Ethiopia seeks India's financial muscle for its rail project The Times Of India ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia wants $300 million more from India for an ambitious railway project that would connect it with neighbouring Djibouti, a venture that India backs as part of its "support for regional integration in Africa". | India has already inked a loan agreement worth $300 million for the ra...
India's biometric ID number plan divided by bureaucracy The Los Angeles Times Reporting from New Delhi— | India'splan to issue each of its citizens a biometric identity number, an ambitious program aimed at cutting corruption, mismanagement and red tape, may yet founder on the very bureaucracy it was designed to minimize. | On Friday, after a battle between two a...
Kazakh opposition gathers for rare rally The Guardian | PETER LEONARD | Associated Press= ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Hundreds of opposition supporters protested the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest at a demonstrationi Saturday in Kazakhstan's commercial ...
Police: Rebels kill 4 at Indian polling station The Guardian | IMPHAL, India (AP) — Police say a separatist rebel in northeast India opened fire at a police station where election voting was being held and killed four people before he was shot dead. | The police superintendent of Manipur's state district of ...
Police chief angers New York's Muslims Al Jazeera " />" /> | The appearance by the New York police department commissioner, Ray Kelly, in a film depicting an "Islami" flag over the White House and Muslims shooting Christians has angered the city's Muslim population. | The Muslim community sees the s...
Immigrants fight for justice in Spain Al Jazeera " />" /> | Thousands of Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain have not been able to keep up with home-loan repayments amid an economic crisis. | Many were allegedly coaxed by agents into buying homes they could not afford, as the immigrants were an easy pre...
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'Restaurants serving trunk' raise fears for Thai elephants The Independent | Wildlife officials have told reporters they believe that two dead elephants found with their sex organs and trunks missing had been killed for their meat. Officials have called i...
Cameron and Karzai holding talks The Guardian | David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai are to sign a pledge setting out the next stage in relations between Britain and Afghanistan. | At bilateral talks the leaders will discu...
5 Teas that make you slim! The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetFive teas that make you slim! (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) The brew that energises can also help you lose weight. Here's how... | It's widely known th...
Kazakh opposition gathers for rare rally Austin American Statesman | ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Hundreds of opposition supporters protested the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest at a demonstrationi Saturday in Kazakhstan's commercial capital. | The meeting took place p...
'Restaurants serving trunk and sex organs' raise fears for Thai elephants Belfast Telegraph | Police in the Thai resort of Phuket are investigating claims that elephants are being slaughtered so that their trunks and sex organs can be served as food in specialist "bush restaurants". | Wildlife officials have told reporters they believe that...
Carl XVI Gustav to visit Indonesia Jakarta Post | Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav is scheduled to visit Indonesia from Monday to Thursday in his capacity as honorary president of the World Scout Foundation on invitation from the headquarters of the Indonesian scout movement, Pramuka. | Presidential s...
Sehwag's cameo was not what India needed Sydney Morning Herald | INDIA won an hour, but Australia won another day. Increasingly, that is how it has been in this unexpectedly one-sided series. Today, only a washout can save India from its second whitewash in less than six months. Throughout, the team has given the impression of scarcely caring. It is probably a defensive mechanism, but it stands against them. S...
Kashmir celebrates Republic Day with ardour Newstrack India | Srinagar/Guwahati, Jan 26 (ANI): Marking the nation's 63rd Republic Day, people and government leaders of Jammu and Kashmir celebrated the occasion with patriotic fervour in Srinagar on Thursday. | State Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather presided over the grand function that saw the attendance of scores of enthusiastic residents, who thro...
