Ottawa: India is committed to strengthen bilateral relationship with Canada, Union Minister of State for HRD Daggubati Purandeswari says, as both the countries stepped up efforts to cement ties in the field of education.
Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan alleges that an Indian warship in a dangerous manoeuvre 'brushed' with its frigate escorting an Egyptian-owned vessel recently freed by Somali pirates, a claim rejected as 'incorrect' by Indian Navy.
Washington: A day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai's assertion, the US acknowledges that it is engaged in preliminary "outreach" talks with the Taliban along with some other countries to politically settle the decade-long conflict in the country.
Islamabad: Pakistan is set to appoint a new commission to ascertain "full facts" about Osama bin Laden's presence in the country and probe the unilateral US raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief, as a panel constituted previously courted controversy even before it could begin its work.
Yangon: Seeking to step up ties with Myanmar, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna arrivesd here for high level talks with the new civilian leadership in the fields of security cooperation and energy security.
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry permits two judges to head separate commissions that will probe Osama bin Laden's presence in the country and the abduction and killing of a senior journalist.
Moscow: At least 44 people, including Russia's top nuclear design scientists and eight foreigners, were killed when a passenger plane crash landed and burst into flames on a highway in heavy fog as the pilot apparently mistook it for the runway in Karelia region.
Washington: Tahawwur Rana, cleared by a Chicago court of involvement in Mumbai attacks, knew about the 26/11 plot as he was part of "the inner circle" and was tipped off about the "imminent" strikes by none other than LeT's Pasha during a meeting in Dubai, according to US prosecutors.
Washington: Internet search engine giant Google includes five more Indian languages -- Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu -- in its translation services, thus increasing its reach to another 500 million population.
Islamabad: A day ahead of the crucial India-Pakistan talks that will feature the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says his country's future was "closely linked with the resolution of the Kashmir dispute".
Washington: The United States will withdraw 33,000 Americans troops from Afghanistan by the summer of 2012, beginning with an initial drawdown of 10,000 surge forces by this year-end, President Barack Obama says.
Islamabad: India's concerns over terror and slow pace of Mumbai trial has been discussed in the first round of Indo -Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks dealing with the issue of peace and security during which the Samjhuta bomb blast case also came up with both sides holding "substantive" deliberations in a "forward looking" approach.
Islamabad: India tells Pakistan that the complex issue of Kashmir cannot be resolved under the "shadow of gun and extremist violence" as the two sides agree on various confidence building measures (CBMs) during their two-day "substantive and constructive" talks.
New York: A cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, recovered in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader, contains contacts to terror group Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen (HUM), a longtime asset of Pakistan's ISI.
