Islamabad: Pakistan desires durable peace in Afghanistan and instability in the region is not in the interest of the country, Pakistan prime minister's advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday. While addressing a meeting prior to the Heart of Asia conference here, Aziz said Pakistan will continue to support all endeavours aimed at strengthening peace and security in Afghanistan....
Pune: Jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who was sent to prison for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, will walk out a free man in first week of March, official sources said here on Tuesday. The sources indicated that barring last-minute glitches, Sanjay would be released by March 7 after completing his 40-month sentence. He was found guilty...
Havana: Cuban President Raul Castro reiterated "unconditional" support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro one day after his party lost the legislative elections. Castro said "Chavismo" fought hard at the polls, though the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable party won the elections by securing 99 of the 167 seats in the national assembly, as per reported. "Dear Maduro. I followed, minute by minute, the...
Washington: A memorial service was held at the National World War II Memorial in Washington to honour the dead in the Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbour 74 years ago. Two survivors of the attack and some other US veterans, including 110-years-old Frank Levingston, reportedly the oldest US living World War II veteran, attended the ceremony, as per reported. "We were attacked yesterday...
Los Angeles: Former model Katie Price insists she and ex-husband Kieran Hayler have moved on from his infidelity, but she will "never" forgive him. The 37-year-old was left devastated when she discovered Hayler had cheated on her with friend Jane Pountney in May 2014 and though she'll never get over his betrayal, she insists they've now moved on, as per reports....
Washington: Hotter nights may actually wield much greater influence over the planet's atmosphere as global temperatures rise and can eventually lead to more carbon flooding the atmosphere, researchers from Princeton University have warned. Since measurements began in 1959, night-time temperatures in the tropics have had a strong influence over year-to-year shifts in the land's carbon-storage capacity or “sink”. Earth's ecosystems absorb...
Buenos Aires: Former Argentine football team coach Alejandro Sabella has undergone an angioplasty. Sabella led Argetina to a runners-up finish at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He was hospitalised on Sunday evening in the city of La Plata, 60 km south of Buenos Aires, with strong chest pains, as per reports. According to the medical report released on Monday,...
New Delhi: Both houses of parliament were adjourned on Tuesday till 11.30 a.m. following ruckus by Congress parliamentarians over the National Herald case. Minutes after the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha assembled for the day's proceedings, the Congress MPs in both the houses created a ruckus over court summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi....
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said there was nothing for her to get scared of in the National Herald case as she was the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi. "Why should I be scared of anyone? I am (former prime minister) Indira Gandhi's daughter-in-law. I am not scared of anyone," Gandhi told reporters here. Sonia Gandhi's comment was...
Islamabad: India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's visit to Pakistan will revive and reinvigorate ties between New Delhi and Islamabad, said a leading Pakistani daily which noted that both countries "seem prepared to learn from the mistakes and choices of the recent past". An editorial "India-Pakistan progress" in the Dawn on Tuesday said that first the prime ministers of Pakistan...
