VIENNA (Reuters) - Pakistan is expected to become the next head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and home to a nuclear smuggler who supplied Iran and North Korea, diplomats say.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Athletes should not let the outbreak of dengue fever or security concerns ruin their experience at next month's Commonwealth Games, Indian Sports Minister Manohar Singh Gill said on Thursday.
KARACHI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz
has been summoned for questioning by Scotland Yard on Sept. 14
over the alleged spot-fixing scandal that erupted during the
fourth and final test against England.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Myanmar's reclusive leader on Thursday reassured Beijing that China is a vital ally and said an upcoming election and planned power transfer to a civilian government would not affect relations.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - There are no signs of a slowdown in India's industrial output growth, Kaushik Basu, the finance ministry's chief economic adviser said on Thursday.
KARACHI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
has asked Scotland Yard and the International Cricket Council to
allow suspended trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad
Amir to return home from the tour of England.
KABUL (Reuters) - India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church's plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will carry out its first caste census in 80 years, in a controversial decision that could define how political parties campaign for votes and help government schemes offering quotas to lower castes.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's food inflation accelerated in late August, supporting the case for more interest rate rises, while a top government adviser said price pressures would not ease immediately.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ruling Congress party head Sonia Gandhi, the country's most powerful politician, has thrown her support behind greater land rights for farmers as the issue becomes a key political battleground for the government.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The circuit for next year's Indian Grand Prix will be ready in time and tickets for the first Formula One race in the country will go on sale by the end of this year, an official said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - The public face of the emergency response in flood-hit Pakistan may be the international relief worker or Pakistani soldier, but officials say there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people supporting the aid effort who should not be forgotten.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan athletics chiefs have defended world 800 metres record holder David Rudisha's decision to pull out of next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's vital monsoon rains were 26 percent above normal in the week to Sept. 8, compared with 16 percent above normal in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday, a government official told Reuters.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he would go ahead with the event despite warnings it would endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc and its Gulf of Mexico oil well partners traded blame on Wednesday after an internal BP investigation tried to downplay the company's role in the world's biggest offshore spill.
