NEW DELHI: Making it clear that it has no concern over nuclear proliferation from India, energy-rich Canada today hoped for early conclusion of administrative discussion over the civil nuclear deal signed in 2010 and said it can be a stable supplier of natural gas."We have no concerns with respect to proliferation. These concerns and issues are in the past......
NEW DELHI: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan is likely to approach Supreme Court next week seeking cancellation of the controversial allocation of coal blocks and an independent probe on the lines of the 2G spectrum allocation case he filed.Bhushan said he is collecting documents regarding the coal block allocation, which the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found fault with, and...
MUMBAI: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, booked on the charge of sedition, today walked out of Arthur Road Jail, a day after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court.Hundreds of India Against Corruption activists and scores others were present outside the jail to receive Trivedi when he came out a little past 1 PM.Speaking briefly to the media, the cartoonist...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force today said the refusal by its pilot to fly Rahul Gandhi from Kokrajhar to Guwahati in Assam was because of safety reasons and it strongly stands by the decision of its officer."Based on the prevailing weather and approaching sunset, the pilot taking the safety of the VIP as being paramount, arrived at the...
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Medical Education and Research Department to ensure filling of vacant NRI quota for MBBS and BDS seats in all medical and dental colleges in the state.Badal said the seats should be filled on the basis of PMET merit under the guidelines issued by Medical Council of India (MCI) and...
ISLAMABAD: The extension in service given to Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has been challenged by a retired army officer in the Islamabad High Court.Col (retired) Inam-ur-Rahim, the convener of the Ex-Servicemen Legal Forum, said in a petition filed in the High Court that the forum was of the opinion that the extension was "immoral and unconstitutional"....
New York: Indian authorities have requested the US State Department to address the concerns of an Indian couple, who have been given limited access to their one-year- old son after he underwent surgery for brain injury and are facing criminal probe for failing to take proper care of him.The Consulate General of India here has taken up with the...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI regards the US as its "worst enemy" and Islamabad's claim that it is cooperating with Washington is a sham to extract billions of dollars in aid, jailed Pakistani doctor who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden has said.Shakeel Afridi, who spoke to Fox News from inside Peshawar Central Jail, also accused Inter-Services Intelligence...
WASHINGTON: A dramatic video of the tragic Gurdwara shooting incident in Wisconsin was released today in which Wade Michael Page, the white supremacist who gunned down six Sikh worshippers, is shown on the rampage."He (Page) was on a mission and he had to be stopped," Oak Creek police officer, Sam Lenda, who shot at Page told reporters at a...
MUMBAI: US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell has refrained from commenting on the "policy paralysis" in India but expressed hope that "things related to US investment" in the country would move soon.The Ambassador, who was speaking at an interaction organized by the Asia Society here last night, was asked if she was "a bit despondent about India's present policy...