US wants Pakistan to snap ISI ties with Taliban
Tweet Washington: Amid credible reports that the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI was secretly supporting Taliban insurgents to recover lost ground in Afghanistan, the United States has asked Islamabad to snap those ties and act against terrorist safe havens. Secretary of State Hillary “raised many of these issues when she was in Pakistan last fall,” State [...]
Tweet Washington: Unmanned drones regularly strike suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas, US President Barack Obama confirmed during a video “hangout” on Google’s social network Google+ that was also streamed live on YouTube. Use of the unmanned drones began under former president George W. Bush, BBC reported. There were 118 drone attacks in 2010 and [...]
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Tweet Beijing:China’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging and battery swapping station has been put into operation in Beijing, Xinhua reported quoting sources in the city’s power supply authorities. Located in the eastern Beijing’s Chaoyang district, the Gaoantun charging station can charge up to eight vehicles simultaneously and it takes only four to six minutes to [...]
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Tweet Jakarta: At least 14 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a tornado that hit Indonesia this week, the government said Sunday. More than 2,000 houses were damaged by the tornado, Xinhua reported. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of public relations at the National Agency for Disaster Management, said 35 regions in [...]
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Tweet Beijing: The best gift a Chinese bachelor thinks he can take home for parents is a bride-to-be. Under parents’ pressure to marry, many young men in China this year took hired women along on their homecoming for the Lunar New Year. Some luckless men without girlfriends preferred hiring women to meet their parents on [...]
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Tweet New Delhi: Author Salman Rushdie Tuesday said he was shocked at the situation that even screening of his video image was unacceptable at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). “It was pretty shocking that not only my physical presence, even the screening of video image was unacceptable,” Rushdie said from London at a video conference [...]
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Tweet Tokyo: Japan posted its first annual trade deficit since 1980, due to the affects of the March earthquake and tsunami and the yen's appreciation versus its major counterparts, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Wednesday. According to the ministry, the trade deficit stood at 2.49 trillion yen ($32 billion) in 2011, marking the [...]
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Tweet Beijing: A total of 28,000 people died of HIV/AIDS in China in 2011, the health ministry said Saturday. The number of people living with HIV/AIDS rose by 40,000 since 2009, the ministry, the UN programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization, said in a joint report. About 780,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS [...]
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Tweet Indonesia : A crocodile in eastern Indonesia attacked and ate up a 10-year-old girl on a river bank, the Jakarta Post reported Saturday. Juraida was hunting for turtles with her father and a brother when the wild crocodile leered up and snatched the girl, official Viktor Mado Waton said. "Juraida was seized when she [...]
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Tweet Jaipur/New Delhi: Controversial writer Salman Rushdie may not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival beginning Friday, informed sources said Tuesday, as a leading Muslim scholar asked him to apologize for hurting Muslim sentiments. Although there is no official announcement yet, the sources told IANS that the British Indian novelist may keep away from the Jan [...]
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