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Ranchi, Aug.9 (ANI): With security personnel carrying out an anti-Maoist drive for a month, a decline in the number of Maoist attacks in Jharkhand has been observed in comparison to the same period at this time last year.

“Maoist infested State of Jharkhand has seen a fall in number [...]

Durgapur (West Bengal), June 30 (ANI): Armed with bows and arrows, many tribals blocked the national highway leading to Durgapur in Hooghly district of West Bengal on Tuesday to express their fury over security forces’ alleged atrocities in the guise of flushing [...]

Medinipur (West Bengal), June 22 (ANI): Normal life was affected in Medinipur region of West Bengal, as vehicular traffic, shops, schools and colleges were all affected due to the 48-hour Bandh call given by the Maoists, as a mark of protest against the security forces’s action [...]

Pirakata (West Benagal) June 19 (ANI): Fear stalks the villagers trapped in the exchange of fire between the security forces and the Maoist rebels who declared Lalgarh region of West Bengal ‘liberated zone’.

The gun battle between the paramilitary troops and the Maoists caused unease amongst the residents of Pirakata village, 18 kilometres from Lalgarh, [...]

Washington, May 22 (ANI): The proposed US military assistance to Pakistan must come with certain benchmarks which were missing in the aid provided to Islamabad in the past.

Several US Senators are pressing the Obama administration to impose conditions on the aid being provided to Pakistan, primarily aimed for counter-insurgency operations against the Taliban and other [...]

Washington, May 4 (ANI): Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has jokingly dismissed Sarah Palin’s inclusion on TIME’s list of influential people.

Romney, who was appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” was replying to a question from moderator John King on whether TIME’s inclusion of Palin and talk show host Rush [...]

Ankara – Turkey has reacted with unease to a statement released Friday night by US President Barack Obama where he described as a “great catastrophe” the deaths of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, CNN-Turk reported on Saturday. “There are parts of the statement that I don’t [...]

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday expressed unease about Pakistan’s deal with the Taliban and also said India was not opposed to economic aid for Islamabad but has reservations about military aid which had been used against New Delhi in the past.
‘This is a cause of worry. This is a problem [...]

Dhaka, April 14 (IANS) India has invited Bangladesh to send a delegation to visit the construction site of the proposed Tipaimukh Dam on the Barak river to allay Dhaka’s fears.
New Delhi made the gesture Monday during a ’surprise’ visit by Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, media reports said Tuesday.
River Barak, also called Meghna, is shared [...]

U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke will meet Indian officials on Wednesday amid concern in New Delhi that Washington’s new regional strategy for Afghanistan is pandering to its old foe Pakistan.
The trip by Holbrooke, special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is his first to India since President Barack Obama announced plans to boost troop numbers in Afghanistan, [...]

SEVENTEEN BODIES of devotees who had drowned after their boat capsized in Yamuna at Beejalpur Ghat have been fished out during rescue operations, till Sunday evening in Jalaun district. Over 24 hours have passed but the operation has not concluded as the bodies of nearly 20 other devotees are yet to be fished out.
There were [...]

BEIJING (AP) President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, promised to work together to renew global growth and build a strategic partnership but did not discuss Beijing’s unease about its holdings of U.S. debt and other disputes in their first meeting at the London economic summit. Obama accepted an invitation to visit Beijing [...]

BEIJING (AP) President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, promised to work together to renew global growth and build a strategic partnership but did not discuss Beijing’s unease about its holdings of U.S. debt and other disputes in their first meeting at the London economic summit. Obama accepted an invitation to visit Beijing [...]

Jerez, Spain – The new rules for deciding this season’s Formula One drivers’ title ratified by FIA earlier this week have been met with criticism by some of the sport’s top names, including defending world champion Lewis Hamilton.
“I don’t really like it,” the McLaren-Mercedes driver was quoted by Thursday’s Bild newspaper as saying while two-time [...]

London – There is a deep sense of unease among the larger Formula One teams following the proposal by motorsport’s ruling body FIA to introduce a budget cap in 2010 and have a winner takes all points system for the drivers’ championship this season.
At a meeting of its World Council in Paris Tuesday, FIA [...]

Rome – Pope Benedict XVI on Monday visited Rome’s city hall and appealed to the Italian capital’s citizens to show tolerance and be more welcoming towards foreign immigrants.
Benedict’s visit, the first by a pontiff in over a decade, came amid tensions in Rome and neighbouring areas involving Romanian immigrants as well as ethnic Roma living [...]

Jerusalem, Feb 12 (ANI): US officials are publicly taking a wait-and-watch approach to the formation of a new Israeli Government, but privately have expressed concern over Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu heading a right-wing coalition.

There would be great unease at the prospect of such a government; the Jerusalem Post quoted one Capitol Hill source, [...]

Washington, Feb.10 (ANI): The dilemma before the United States at the moment is that some elements of the Pakistani Government continue to support the Taliban as “a proxy organization in Afghanistan.”

According to Seth Jones, a terrorism analyst at the RAND Corporation, there is growing concern among American military and intelligence officials about different militants’ havens [...]