Mohamad Ghaddar scored a brace as Lebanon trounced India 4-1 in the first round of Asia's 2010 Football World Cup qualifying tournament.
India will face Lebanon in the first round of regional qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup.
The image of a yoga posture was projected onto the United Nations headquarters as the world body geared up to host the second International Day of Yoga on Tuesday.
Shin Bet officials believed that the IDF rejected the offers due to jealousy between the organisations, and directed most of their criticism at Halutz and Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin.
A Singapore court jailed two Lebanese assistant referees for three months on Monday and postponed passing sentence on a Lebanese referee after all three pleaded guilty to accepting sexual bribes to fix a soccer match.
The gunman, believed to have been dressed in a Santa costume, opened fire inside the Reina nightclub in Istanbul's Ortaky district, where hundreds were celebrating the New Year.
Iran signed a $3 billion deal with Boeing, backed Qatar against the Saudis, scored a big victory in Syria and reached out to Hamas. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar examines how the Qatar versus Saudi Arabia standoff is quickly changing alignments in the Middle East.
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Crisis-hit Lebanon has withdrawn from qualifying for the 2007 Asian Cup football.
Since the outbreak of hostilities, four UN military observers as well as one international staff member and his wife have been killed.
Two Indian soldiers participating in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon were wounded in an Israeli Air Force operation when a bomb hit close to their post in southern Lebanon, a spokesman said.
The Indians, however, are facing an acute shortage of water and essential supplies due to the hostilities.
The first flight will take off at 0800 IST while the second jet will fly to the Cypriot capital at 1000 IST and both aircraft will return the same day.
Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi is closely monitoring the evacuation operation.
Altogether 602 Indians were on Friday airlifted back home from Larnaca in Cyprus.
In one of the largest single evacuation exercises during the nine-day old West Asian crisis, India on Thursday pulled out 607 of its nationals from Lebanon to Larnaca (Cyprus) for being airlifted to India.
The deceased has been identified as Devesh Kumar Swain from Orissa.
With the situation in Lebanon becoming increasingly dangerous, about 100 Indians have been evacuated out of the country and over 1,000 others gathered on Wednesday at Beirut jetty to be moved out by four Indian warships.
One Indian soldier was injured on Monday after shrapnel from Israeli bombing hit him.
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Selected candidates will get to pursue a fully funded course of their choice at the University of Oxford.
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The Nehru Cup football tournament, which kicks-off in Delhi on Wednesday, provides coach Bob Houghton an opportunity to test his boys against quality sides Syria and Lebanon, who are also vying for a place in the Asian Cup.
'Parrikar should never have bracketed himself with Modi.' 'That was an act of blasphemy that could invite divine retribution,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The real challenge cannot be underestimated considering that this is still very much a "boutique relationship" -- a transactional relationship at its core based on its utility value to both countries -- but enveloped in an aura of romance,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Obama highlighted that in recent years, the US has put in place intensive screening and security checks to take in refugees as well as ensure the nation's security.
Syrian troops had entered the smaller nation as peacekeepers in 1976.
In February, Zomato had said that it had become profitable in six regions, including India, after achieving operational break-even of its businesses.
The resignation, which was accepted by Lebanese President Emile Lahud, followed massive public protests in the wake of former premier Rafiq al-Hariri's assassination February 14.
Hariri, a billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May.
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As India commemorates the 7th anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said that perpetrators of all terror attacks must be brought to justice.
In 11 countries with significant Muslim population people hold overwhelmingly negative views about the Islamic State with the exception of Pakistan where most people have no definite opinion on the terror group, according to a new research.
A "Peace for Paris" symbol, combining the city's beloved Eiffel Tower with the peace sign of the Sixties, has gone viral following the Paris terror attacks.
Indian diplomatic sources said that India abstained from voting on the resolution in line with its traditional approach that it does not mix humanitarian issues with political issues.
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