General Politics

Blast at election rally in Pakistan’s Swat claims one life

Blast at election rally in Pakistan’s Swat claims one life

Mayor triples congestion charge in Central London

Government decides to extend Taslima Nasreen's visa

New Delhi, Feb.

Mumbai Police arrest Raj Thackeray, Abu Azmi

Mumbai, Feb 13 :Mumbai Police arrest Raj Thackeray, Abu Azmi Mumbai

Sharad Yadav urges PM to call all party meeting on Maharashtra situation

New Delhi, Feb 13 : Janata Dal-United (JD-U) President Sharad Yadav on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call an emergency all party meeting to discuss the situation in Maharashtra. "The sad state of affairs is the inaction of the Central and State Governments. Both governments have become silent spectators," a JD-U statement said. The statement was issued even as reports were rife that Mumbai Police could soon arrest

Musharraf knew of specific threat to my life: Benazir’s book

New York, Feb 13 : Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has written in her book that she was aware of suicide squads likely being sent from the North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to try to assassinate her immediately on her return.
The book was released on Tuesday in New York, London and Islamabad.
The book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West” was finished just two days before she was killed.
“I had actually received from a sympathetic Muslim foreign government, the names and cellphone numbers of designated assassins,” Bhutto wrote.

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