We will soon be eating genetically modified rice invented by seeds multinational corporations. Contamination of our rice a distinct possibility. --Aru

New Delhi: The CBI today said it would look into the allegation that Noida police has destroyed evidence while probing the Arushi-Hemraj double murder

New Delhi: The hugely successful Indian Premier League (IPL) was tonight hit by allegation of a doping scandal with reports that a sub-continental pac

Union Territory of Pondicherry India Capital city of the eponymous Union Territory. For the Union Territory itself, see Puducherry. Puducherry • India The majority of Puducherrians speak Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam. At the time of their departure from the country,

There are more foreign fighters, including al-Qaeda militants, in Pakistan's tribal region than before, says the US military chief.

The funeral takes place of a 20-year-old soldier from Warwickshire who was killed in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defence investigates why a British helicopter accidentally fired on UK troops, wounding nine.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, July 13 -- Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 19 Afghan and NATO troops injured in heavy fighting Sunday at a military base in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, according to a Western official. The attack was

An alleged US air-strike on a wedding party and a suicide car bombing in Kabul has put the plight of civilians back on the agenda in Afghanistan, the BBC's Martin Patience says.

A US air strike in Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, investigators say.

Barack Obama is mourning the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, even as he says John McCain's numerous visits to the area don't leave the Republican better equipped to deal with that volatile region.

A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.

Nine U.S. troops were killed Sunday in an attack on a base in a remote province of eastern Afghanistan, a Western official said.

AP IMPACT: Pakistan militants secretly meet, commit to fight US and NATO in Afghanistan

From AFP:China registered a 7.57 billion dollar trade deficit in agricultural products during the first five months of 2008, up by more than 14-fold over the same period last year, state press said Sunday.China imported 23.75 billion dollars of agricultural

Written by Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow, from Los Angeles Times:President Bush's announcement that he will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics came in the wake of brutal crackdowns in Tibet and during a week when seven peacekeepers

Most discussions of China's search for resources in Africa focus on oil, minerals, and timber. Often overlooked is China's equally huge appetite for ivory. A paper published last year in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy

Written by Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, from the International Herald Tribune:First, local Chinese authorities have repeatedly demonstrated their incompetence in handling incipient crises.Typically, a mass riot has three phases. During the first

From the Economic Times:China's auto import growth has slowed down in the first five months of 2008 after a tightened control that denies refitted and stolen motor vehicles access to the country's market, the customs said. Since April, China has