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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to persuade Republicans to support overhaul of the U.S. healthcare industry, his signature domestic policy goal, as the measures moved on a fast track through congressional committees with only Democratic support. A handful of Democrats on one of the three House of Representatives committees trying to speed [...]
Hours after he and his Pakistani counterpart issued a joint statement that said “action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh insisted there was no change in India’s position that “any meaningful dialogue cannot begin without addressing our main concern — terrorism.” Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, [...]
ਅਮਰੀਕੀ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਹਿਲੇਰੀ ਕਲਿੰਟਨ ਆਪਣੀ ਪੰਜ ਰੋਜ਼ਾ ਯਾਤਰਾ ਉੱਤੇ ਸ਼ੁਕਰਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਰਤ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ । ਉੱਥੇ ਉਹ ਅਮਰੀਕਾ ਅਤੇ ਭਾਰਤ ਦੇ ਵਿਚਾਲੇ ਰਣਨੀਤਿਕ ਸਾਂਝੇਦਾਰੀ ਵਧਾਉਣ ਅਤੇ ਉਸਨੂੰ ਹੋਰ ਸੰਗਠਿਤ ਰੂਪ ਦੇਣ ਦੇ ਲਈ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਨੇਤਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਵਟਾਂਦਰਾ ਕਰੇਂਗੀ। ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ ਵਿਭਾਗ ਦੇ ਬੁਲਾਰੇ ਇਯਾਨ ਕੈਲੀ ਨੇ ਦੱਸਿਆ ਕਿ ਸ਼੍ਰੀਮਤੀ ਕਲਿੰਟਨ ਉੱਥੇ ਭਾਰਤੀ [...]
Andrew Flintoff will retire from Test cricket at the end of the ongoing Ashes series against Australia, the injury-prone England all-rounder announced in London on Wednesday. The 31-year-old, who has so far played 75 Tests for his country since his debut in 1998, will though continue to make himself available for selection for One-Day Internationals [...]
ANNAT ABAD, Iran – A Tupolev aircraft crashed in Iran on Wednesday on its way to Armenia after catching fire in mid-air and ploughing into farmland, killing all 168 people on board just 16 minutes after take-off. In the worst crash in Iran for six years, the Russian-built Caspian Airlines plane left only scattered bits [...]
New Delhi, July 16 (PTI) The issue of arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi over her alleged anti-Mayawati remarks on Thursday created uproar in Parliament leading to adjournment of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) and the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) for an hour. While the Lok [...]
New Delhi: Over 2.5 crore cases are pending in subordinate courts and more than 39 lakh cases in high courts across the country, the Rajya Sabha was told today. “As per the reports received from the Registries of the High Courts, 39,10,858 cases were pending in the High Courts and 2,66,50,467 cases were pending in [...]
Paris: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Paris on Monday night to attend the French National Day parade as chief guest, the first foreign leader to be accorded the honour. The honour reciprocates India’s gesture of inviting French President Nicolas Sarkozy as chief guest for its Republic Day parade in January this year, said French [...]
Mumbai: A railway employee today identified Ajmal Kasab in a special court and said how the Pakistani gunman and his associate Abu Ismael took him hostage at the Cama hospital on November 26 last year. Pointing towards Kasab, Dinesh Chinnekar, told judge M L Tahaliyani, “This person and another gunman had asked three of us [...]
Chandigarh, July 13 There was an air of festivity at the residence of former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) stalwart the late Captain Kanwaljit Singh, three months after he passed away, with his son Jasjit Singh Bunny finally being cleared for the party ticket from Banur today. Though the SAD core committee that met at Ferozepur [...]
