BEIJING: More than 80 per cent of the Chinese population have no knowledge of the 1962 war with India and want the two neighbors to walk out of the shadow of conflict, a survey by state-run media said.Only about 15 per cent of the respondents knew about the 1962 war in the survey conducted on the eve of 50th...

Tiruchirappalli, TN: Former Telecom Minister A Raja, the key accused in the 2G spectrum scam case, was today questioned by Income Tax officials here in connection with his I-T returns from 2008.Responding to summons issued by the I-T department, the senior DMK leader appeared before Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Ramalingam along with his auditor, officials said.Raja, who hails...

NEW DELHI: CBI today carried out raids at five places here after registering a case against Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh on Ex-Army chief V K Singh's complaint that he was offered bribe to clear a tranche of "substandard" vehicles.CBI sources said the agency has registered a case against Tejinder Singh and unknown persons after it gathered prima-facie evidence...

MUMBAI: The statements of three Indian cricketers implicated in a TV sting operation, which claimed to have exposed corruption in Indian Premier League (IPL), were recorded by the Income Tax Department on Saturday."Their statements seem to be believable but we have not given them a clean chit yet," I-T sources said on Saturday.Five cricketers of different IPL teams were...

NEW DELHI: With allegations leveled against its own members, India Against Corruption today announced setting up of a three-member panel of retired judges to probe the charges against its prominent members, including Prashant Bhushan and Anjali Damania.Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah, Justice BH Marlapalle (Retd) of Bombay High Court and Justice Jaspal Singh (Retired) of Delhi...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High court today sought response from the TV Today group and 13 others on a civil defamation suit filed by Law Minister Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid against the media house for airing a program alleging financial irregularities in a trust run by the couple."Issue summons to all defendants. Let the statements be filed in...

UNITED NATIONS: Six Indian peacekeepers and a local interpreter, serving with the United Nations mission in strife-torn Congo, were wounded when their patrol was ambushed in what is being termed as a "targeted and deliberate" attack.The six peacekeepers were part of the Indian contingent serving with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO).They were ambushed...

WASHINGTON: A Bangladeshi man with alleged links to al-Qaeda, arrested in New York on terror charges, was in the US on a student visa to attend a legitimate academic program, an American official said today.Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested after an FBI undercover operation foiled his plot to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb and blow up the city's...

WASHINGTON: Apparently buoyed by its high strike rate on terror, the US spy agency CIA is seeking to expand its drone fleet to sustain the lethal campaigns in Pakistan, Yemen and emerging al-Qaeda threats in North Africa.CIA has sought approval from the White House for the move that would extend the spy service's decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force,...

NEW DELHI: Taking exception to Calcutta High Court's order refusing to give notice to Mamata Banerjee on appointment of Dr Sukumar Mukherjee as chief health advisor to the state government, the Supreme Court has issued notice to the West Bengal Chief Minister.A bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave issued notice to Banerjee seeking her reply...