Is Azaadi the proverbial opium that has been sold to successive generations by the previous ones, or, is it something more fundamental?
Pakistan has requested the British government to extradite Shamim Khan, the man who reportedly hurled his shoes at President Asif Ali Zardari during an event at Birmingham earlier this month.
According to The Washington Post, the CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of the Afghan administration to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments.
Mohamed Zia Salehi, chief of administration for the National Security Council, has been receiving money from the US intelligence service for years, the New York Times reported.
Britain will withdraw its 1,000 troops from the violent-hit Sangin region of Afghanistan where they have suffered heavy losses and allow US troops to take charge, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said today.
An Indian national, who brutally beat his wife to death after abusing her for years, was on Tuesday sentenced to 17 years in jail by the Victorian Supreme Court.Sukhmander Singh, who pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Mohinder Kaur, was jailed for 17 years and was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years and six months.While announcing the verdict, Judge Terry Forrest said the accused had no remorse for his actions.Mohinder was beaten to death with a wooden stake by Singh.
India is the highest consumer of heroin in South Asia and also appears to be producing its own opium poppy, which is the raw material for heroin, according to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
According to a New York Times report, senior American government officials said the discovery include huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium.
Taliban rebels are earning up to 2 lakh Pakistani rupees for each Nato soldier they kill, Times Online has said. The money usually reaches commanders via the traditional hawala transfer system which is then shared within the militia.
Investigators probing the failed Times Square bombing suspect that a hawala racket was used to fund the terror plot. Hawala is the most common source of funds for terror operations and the global underground racket amounts to a whopping Rs 8000 crore. Sources in the Financial Intelligence Unit say that Indian hawala operations account for a massive Rs 2000 crore.Most hawala transactions that fund terror operations originate in Pakistan.
US-based Purdue Pharma has filed a patent infringement suit against India's largest drug company, Ranbaxy, after the latter's wholly-owned US subsidiary, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc, applied for marketing approval of a low-cost version of Purdue's pain relieving medicine, Oxycodone.
We strongly condemn the massacre of our patriotic security personnel by the Naxalites. Chhattisgarh is a state that has geared up to fight the menace of Naxalism more than any other state and yet this is a great setback to us to demoralise our operations. I stand here not to apportion the blame but to increase the resolve in the fight against Naxalism.
To get back into reckoning and ensure India's interests are given their due in Afghanistan, we need to evaluate a new mix of soft and hard options, writes Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Meet Kunal Basu, the novelist of the book which is turned into a movie by Aparna Sen starring Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and a Japanese actress.
The global jihadi network is under pressure but it needs a long-term strategy to keep it in control, writes Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Thousands of American, Afghan and British troops launched an attack on the watery Taliban fortress of Marja on Saturday morning.
Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif won't be able to participate in the Twenty20 series against England in Dubai, as the UAE has refused to revoke a travel ban on him.
Dope-tainted Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has vowed to lay bare his "drug dramas" after he tested positive for a banned steroid during the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008.
Deepak Kumar, a Commissioner of Customs in Mumbai, is filing a complaint against ITC ltd for its tobacco products, which Kumar claims gave him throat cancer.
Five out of every thousand children born in the United States start life with the ill effects of alcoholism by their mother.
"You know how painful it is to have a headache. Now imagine the pain that is a thousand times more than that and having to suffer that day in and day out. That is what about a million Indians suffer everyday," Dr Diederik Lohman, senior health and human rights researcher with the Human Rights Watch, says.
The bullets used by British forces to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan have been dubbed too small, because soldiers claim that it requires at least five direct hits to bring down the militants who are high on opium.
The United States might have eliminated some top Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, but it is struggling to cut off their increasingly diversified terror funding, which continues to keep the insurgency's coffers brimming with cash.A report in The New York Times on Monday said the Taliban in Afghanistan have expanded their revenue generation mechanism from traditional illicit drug trade to kidnappings, extortion and foreign donations, which America is struggling to cut off.
Pakistan all rounders Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik underwent regular dope tests in Johannesburg.
BJP's former mascot Jaswant Singh, for long, could do no wrong and was fiercely defended even when he was caught on camera dozing in Parliament or indulging in feudal and obscurantist customs like offering opium in his cupped palm to his loyalists. But an infantile desire to play Herodotus has done him in.
Pakistan's interim selection committee on Wednesday snubbed controversial speedster Shoaib Akhtar and recalled disgraced pacer Mohammad Asif to the preliminary 30-member squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, in South Africa later this year.
However, unlike exports of other goods, which have been affected by the economic slowdown, the reason for fall in exports of opium is entirely different. India is the only country in the world to legally produce gum opium for export, for the pharmaceutical industry. However, exports to the US and Japan, the main importers, have been falling for the past couple of years.
According to a New York Times report, the Marine Expeditionary Brigade is leading the operation, which has been described as the first major push in southern Afghanistan by the newly bolstered American force.
The Mumbai-based Piramal Healthcare is preparing to become the first private sector company to process opium for use in pharmaceutical products.
Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation's territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy and more than eight percent economic growth will be of no avail if the country as such withers away.
Forget all those theories about the passive, fatalist Indian, long peddled by commentators, both home-grown and foreign. If recent survey data are to be believed, Indians are among the most optimistic people on earth, and this is true of consumers, investors, business managers. . . the whole spectrum.
Panna Lal Punia is a man who knows too much. What he doesn't know about Mayawati and her secrets is not worth knowing. Now, that very man is determined to take up cudgels against her. Getting wind of Punia's chances of being inducted into the Union ministry, a desperate Mayawati 'threatened' to withdraw support to Manmohan Singh's government!
'Hoist now with its own petard, Pakistan has hopelessly snared itself in this vortex of jihad-inspired violence. You reap what you sow.'
This potential jihadist takeover of a nuclear-armed Pakistan poses India with a serious conundrum.
A high-level inter-ministerial task force wants the business of narcotics to be simplified, something which, it said, would be an opportunity for the over $17-billion Indian pharmaceutical industry.
The Financial Intelligence Unit last month marked 200 transactions in India -- running into Rs 2000 crore -- as terror-financed. Now, it has commenced its probe to trace the origin of the funds.
Still insisting that he had not taken any banned substance intentionally, Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif on Wednesday said he would appeal against the one-year ban imposed on him by the Indian Premier League (IPL). Asif, who was handed the ban for his dope flunk in the inaugural IPL last year, said he has started consultations with his legal advisor to challenge the decision.
Embattled Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif was on Wednesday handed a one-year ban by the Indian Premier League Drugs Tribunal for failing a dope test during the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 tournament last year.
Shri Ram Sene Legal Advisor Dinaker Shetty puts across his version of the Mangalore attack. He says that his outfit is not upset about the mission they have embarked upon, but the manner in which it was carried out.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday said Afghanistan and Pakistan are the central front in America's war against terrorism and the deteriorating situation in the region poses grave threat to global security."This is the central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism," Obama said, reiterating that the Afghan-Pak problem can't be resolved in isolation.There has to be regional approach to it, he argued.
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