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Anti-terror operation in Pak leaves 80-odd militants dead

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 30 (UNI): Eighty-odd suspected militants were killed when Pakistani security forces carried out an anti-terror operation in the country’s tribal ...

Bangla violence toll 23, calm after President takes charge

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 3 min read

DHAKA, Oct 30 (Agencies): Security forces were put on alert in Bangladesh today after President Iajuddin Ahmed took charge of the caretaker government, triggeri...

Two dead in simultaneous Algeria bombings

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 3 min read

ALGIERS, Oct 30 (Reuters): Two people were killed and 17 wounded when Algerian Islamist rebels set off explosives-laden vehicles outside two police stations eas...

Britain moves most Basra consular staff to airport

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 1 min read

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters): Britain is moving most civilian staff from its consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to the airport because of safety concerns...

Thousands mourn Nigerian sultan killed in crash

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 2 min read

SOKOTO, Nigeria, Oct 30 (Reuters): Thousands of tearful Nigerian Muslims gathered to mourn today at the palace of their traditional ruler, the Sultan of Sokoto,...

Nepal govt appoints CEC for constituent assembly election

Staff Reporter · Oct 31, 2006 · 2 min read

KATHMANDU, Oct 30 (UNI): The Nepal government has appointed former Home Secretary Bhojraj Pokharel as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) as part of the p...

Iran positive on tri-nation gas pipeline

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 2 min read

DUBAI, Mar 13 (UNI): Iran has expressed the hope that the proposed seven billion dollar gas pipeline connecting the country to Pakistan and India would be reali...

China invites Musharraf for SCO summit

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 4 min read

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (UNI): China has invited Pakistan PresidentPervez Musharraf to attend the sixth Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, scheduled to t...

Kalam Visits "Apravasi Ghat" in Mauritius

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 2 min read

PORT LOUIS, Mar 13 (UNI): The moments were laden with emotion and poignancy as President APJ Abdul Kalam today visited the 'Apravasi Ghat', the site of the form...

1,000 detained over Pakistan kite ban

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 2 min read

LAHORE, Pakistan, Mar 13 (Reuters): Police in Pakistan's second city detained more than 1,000 people at the weekend for flying kites in defiance of a newly impo...

Afghans ordered out of troubled Afghan tribal region

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 2 min read

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Mar 13 (Reuters): Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants today said thousands of Afghans thought to be liv...

Pranab hands over PM's letter to Oman's Sultan

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 2 min read

DUBAI, Mar 13 (UNI): Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has handed over a letter from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin Said on deepening...

Body of world war II veteran lies unclaimed

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 1 min read

HARDOI, UP, Mar 13 (UNI): Body of a World War II veteran has been lying unclaimed at the district hospital mortuary since Saturday. Parmeshwar Deen Singh died a...

China coal mine blast traps 25

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 1 min read

BEIJING, Mar 13 (Reuters): A blast at a Chinese coal mine trapped 25 people today, the official Xinhua news agency said, the most recent in a series of accident...

Tests show Milosevic took wrong drugs before death

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 3 min read

THE HAGUE, Mar 13 (Reuters): Blood tests showed Slobodan Milosevic took drugs to worsen his health and bolster his case for treatment in Russia, a Dutch medical...

Review Nepal's participation in UN peace keeping: Amnesty Intl

Staff Reporter · Feb 13, 2006 · 14 min read

KATHMANDU, Feb 12 (UNI) At a time when army has been mobilised to suppress the peaceful demonstration in Nepal, Amnesty International has called the internation...

Nepal army fires on villagers, 11 dead

Staff Reporter · Dec 16, 2005 · 1 min read

KATHMANDU, Dec 15 (Reuters): Nepali soldiers opened fire on a group of people near a temple just outside Kathmandu, killing at least 11 people overnight, offici...

One year on, tsunami survivors remember...and rebuild

Staff Reporter · Dec 16, 2005 · 3 min read

BANDA ACEH, Dec 15 (Reuters): One moment Sartinah Fatar is painting her lovely new traditional Acehnese house, chattering happily to her husband. The next she's...

China upset by US charity's soiled donations

Staff Reporter · Dec 16, 2005 · 2 min read

BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters): China was upset by a shipment of donations from a U S church to Chinese orphans containing expired medical equipment and stained bedd...

EU against India benefitting from LDC package

Staff Reporter · Dec 16, 2005 · 4 min read

HONG KONG, Dec 15 (UNI): The European Union today rejected the demand from India and Brazil to include the developing countries in the "Development Package (DP)...

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