India

Sri Lanka wants to initiate railway links with India

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Colombo, Dec 3 (IANS) Sri Lanka has expressed its willingness to initiate a railway link with neighbouring India via the north-western coastal Mannar island, which is located a few nautical miles away from India’s pilgrim town of Rameshwaram.



With lesson learnt from Mumbai, capital’s hotels tighten security

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Inquisitive guards, metal detectors, intensive baggage checking and body frisking will now await visitors to all star hotels in the national capital as managements have beefed up security in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.



China offers security aid to Nepal

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Kathmandu, Dec 3 (IANS) Twenty years after a standoff between India and Nepal over the latter’s decision to purchase arms from China, Kathmandu will get fresh security assistance from Beijing in the form of training and equipment, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi pledged Wednesday.



Achuthanandan apologises under pressure from opposition (Lead)

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 3 (IANS) Wilting under pressure from the opposition, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday apologized for his remarks against the family of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was killed fighting terrorists in Mumbai.



Migration to cities causes blood pressure: study

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Migration to urban areas is an important contributor to high blood pressure and hypertension, as has been found among people in the Indian capital in a new study conducted by AIIMS.



Coast Guard defending India’s shores with depleted assets

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The brazen Mumbai terror attack has underlined that India’s vast 7,516-km-long coastline is the country’s Achilles’ heel with the Coast Guard grappling with depleted assets and a Marine Police force that has miserably failed to supplement coastal security.



Unsubstantiated charges against Pakistan, say political parties

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Islamabad, Dec 3 (IANS) While reiterating their desire for constructive engagement with India, Pakistan’s political parties have also taken “strong exception” to the “unsubstantiated” allegations “made in haste” against this country in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.



New Oil India plan to boost Assam oil output

Dec 3rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Guwahati, Dec 3 (IANS) A top official of India’s leading oil exploration company, Oil India Ltd (OIL), said here Wednesday that the company has embarked on a massive plan to boost crude oil output from oil fields in India’s north eastern state of Assam.