Sulking Jaffer Sharief arrives in Delhi; to meet So ...

Senior Congress leader C K JafferSharief, who has resigned from the party, arrived here on Saturday for a meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi but remained non-committal on the future course of action.
Sharief, a six time MP who was humbled in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, said he could not predict the outcome of […]

 

Sulking Jaffer Sharief arrives in Delhi; to meet So ...

Senior Congress leader C K JafferSharief, who has resigned from the party, arrived here on Saturday for a meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi but remained non-committal on the future course of action.
Sharief, a six time MP who was humbled in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, said he could not predict the outcome of […]

 

Sulking Jaffer Sharief arrives in Delhi; to meet So ...

Senior Congress leader C K JafferSharief, who has resigned from the party, arrived here on Saturday for a meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi but remained non-committal on the future course of action.
Sharief, a six time MP who was humbled in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, said he could not predict the outcome of […]

 

A special birthday party in Delhi

It was a birthday party with a difference on Wednesday for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the evergreen Bollywood star Dev Anand.
While the Prime Minister turned 75, Dev Anand celebrated his 84th birthday with Dr. Singh releasing the actor’s “rags to riches” story, recalling one of his most popular film songs, “Main zindagi ka […]

 

Moscow for lifting NSG sanctions against New Delhi

Russia favours the lifting of curbs on India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), according to information made available here.
Following a meeting with Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar in Vienna, head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Nuclear Power Sergei Kiriyenko said: “Our nuclear cooperation with India is positive, and we urge a decision […]

 

Ninth Indo-UAE Joint Commission meet in New Delhi

The ninth meeting of the Indo-UAE Joint Commission, being held in New Delhi on June 5-6, is expected to provide a new thrust to close ties between the two countries.
The last meeting of the joint commission took place in 1994, but now the exchanges between the two countries are institutionalised and are being held […]

 

Iraq Invites Investment From Delhi

Indian officials were less than totally satisfied by the outcome of joint working group meeting in New Delhi Friday with representatives of Iraq’s oil ministry.
India learned that the impending hydrocarbon law would require a review of the India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. contract for Iraq’s Block 8, an exploration site awarded by the […]

 

Delhi serial killer at it again

A headless body of an unidentified male was found outside Gate No. 1 of the high-security Tihar Central Jail here on Friday. It is the third such body to be recovered from outside the jail premises since last October, with the murderer challenging the police to catch him.
The Police Control Room received an anonymous […]

 

Why these are ‘heady times’ for New Delhi and W ...

While Iraq and Iran have dominated recent headlines, the United States and India have quietly forged the strongest relationship the two countries have enjoyed since India’s independence in 1947.
For most of the past 60 years, the Cold War and vastly differing ideological and governing philosophies kept us, at best, fitful partners.That all began to change […]