India agrees to cut Iran oil purchases by 11%
Posted by: StephenManual
New Delhi :: India | updated 2012-05-16 04:46:27 -0700 | political-news
It appears as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s official visit to India last week has worked out as India announced on Tuesday to cut its crude oil import from Iran by 11 percent during the current fiscal year. India’s...
Khyber Pass tribesmen fear increased local violence as NATO resumes Afghan supply pipeline
Posted by: sudhir
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 02:43:52 -0700 | political-news
Tribesmen fear the law and order situation would go worse after the NATO supply begins via Khyber Pass. The bomb blasts and attacks on the NATO supply through Khyber Pass may endanger the lives and properties of the common people...
Pakistani-Canadians: Falling below the poverty line
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 01:55:17 -0700 | political-news
The Canadian census revealed that 44 per cent of Pakistan-born immigrants fell below the poverty line making them the second most poverty prone group of immigrants in Canada. While they may project an aura of opulence during their visits back...
3 Given Death Penalty for Mumbai Blasts
Source: Arab News
Mumbai :: India | updated 2012-05-16 05:00:36 -0700 | allnews
The court sentenced to death Pervez Sheikh, Abdul Gani Ismail Turk and Mohammed Mushtaq Tarani for their involvement in the planting of bombs in India's financial and entertainment capital on March 12, 1993. Indian police were out in full force...
Heavy Rains Cause Over 130 Deaths
Source: Arab News
Mumbai :: India | updated 2012-05-16 05:00:18 -0700 | green-news
June 2007 Relief measures involving military helicopters are in full swing in India's southern and western regions where heavy rains and floods since Friday have claimed more than 130 lives. Fatalities have been mainly due to house collapses, falling of...
Afghanistan: A daily transition
Source: CNN
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2012-05-16 04:48:50 -0700 | travel-news
Earlier this week, the latest tranche of the security transfer process was announced...Most taxpayers funding the decade of war in Afghanistan won't have heard of many of the regions affected, but this tranche is particularly significant because three quarters of...
Child actress, 14, among victims of Nepal crash
Source: CNN
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-05-16 04:48:49 -0700 | travel-news
Jaikumar Thakur, a doctor at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, told CNN that Sachdev was traveling with her mother, who also lost her life in the crash. The two were among 21 people on board a small plane that crashed...
Nepal “blind” eatery lights way for visually impaired
Source: DAWN
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2012-05-16 04:44:48 -0700 | political-news
A line of diners, holding on to the shoulders of the person in front of them, enters the pitch dark hall at Nepal's first blind restaurant, which treats guests to food they can smell, touch and taste but not see....
Jamshed ruled out of Sri Lanka tour
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 04:44:22 -0700 | sports-news
Pakistan's opener Nasir Jamshed has been ruled out of the squad for the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka due to an injury. Jamshed reportedly injured his left hand's index figure during a club match, which has ruled him out of...
ANP to support govt on Nato supply resumption: Iftikhar Hussain
Source: DAWN
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 04:44:20 -0700 | travel-news
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Wednesday said his party (Awami National Party) would support whatever decisions the federal government takes regarding the resumption of Nato supplies. Speaking to media representatives here, the provincial minister said...
Babar Awan withdraws intra-court appeal in contempt case
Source: DAWN
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 04:14:45 -0700 | political-news
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Barrister Ali Zafar, the counsel for Senator Babar Awan, to withdraw an intra-court appeal seeking a restraining order for a two-member bench that would indict the former minister for contempt of court on Thursday....
Bollywood Indie films at Cannes
Source: BBC
Dhanbad :: India | updated 2012-05-16 03:06:23 -0700 | entertainment-news
The Cannes Film Festival will show-case five Bollywood films, including three from Indie filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. Kashyap's Peddlers will be shown at the Critics' Week and compete for the prestigious Camera d'Or while his two-part Gangs of Wasseypur will be...
Indian police probe alleged sculpture scam
Source: DAWN
New Delhi :: India | updated 2012-05-16 02:17:41 -0700 | political-news
Police in northern India are probing alleged fraud in the construction of giant sculptures of elephants and low-caste political heroes that were the $1.2-billion pet projects of former leader Mayawati. Mayawati, the populist chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state until...
Sri Lankan rice farmers buffeted by flood, drought
Source: Asia Times Online
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | updated 2012-05-16 01:20:51 -0700 | green-news
Last year was one of extremes for the small Sri Lankan village of Verugal. Lying on the island's northeastern coast, Verugal began the year with incessant rainfall. Between January and February 2011, the east coast received a year's worth of...
Reading Manto
Source: DAWN
Lahore :: Pakistan | updated 2012-05-16 00:43:36 -0700 | political-news
Dawn.com presents four readings of the works of Saadat Hasan Manto. In the first video, Asma Mundrawala, reads Sahai' a short story on a Muslim mans decision to move to Pakistan after his Hindu friend tells him that he may...
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