World

  • China’s state news agency launches search engine
    BEIJING, February 22 (AP): China's main government news agency launched an Internet search site Tuesday, giving its own sanitized view of the Web following Google's closure of its China-based search engine last
    World / 22nd February 2011
  • Talks reach ‘decisive’, 12 Maoists gets bail
    Bhubaneswar, February 22 (PTI): 12 Maoists including hardcore rebel leader Sriramalu Srinivasalu were on Tuesday released on bail as talks for safe return of abducted Malkangiri district collector and an engine
    World / 22nd February 2011
  • Mukesh Ambani’s RIL signs $9 b deal with BP
    London, February 21 (Agencies): Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has signed an agreement with oil major British Petroleum (BP) for 30 per cent stake in Reliance Industries’ 23 oil and g
    World / 21st February 2011
  • Bahrain protesters seek to overthrow royal family
    MANAMA, February 21 (AP): A group of protesters Monday called for the ouster of Bahrain's entire ruling monarchy as part of sweeping demands to call off a weeklong uprising in the tiny, but strategically import
    World / 21st February 2011
  • Over 100 whales die in New Zealand
    Wellington, February 21 (AFP): More than 100 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said today. Hikers yesterday reported finding 107 whales beached on Stewa
    World / 21st February 2011
  • Mukesh Ambani’s SEZ project scrapped
    MUMBAI, February 20 (Agencies): Maharashtra government has ordered that no more land would be acquired for the proposed  Mukesh Ambani-promoted MahaMumbai Special Economic Zone (SEZ), virtually hammering t
    World / 20th February 2011
  • Libya forces shoot dead dozens, talks begin in Bahrain
    TRIPOLI/MANAMA, February 20 (Reuters): Libyan security forces shot dead dozens of protesters to try to crush a revolt in the second city Benghazi, and the wave of unrest sweeping the Middle East also pushed Bah
    World / 20th February 2011
  • Death toll in Afghan bank raid rises
    KABUL, February 20 (AP): A brazen attack in which five suicide bombers dressed in security force uniforms stormed a bank in the eastern Afghanistan and killed 38 people is a sign that insurgents are increasingl
    World / 20th February 2011
  • Japan to dig site linked to WWII human experiments
    TOKYO, February 20 (AP): Japan is starting to excavate the site of a former medical school that may reveal grisly secrets from World War II. Digging begins Monday at the former school linked to Unit 731, a germ
    World / 20th February 2011
  • China tries to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’
    BEIJING, February 20 (AP): Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently mo
    World / 20th February 2011
  • Libya’s Gaddafi faces fight of life, Bahrain offer snubbed
    MANAMA, February 19 (Reuters): Two of the Middle East's most entrenched rulers were battling to stay in power on Saturday amid reports of dozens of protesters killed in Libya and an offer of talks by Bahrain's
    World / 19th February 2011
  • Pirates grab four sailors
    MOGADISHU, February 19 (Reuters): A yacht with four Americans on board is believed to have been hijacked in the Arabian Sea, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi said on Saturday. Pirate gangs plaguing the shipping lane
    World / 19th February 2011
  • US opens direct secret talks with Taliban: Report
    New York, February 19 (PTI): US has opened direct secret talks with senior Taliban leaders, a media report said here, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that only a political solution could end the
    World / 19th February 2011
  • China resisting G20 countries’ deal on indicators
    PARIS, February 19 (Reuters): China was holding out on Saturday against an agreement among the world's major economies on ways to measure and correct global economic imbalances, refusing to have its massive cur
    World / 19th February 2011
  • Bahrain mourners call for toppling of monarchy
    Bahraini pro-government protesters shouts slogans during a march supporting the Bahraini leadership in Manama, Bahrain on Friday, February 18. The woman holds a portrait of Bahraini Prime Minister Khalifa bin S
    World / 18th February 2011
  • Australian diver killed in shark attack
    SYDNEY, February 18 (AFP): An Australian diver was killed by sharks in south Australia on Thursday, police said, in only the second fatal shark attack in Australian waters in more than two years. The abalone di
    World / 18th February 2011
  • Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city
    BAGHDAD, February 18 (Reuters): Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion tha
    World / 18th February 2011
  • Intel chief to join White House council on jobs
    SAN FRANCISCO, February 18 (AP): Casting about for innovative job-creation ideas, President Barack Obama is naming one of his critics to an advisory council responsible for finding new ways to promote economic
    World / 18th February 2011
  • Egyptians mass in Cairo to mark Mubarak fall
    CAIRO, February 18 (AP): Tens of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians packed into Tahrir Square for a day of prayer and celebration Friday to mark the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak a week ago and to maint
    World / 18th February 2011
  • Turkey jails 3 journos on coup allegation
    ANKARA, February 18 (AP): A Turkish court on Friday jailed three journalists on charges of links to what the Islamic-rooted government calls a network plotting its overthrow, in a case that critics say is part
    World / 18th February 2011
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