Thursday, June 28, 2012

For Pakistanis, India a bigger threat than Al Qaeda: Survey

For Pakistanis, India a bigger threat than Al Qaeda: Survey

For Pakistanis, India a bigger threat than Al Qaeda: Survey

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:48 PM PDT

Only one in five Pakistanis has a favourable view of India with almost six in ten considering it a bigger threat to their country than the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, according to a new survey.

British police demand Assange report to station

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:32 PM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been served with a demand by British police on Thursday that he report to a police station as the first step in his extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegat...

Pakistan car blast kills 11, including nine pilgrims

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 11:05 AM PDT

A powerful remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus killed at least 11 people including nine Shiite pilgrims in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest on Thursday, police said.

British police serve extradition notice on Assange

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT

British police served an extradition notice Thursday on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London requesting aslyum. Scotland Yard said they had served a "s...

US Supreme Court upholds 'Obamacare'

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:04 AM PDT

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul.

Six year old plane crash wreckage found

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Russian rescuers looking for a small plane that inexplicably vanished this month stumbled today on the remains of a similar plane that crashed six years ago -- as well as a downed helicopter.

Bidve killer joked police will not be able to find him

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:24 AM PDT

'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton standing trial for the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in the UK had checked into a hotel near the crime scene and joked to a friend that the police would not be able ...

America awaits momentous 'Obamacare' ruling

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:32 AM PDT

President Barack Obama's overhaul of the failing US health care system could either be struck down, upheld, or a bit of both in a Supreme Court ruling Thursday with major implications for his re-elect...

US court absolves Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal tragedy

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:44 AM PDT

In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related c...

Outsourcing becomes toxic in US presidential campaign

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Outsourcing has never been a popular term in the Western countries that lose jobs to emerging markets, but it has become positively toxic in the current United States presidential campaign.

Indian warships on goodwill tour, dock in Malaysia

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:54 AM PDT

Four Indian Navy's front-line warships have docked in Malaysia during the last leg of their goodwill tour of seven nations. Prior to their call in Malaysia, the warships INS Rana, INS Shivalik, INS Ka...

'Monster' Colorado wildfire rages; Obama plans visit

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a fiercely aggressive wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that has forced at least 35 , 000 people from their homes and was nipping at the ...

Trinidad's Indian-origin ex-PM freed of corruption charges

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:37 AM PDT

Basdeo Panday, Trinidad and Tobago's first Indian-origin prime minister, has been acquitted of charges of failing to declare his assets in a London bank. Panday was facing three charges under the I...

In divided Egypt, US Plays all sides

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:22 AM PDT

The ambiguous outcome of Egypt's revolution leaves Washington no choice but to deal with the country's both major players, the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its disagreements with each....

Two militant leaders killed in Russia

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT

The alleged leaders of two insurgency groups in Russia's Dagestan republic have been eliminated, officials said. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said Magomed "Al-Bara" Abdusalamov was shot dead ...

Coke and Pepsi contain alcohol, claims French study

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:09 AM PDT

Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of alcohol, a study has revealed. According to tests carried out by the Paris-based National Institute of Consumption, more than half of leading colas cont...

Former Pak minister detained at US airport

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:41 AM PDT

Former Pakistani minister Shaikh Rashid, known for his pro-LeT leanings, was detained at Houston airport on arrival for his possible links with the terror group's founder Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind o...

For designers of Tata Emo, no glitz, but plenty of promise

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:14 PM PDT

During a week when journalists queued for 10-minute test drives of the Tesla Model S electric sedan in Fremont, Calif., this reporter enjoyed a stint in another new E.V., albeit one with decidedly les...
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