How were Thai protesters able to strike at Bangkok?

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan must "co-operate fully" to bring Mumbai's attackers to justice.

A week after terrorists Ajmal Ameer Kasab and Abu Dera Ismael Khan wreaked havoc by firing indiscriminately inside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus...

Investigation into the Mumbai terror attacks is acquiring the dimensions of an international probe with trails being tracked in several countries besides Pakistan after evidence that the terrorists used a Thuraya satellite...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has rejected India’s demand to hand over Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohd Sayeed and other fugitives...

With India's coastal security already breached by terrorists in Mumbai, Defence Minister A K Antony warned the armed forces of possible terror attacks from airborne platforms similar to the 9/11 attacks in the US.

Maharashtra was minus a Chief Minister tonight after the Congress leadership accepted the resignation of Vilasrao Deshmukh...

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian S. Gajendran, who represents Ki`linochchi district (Ja..

A social survey has revealed that 90% of the beggar population of Colombo city does not expect any b..

Colombo, Dec 03: Sri Lanka has expressed its willingness to initiate a railway link with neighbourin..

Twelve thousand soldiers have died in war during the three-year rule of Mahinda Rajapaksa, while a s..

Paul Harris, one time Jane`s Intelligence Review correspondent in Colombo, Sri Lanka who was banishe..

A 13 year old girl in Katuwana has given birth to a baby. The mother and child are in good health ac..

US motorists who squawked about the oil price when it went stratospheric may think they're lucky now it has fallen back to Earth. With the flood of recycled petro-dollars now slowing, it won't be long before those drivers start squawking

The main thrust of international debate on the economic crisis has been on how to salvage the US financial system, yet numerous proposed measures fail to address a crucial issue - wherewith is future growth coming? - Francesco Sisci

The declaration released after the recent Group of Twenty economic summit in Washington, DC, is a significant - and contradictory - document, riddled with meaningless and empty hortatory language. As leading economies still lurch from one massive bailout maneuver to

China has made great efforts to court its Southeast Asian neighbors and expand its sphere of economic influence. Through soft power diplomacy, Beijing is able to obtain more policy channels to engage with these countries, without sacrificing its own economic

If Barack Obama's administration treated China as an equal partner, the gains accruing to the US would include reduced military expenditures and better prospects for world stability. Not least, improved relations would help save America's foundering economy. - George Koo

Russia's foreign currency reserves are being fast eroded as the government tries in vain to brake the declining value of the rouble, weakened by tumbling commodity prices. Under conditions of increasing economic hardship all around, Russia looks to be on

The new Barack Obama administration has to engage China in space as well as cope with Europeans eager to do satellite deals with Beijing which United States companies cannot pursue. - Peter J Brown (Dec 3,'08)-This is the second article