Myanmar junta considered Manchester United takeover
Dec 7: Myanmar's military junta considered making a billion-dollar bid to buy Manchester United, it has emerged.
A cable sent from the US embassy in Yangon, made public by WikiLeaks, said Than Shwe,
Mumbai terror suspect Rana's trial set for Feb 14
Dec 7: Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, co-accused with Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, will go on trial in a federal court here Feb 1
Haiti cholera toll rises to 2,071
Port-au-Prince: The toll in the cholera epidemic which began in Haiti at the end of October has killed 2,071 people till date, officials have said.
Haiti's health ministry said in a report on Monday
18th useless day as Parliament's adjourned again over JPC call
New Delhi: Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon for the 18th successive day on Tuesday over the opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G s
ICC likely to ban Pakistan's tainted trio
Pakistan's suspended trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer face an uphill task at next month's full hearing to be conducted by an independent tribunal appointed by the International Cr
Sensex continues to languish in dull trade
Mumbai: A benchmark index of Indian equities on Tuesday continued to trade weak even as selling pressure increased in broader markets.
The 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchan
Illegal plot allotment: Ex-Noida official gets four-year jail
A former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh was on Tuesday held guilty of wrongfully allotting a plot during her tenure as Noida authority chief and sentenced to four years' imprisonment by a court here
Wikileaks unethical, wrong, anti-peace: Tharoor
New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor, former minister of state for external affairs, calls the the latest expose by whistleblower website WikiLeaks unethical and wrong and says the contents of some leaked diplom
Indian court frees Nepal's 26/11 suspect
A young Muslim from Nepal, who had been held in an Indian prison for eight months on suspicion of being involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, has been freed on bail, a media report here said on
Assange arrested in London
The Wikileaks founder, Mr Julian Assange, was arrested in London on Tuesday at the height of an international outcry over the continued publication of confidential US diplomatic cables by his organisa