

Tuesday 19 May '09
Ending his violent three-decade campaign for an independent Tamil homeland, Sri Lanka today announced it had killed Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran....Friday 15 May '09
India and China are headed for a major confrontation with Beijing digging its heels in and not giving its consent to $2.9-billion India development plan.Wednesday
6 May '09To allow greater flexibility to the Obama Administration in controlling aid to Islamabad, the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the Senate version of the Bill....Tuesday
5 May '09Don’t rejoice at ‘Maoist hara-kiri’. India must keep talking to all playersTuesday
21 April '09Pushing for a greater say in Indian Ocean region, China has sounded out Indian Navy that it wants to be inducted in some form into 33-member Indian Ocean Naval Symposium initiative started by India.Sunday
19 April '09More than two weeks after news broke that Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Noor-ul-Haq alias Noora had died of natural causes on March 31....Thursday
16 April '09Pakistan has told a group of major international powers that it has spent $35 billion in the war on terror since 2001-02...Tuesday
14 April '09Days after it objected to President Pratibha Patil’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing has stunned New Delhi at the Asian Development Bank...Saturday
11 April '09It's got a cautious welcome in New Delhi and is expected to provoke strong pressure from Islamabad.Sunday
5 April '09Days ahead of Washington’s Afghanistan-Pakistan envoy Richard Holbrooke’s visit to New Delhi.....Tuesday
31 March '09As India watches with concern the rapid spread of terrorist incidents in the heart of Pakistan’s Punjab province, the one pattern that’s emerged in the last year.....Sunday
29 March '09The Mumbai Police have been in touch with Germany’s elite counter-terrorism force, GSG-9, to create for the first time a Special Weapons and Tactics.....Friday
27 March '09The Obama Administration will signal a decisive break from the Bush approach in Afghanistan, European powers will work on Russia and Iran...Wednesday
18 March '09CIA Director Leon Panetta's visit to India underlines the urgency in Washington to step up cooperation with New Delhi.Sunday
15 March '09Decisive moves by China in the past few months to invest in western companies dealing with dual use technology items at a time when most firms are reeling.....Sunday
8 March '09Forced into action by a dramatically changing security environment that has only worsened since the Mumbai attacks....Wednesday
4 March '09The first-ever terror attack on a cricket team in Lahore and that, too, on Sri Lanka, which sought to make a political point by agreeing to fill in for India....Sunday
1 March '09With the committee headed by Bangladesh Home Minister starting a probe into the gruesome revolt by Bangladesh Rifles, informed assumptions of a conspiracy behind the mutiny...Thursday
26 February '09The mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka today has set off concerns in New Delhi about the implications this may hold for newly elected Prime Minister....Wednesday
25 February '09The new US administration’s subtle shift in stand to back the move to expand UN Security Council membership last Thursday....Sunday
22 February '09As investigations into the Mumbai attack move into the next phase of trying the accused and widening the ambit of arrests...Friday
20 February '09Original cost agreed was $1 billion, raised to $2.2 billion in 2007, now up to $2.9 billionThursday
19 February '09Reversing its earlier logic not to make any significant Ambassadorial appointments before elections...Wednesday
18 February '09Islamabad's purchase of peace by acceding to enforcement of Shariah has raised serious concerns in New Delhi on several counts, particularly Pak Army’s apparent inability to squarely check the influence of Pakistani Taliban that is now beginning to reverberate even in Punjab province.Friday
13 February '09Significantly, all of Pak's crucial admissions indicate that Islamabad has acknowledged - and acted upon - evidence gathered by FBI.