"We want good ties with all neighbours including India and Afghanistan," he told the Senators.
While there is no denying that certain sections of the community deserve aid, the politics of reservation can be suicidal for India.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
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The Pakistan captain said he is happy that all his players had put the Oval fiasco behind them.
'I went away from the industry because all the people I enjoyed working with, like Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, are no more.' 'They left this world and went away, so I lost interest in my work.'
The late legend would have turned 90 today.
'I've seen the craze for English education even among the poorest. But that is only for their sons. Parents feel thrilled when they see their sons going to school wearing a tie. They don't mind paying for their sons' private tuitions too.' 'But daughters are sent to municipal schools, madarsas, small schools where teachers with no teaching skills are paid Rs 2,000 or Rs 4,000. That's why more girls come to my class.' Syed Feroze Ashraf, who has sent 500-odd girls (and a few boys) -- all first generation learners, children of grave-diggers, hawkers, rickshaw-drivers, tailors and watchmen -- to college, speaks to Jyoti Punwani. A Rediff.com Special.
Sectarian violence and the rape of a woman, allegedly by Pakistan army officials, have set off tension in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), according to international and Pakistani media reports.\n\n
She will be visiting her ancestral home in Makan Bagh in Mingora, her school besides inaugurating a girls school in Shangla district.
The noted publisher of Hindu religious and spiritual texts, which has seen tough times in the recent past, hopes the new UP CM's spiritual background will boost sales.
'Teaching lessons is the objective behind every school.' 'For the moment, a state seems intent to teach a lesson -- that students of Classes 4, 5 and 6 can wage war against the mighty Indian nation,' says Krishna Prasad.
Baahubali Director S S Rajamouli's next... R Madhavan in hospital... All this and more in Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz.
During an interactive interview to the BBC Asian Network's new Hindi/Urdu show, Khan also criticised US president George Bush for his Iraq policy.
Colonel Tahir of the Rangers said that the intelligence-based raid was launched after reports that people involved in crimes were hiding there.
'In his demise, the world of Telugu language and literature has lost a bright star. The void caused by his loss can never be filled.'
'I was brought up in a Brahmin Hindu family. I was brought up in places where the majority was Muslim, in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. There was a mosque next to my house, but I never saw communal tension.' 'I am not worried. This country's religious roots are very strong. They know how to take care of themselves.'
Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week.
"I say he should be shot on sight! He suffocated my little one. We were drugged, asleep upstairs. She must have called out to us," Qandeel's father Anwar Azeem said.
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Polling started in Pakistan's National Assembly and four other provincial centres on Tuesday to elect a new president who will replace incumbent Asif Ali Zardari in September.
Imam said it was his right to use the red beacon.
On the sixth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House encounter on Friday, terror group Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind has issued a threat to avenge the killings of Indian Mujahideen members who died in the encounter.
Around 350 children of a government-run Urdu primary school were hospitalised on Friday as they took ill after having mid-day meal at K G Halli.
'The joke has gone on for far too long already. How about a happy ending?' asks Sukanya Verma.
Pak military officers were involved in the attack on the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif in which assailants attempted to storm the mission building.
BJP's total silence on Delhi statehood is intriguing.
The Hindi-speaking concertgoers reportedly staged a walkout.
A newspaper in Pakistan has reported that BJP Chief Advani was 'not involved' in the conspiracy to kill Jinnah.
A daily in Pakistan has reported that BJP Chief L K Advani was not involved in a conspiracy to kill Jinnah.
Two important office bearers, Abu Shoib and Maulana Qari Abdul Hafeez, left the outfit with their supporters after negotiations with their hardline founder-leader Hafeez Mohammed Saeed failed.\n\n\n\n
I was flogged about 500 in 3 days, they cut my back with blades and removed nails from my hands and feet," said Shahbaz Taseer of the ordeal he endured.
'KCR's plan for the future is three-pronged. He wants to see a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the Centre in 2019 so that he can become the Union minister for home or defence,' says R Rajagopalan.
"Partying late night in half attire, blindly following western culture, has never been our culture," he said.
Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk speaks to Claude Arpi about his journey, his fights, his hopes and how he became an inspiration for the Bollywood blockbuster.
Muhammad Usman, a suspected bomb-maker for the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, had set out from the capital of the self-declared Islamic State caliphate in Raqqa, Syria, six weeks before the Paris attacks along with Algerian-born Adel Haddadi, the report said, citing investigation documents.
Shiv Sena legislators on Monday occupied opposition benches as the special three-day session of Maharashtra assembly began here during which Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will seek a trust vote as mandated by Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao when he stakes claim to form the government
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