India, Japan to speed up negotiations on N-deal
TOKYO: The Prime Ministers of India and Japan have asked their negotiators to arrive at a mutually satisfactory agreement for Civil Nuclear Cooperation at an early date. A joint statement…
Speaker to preside over CPA conference
NEW DELHI: (AMN) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will preside over the Fourth India and Asia Regions Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Conference scheduled to be held from 25 to 29…
Naga girls caught in trafficking racket
KOHIMA: Church leaders in Nagaland fear an organized racket is operating in northeastern India to lure young women into prostitution in other parts of the country. Police in Goa, western…
Interlocutors visit Jail meet detained youths
SRINAGAR: The three-member panel of interlocutors on Kashmir visited the Central Jail here on Sunday and met detained youths there. These youths have been arrested in connection with stone-pelting in…
INTERACTING WITH INDRESH
BY ANDALIB AKHTER A few days before the sensational charge sheet, when a group of Muslim leaders, some of them associated with influential All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB)…
‘Babri Demolition could have been prevented’
By Abdul Bari Masoud/TIA / NEW DELHI: Former Chief Justice of India, A.M. Ahmadi has revealed that destruction of the Babri Masjid could have been prevented had the Supreme Court…
PM arrives in Tokyo
TOKYO: The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived here this evening on the first leg of his three nation tour. Beside Japan he will also visit Malaysia and Vietnam. A…
53 pc voting in 2nd phase of Bihar polls
PATNA/ NEW DELHI: About 53 per cent voters on Sunday exercised their franchise in the second phase of Assembly elections in Bihar. Elections were held in 45 assembly constituencies in…
News Analysis: PM East Asia Tour
ASHOK B SHARMA/ TIA/ Experts and analysts are eagerly awaiting as what shape India’s relationship takes with its eastern friends in the near future as the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan…
Churches look to shared values in India
BANGALORE: Human dignity is at the heart of Christian belief but also an ideal of the Indian nation, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, told…