards to every family within three months was also among the promises held out....
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"People just don"t care about 26/11"
The day after the attack, people were roaming this area, dressed like they were going to a party!" says an angry man who lost his brother that day....
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Bhatt writes to PM about Rahul being "projected in..
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, expressing his displeasure over the manner in which things were handled after his son shared information about terror suspect David Headley....
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India targets $50 billion FDI from 2012
Indias commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma said that from 2012 the country would be able to attract 50 billion dollars annually....
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"India reading too much into US-China joint statem..
The Obama administration has said that too much is being read into the joint United States-China statement issued by President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing. The statement had irked the Indian administration on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs visit to the US, as New Delhi perceived it as an attempt to interfere in the bilateral relations between India and Pakistan....
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Koda fails to appear before ED in Ranchi
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, facing money laundering and corruption charges, on Thursday failed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate citing reasons of election campaigning in interior areas of the state....
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For Mumbai, slum-free plan may not work
It is surprising that the slum dwellers have so far not revolted and asked the government to pack up and go because, from their point of view, the slums are not a problem but a spontaneous solution to the housing problem in Mumbai which has always been behind the demand curve, the supply kept short deliberately so that progressively higher prices can rule....
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Capturing 26/11 on celluloid
Terror in Mumbai premieres on November 19; Mumbai Massacre on November 25. Both documentaries will be shown worldwide....
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