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Thursday, 20 January 2011

Kashmir not to allow BJP's flag hoisting

Jammu, Jan 20 (IANS) Thursday, January 20, 2011 --> A day after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi, the state government announced on Thursday that it would not allow any ''programme which has the potential of vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in the...

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India: Disgraced bureaucrat couple had $80M wealth The Boston Globe

NEW DELHI-As top officials in a state government of India, Arvind and Tinu Joshi should have led a comfortable middle-class existence. But an income tax investigation found more than two dozen apartments, nearly 400 acres (160 hectares) of land, piles of jewelry and foreign currency stashed in bank...

South Korea agrees to North military talks Yahoo Daily News

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea agreed on Thursday to hold high-level military talks with rival North Korea, marking a major breakthrough in a crisis on the Korean peninsula and heightening the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament talks. A defense ministry spokesman in Seoul said it had not...

PAKISTAN: Karachi settlers haunted by violence IRINnews

KARACHI, 20 January 2011 (IRIN) - In the courtyard of a busy hospital in Karachi, many different languages can be heard, as families chat to each other while waiting for consultations or to visit patients. Urdu [the national language], and Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto and Balochi - languages spoken in...

Turkish FM urges Iran to offer nuclear assurances Yahoo Daily News

ISTANBUL – Turkey is urging Iran to offer assurances that it won't seek nuclear...

Thailand imposes diving ban to save coral Yahoo Daily News

BANGKOK – Thai authorities have prohibited diving at seven marine national parks popular with tourists to try to protect...

Japanese housewives' secret savings 'at 3-year low' Yahoo Daily News

TOKYO (AFP) – The "secret savings" of Japanese housewives hit a three-year low in 2010 as they were forced to compensate for slumping family incomes with the hidden reserves, according to a survey released...

Bangladesh halts trading again as shares dive Yahoo Daily News

DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladeshi regulators halted trading on the plunging Dhaka Stock Exchange Thursday after it lost 8.6 percent in six minutes, the fastest fall in the bourse's history. The market lost 599.76 points to 6,313.62 soon after trading started on the Dhaka Stock Exchange at 1:00 pm...

Japan PM 'concerned' over China's defence build-up Yahoo Daily News

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday voiced fresh concern about China's defence spending and its maritime activities and said Japan should focus on its alliance with the United States. Kan also pledged to take the lead in setting up rules on regional ocean disputes...

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