US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat US intelligence agencies undercut the White House on Monday by disclosing for the first time that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapons development programme for the past four years.
Iran welcomes report Iran's Foreign Minister Manoucheher Mottaki welcomed on Tuesday the US National Intelligence Estimate that Tehran had halted in the fall of 2005 its attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
Son swishes cyber sword for Musharraf President Pervez Musharraf's son Bilal and rock band Junoon's guitarist Salman Ahmed, who till recently were good pals, are now clashing in cyberspace over the imposition of emergency in Pakistan.
Sudan 'teddy' teacher back in Britain Gillian Gibbons, the teacher imprisoned in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad, arrived back in Britain on Tuesday saying her "terrifying" ordeal should not put people off travelling to Sudan
Suicide attack on NATO convoy A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO forces close to the airport in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, wounding 10 Afghan civilians, a police official said.
An anti-aircraft gun position is seen at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, in this September 2007 file photo. A
US intelligence assessment reversed earlier claims that Iran had restarted its weapons programme in 2005 after suspending
it in 2003. AP
Was the West Bengal government right in nudging controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen into leaving Kolkata? Should the Centre extend political asylum or Indian citizenship to her as she says she can’t go back to Dhaka?
Deccan Herald had invited its readers to send their opinions. Most readers opine that persuading Taslima Nasreen to leave the state was an extreme move and that granting asylum is humane although extending citizenship to her is debatable. A few others insist that she must now return home to Dhaka as her views have hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
