North Korean nuclear talks could restart by the summer, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Japan’s NHK television in a Saturday interview whose transcript was released by the ministry on Sunday. “It is absolutely realistic to do this not just this year but in the first half of the year, concentrating on the main task of ensuring theKorean [...]
One leader refers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “Pappu PM” while another talks of doing a “qattal-e-aam” (massacre) of party rebels. Punjab may be going without posters and flags to keep poll expenses in check but colourful language is in full flow. As campaigning for the Jan 30 elections to 117 assembly seats [...]
Former Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MP Shivaji Mane, till now Hingoli district Congress President, today joined NCP, saying he was feeling “suffocated” in the Congress. Mane joined NCP in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at a function in party office here this morning. He said Youth Congress President Rajeev Satav, who hails from Hingoli, a [...]
Suffering from ill health, activist Anna Hazare will be brought to the national capital Sunday and admitted to Medanta Hospital in suburban Gurgaon in Haryana, an associate said Saturday. “Because of the hard antibiotics that were being administered to him, Anna ji has had some side effects,” the associate told IANS. “He will stay in [...]
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted near the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 0022 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 34.00 km, was initially determined to be at 40.1832 degrees north latitude and 142.2788 degrees east longitude.
Philippine activists picketed the US embassy on Saturday and burned a cardboard American flag and mock stealth bomber, vowing to launch a campaign opposing a plan to allow more US troops in the country. About 50 members of the leftist New Nationalist Alliance (Bayan) also held a huge effigy of Uncle Sam with another of Philippine President Benigno Aquino labelled as [...]
A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause. Each time, police respond with bullets. The three clashes, all in the past [...]
The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Saturday to strengthen economic and security cooperation but made no progress on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has kept the two nations from concluding a peace treaty. Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the two countries need to address the row over islands off northeastern Japan in a calm manner. Gemba said [...]
Reiterating that he will not buckle under pressure resulting in the weakening of the office of the Lokayukta in the state, Governor H R Bharadwaj stressed the need for restoration of probity in public life. He was delivering his Republic Day address at the Manekshaw Parade Grounds here on Thursday. “The Karnataka Lokayukta has rendered [...]
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa dropped two Ministers — Agri S S Krishnamoorthy and S P Velumani from the State Cabinet and inducted N R Sivapathy (AIADMK MLA from Musiri Assembly constituency) and Mukkur N Subramanian (AIADMK MLA from Cheyyar Assemly constituency). The State Cabinet has been reshuffled for the sixth time during the past eight [...]
