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The Italian flagged oil tanker involved in the killing of two Indian fishermen off Southern Kerala coast on Wednesday evening reached anchorage off Kochi, in the wee hours of Thursday.
‘ Beta, can you please hang out your washing in some other way? The wet clothes on your balcony are dripping water down onto my dry washing. Here’s a spare clothes line. Thik hai? ’ I apologised and my landlady smiled and went back downstairs. It didn’t occur to me until later that I’d actually understood everything she’d said. Okay, to be fair she’d used a couple of English words (and quite a bit of pointing and miming), but it was rather..
India on Thursday summoned the Italian ambassador in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest over killing of its two fishermen allegedly by security guards of an Italian ship off Kollam coast on suspicion of being pirates.
IOC also said that its relationship with Dow Chemicals is well over 30 years and "we were aware of Bhopal tragedy when discussing the partnership with Dow".
That al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militant network and Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment are working in tandem with each other has been established with a recent statement by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqanis. Amir Mir reports.
The polling for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the biggest civic body in the country, is underway. And in the 227-seat Mumbai corporation, the election is a fiercely fought affair.
Dr Mohamed Ayub Ansari, the founder-president of the Peace Party, hopes to make waves in the Uttar Pradesh elections. Having fielded 240 candidates, and with a wide spectrum of allies in all the remaining seats, Dr Ayub expects to be the new kingmaker in Lucknow. In the first of a two-part interview with Saisuresh Sivaswamy and Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow, he elaborates on his views.
Karachi has been named as the cheapest destination globally, while Zurich in Switzerland is the most expensive place across the world, as per the survey.
The other day Bunny and I went to buy a packet of pre-fab soup from the local grocer. The man had tomato soup, mushroom soup, mixed vegetable soup, spinach soup, mutton soup and other soups too various to inventory. But no chicken and noodle soup, the one we wanted. Why no chicken and noodle soup? asked Bunny. No supplies coming, the grocer said apologetically. Not making anymore. Why not making anymore? asked Bunny in her best shopkeeper-ese. No demand, or what? Oh, very big..
'You like to meet interesting people, don't you? Come by around 1 o'clock — there are three guys you should meet.' When my friend called me the other day, I initially demurred. Meetings to attend and deadlines to meet occupied the mind, leaving little room for such conversations. I went reluctantly, more for my friend's sake than for his friends'. The trust paid off. As the blazing January sun beat down on a bright day in Bangalore, the three youths sat on moulded plastic chairs, slurping..
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Islamabad on Thursday on a two-day state visit for bilateral talks and to attend a tri-lateral summit of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan that will focus on the regional security situation, officials said.
Exhorting the electorate to vote for Congress to get rid of fear and backwardness, Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday asked people to exercise their franchise for a new trend in politics which is dedicated to people.
"Reservation for Muslims will be increased and if the EC wants, it can now issue notice to me," Cong leader Beni Prasad Verma said in a rally at Kaimganj in UP.
Days after he expressed disappointment with India's stand on the Maldives' political crisis, ousted president Mohammed Nasheed has now said that he is "much more satisfied" with the approach of New Delhi, whose top diplomat held wide-ranging talks with all key stakeholders in Male.
Stepping up a campaign against militants holed up in Pakistan's tribal areas, a United States drone on Thursday fired two missiles on a house in North Waziristan, killing six suspected insurgents, officials said.
Investigators are scanning international calls made to Iran, Pakistan and middle-eastern countries around the time of the attack on Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi on Monday even as they carried out overnight raids to trace the motorcyclist who stuck the magnetic bomb.