Bali - 19 Nov 2011: India firmly rejected China's objections to its presence in the South China Sea, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telling Chinese leaderWen Jiabaothat Indian interests were "purely commercial" and sovereignty claims must be settled according to international law.Questioned by W

Washington - 19 Nov 2011 (PTI): In a major goof, newUS defence secretary Leon Panettaclubbed India and China, describing them as emerging "threats", but his office quickly retracted the remarks, saying Washington strongly values close ties with New Delhi. Panetta put his foot in the mouth as he depa

Van, Turkey - 11 Nov 2011 (AP): The death toll from the second earthquake to hit eastern Turkey in about two weeks rose to 19 on Friday as several rescue teams clawed through heaps of concrete to search for two journalists believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed hotel. Colleagues of the two

Jeddah - 05 Nv 2011 (PTI): Dressed in white, over 2.5 million Muslims, including more than 1 lakh Indians today began the rites of Hajj pilgrimage as they left for Mount Arafat from Mecca, even as religious authorities asked pilgrims to avoid overcrowding at the Grand Mosque in the holy city. Pilgr

Washington - 05 Nov 2011: YouTube and the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information are teaming up to provide a live-stream of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca."Millions of people from around the world will be able to experience and comment on the event by tuning in via vid

London: Salman Butt has been jailed for two and a half years and Mohammad Asif for one year, while Mohammad Amir will be detained for six months for their role in a conspiracy to cheat and to obtain and accept corrupt payments related to the Lord's Test against England in August 2010. Justice Co

Singapore - 31 Ocdt 2011 (AP):Oil pricesfell below $93 a barrel on Monday in Asia as investors mulled whether slowing global economic growth justified a surge in crude this month.Benchmark crude for December delivery was down 48 cents at $92.84 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading

Beijing - 28 Oct 2011: Indian businesses operating in China are shaken by China's decision to impose social security obligations for foreign employees, which will push up the wage bill by over 40 per cent. It has put expansion plans of some companies in a quandary while new investors may have to rec

MISURATA, Libya - After four days of public viewing of the slowly decomposing corpses of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, one of his sons and his former defense minister in a Misurata meat locker, the military council in this city said on Tuesday that the three were buried in a predawn funeral at a secre

VAN, Turkey - 24 Oct 2011: As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake struck Turkey, collapsing dozens of buildings and pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country, officials and witnesses said. Emergency workers battled to rescue people tr

Sirte/Cairo - 20 Oct 2011:Muammar Gaddafiwas killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over.Details of the death near Sirte of the fallen strongman were hazy but it was ann

Kathmandu - 13 Oct 2011 (PTI): At least 40 people were killed on Thursday when a crowded passenger bus skidded off a hilly road and fell intoSunkoshi riverin eastern Nepal.The bus plunged into the river at Ritthebhir area in Jhangajholi village of Sindhuli district, 150 km east of Kathmandu, killing

Kathmandu - 10 Oct 2011 (PTI): A webcam has been installed at the world's highest point to get live view of Mt. Everest to study more accurately the effects of climate change on the tallest peak. The scientists have installed the webcam at Kalapatthar, near the base camp of Mt. Everest, at an altit

Oslo - 02 Oct 2011 (AP): The 2011Nobel Peace Prizewas awarded on Friday toLiberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee andTawakkul Karman of Yemenfor their work on women's rights. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the three women "for their non-violent struggl

Steve Jobs,the mastermind behindApple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said.Jobswas 56. Jobs died "peacefully" surrounded by family members, his family said in a statement. Neither Jobs' family nor Apple revealed where Jobs died or from what cause, though in recent years he had

Tripoli - 02 Oct 2011: Residents trapped in fighting for the Libyan coastal city of Sirte have run out of basic medical supplies and are resorting to drinking contaminated water to survive as conditions deteriorate, a Libyan doctor who was in the city at the weekend said. Dr Siraj Assouri, who

New York - 25 Sep 2011 (PTI): As the global financial crisis deepened, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh today said a fast growing India can help the world economy, around which no protectionist barriers should be erected.Addressing theUN General Assembly, Singh said India wants to quicken the pace of it

New York - 25 Sep 2011: Prime MinisterManmohan Singhon Saturday strongly criticized Western powers for using force to change regimes in other countries, a reference toLibyaamid calls for a similar intervention inSyria, cautioning that societies cannot be re-engineered by outsiders. In a direct criti