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India's defence ministry puts Mazagon-Pipavav JV on hold (Reuters) - India's defence ministry has decided to put on hold a joint venture between the state-run Mazagon Dock and private sector shipbuilder Pipavav Defence and Offshore Ltd , saying it would wait till a policy on JVs is put in...

Philippines seeks ASEAN help to blunt China MANILA — The Philippines on Thursday sought backing from its Southeast Asian neighbours for its plan to blunt China's claims over disputed areas of the South China Sea and ease tensions. Vice President Jejomar Binay made the appeal at a meeting of...

Bangladesh Hindu atrocities documented A leading South Asian rights group says it has documented widespread atrocities committed by Muslim radicals against members of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh. Shahriyar Kabir of the South Asian Coalition Against Fundamentalism told the BBC...

Bangladesh Hindus 'will not go back' Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindu families who have crossed the border into India to escape repression at home are refusing to return to their country. They are now living with their relatives and friends in the border districts of West Bengal and intend...

Why this guy has posted one year old news now?

Army gets Rs 10,000 cr for infrastructure development in North-East SHILLONG, Sept 24 – The race to catch up with China has heated up with New Delhi allocating Rs 10,000 crore to the Military Engineering Services (MES) alone, for infrastructure development in the North East for the next five...

Pakistan opens doors to 160-year-old Hindu temple Despite the fact that they probably will not be given control of the property, the Hindu community in Peshawar rejoiced at the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) orders to reopen a 160-year-old Hindu temple. On September 15, after hearing a Hindu...

Super Sukhois to give India a generation leap India is poised to get fifth generation aircraft sooner than expected. While an Indo-Russian programme to develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft is already under way, Russia has agreed to provide India with an advanced version of the...

Sikh leader under threat in Pakistan A prominent leader of Pakistani Sikhs is under threat from unidentified people who have been attacking his business in Lahore for almost six months now, The Express Tribune has learnt. Sardar Bishon Singh, who has served as the president of Pakistan Sikh...

Quotas for Indian Muslims? Affirmative action for religious minorities isn’t a new idea. In India, its time comes as important elections approach — and then its time passes. We now have proposals from two sections of Indian polity competing for the Muslim vote, that job and education quotas...

Hindus still tied in knots over marriage registration in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: The largest minority in Pakistan is struggling to register marriages due to chronic delays in the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act. The draft bill, proposed in 2008 but yet to be tabled before parliament, seeks to...

In Kishtwar, new clues to national terror networks NIA arrests point to growing links between jihadist cells in Kashmir and those operating elsewhere in India In the summer of 2008, as Indian troops battled a Lashkar-e-Taiba unit in the northern Kashmir mountains, intelligence personnel...

Sri Lanka Buddhist monks destroy Muslim shrine A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned. This incident took place on Saturday in Anuradhapura, an ancient Buddhist city and Unesco world heritage site. The monk who...

Majority Pakistanis think separation from India was justified: Gallup poll ISLAMABAD: An overwhelming majority of Pakistanis believe that separation from India was justified in 1947, revealed a recently released Gilani Poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan. In a survey, a nationally...

Mega jet deal could be split: Ex-NSA told US NEW DELHI: Although US firms lost out on India's mega fighter deal, former national security adviser M K Narayanan had told US diplomats that the $10 billion buy could be split into two contracts and that he would ask Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

China confronted India warship off Vietnam HANOI — An unidentified Chinese warship demanded that an Indian naval vessel identify itself and explain its presence in South China Sea waters off Vietnam in July, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The London-based newspaper reported that five...

From the archive, 27 August 1947: Indian proposal to Pakistan Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 27 August 1947 FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LAHORE, AUGUST 25 (DELAYED). Master Tara Singh, the village schoolmaster who rose to be one of the chief leaders of the...

Yes, India kept its loyalty to British Crown (King George VI) until 26th January 1950. From 15th August 1947 to 26th 1950 India was a dominion (By the way, many people think Dominion means slavary to British, but it's not. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are still Dominion today, yes their...

Vietnam, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia should join hands and establish 'Asian NATO' to teach lesson imperialist China.

Bin Laden raid: China 'viewed US helicopter wreckage' Pakistan may have allowed the Chinese military to examine the US stealth helicopter downed in the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden, reports say. US officials are quoted as saying there is evidence Pakistan invited Chinese military...