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Blackberry has to confirm to national interests, says Pilot

Sachin Pilot said there would be no compromise with national security concerns in resolving the critical deadlock between BlackBerry maker RIM and the center.




China rejects reports of troop deployment in Pakistan

China has rejected reports that claim the presence of over 11,000 troops in northern Pakistan.




Nitish to discuss hostage crisis at Patna all-party meeting

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will preside over an all-party meeting here on Saturday to discuss the kidnapping of policemen by Maoists.




Lahore police blasted for allowing terror attack despite prior intelligence

Pakistani intelligence agencies have blamed the Lahore police of gross negligence, claiming that it had failed to heed warnings that terrorists would try to target sensitive installations, shrines, imambargahs and other worship places in the city.




Maoists gangrape, bury woman alive for defying their diktat

In a shocking incident of Maoist brutality, an Anganwadi woman was gang-raped and buried alive for defying the rebels diktat last month.




Curfew continues in Anantnag

Curfew continued in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag town for the fourth day on Thursday.




Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case ruling will not affect Ayodhya peace: Residents

By Amit Kanojia

Residents in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya town have said the verdict in the Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case will not affect harmony between the two communities, whichever way the judgment of Allahabad High Court goes.




Lakhisarai encounter: Naxal deadline for releasing captured cops ends today

The deadline set by Maoists for the release of their jailed comrades in exchange for the four cops kidnapped from Bihar’s Lakhisarai district ends today.




Air India bombing case: Judge warns jurors to resist conducting research on Reyat

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has urged jurors to fight their instincts and resist the temptation to go on the Internet to research the Kanishka (Air India) bombing case of June 1985, as he believes information gleaned could cloud their judgment on the role played by prime accused Inderjit Singh Reyat during the high-profile perjury trial.




British forces have ‘created space’ for good Taliban in future politically stable Afghanistan: Clegg

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that the country's forces have ‘created the space’ in Afghanistan in which a political settlement could be reached with elements of the Taliban who were prepared to renounce violence.