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Beijing: China appears to be making ground for claiming some 1,600 kms of Indian territory judging by reports in the state-owned media on the length of Sino-Indian border. Even as...

United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Major-General Raul Gloodtdofsky Fernandez of Uruguay as head of the United Nations mission in India and Pakistan. Maj.-Gen. Gloodtdofsky, 58, will replace Major-General...

Washington: President Barack Obama today asked the US Congress to come together to ratify the new arms control START agreement with Russia, warning that failure to approve it would result...

Islamabad: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has arrived in Pakistan from India on three-day visit for talks on key issues, especially the enhancement of economic ties. Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...

London: The US has been courting India's soft power in the form of Bollywood as part of its plans to help usher in peace in war-torn Afghanistan and also help...

Beijing: Describing India and Pakistan as its important neighbours, China today said the two countries should engage in "friendly consultations" to resolve the Kashmir issue and strengthen their cooperation for...

Beijing: China today completed construction of a 3,310-metre tunnel as part of an ambitious plan to build a highway connecting a remote Tibetan county close to the Indian border with...

Lahore: Pakistani authorities today handed over to Indian officials 12 prisoners, most of them fishermen, who were released from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi. The Indian...

Islamabad: The first petition filed in the reinstated Islamabad High Court today called for action against former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for violating the constitution and promulgating a graft amnesty...

Berlin: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants Germany to relax its stringent export control laws to help open 'new horizons' for high technology trade with India, as the two countries vowed...