I will be happy to appear before PAC: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he was ready to appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and added that there was no need for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to
'Assange a high-tech terrorist'
Washington: US Vice President Joe Biden has said that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was 'closer to being a high-tech terrorist', and acknowledged the fact that the leak of classified US diplomatic
ArcelorMittal ups bid for Canadian giant
Toronto: ArcelorMittal's battle to take over Canada's Baffinland Iron Mines took an interesting turn on Sunday after it was forced to raise its friendly bid by 14 per cent to $1.25 per share when riva
Sonia's four-point plan against corruption
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday underlined a four-point programme to fight corruption in the country, including fast tracking all cases involving politicians and 'that means all of us
'Dangerous' anti-Muslim RSS are like Nazis: Digvijay
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Sunday mounted a fierce attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by likening the right-wing Hindu group to Nazis.
"The RSS in the garb of it
Last eclipse of the year on Dec. 21
New Delhi, Dec. 18: A total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, December 21, will be the last eclipse of 2010, a statement by the Planetary Society, India said on Saturday. The eclipse will not be visible in In
'China paying Nepal to nab Tibetan refugees'
Kathmandu: The reason the number of Tibetan refugees fleeing to India dropped dramatically since 2008 is because China is paying money to Nepal police to arrest them from the border areas, says a US e
US can learn from Indians
New Delhi / London, Dec. 18: A cable sent by the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington says the US can learn a lot from the Indians tolerance for all faiths, according to whistleblowing website Wikil
Cong suffering from siege mentality: BJP
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday hit out at the Congress, describing it as a party 'under siege' and accused its president Sonia Gandhi of abusing the opposition.
"The speech the Congr
India wants terror info, gives US little in return
New Delhi, Dec. 18: India is very keen to get information and technology from the US for counter-terrorism efforts but provides little in return, says a US embassy cable made public by Wikileaks.
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