Moscow, February 20: Between 90 and 100 kg of uranium has been enriched to 20 percent at a facility in the Iranian city of Natanz, the country's news agency ISNA reported Monday. According to Fereydoon Abbasi, who supervises Iran's nuclear programme, the procedure was supervised by experts from the global nuclear watchdog ...

Islamabad, February 19: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday hinted at the possibility of holding early parliamentary elections. The parliamentary elections are scheduled in early 2013. The prime minister said the issue of early elections will be discussed after next month's Senate elections and the presentation of the annual budget in May, ...

Washington, February 18: As the US imposed new sanctions against Iran, Washington said it was talking to India, Pakistan, Russia, and China about what they can do, particularly to wean themselves from Iranian crude. "We are engaged in conversations with all of these governments with regard to the importance of implementing existing ...

New Delhi, February 17: India Friday dismissed suggestions that its growing relations with the US were aimed at countering China, saying its armed forces were being strengthened primarily to protect and safeguard its territorial integrity. "No, that is not correct," said Defence Minister A.K. Antony on the sidelines of an Indian Air ...

New York, February 17: The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution that condemned the violent crackdown in Syria and urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. India supported the Arab League-backed resolution, but made it clear that it was opposed to use of force. The resolution, adopted ...

Beijing, February 16: A county in northwest China will spend four million yuan (around $635,000) to build a museum for the preservation of a 1,000-year-old copy of the Quran. Officials from Dongxiang county in Gansu province said the money will be used to build an 800-square-metre museum with exhibition halls and digital ...

New Delhi, February 12:  Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists vandalised several Hindu temples in the Hathazari area of Chittagong in Bangladesh on Thursday and Friday, forcing the law enforcement authorities to impose Section 144 of the Bangladesh Penal Code that bans public gatherings in the affected area. According to the website bdnews.com, Muslims, ...

Male, February 16: In a triumph of diplomacy, India Thursday succeeded in brokering a political deal in the Maldives, with all political parties agreeing to hold elections "as early as possible", paving the way for a political reconciliation in the island nation that plunged into turmoil after Mohamed Nasheed resigned as ...

Moscow/New Delhi, February 16: Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred 'Bhagavad Gita' branded as "extremist literature" and banned, after the state prosecutors filed an appeal against an earlier judgment in December last year throwing out ...

New Delhi, February 14: Investigators are searching for a red-coloured bike that the bomber used while targeting the car of an Israeli embassy official in a terror attack Monday, Delhi Police Chief B.K. Gupta said Tuesday. Gupta said police were appealing to the public through the media for information on the bike ...