An exasperated Indian Parliamentary Affairs Minister P
K Bansal had Monday questioned the relevance of the Question
Hour if the MPs were going to remain absent.

Hyderabad, Dec 1 (PTI) Top newspaper publishers and
editors from across the world began a conference here Tuesday
with Indian President Pratibha Patil deprecating media's

The award to Sethi, a champion of Indo-Pak reconciliation
and until recently Editor-in-Chief of "Friday Times" and
"Daily Times", was given for being the voice of moderation and

KOSPI 1,550.35 DN 5.25 points (open)
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SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Police raided a Seoul office of South Korea's civil
servant union on Tuesday amid controversy over the legitimacy of the union's
political activity.

New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) Global climate talks at
Copenhagen on December 5 would be at a "dead end" if a Danish
draft proposal, urging the world adopt 2020 as the year when

Stressing that the world should cut greenhouse gases
(GHGs) emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels, the Danish draft
suggests that countries adopt 2020 as the year when the

New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) The Government of India Monday
said 128 incidents of ground ceasefire and 43 air space
violations have been committed along the Line of Control

Responding to a question about British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown's demand for Pakistan to take tougher action
against al Qaida and help track Osama bin Laden, Gilani said

Islamabad, Nov 30 (PTI) Pakistan has said "political
compulsions" and "divisions in Indian polity" were preventing
India from holding dialogue with Islamabad, after the foreign