BEIJING: China on Thursday denied a report that it has deployed 11,000 soldiers in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. But the Chinese foreign ministry described the disputed area as "northern part of Pakistan". It refrained calling it PoK while describing India's Jammu & Kashmir as " India controlled Kashmir". "The story that China has deployed its military in northern part ..... MORE >>>

PATNA: Maoists on Thursday killed one of the four Bihar policemen they abducted four days ago, following a decision by a 'jan adalat' or kangaroo court, their spokesman said. The fate of the remaining three will be decided by 10 am on Friday, the spokesperson told a local TV channel. Sub-inspector Abhay Kumar Yadav was killed at around 4 pm, six hours after expiry of their second deadline of 10 am ..... MORE >>>

WASHINGTON: With China increasing its military power and influence in the strategically crucial Indian Ocean, a noted American expert has urged the Obama administration to partner India to balance and counter Beijing's increasing influence in the region.As the Indian Ocean is becoming increasingly important to China's economic and security interests, Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation said that ..... MORE >>>

LONDON: In a remarkably frank memoir, former Prime Minister Tony Blair explains the reasons why politicians in high positions often cross the line and have affairs with women: for the thrill of an "explosion of irresponsibility". Blair explores the "free-bird" impulse to have affairs "to spring you from that prison of self-control," and says: "Then there is the moment of encounter, so exciting, s ..... MORE >>>

SILVER SPRING: A radical environmentalist took three men hostage in a dramatic siege at the headquarters of a US television channel on Wednesday before being shot and killed by police.All the hostages were unharmed after the four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel in which suspected explosives strapped to the gunman's body apparently detonated in a cloud of smoke.Police said SWAT teams had fir ..... MORE >>>