Qaeda video warns of attack against India
In the footage compiled by Al-Qaedas production arm As-Sahab, an unnamed narrator said that the targeting of Tel Aviv, Moscow and Delhi is our legitimate right.
US can remotely drive India's nuke programmes: Ex-BARC chief
"We are now in effect reduced to a mere recipient state mandated by the Henry Hyde Act (passed by the US Congress) to carry out a set of dos and donts, said Dr A N Prasad, former director of BARC.
APFSL retrieves data from Kafeel's hard disc
The Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) has retrieved complete data from the hard disc seized from the house of Bangalore-based Kafeel Ahmed, the Indian engineer suspected to be involved in the failed terror attack on the Glasgow airport on June 30.
Land scam kingpin Ashok Malhotra held Ashok Malhotra, the prime suspect in capital's multi-crore land scam, was on Monday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after he surrendered in the studio of a private news channel.
IITs, IIMs, JNU, DU among top 200 varsities
The four Indian institutions figuring in the top echelons are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Delhi University (DU).
Revived monsoon claims 12 lives in state
Striking with renewed vigour, the South West Monsoon, vigorous throughout Karnataka, has so far claimed 12 lives during the last 24 hours in the State, besides causing severe damages to standing crops and properties, especially in the Cauvery basin region and Coastal Karnataka.
Govt urges SEC to postpone Local Body polls
''The entire state is sufferring due to heavy rains and political parties are also not in favour of elections at this juncture,'' Minister for Home and Parliamentary Affairs M P Prakash informed both the Houses of the Legislature.
Musharraf wants another term in uniform
Dawn quoted MQM sources as saying that Musharraf told the legislators of hte party that he was firming up plans to get re-elected from the existing Assemblies on September 15.
Bhutto against US entering
Pak to capture Osama
Bhutto, when asked on the CNN whether it would be okay for the US, if it had information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, to capture him, she said it would be a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.
Sharapova wins San Diego Classic The top-seeded Russian defeated Switzerland's Patty Schnyder, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 on Sunday to repeat as champion at the hardcourt tournament that proved a springboard to her US Open triumph weeks later.
Sania breaks into top-30
The 20-year-old tennis star made it to the quarterfinals at the 1.3-million-dollar Acura Classic womens tennis event in San Diego last week, which enabled her to move up one place to 30th on the latest WTA Tour ranking list.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection team members, accompanied by Japanese nuclear safety agency officials and Tokyo Electric Power staff, inspect a nuclear facility which had a fire after a massive July 16 earthquake at the Tokyo Electric Power's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, at Kashiwazaki city in Niigata prefecture, 250km north of Tokyo. Following the earthquake, the world's largest nuclear plant, which leaked a small amount of radiation. AFP PHOTO
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The top-seeded Russian defeated Switzerland's Patty Schnyder, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 on Sunday to repeat as champion at the hardcourt tournament that proved a springboard to her US Open triumph weeks later.
In the absence of Rahul Dravid, who has opted out, Ranchi-born Mahendra Singh Dhoni is expected to be named captain of the Indian squad for next month's Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
