India

Baba Sheikh Bhram shrine at Indo-Pak border promotes brotherhood

Baba Sheikh Bhram shrine at Indo-Pak border promotes brotherhoodIndo-Pakistan border, Aug. 27 : Located on the "zero line" of the India-Pakistan border, Baba Sheikh Bhram Dargah has today become a place of brotherhood and religious harmony for people of India as well as Pakistan.

People visiting this shrine to forget their caste, creed and religious denominations. For, people value this place in an unusual unity of faith and beyond geographical boundaries.

Justice Mathur appointed as Chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal

Justice Ashok Kumar MathurNew Delhi, Aug 27 : Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, a retired judge of the Supreme Court has been appointed as Chairperson of the Armed Forces Tribunal.

The tenure of appointment of Justice Mathur as Chairperson in the Armed Forces Tribunal will be for a period of four years from the date of assumption of the charge of post or till he attains the age of 70 years whichever is earlier.

Born on August 7, 1943, Justice Mathur was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court on June 7, 2004 and retired from there on August 6.

Pope condemns attaack on Indian christians

Indian origin Aussie delivers baby mid-air on Cathay Pacific flight

 Indian origin Aussie delivers baby mid-air on Cathay Pacific flightAdelaide, Aug 27 : A 34-week pregnant Australian woman of India origin this morning gave birth onboard a flight from Hong Kong to Adelaide with the help of doctors who were also onboard the same flight. Both the mother and the baby body are reportedly doing well.

The baby was born six weeks early, weighed 2.7 kg and was breathing unaided in a hospital''s special care nursery.

Parmajit Kaur (29) was alone returning home after visiting family in India when she went into labour on the Cathay Pacific flight.

“Pak can no longer hide poor governance behind garb of rifts with India”

Washington, Aug 27: Pakistan can no longer hide its poor governance under the cover of accusations that its eastern and western neighbours were behind the internal strife it was passing through. And, in order to alter its foreign policy fortunes, Islamabad needs much more than former president Pervez Musharraf’s departure from its political scene, says an analysis published in the Yale Global online on the prevailing politics in Pakistan.

According to it, Islamabad will finally have to recognise that cross-border belligerence, on its east (read Afghanistan) and west (read India), “cannot overcome its own inequality and poor governance”.

Four killed by militants in India-administered Kashmir

Four killed by militants in India-administered KashmirSrinagar, Kashmir - Four people, including two civilians and an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India-administered Kashmir by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.

At least six people, including four children, had been taken hostage by a group of three to four militants who were holed up in a house on the outskirts of Jammu city, the winter capital of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, said Mohinder Singh, senior superintendent of the Jammu police.

Pages