Sri Lanka’s agreement to probe war crimes allegations related to its defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels is a smokescreen to avoid an international inquiry, a human rights group said Wednesday.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Sri...
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Police said the 22-year-old man from Jodhpur was befriended by eunuchs and used to go begging with them at functions such as child births, marriages and festivals.
Though uninvited, eunuchs often attend such occasions because many Indians believe it...
More than 200 Maoist rebels lurking in a remote part of western India’s Maharashtra State ambushed 45 police commandos on Thursday, killed 17 of them and ran off with their weapons, officials announced. The ambush was one of the bloodiest attacks by...
Pakistani leaders jousted Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar U.S. humanitarian aid bill that the ruling party praises as a lynchpin to strengthening democracy here but that opponents say will lead to greater American interference in Pakistani...
A leading Islamic seminary on Monday opposed Centre’s move to repeal a controversial section of the penal law which
criminalises homosexuality saying unnatural sex is against the tenets of Islam.
“Homosexuality is an offence under Shariat...
The residents of Guangzhou, one of China’s most affluent cities, are already used to sticking to the country’s strict one-child rule, but a new regulation is about to force many dog owners to make an impossible decision.
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India’s opening batsman Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the ongoing ICC Twenty20 World Cup
in England due to a shoulder injury.
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Sehwag was advised to undergo a surgery for his shoulder injury, sources said.
The hard-hitting...
A 34-year-old woman and her five-year-old son from Tamil Nadu, who returned from the US on May 28, have become India’s latest victims
of the deadly H1N1 influenza virus — an infection that has spread to 55 countries, taken 99 lives and infected...
New Delhi (PTI): S M Krishna was made the new External Affairs Minister on Saturday and Mamata Banerjee given Railways in partial allocation of portfolios by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has retained veterans Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram in...
Upbeat over her party’s good showing in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she wants to devote more time to the state assembly elections even as she is yet to take a...
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