Recently, mass media reported that ROSTOV (DOSAAF) was going to appeal to the court to contest the refusal to permit some of its organizations to take part in the tender for preparation of conscripts for service in the Armed Forces.

Yes Bank Founder, Managing Director and CEO Rana Kapoor is confident that the potential is huge and risks close to none. The bank has around 8,000 relationships in this segment and claims to have mapped about 150,000 such relationships.

It will not make any difference to our war against terror. Those persons ought to be extradited, questioned and tried over here in our courts,' says Mumbai ATS Chief K P S Raghuvanshi.

In an interview with Business Standard's Devika Banerji, he says the monitoring of rural spending should be on top of the new government's priorities.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Croatia and Slovenia failed to resolve their long-standing border dispute at an EU-brokered meeting between Foreign Minister Gor...

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun said on Friday (June 19th) his government may consider other options if the ongo...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar briefed government officials Wednesday (June 17th) and parliament's Foreign Policy Committee re...

WASHINGTON, the United States -- The UN announced on Thursday (June 11th) it will resume talks between Athens and Skopje on the Macedonia name disput...

Turkey's Parliament has voted to extend for another year the mission of the country's troops in Lebanon which would have expired on September 5. Turkey has around 1,000 troops, most of them sailors, in the force.

Spokeswoman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Yasmina Bouziane reaffirmed Tuesday that "the location that witnessed Israeli Army operations [last week] lies to the south of the withdrawal line and out of UNIFIL's jurisdiction," she said. Last

Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP) leader Asaad Hardan announced Tuesday the formation of a parliamentary bloc which comprises SSNP and Baath MPs. Hardan said "due to the importance of unifying our parliamentary blocs, we announce the formation of the National

Officials in Beirut revealed on Tuesday that 23 Lebanese detainees in Syria were supposed to have been freed from prison last month, as local media reported that the citizens had been freed. Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar told The Daily Star

President Michel Sleiman and Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri both expressed optimism on Tuesday concerning the upcoming post-elections phase During a joint news conference with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa in Egypt, Hariri stressed that the ongoing political

The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) received two Gold Quill Awards recently in San Francisco during the annual International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Conference.

Watching this makes you wonder why in the world John McCain seems to be pining for a rematch: For more swattage, see Muzikal203's recommended diary . Transcript below the fold.

Probably in reaction to the , in which the HELP Committee was goaded by Republicans into having the CBO socre an incomplete draft of a health care plan, then having to scramble when the resulting numbers were bad, Dodd has

We're rapidly getting to the point where reports on Mark Sanford's whereabouts are like Elvis or Big Foot sightings. The latest comes from , which reports the car Mark Sanford's government car -- the one he is thought to have

Tonight's Rescue brought to you by jlms qkw, Elise, YatPundit, srkp23, vcmvo2, taylormattd, mem from somerville, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember whose work you enjoy reading. As a returning vet, rbutter shares the

This is going to be a fairly quick-hitter for a Wednesday, for a variety of reasons (one of which has to do with me not being able to wear shoes for part of the day...don't ask). The main reason, though,

The NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will join the celebration as the recipient of its 2009 environmental prize. The award includes $190,000. The Volvo Environment Prize is awarded for "Outstanding innovations or scientific discoveries which in broad terms fall within