NEW DELHI: As the Opposition paralyzed Parliament over the CAG report on coal block allocations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government is ready for any discussion and give satisfactory answers to all issues raised."We are ready for any debate," Singh told reporters after Parliament was adjourned for the day because of the uproar created by the Opposition which...

LONDON: US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed.Citing unnamed sources within the joint operations command, Rich Miniter, a former 'Wall Street Journal' and 'Washington Times' reporter, claims...

WASHINGTON: The Infosys victory in federal court in Alabama may deter potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies and the mere possibility of litigation should not scare away businesses from investing in the US, an eminent Indian American lawyer has said."Infosys's victory in federal court may very well have a chilling effect on potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies," a...

MUMBAI: Defying the Mumbai police, which refused him permission for a rally from Girgaum Chowpatty to Azad Maidan, MNS chief Raj Thackeray today led his supporters' march against August 11 violence during a demonstration against alleged atrocities on Muslims in Assam and Myanmar.Though the MNS has got permission for a public meeting at Azad Maidan, the police did not...

KABUL/WASHINGTON: Taliban militants today fired rockets and damaged the special aircraft of the top most US military commander in Afghanistan's highly secure Bagram air base, but General Martin Dempsey escaped as he was not in the plane.The rockets uprooted the main door of the C-17 aircraft used by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, wounding two...

NEW DELHI: Nuclear weapons have deterred world powers from issuing "explicit or implicit threats" to blackmail India to toe a particular line, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said here today."On at least three occasions before 1998 other powers used the explicit or implicit threat of nuclear weapons to try and change India's behavior," Menon said without elaborating.Addressing the National...

WASHINGTON: Arguing that Iran does not deserve to host the NAM summit, the US has said Tehran would attempt to manipulate the upcoming meet to advance its own agenda as it is trying to "skirt sanctions" over its nuclear program.Being hosted by Iran, the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit would be attended by global leaders like UN Secretary General...

NEW DELHI: P A Sangma today moved the Supreme Court challenging the election of Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee as President of India.The petition filed by Sangma has contended that Mukherjee was holding an office of profit as the chairman of Indian Statistical Institute when he had entered the race for President.BJP leader and senior advocate Satpal Jain, who was...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rejected as "unfounded" India's assertion that elements in this country were using social media networking sites to whip up communal sentiments and create a scare among people from northeast and asked New Delhi to provide evidence in this regard.The matter figured in a phone conversation between Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik and his Indian counterpart Sushi...

NEW DELHI: Stepping up its drive against "erring" portals, government has ordered blocking of more than 250 websites in which morphed images and videos were uploaded to incite Muslims leading to exodus of people belonging to the northeast from Karnataka and some other states.Home ministry officials said more than 130 websites have been blocked till now while the rest...