DAVOS, Switzerland – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stalked off the stage at the World Economic Forum red-faced after a sharp exchange with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the fighting in Gaza, calling it “very wrong” and saying “many people have been killed.” The incident came Thursday after a lengthy debate at the forum [...]
Islamabad, Jan.29 (ANI): After eight years of ‘dictatorial’ rule in Pakistan, the former President Gen. Parvez Musharraf is now thinking of donning the Presidential suit by a more democratic method. According to a report published in The Nation, Musharraf is thinking of launching a new political party, which he will be using as his vehicle [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said his administration will offer a hand of friendship to the Muslim world, but will hunt down terrorist organizations that kill innocent civilians. “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy,” Obama said in an interview with the Al-Arabiya satellite television network. [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent a bypass heart surgery on Saturday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. The PM had been complaining of a chest pain over the past few days, and the tests have confirmed cardiac blockages. A beating heart operation, which carries a lower risk of tissue damage, [...]
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry plans to set up a Central Madrassa Board on the lines of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), HRD Minister Arjun Singh said on Tuesday. This would help modernize the education imparted by the Islamic seminaries across the country, the minister said. “There has been a long pending [...]
Barack Obama, the president Elect, was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America at the capital city. The roar of the huge crowd that erupted at the office to see the new president take his pledge. Using the same bible as that was used in Abraham lincoln’s inaugration, Obama met the [...]
Hyderabad court on Saturday sent Satyam’s disgraced chairman Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and the company’s former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas to four days in police custody from Sunday till January 22. The Sixth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granted their custody to the state CID police, who had sought seven days detention of them for [...]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice-President and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh resigned from the primary membership of the party on Tuesday. “I have resigned from BJP. I was given a ticket from Etah from BJP. I am returning that ticket to BJP,” said Kalyan Singh. In a letter to party President Rajnath Singh, [...]
