Pakistan on Thursday ruled out the possibility of releasing Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, saying the matter was sub judice and his fate would be decided by courts.
With the Congress in power in the state and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) snapping at its heels, the BRS is now fighting an existential battle.
The genesis of India's most-loved dish may go to canny cooks in the Mughal era, notes Sandeep Goyal.
The explosives were found in a car in Doda district.
'Washington is confident the Saudi-born militant will be killed or captured within a year,' says The Guardian.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has insisted his country had not been "complicit" in sheltering slain Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and said the latter was able to live undetected for so long in Pakistan due to a global 'intelligence failure'.
Urals and Sokol accounted for every 4 out of 5 barrels of Russian supplies to India last year.
The report in London's The Sunday Express newspaper is based on the latest tape purportedly from the alleged terror mastermind.
But all these voter identity cards are fakes.
The Hurt Locker filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has been given confidential access by the Obama Administration to make a film on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
According to Omar bin Laden's former British wife Jane Felix-Browne, her husband had told her, "that's not my dad." In this latest video, Osama's beard is shorter and darker, his face is rounder and his eyes are clearly a different shape.
A new bin Laden audiotape aired by Arabic satellite channel also urged Muslims to resist the American occupation of Iraq.
One of the detainees was reported to be a Pakistani army major whom officials said copied licence plates of cars visiting the Al Qaeda leader's compound in Abbottabad, Islamabad, the New York Times, citing officials, has reported
Russian oil supplies to India will continue to flow unhindered and suppliers will come up with ways to sidestep secondary sanctions, a Russian official told Business Standard.
On the issue of whether chapters related to the first Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Keshav Baliram Hedgewar are being removed in Karnataka, he said India is a land of diversity.
2019 was the Bharatiya Janata Party's breakout year, when it stretched the boundaries of what was thought possible and ended up with 303 seats on its own steam. Now it is forced to play defence, on a pitch queered by too many variables, asserts Prem Panicker.
Go light before the festive mithai binge begins.
As the Sunday night darkened in United States, some major journalists received a three-word e-mail that simply read, "Get to work."
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum has two new additions to their collection -- the fatigue shirt worn by a member of SEAL Team Six during the Osama bin Laden raid and a commemorative coin given to 'Maya', the Central Intelligence Agency operative who helped track the Al Qaeda founder, and a brick from bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
United States President Barack Obama has met some of the American special forces commandos, who killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an operation in Pakistan and saluted them on behalf of the US and people all over the world for a "job well done".
The speaker, believed to be the Al Qaeda leader, urged Iraqis to draw the Americans into urban warfare and launch suicide attacks.
In a state where thin margins and minor swings decide electoral outcomes, nothing can be left to chance, even for those relishing the cocooned life, observes Shyam G Memon.
Over 30,000 villagers in Guajarat's Bhavnagar district are up in arms against the apex court order allowing dismantling of the toxic laden Norwegian ship Blue Lady. They fear that the ship's dismantling would adversely affect their livelihood, health
In Dubai, A Ganesh Nadar encountered high speeds on smooth-as-silk-roads, no bureaucracy, gold, Mr Toad's. And snow!
Slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghayth was on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to kill US nationals and providing material support to terrorists.
Meraj Khalid Noor, who is popularly known as Bihar's Osama bin Laden for his uncanny resemblance with slain most-wanted Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, has said that he will contest the Lok Sabha polls against the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi.
'Being patient, kind, and supporting each other is the backbone of our love.'
A former US Navy SEAL who claims he killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has said that he heard the world's most wanted man take his last breath after he pumped three bullets into the head of the al Qaeda chief.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said some people in the Pakistani government are aware of the whereabouts of elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar.
Gaikwad said Maxwell's brutal innings and heavy dew proved to be home team's undoing.
Last week, a farmer from Belur in Hassan district complained that tomatoes worth over Rs 2.7 lakh were stolen.
Russian figure skater Valieva banned for doping, ROC loses Olympic gold
Afridi had ran a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad city to help CIA agents track the former Al Qaeda chief, who was later killed by US Navy Seals in a controversial raid on May 2, 2011.
Australia head coach Andrew McDonald said the hosts would field their strongest side against Pakistan, which means a welcome return for spinner Nathan Lyon, who will chase his 500th Test wicket after injury ruled him out of the last three matches of the Ashes.
Sikh children in American schools have been subject to physical and racial abuses with fellow students calling them 'Bin Laden' or 'terrorist', according to a new survey.
'Bharat is the core value that has to be lived by and if you deny it, then the people will discard you.'
The video will be the first new images of bin Laden in almost three years. He has not appeared in new video footage since October 2004, and he has not put out a new audiotape in more than a year, his longest period without a message.
There is an air of nervousness all over the world where there is a strong United States presence regarding the dangers of Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on US nationals and interests coinciding with the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by US Navy Seals during a clandestine raid into his hide-out in Abbottabad in Pakistan on May 2 of last year, says security expert B Raman
The 33-year jail term given to Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track Osama Bin Laden, was on Thursday overturned by an official who ordered a fresh trial.
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