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- IBSA naval exercise no precursor to defence treaty: Pranab Mukherjee

- Pakistan back in the Commonwealth

- Myanmar junta listens to India, agrees to accept global aid

- More than 10,000 feared dead, thousands buried in China earthquake

- India watching situation in Pakistan

- India ready for trade across LoC

- Terror strike averted, army launches combing operations along LoC

- Infiltration has increased in the past two months, says J&K CM

- First BRIC foreign ministers meeting Friday

- India acquires underwater missile launch capability

- Energy, infrastructure new bases of India-Gulf ties: Pranab

- Samajwadi Party isolates Left on nuclear deal

- Brown not to host Dalai Lama at Downing Street

- India marks 1998 nuclear tests anniversary without celebrations

- On Pokhran anniversary, Kalam reiterates support for nuclear deal

- Prisoners' plight may cast shadow on India-Pakistan talks

- Myanmar's death toll could increase 15-fold, warns NGOs

- Manmohan Singh to address Bhutan's new parliament

- US, EU do plain talking with Dhaka on democracy

- Two militants killed in Jammu gun battle

- Pranab invites Rice, shares 'difficulties' in n-deal

- Myanmar's referendum can expect 'yes' to pro-military charter

- Pranab to discuss Sarabjit, CBMs with Pakistan

- Afghan, NATO forces kill eight insurgents in Afghanistan

- Bangladesh Jamaat chief to be charged for the first time

- Myanmar cyclone toll could be more than 100,000: UN

- Meghalaya rejects nuclear plant, oppose uranium mining

- Myanmar's junta stages referendum despite cyclone, world criticism

- US issues 'gag order' on India nuclear deal: Washington Post

- Hillary Clinton will make Indo-US ties stronger: aide

- US asks India to open markets ahead of talks with Kamal Nath

- Agni III not targeted at any particular country: Indian Army

- Brajesh Mishra, Pakistan prime drivers behind 1998 tests: K Subrahmanyam

- Bangladesh polls by December, but political snags persist

- Manipur raises people's army, rights groups warn of anarchy

- Lukewarm response to Dhaka's oil exploration offer

- India flies in more relief for cyclone-hit Myanmar

- Pakistan test-fires cruise missile

- India tests its longest-range n-capable missile

- Indo-French Naval exercises to start Friday

- India alerted Myanmar 36 hours before cyclone hit

- Pakistan says Spain has 'solid' evidence against its nationals

- Pakistan to import wheat from India

- India-Pakistan should deal with prisoners' issue on humanitarian grounds: PM

- India sending two relief ships to cyclone-hit Myanmar (Second Lead)

- Cyclone Nargis kills at least 15,000 in Myanmar.

- No rethink on nuclear deal: Bardhan

- Three Maoists gunned down in Andhra Pradesh

- India concerned at China's growing n-submarine fleet

- After 'Nargis', Dhaka warns of cyclone ABC

- Arjun tanks failed to deliver on many fronts: defence ministry

- Chinese official denies government hand in cyber attacks

- Indo-Pak Indus commission to meet by May end: Pakistan official

- Bush blames Indian middle class for rising food prices

- Kashmir situation under control: Indian Army

- Sarabjit's execution stayed indefinitely

- Pak author's book reveal Kargil was planned before 1999

- India undertaking heaviest airlifting to light up Kabul

- North Korea prepared to blow up nuclear reactor: report

- Pakistanis mourn Nirmala Deshpande's death

- 17 Taliban militants, NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

- Pakistan PM favours 'result-oriented' talks on Kashmir

- Jammu and Kashmir leaders fear voter harassment

- Rise of India, China no cause for protectionism: British premier

- Iran, India must counter foreign powers in region: Iranian vice president

- Bush wouldn't blame bio-fuels, wants export curbs to go

- India among world's most terror-hit nations: US

- Pakistan releases Indian prisoner, raises hopes for others

- Nirmala Deshpande passes away

- Myanmar's referendum a 'sham process': rights group

- China, not India to be focus of US attention in rising Asia

- Broad consensus to be built for nuclear deal: Pranab Mukherjee

- US says nuclear deal is ‘critically important’, can’t call it dead

- India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline to be finalised soon: Ahmadinejad

- Cyclone Nargis set to hit India’s east coast

- No political dialogue without us, say Hasina and Khaleeda Zia

- India takes first steps to define 'refugee'

- New political realignments in Dhaka, Khaleda demands Hasina’s release

- Top militant leader gunned down in Kashmir

- Gilgit leaders ask China not to invest in 'disputed' region

- India imposes tax on some exports to calm prices

- Maoists blow up government building in Jharkhand

- Militants in northeast using drug money to buy arms

- India, European trade organisation to conclude free trade pact

- 203 killed in Tibet protests, say Tibetan exiles

- Bihar may free Nepalese Maoists

- Indian rocket puts 10 satellites in orbit at one go

- India must go ahead with nuclear deal: Brajesh Mishra

- Karzai escapes assassination attempt by Taliban

- Banned Kashmiri militant outfits re-emerging in Pakistan

- Comprehensive action plan to fight Manipur militancy

- Historic PSLV launch on Monday with 10 satellites

- Five Maoist guerrillas killed in Jharkand encounter

- China offers Pakistan military aid to fight terrorism

- India's premier DRDO loses one scientist every second day

- Dhaka, Beijing discuss nuclear, military cooperation

- Boeing to outsource US fighter jet components to India

- Free trade with EU could increase Indian exports by 20 percent

- China to meet Dalai Lama's representative

- Kidnapped Indian in Afghanistan safe: MEA

- Manmohan Singh pledges major relief for Kashmir migrants, refugees

- India, Pakistan resume talks on IPI project

- More cross-border routes will be opened: Manmohan Singh

- European Commission clears Tata's Jaguar deal

- India's inflation up at 7.33 percent

- Maoists attack Essar Steel plant in Chhattisgarh

- Salman Bashir is new Pakistani foreign secretary

- UN body chief bats for India on climate change

- India, UAE can help transform Africa: Kamal Nath

- N-deal unlikely to get cold under new US president: Boucher

- India joins TAPI gas pipeline project, Deora meets Gillani

- Sarabjit's family meet him in jail, urge release

- TAPI gas pipeline project to begin in 2010

- India asks Pakistan to release 641 fishermen

- Boeing submits F/A-18 proposal for Indian Air Force

- India, US discuss climate change, food security (Lead)

- India, US discuss spurt in militancy in Afghanistan

- Arjun tanks could have been sabotaged, says MoD

- Pakistan TV channels banned in Kashmir

- China, Bangladesh to step up bilateral economic ties

- Important progress in pipeline talks with Iran: Pakistan

- India invites bids for advanced surface-to-air missile

- US video shows North Koreans inside Syrian nuclear site: Report

- India-Myanmar border liaison meeting begins

- Abducted Indian engineer's family hopes for his release

- Government to go ahead with nuclear deal, keep parliament informed

- Brown seeks India role in new “Marshall Plan”

- US should not decide if Iran is making nukes: Pranab Mukherjee

- India suffers from lack of transit facilities in Afghanistan

- Pakistan cuts down F-16 order to 18 aircraft

- With hope, anxiety Sarabjit's family goes to Pakistan

- Talk to Tibetan leaders, India urges China

- India’s Northeast overtakes Kashmir in terror deaths

- India to raise 26 percent cap in defence FDI

- India eyeing rail link to Europe via Iran

- India, Iran old friends, no lectures please: India tells US

- Sonia congratulates Prachanda on Maoist poll victory

- 117 terror camps on Bangladesh soil

- India unhappy with US comments on Ahmadinejad visit

- Lift emergency for credible polls, new US envoy tells Dhaka

- Paris gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenship

- Indian kidnapped in Afghanistan, search on

- US hopes India will ask Iran to suspend uranium enrichment

- US asks China to open up Tibet and talk with Dalai Lama

- Chidambaram hints at banning exports to curb inflation

- Indian petroleum minister in Pakistan to talk pipelines

- India stresses equity in climate change regime

- Domestic politics will decide the fate of n-deal: Anil Kakodkar

- Pakistan conducts back-to-back tests of nuclear-capable missile

- Sarabjit Singh's sister pleads for his life again

- India will have revised defence purchase norms by mid-May

- India's Home Minister favours 'middle path' to fight Maoism

- Iranian president plans short visit to Delhi on April 29

- India's internal security situation stable, says Home ministry report

- Bush wants India, China fully in new climate change regime

- Arunachal to have Unified Command to combat insurgency

- India hopeful of n-deal, open to fuel bank idea

- India, US engaged in bid to end India's nuclear isolation

- India's rise won't harm anyone: Narayanan to Nordic countries

- Menon heads to Beijing, dispels fears of rivalry

- Mukherjee meets Saudi King Abdullah, seeks more investments

- EU against Olympics boycott

- Talks will fail if Hasina is not released: Awami League

- Pakistan test fires surface-to-surface ballistic missile

- Police foil Islamists' rally in Bangladesh

- Five militants killed in two Kashmir gunfights

- 11 Bangladesh Islamists get life for sedition

- Indian Oil wants to market aviation fuel in Sri Lanka

- Bush insists on including India, China in emission caps

- Commonwealth to decide Pakistan's membership on May 12

- Pratibha Patil faces Left music in Mexico, session cancelled

- Afghan suicide attack kills 23, wounds 31

- 'Caged relay' in India for Olympic torch, Chinese relieved

- Dalai Lama must show sincerity for talks: China

- Coalition forces kill 13 Taliban insurgents killed, capture 15

- Maoists blow up petrol pump in Bihar

- Germany pledges more aid to Afghanistan

- Five Maoist guerrillas arrested in Orissa

- Olympic torch arrives, Delhi turns into fortress

- Hasina argues with judge, falls sick in court

- Sarabjit's family gets visa to Pakistan, set to meet him after 18 years

- Reduce formalities time for Maitree Express, demands Dhaka media

- India's indigenous battle tank fails winter trials: Army tells parliament

- Boeing to certify Indian supercomputer

- Afghan president seeks Indian investment in education

- Bangladesh slams IMF, World Bank for inaction over food crisis

- India-Russia ties should be like in Soviet era: Russian MPs

- Indian National Defence University gets off the ground

- Indian team in Pakistan to discuss pipeline project

- 162 Indians in Bangladesh jails awaiting return

- US will help Pakistan reconcile with India

- Canada seizes Tamil-owned buildings, freezes accounts

- US still mum on doing business with Maoists in Nepal

- Priyanka admits meeting key convict in father's killing

- Awami League holds talks with government in Bangladesh

- India, Egypt to finalise free trade, economic accord

- India ready to work with Maoists in Nepal

- Nearly 175 terror groups are active in India

- India would not spare food grains for bio-fuel production

- Assassins of Indira Gandhi glorified at Canadian Baisakhi parade

- Explosives seized in West Bengal town

- West must lead climate change battle: Pachauri

- India, China join world's top five, become donors

- 200 hurt in Dhaka as Islamist bodies protest law for women

- Two Indians killed in suicide bombing in Afghanistan

- Dhaka-London terror link charge an 'imperialist conspiracy'

- Dhaka has 'terror links' with London: British home Secretary

- HAL to make 187 light choppers, army says not interested

- Ticket sales for Dhaka-Kolkata train begin

- With Paper bombs and pen grenades, Maoists go hi-tech

- Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills eight

- Supreme Court upholds UPA government's 27 percent OBC quota plan

- Two SIMI activists nabbed near Mumbai

- Britain, Bangladesh to step up anti-terror campaign

- 28 wounded in Assam blast, minister escapes unhurt

- New EU aid for Bangladeshi cyclone victims

- India-Africa farm ties can feed entire world: Unido chief

- India, China would fare better amid slower world growth: IMF

- India to boost energy ties with Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

- Inflation control becoming difficult: PM

- Indian, Pakistani foreign ministers to meet next month

- Two killed, hundreds evacuated after gas leakage at Pakistan's nuclear plant

- India's push will reduce South Asia's poverty: World Bank

- Kashmir issue there, but let's focus on trade: Pakistan

- India's rural health mission not delivering results: Unicef

- Three-year pact for Dhaka-Kolkata train

- Tibetans end Dharamsala-Delhi march, begin protest plans

- India to invest $400 mn in Venezuela oil project

- India plans more frequent joint exercises with US Navy

- India to give preferential market access to 34 African nations: Manmohan Singh

- India's pluralism an example for the world: Ansari

- Protocol set aside as Central Asia hosts Indian Vice President

- India-Pakistan nuclear war would spell global calamity: study

- Over 20 people killed in US-led operation in Afghanistan

- US senators question nine Indian firms on H1-B visas

- UN urged to press India to improve 'abysmal' rights record

- Hillary Clinton urges Olympics ceremony boycott

- 'India's ties with Africa distinct from others'

- Pakistani photojournalist wins Pulitzer prize

- Olympic flame extinguished as protesters disrupt relay in Paris

- More incentives needed to increase exports to Africa: Ficci

- Tibet issue cannot be neglected now: Dalai Lama

- India, Kazakhstan to boost energy cooperation

- Pakistan Air Force gets latest US radar system

- Article 370 hinders industry, investment in Kashmir: ASSOCHAM

- Karzai hints at running for second term

- Taliban commander arrested, 15 killed in Afghanistan

- Dalai Lama not indulging in political activities, says Dalai's envoy

- India may become No. 2 economy in century of Asia: US intelligence chief

- India backs Africa's UN aspirations, calls for stronger ties

- Top Maoist leader, wife killed in Andhra Pradesh

- Dhaka seeks UN's role for trying "war criminals"

- Indo-Nepal treaty Maoists' new poll target

- Chhattisgarh opposition wants Salwa Judum wound up

- Carter arriving to monitor crucial Nepal polls

- USAID to give 90,000 tonnes of food aid to Bangladesh

- Britain chooses India to introduce new visa regime

- Australia will have to reverse ban on uranium sales, says Oppn leader

- PM seeks global funds to fight climate change

- Karat compares Tibet uprising to separatist demands in India

- Senior Myanmar general to visit India this week

- Awami League to launch protests next month

- Chinese leader rings up Indian NSA, discuss Tibet

- Bhutanese opposition cry foul on historic election

- Bangladesh fears militant attack on jailed VIPs

- Dhaka to buy 400,000 tonnes of Indian rice

- Protests erupt as two die in Nepal mosque blast

- Seven years after ban, SIMI is still active

- Maoists loot explosives from Chhattisgarh mine

- Terai talks fail as rebels demand comrades' freedom

- Hero of 'Surrender at Dhaka' reminds Bangladeshis epic struggle

- No curbs on India's deployment of troop carrier: US official

- Four Islamist leaders to hang in Bangladesh

- 10 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan

- Piracy on oceans a growing menace: US Navy secretary

- Reprieve for Zia as apex court rejects government plea

- India's Tatas seal deal to buy Jaguar, Land Rover for $2.3 bn

- Exit monarchy, but long live the king in Bhutan

- N-deal: Too early to cry 'now or never' says reassured US

- India keen on nuclear deal, but not at the cost of government: Mukherjee

- Suicide bombing kills eight in Afghanistan

- Faith in royalty drove DPT to victory in Bhutan

- New Pakistan regime should pursue peace with India: Pranab

- Manmohan to go to a democratic Bhutan in May

- India denies arms deal with Nepal as Maoists protest

- Australia urged to sell uranium to India

- Government committed to nuclear energy: Manmohan Singh

- War within Left as CPI-M and CPI go soft on IAEA

- Mukherjee briefs Rice on nuclear deal hitch

- Royalists sweep Bhutan polls, heavy turnout in newest democracy

- Dhaka-Kolkata 'friendship' train from April 14

- SSB women officers to guard border, men to combat Maoists

- Nuclear deal to dominate Mukherjee's US visit

- India's Agni-1 missile successfully test fired

- Heavy polling expected as Bhutan ready for historic vote

- UN reports violence upsurge ahead of Nepal polls

- Four security men killed in Kashmir gun battle ends

- Killing Maoists is no solution, says ex-minister

- France to send 1,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan

- No fundamentalist could do what India did to me: Taslima

- Congress Speaker Pelosi meets PM, backs n-deal

- Taslima's new safe haven in Sweden?

- Bangladesh to get a panel to deal with the corrupt

- Khaleda Zia refuses to become voter

- Bhutanese apprehensive about democracy

- India keen to make public safeguards pact with IAEA

- China asks 'Indian friends' to avoid 'irresponsible words or acts'

- Lhasa echoes in parliament, BJP says cultural annihilation by Beijing

- 17 Maoists gunned down in Chhattisgarh forest

- Maoists have nexus with terrorists: official

- Nepal whitewashes China crackdown in Tibet

- Many feared dead in Tibet riots, China demands surrender

- With N-deal in limbo, India turns to Central Asia

- Anti-China protests rage in Dharamsala

- India distressed at violence in Lhasa, backs dialogue

- Future of n-deal secure with Democrats: Bill Clinton

- US asks China to review Tibet policies

- India bound only by 123 agreement, not Hyde Act: Ronen Sen

- Indian company may build Sri Lanka airport

- One killed in Bhutan explosion, security alert sounded

- Tibetan refugees demand UN intervention

- Nepal announces indefinite freeze on Everest

- UN urges China to act with restraint in Tibet

- 'Sabotage in Lhasa masterminded by Dalai clique'

- Bush asks China to have a dialogue with Dalai Lama

- Protesting Tibetan monks attempt suicide, go on hunger strike

- Maoists renew attack on rivals ahead of polls

- 100 Tibetans protestors arrested in Himachal Pradesh

- China rebuffs human rights critics

- Dalai Lama talks tough on Tibet's uprising day

- Nepal Maoist chief to face fewer rivals

- 60 Bhutanese refugees leave for US, New Zealand

- India, Africa to launch action plan at April summit

- India, Myanmar to work on making border peaceful

- Maoists take poll plunge with manifesto for 'new Nepal'

- India, Japan trade to touch $15 bn by 2010

- Nepali PM calls for women's participation in polls

- Significant part of SAARC summit shifted from Kandy to Colombo

- Sri Lankan Navy detains 12 Indian fishermen

- India will be 90 percent of US economy by 2050: PWC

- Fearing Maoists, over 1,200 flee villages in Central India

- PM trying to isolate us on n-deal, says Left

- Sensitive issues remain, but Sino-Indian ties on fast track: Chinese envoy

- Supporters appeal for Sheikh Hasina's release

- Unaccounted bodies among UN chopper crash victims in Nepal

- Hasina ready to leave for medical treatment in US

- Nepal rebel leader raises battle cry for independent Terai

- India's IAEA pact nearly complete, political call needed

- India, US discuss ways of expanding high-tech trade

- India gets populist election budget, loan waiver to farmers

- Death toll in Bangladesh boat accident rises to 33

- Gates meets Advani over n-deal

- India, Pakistan to exchange prisoners' list by March 31

- Pakistan warns arms race over India's under-sea missile test

- Fresh bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh

- Indian Muslims must ask Pakistan not to export terror: Delhi Imam

- Khaleda faces new corruption charges

- Sheikh Hasina loses appeals in graft charges

- Nepal candidates file papers for forthcoming polls

- Government, Terai ethnic groups close to agreement in Nepal

- Pakistan is among top 10 countries with persecuted minorities

- Manmohan government looks at April deadline for n-deal

- Top Bengal Maoist leader in police net

- Crippling strike in southern Nepal continues as talks falter

- Civilian monitoring of military operations on the anvil?

- Hasina tells doctors she is innocent

- US Congressman argues for India in Security Council

- Maoist camps busted in Bhutan, eight rebels captured

- Three Afghans arrested in Delhi with heroin worth 100 mn

- Stop using excessive force, Amnesty tells Nepali police

- Efforts continue, n-deal in national interest: Anand Sharma

- July deadline for n-deal, new govt might renegotiate: warns US senators

- No free trade pact with India for now: US

- India welcomes Pakistan polls, ready for dialogue

- Central forces join hunt for Maoists in Orissa

- UN special envoy arrives in Sri Lanka

- US defence chief to visit India

- Hasina agrees to forego medical treatment abroad

- Exit Musharraf as Zardari, Sharif set to join hands

- Sri Lankan troops capture rebel area in north

- Former Nepali PM's party boycotts general elections

- Madhesi Front threatens poll boycott

- 'Pakistan-Bangladesh militant nexus smuggling grenades to India'

- Pakistan votes in 'mother of all elections', early trends mixed

- Khalistan movement revival bid by radical Sikh leader

- Hunt for Maoists intensifies in Orissa, weapons recovered

- India should take lead in pushing n-disarmament: Saran

- India to buy six Lockheed transport aircraft