Kalam, PM discuss blast
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday. The meeting lasted for about half-an-hour. The two leaders discussed issues of national and international importance including ...
Kasuri's visit as scheduled
NEW DELHI: : There is no change in Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's plans to travel to New Delhi on Tuesday for talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. "No. It [the blasts] will have no implications for the ...
DOWN THE TRACK Evoking horrors of Partition and hopes of a peaceful future
PANIPAT: "The way to their promised land was lined with graves," wrote the great photographer and chronicler of the Partition of India, Margaret Bourke-White. Sunday's bombing of the Samjhauta Express has vested Bourke-White's words, from her ...
"Why bogies were locked from outside?"
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Monday that his Government would strongly raise with New Delhi the question of why bogies of the Samjhauta Express were locked from outside, preventing the escape of people. The ...
Mattoo case: death sentence stayed
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded by the Delhi High Court to Santosh Kumar Singh, son of a former IPS officer, in the Priyadarsini Mattoo murder case. A Bench consisting of Chief Justice ...
Stage set for SAARC meet
NEW DELHI: : With External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee personally inviting Chief Adviser of the Bangladeshi Caretaker Government Fakhruddin Ahmed for the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit, the stage is set for the ...