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Karzai extends Afghan vote lead; run-off indicated

Partial Afghan election returns released on Saturday showed President Hamid Karzai extending his lead in last week’s vote, but still falling short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a run-off. Afghanistan has been on tenterhooks since the 20th August election, with official results coming out in slow drips, Karzai’s camp claiming victory and [...]

37 killed in restive northwest Pakistan

Violence buffeted Pakistan’s restive northwest as a suicide bomber targetted a police station killing 15 policemen in the Swat valley on Sunday, while 20 militants and two policemen were killed in clashes elsewhere in the region. The suicide attacker blew himself up at a ground at the police station in Mingora, the main city in [...]

US accuses Pak of illegally modifying Harpoon missile & P-3C aircraft

Validating New Delhi’s fears that Islamabad was using US security aid to beef up its military against it, the Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying the Harpoon anti-ship missile and maritime surveillance aircraft P-3C for land attacks for potential use against India. ‘The New York Times’ in a front page story reports that [...]

RSS chief says Advani, Rajnath will decide role in BJP

Virtually giving credence to reports that top BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh may have to give up their posts, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said they will decide on their role within the party. “Rajnathji, Advaniji and others will decide on their role (in the party). Everything will be fine in the [...]

Namibian Prez to hold talks with PM today

The visiting Namibian President Hifi Ke Punye Pohamba will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and both countries will sign several agreements for strengthening cooperation in trade, investments and economy. They will also ink an MOU to provide an umbrella framework for Indian investment in the exploration of mineral resources including gold, diamond and [...]

Ruling party concedes defeat in Japan election

Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso has conceded defeat in elections on Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change. “These results are very severe,” Aso said in a news [...]

BJP is going through phase of ideological confusion: Digvijay

BJP is going through a phase of “ideological confusion” and is unable to decide on its agenda on Hindutava, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said. “This ideological confusion was caused by the fact that the BJP was unable to decide how much of Hindutva it should have on its agenda,” Singh said while talking to [...]

Flood situation continues to be grim in 11 dist of Bihar

The toll in the current spell of floods in Bihar on Saturday mounted to 52 with 23 more people perishing as around 1.5 million people remained hit in 11 districts. Officials said the fresh deaths were reported from Purnia (12), Sitamarhi (4), Saharsa (3) and Madhubani and Darbhanga (two each). Relief and rescue operations were [...]

Toll reaches 52, 1.5 million in Bihar floods

Suicide truck bomb kills eight people in Iraq

A suicide truck bomber attacked a small police station in a remote village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least eight people, Iraqi authorities said. The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks against small villages in northern Iraq, indicating insurgents are targeting relatively unprotected areas as Iraqi security forces focus on [...]

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