90 per cent of Indians are idiots: Katju

Press Council of India chairperson justice Markandey Katju on Saturday said that the only solution to the Kashmir problem is the reunification of India and Pakistan under a strong government which......

Pak journalist Hamid Mir barred from hosting TV show

Pakistan's veteran journalist Hamid Mir was stopped on Monday from hosting his popular talk show by a private TV channel after he criticised the country's powerful 'establishment' in the wake of an......

Pak: Amid rigging claims, ballot boxes, papers found on roadside

Image used only for representation. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters Five empty ballot boxes and over a dozen papers have been found by the roadside in Pakistan's Karachi and Sialkot,......

Manzoor Ijaz a 'liar', allege US experts

Mansoor Ijaz, the man who has triggered off a political crisis in Pakistan, is a 'dubious character,' who is sowing 'seeds of dissension,' South Asia experts in the US tell Aziz Haniffa in......

6 newspapers join forces to get an edge in war for ads

In what could be an attempt at taking on Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd, the country’s largest publisher and owner of newspapers like The Times of India and The Economic Times, six rival......

India Economic Summit from Dec 5

Finance minister P Chidambaram will inaugurate the 20th India Economic Summit to be held from December 5-7, 2004.Being jointly organised by the World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian......

PM's 2-pronged plan to propel India's trade

The economist in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has donned his best bib and tucker again, and is ready to provide a major impetus to India's trade and economy.On Wednesday, the prime minister took......

In icy Beijing, PM will discuss global meltdown

At 8 degrees Celsius in China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will join a host of top leaders at the Asia-Europe Summit, deliberating ways to wriggle out of the current global financial meltdown.......

Efforts on to get Laxman fit for final

The Indian team management is sparing no effort to get star batsman VVS Laxman fit for Sunday's Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka with captain Sourav Ganguly asserting that the side would stick to......

To play or not to play Pak?

Rohit: I would like to say that Indo Pakistan issues are political ones. We have to fight polices as major conflict is in the area of Jammu Kashmir. The fight is on for the hold in Pakistan. The......