Dewani's lawyers want trial in Britain
London: Lawyers for British-Indian businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of the honeymoon murder of his Indo-Swedish wife, are planning a new approach to avoid trial in South Africa. The 33-year-old Bristol-based millionaire has been fighting against being extradited to the country in relation to the murder in November 2010. It has now emerged that his lawyers plan to tell the High Court at the next hearing in October that Britain's Crown Prosecutio
Modi's long shadow creates a rift in Chicago; CPWR withdraws support to Vivekananda birth anniversary celebrations
Chicago: The shadow of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and his alleged complicity in the 2002 communal riots in his state, has created a controversy here with the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR) withdrawing its support
Modi asks NRIs to help BJP win power
Washington: Comparing the upcoming 2014 parliamentary poll to the one in 1977 after the 18-month emergency rule, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi reached out to Indian diaspora seeking its help to win power.
India denies role in Ramdev questioning at London
New Delhi: The external affairs ministry on Sunday denied that it had any role in the detention of yoga guru Baba Ramdev at London's Heathrow airport. “No truth whatsoever in such malicious rumours whatsoever,” external affairs ministry s
Taliban suicide bombers kill 78 Christians in Peshawar church attack
Peshawar: Peshawar: Two Taliban suicide bombers struck a historic church here on Sunday, killing 78 people, including women and children, in the deadliest attack on the Christian minority in Pakistan's history. About 130 others were injured in the at
Two Indians among 68 killed in Kenya terror attack
Nairobi: Two Indians were among at least 68 people killed and nearly 200 injured as Somali Islamist militants, holding unspecified number of hostages at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, continued fierce fight with Kenyan soldiers for the second c
Tamil party sweeps polls in former LTTE-held region in Lanka
Colombo: Sri Lanka's main ethnic minority Tamil party secured a landslide victory in a provincial poll that has threatened to rekindle animosity between the government and Tamils, four years after the military crushed separatist rebels and ended a 26
Iran parades 30 missiles with 2,000 km range
Tehran: Iran paraded 30 missiles with a nominal range of 2,000 km on Sunday, the first time it had displayed so many with a stated capacity to hit Israeli targets. Iran displayed 12 Sejil and 18 Ghadr missiles at the annual parade marking the
Rajasthan outplay IPL champions Mumbai in CLT20 opener
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals began their Champions League Twenty20 campaign in superb fashion as they thrashed IPL-VI champions Mumbai Indians by seven wickets in their Group A match, here on Saturday. It was good all-round show by the hosts as they firs
