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Pak may soon lift ban on Indian TV channels

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 5 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 19 (UNI) Pakistan may soon lift its ban on the screening of Indian satellite television channels, as a goodwill gesture following the secretary-l...

School damaged in attempt to disrupt female education in Pakistan

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD Feb 19 (DPA) Days after destroying six schools, miscreants opposing female education damaged another girls primary school in northern Pakistan, privat...

Questions raised about Pakistan's nuclear arms

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 4 min read

WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) After the revelations about Pakistan's role in the nuclear black market, Islamabad is seen as primarily responsible for ending the ...

Annan hails Indo-Pak talks

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW YORK, Feb 20 (UNI) UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has termed the Indo-Pak talks at the level of foreign secretaries " positive developments" which would op...

Kuwait offers Pakistan share in reconstruction projects in Iraq

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (DPA) Kuwait offered Pakistan today to share subcontracts and major projects it has got as part of the reconstruction of Iraq. Kuwaiti commerc...

Benazir holding meeting to strategize anti-Musharraf campaign

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 1 min read

LONDON, Feb 20 (UNI) Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir bButto is hosting a high-level meeting of her party MPs and senior leaders in London to form a str...

Cabinet okays DA merger with pay for central govt employees

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 20 (UNI) The cabinet today put its seal of approval on the interim budget proposal for merger of 50 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) of central g...

Canada joins India against US protectionism

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

TORONTO, Feb 20 (UNI) Canada has joined India in ringing alarm bells over the proposed US protectionist measures which could wipe out Canadian call centres hand...

Indian toll in Tuesday's air crash rises to 13

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

DUBAI, Feb 12 (UNI) The death toll of Indians in Tuesday's air crash in Sharjah has gone up to 13 with the death of an infant. The 14-month old infant Ula Perve...

Indian in coma, no clue about his family

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

DUBAI, Feb 12 (UNI) Thirty four-year-old Indian Dhandapani Govindan is lying in coma in a Bahrain hospital since being found unconscious on a street in the king...

Compensation to relatives of 13 Indians

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

DUBAI, Feb 12 (UNI) Relatives of the 13 Indian passengers, who died in the Kish Airline crash in Sharjah on Tuesday, will receive compensation as soon as the le...

Ranil accuses Chandrika of 'jeopardising peace process'

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, Feb 12 (UNI) Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today accused president Chandrika Kumaratunga of seriously jeopardising the Norwegian-brok...

Violence in Western Ethiopia claims 196 lives

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 12 (DPA) Nearly 200 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in a remote part of Southwestern Ethiopia, the government wa...

LTTE leaders to meet in Zurich for 'strategic discussion'

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, Feb 13 (UNI) Key leaders of the Tamil Tiger rebels will meet today in Switzerland to "workout strategic actions" in response to the sudden political de...

Nepal checkposts ban entry of poultry from India

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

KATHMANDU, Feb 13 (UNI) Several border check-posts in Nepal have disallowed the entry of birds and poultry products from India, according to a media report here...

No Iraq elections before US handover- UN official

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) A UN official said today elections could not be held in Iraq before US-led authorities hand power to an Iraqi government at the end of ...

Opportunity roving on Mars, sends home photos

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 5 min read

PASADENA, CALIF. Feb 1 (Reuters) The NASA Rover Opportunity made tracks across the vast gray plain where it landed on Mars, driving down the front ramp of its l...

Khan admits illegal transfers of nuclear materials

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 6 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 2 (DPA) The scientist known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb has admitted having supplied nuclear-related materials to Libya, North Korea...

Alleged confession of Pakistan nuclear father khan disputed

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 4 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (DPA) Top Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan did not confess to leaking nuclear know-how to Iran, Libya and North Korea, despite ...

Investigate police action against Burma refugees: Rights group

Staff Reporter · Dec 3, 2003 · 3 min read

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (UNI) US-based International Rights Group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to order a "thorough and independent" investi...

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