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Mamata Banerjee had announced that cheap food would be served n the trains of the Indian Railways - the first of these JAN AHAAR outlets was inaugurated in Howrah station. The pricing has been done with an eye on the...

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Afghan police officers sort through weapons surrendered by around 80 former Taliban fighters in western Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Western forces have just over a year to turn around the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, or the decade-long military...

Last updated on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 9:55AM EST A rocket hit the outside wall of the luxury Serena hotel in the Afghan capital on Saturday wounding one Afghan soldier on the street outside, another soldier at the scene told...

Sri Lanka's government says people held in special camps since the end of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels will be free to leave next month...An aide to the president also confirmed a pledge to close the facilities. Sri Lanka...

A bomb exploded near the building of a non-government organisation offering treatment to the blind in northwest Peshawar city on Saturday, injuring one person, police said. The bomb was planted behind the two-storey building housing the German-funded Comprehensive Health and...

Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police said. Militants have carried out a series of bomb attacks across Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for a military offensive in the...

People are still not given free access to leave these camps on their own free will," UN humanitarian chief John Holmes told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, after a visit to the camps. Holmes, who ended a three-day visit on Thursday,...

Pakistan— An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said. It was the ninth attack in two weeks in and around Peshawar, the largest city...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina vowed to fast-track the BDR mutiny trial, addressing a special programme in Dhaka Cantonment to mark Arms Forces Day on Saturday. Hasina said, "I promise, if I live, I'll see the trial completed." Over 70 people,...