March 27, 2014
WASHINGTON: A key congressional committee passed a legislation of new financial assistance to Ukraine, by reducing a small portion of US aid given to Pakistan under the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill.
The $10 million taken from the annual $1.5 billion to Pakistan would be used to carry out programming in the Ukrainian, Balkan, Russian, and Tatar language services of radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and Voice of America, the house bill said.
March 26, 2014
KUWAIT CITY: Arab leaders fully back a Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a flashpoint issue which is threatening to derail the US-led peace talks, a final Arab summit statement said on Wednesday.
Dignitaries attend the closing session of the Arab League Summit at Bayan Palace, Kuwait on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
March 26, 2014
NEW DELHI: Former Indian cricket board president Inderjit Singh Bindra Wednesday launched a scathing attack on board chief Narayanaswami Srinivasan, saying he should resign immediately before he takes Indian cricket to the gutter along with himself.
March 26, 2014
NEW YORK: Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was found guilty of terrorism-related charges on Wednesday following a three-week trial that offered an unusually intimate portrait of al Qaida's former leader in the days after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Suleiman Abu Ghaith, 48, faces life in prison.
March 26, 2014
WASHINGTON — A Secret Service agent found drunk by staff at a Dutch hotel was recalled to the U.S. along with two of his colleagues, the day before President Barack Obama was set to arrive in the Netherlands.
March 26, 2014
PERTH, AUSTRALIA: As frustration was setting in, calmer seas returned on Wednesday and the search for the remains of flight MH370 began anew in remote waters of the Indian Ocean off Western Australia.
March 26, 2014
Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must be thanked for ensuring that the BJP returns to power in 2014, says the BJP patriarch
Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch L.K. Advani
March 26, 2014
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American businessman and two Chicago based organizations will pay $15 million to settle charges of raising $158 million dollars from close to 300 investors as part of immigration scam.
March 26, 2014
NEW YORK: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan says he is pleased that India now has a growing number of young musicians and artists who are extremely talented in playing classical instruments like the sarod, tabla and sitar.
March 26, 2014
KARACHI: Rusi Dinshaw, the only Parsi to have ever been selected in a Pakistan Test squad, has passed away quietly and his death in tragic circumstances has brought into sharp focus the failure of the PCB to look after its former players.
