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Modi thanks Sonia after Parl unanimously passes Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement - Firstpost New Delhi: Settling the country's 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Parliament unanimously passed a historic bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement that provides for exchange of...

BHOPAL: Next year on Independence Day, India will have the world's largest 750MW solar power plant in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, which will pip America's much-vaunted 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in California, commissioned four days ago. Acquisition of 1,500 hectares of...

The social media prowess of Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, isn’t restricted to his home country. He has more Facebook fans in the United States than most current members of Congress, governors and other political candidates. Mr. Modi’s American Facebook base of 170,529 as of Wednesday...

BJP politicians to lead India’s Haj delegation | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more. Two senior politicians from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will represent India at Haj 2014. Arif Beg from...

A male Filipino worker, who claimed he was gang-raped and left for dead in the desert on May 16 this year by five unidentified males, has launched a desperate appeal for help to pay his mounting medical bills, which now stand at SR250,000. The Overseas Foreign Worker (OFW), who previously had...

Fawad Afzal Khan, one of the most popular Pakistani singer-actors, has drawn flak back home for his decision to enter Bollywood. But he is unperturbed and says that art is something that travels across all borders. He is making his debut with Khoobsurat, a remake of Hrishikesh Mukerji's 1980...

Essar Wildcat, the semisubmersible drilling rig owned and operated by Essar Oilfields Services Limited (EOSL), has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from Star Energy (Kakap) Ltd, Indonesia to drill 3 offshore wells in North and South Kakap areas in the Natuna Sea, offshore Indonesia. This is the...

A curfew imposed in southern Sri Lanka following clashes between Buddhist and Muslim groups was extended indefinitely after more than 80 people were injured and scores of shops and houses damaged, hospital and police officials said Monday, according to dpa reports. Clashes broke out Sunday in...

There's good news for Indian engineers. The country is now a permanent member of the Washington Accord. Membership means global recognition of Indian degrees and is likely to increase the mobility of engineers to the USA and other countries for jobs. Congratulating her ministry's officials, HRD...

MANSEHRA: Several persons were injured when twin blasts occurred near Khanpur area in Mansehra when the convoy of security forces was passing through Shahrah-e-Karakoram on Saturday morning, Geo News reported. According to police, the first blast occurred when an improvised explosive device...

KARACHI: The same day Pakistan’s busiest Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, was attacked by militants, a brutal suicide bombing took the lives of 24 Shia pilgrims in a hotel in Taftan, near the Iranian border. Attacks against Pakistan’s Shia community have been on the rise since the 1980s...

ISLAMABAD, June 10 (Bernama) -- At least four people were killed and twelve others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into an army check post in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. Paramilitary troops came under attack by an explosive-laden vehicle when they...

Karachi Students skip school to protest against rising extortion threats - thenews.com.pk Hundreds of students gathered outside Bab-e-Khyber in Metroville on Wednesday to protest against the frequent extortion threats their schools have been receiving. Holding placards reading “Give us...

The formalities to elect the 16th Lok Sabha are complete. The BJP has won an overwhelming mandate of 282 seats and has emerged as the single largest party to form the Government at the Centre. Its Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi led his party from the front and as a result, today the BJP...

BEIJING: A Chinese government thinktank has welcomed prime minister-designate Narendra Modi as "India's Nixon" who would hugely expand business with China. It also described Modi's approach towards governance as "very close to Chinese practices". In 1972, US president Richard Nixon's visit to...

Peshawar Taliban gunmen have kidnapped a Chinese tourist in Daraban, near the western city of Dera Ismail Khan, close to the militant-infested tribal areas, officials and an insurgent commander said on Tuesday. The man is the latest foreigner to be seized by militants in Pakistan. At least...

BHARATANATYAM and Kuchipudi is a dance like no other in the world, requiring from its students a perfect blend of spirituality, discipline, physical mastery, ritual and established form. All good dance is an expression of the soul and human emotion, thoughts and experience — but Bharatanatyam...

Unidentified gunmen today attacked a government high school and opened fire on teachers, killing two of them inPakistan's restive northwest. The teachers were gunned down in Khan Bari area of Hangu district, bordering Kurram agency. Unidentified militants attacked the government high school...

A view of Ramnavmi festivities in Lal Chowk, Srinagar on Tuesday. Pic: Mubashir Khan/GK may be modi effect...just kidding Greater Kashmir - Photos from Greater Kashmir's post | Facebook

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