New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s envoy to India said on Wednesday that photographs showing the late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son alive before being killed were morphed. “Prabhakaran’s son could have been killed in crossfire while he was in a little bunker. There is no need for an international probe. The photos are morphed,” Prasad Kariyawasam told a news channel. A section of the media carried photographs of 12-year-old Balachandran Prabhakaran seated […]

David Cameron has become the first serving UK prime minister to pay his respects at the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in British history. Mr Cameron is visiting Amritsar in the state of Punjab on Wednesday, at the end of a three-day trade trip to India. This was where hundreds of people at a public meeting were shot dead by British troops in 1919. The prime minister described […]

Punch lines from Narendra Modi’s speech at SRCC Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday pitched the state’s model of growth and governance. Modi said that vote bank politics has spoilt the country and emphasised the need for good governance to make India globally competitive. According to Modi all three major sectors of the economy viz., agriculture, industry and services should be given equal importance for development. This, he said, […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for Congress to vote on a variety of gun control proposals that are currently up for debate, and he offered a heartfelt, but not sharply political, endorsement for the proposals. Towards the end of his State of the Union address, as the speech reached a crescendo, the president turned to the topic of gun violence: “What I’ve said tonight matters little if […]

RETORIA—Oscar Pistorius has been charged with themurder of his girlfriend after model Reeva Steenkamp was shot inside the Olympic athlete’s home in South Africa. Police in South Africa do not name suspects in crimes until they have appeared in court but police spokesperson Brig. Denise Beukes said that Pistorius was at his home after the death of the 29-year-old Steenkamp and “there is no other suspect involved.” Beukes said the suspect was undergoing […]

NEW DELHI: Acting on pressure from the Union home ministry, the Maharashtra Police on Thursday registered a case against Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia for making an alleged hate speech in Maharashtra’s Nanded district, according to Times Now. Nanded police who listened to the speech following the row said that they didn’t find the speech “communal”. Earlier, the home ministry had asked the Prithviraj Chavan-led Maharashtra government to […]

Lahore: Ten million dollars does not seem to buy much in this bustling Pakistani city. That is the sum the United States is offering for help in convicting Hafiz Saeed, perhaps the country’s best-known jihadi leader. Yet Saeed lives an open, and apparently fearless, life in a middle-class neighbourhood here. “I move about like an ordinary person – that’s my style,” said Saeed, a burly 64-year-old, reclining on a bolster as […]

You would think there’s nothing more an Olympic gymnast dreams about than taking her place on the winner’s stand, bathed in the adoration of her nation and wearing a gold medal around her neck. But sometimes there are greater heights to soar to — and greater prizes to claim — than Olympic glory. That’s why, even as we all breathlessly cheered the triumphs of our “Fab Five” Olympic gymnasts this […]

Taliban leaders will hold a meeting to decide whether a Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician will be allowed to hold a planned march to their tribal stronghold to protest U.S. drone strikes, the militant group’s spokesman said Thursday. Ahsanullah Ahsan said the Pakistani Taliban consider Imran Khan to be an “infidel” since he has described himself as a liberal — a term they associate with a lack of religious belief. But the […]