Over detention of judges during Emergency rule 
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: A police station in the Pakistani capital has registered a case against the former President, Pervez Musharraf, for illegally detaining judges of the Supreme Court in November 2007.
The case was registered after an additional sessions judge ordered the police to file an FIR against the […]

P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE: In a courtroom drama in Yangon on Tuesday, Myanmar’s junta commuted a tough sentence within minutes of its being pronounced against celebrated democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, according to her defence lawyers, who spoke to The Hindu over the telephone,
Home Minister Maung Ooo appeared in the […]

Ananth Krishnan
SHANGHAI: Rescue workers on Tuesday began searching for the hundreds of people feared buried in landslips in Taiwan and south-eastern China following two days of devastation wrought by the typhoon Morakot.
The typhoon, which struck Taiwan on Friday and moved into south-eastern China on Sunday, left at least 47 people dead and displaced more […]

Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW: Russia is refusing to send a new ambassador to Ukraine in an unprecedented diplomatic démarche that signals a new low in relations between the two most powerful ex-Soviet states.
“Given the current anti-Russian course of the Ukrainian government I have decided to postpone sending our new ambassador to Ukraine,” said Russian President Dmitry […]

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: The Predator returned to South Waziristan on Tuesday reportedly killing at least 10 suspected Taliban militants a week after missiles fired from the unmanned drone aircraft are believed to have taken out their leader Beithullah Mehsud.
This time, the missiles reportedly struck a militant training camp some 7 km from Ladda, where Mehsud, […]

B. Muralidhar Reddy
COLOMBO: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on Tuesday announced that the $150-million Development Bonds (SLDBs) it floated to eligible foreign and local commercial banks has been oversubscribed 1.3 times.
In a statement here, the CBSL said the total bids received amounted to $195.5 million and the government had accepted $190 million […]

A confidence-building move
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani made a confidence-building visit to Swat on Monday accompanied by Army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Provincial Governor and two Chief Ministers.
This was the first visit by the country’s political leadership after the anti-Taliban military operation in the valley apparently aimed at sending out the […]

Atul Aneja
DUBAI: More than 40 Iraqis have been killed, victims of sectarian and ethnic conflict, as vehicle bombs went off in two separate areas on Monday morning.
Two truck bombs exploded in Khaznah, a Kurdish Shia village near the troubled northern city of Mosul. Two car bombs detonated separately in Baghdad, in an area having […]

Ananth Krishnan
BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Sunday night turned back an aircraft bound for the capital city of the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region after the plane reported a bomb-threat.
Airport authorities in Urumqi, the city that was recently the site of the biggest ethnic violence in China’s recent history, denied landing permission to a Kam Airlines aircraft […]

Tamil National Alliance wins in Vavuniya 
B. Muralidhar Reddy
COLOMBO: The pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA) emerged as the single largest party by a narrow margin in the Vavuniya Municipal Council election conducted on Saturday while the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) took a majority of the seats in the Jaffna Municipal Council.
As expected, the […]