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LAHORE – The participants of 16th Speakers’ Conference, which concluded on Wednesday, have resolved to make every possible effort to protect democracy and parliamentary institutions, maintaining that a commitment to the cause was vital for country’s survival and security.The speakers and deputy speakers ...

RIYADH (Agencies) – India is willing to walk the “extra mile” to open a new chapter in relations with Pakistan but it must act decisively against terrorism, Prime Minister Manm-ohan Singh asserted Monday. Addressing the Majlis Al-Shura or the Saudi Consultative Council here, ...

ISLAMABAD – Rather than doing something serious that might lead to the solution of the disputes between the two nuclear-armed South Asian states, India has handed over two more dossiers to Pakistan.On the other hand, sources from India informed TheNation on Thursday that ...

Bollywood legend Jaya Bachchan (Bhaduri) will be honored with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in a special ceremony in London on March five. Award is for her “outstanding contribution to Cinema spanning over three decades”, which will be presented by “Tongues on Fire” film festival in a gala dinner at Sheraton Hotel ...

Vikram Malhotra has been appointed MD/head of South Asia with immediate effect Work experience: MD/county team head, India International Asia, UBS; more than 15 years of corporate and private banking experience gained at financial institutions across Asia, ABN Amro and Standard Chartered   Read more...

Bloomberg says Barclays Plc’s wealth management unit hired three bankers from UBS AG for its South Asia team in Singapore, according to an e-mailed statement. Barclays Wealth appointed Vikram Malhotra, previously a country team head at UBS, as head of South Asia. It also hired Jagdish Kale and Rohit Nanani ...

The new chief of Singapore's DBS Group (DBSM.SI) plans to earn more from Southeast Asia and India by broadening consumer and private banking services, even as analysts raised concerns about the bank’s latest quarterly earnings boost.  In his first news briefing since taking over at Southeast Asia’s largest bank ...

Thomas Rindlisbacher has been appointed sales director, South Asia Pacific wef February 2010 Work experience: Regional sales & marketing director, Gutor Asia Pacific, Kuala Lumpur; has held senior management roles in Switzerland, USA and Malaysia

LONDON – Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Newspapers and All Parties Parliamentary Group organised Kashmir Conference at the House of Lords on Wednesday.The delegates adopted a unanimous resolution, declaring that durable peace in South Asia is not possible until Kashmir dispute is settled justly.The ...

Reliance mobile subscribers can now browse through their favourite comic characters on the cell phone while on the move. Reliance Communications has tied up with Cartoon Network to launch Archies series, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel Hardy, Ben 10, Johny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls for its subscribers at Re.1 per day. “With ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates’ visit to India on the heels of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s successful visit to Washington last November, will sustain the momentum in US-India ties, according to a US expert. It would also prepare the way for a potential visit by President Barack Obama to India this ...

AmResearch in a Jan 21 research report says: "Swiber has been awarded a full EPCIC contract worth US$189 million from a leading oil and gas operator in South Asia. We estimate that this latest offshore contract will raise Swiber's net order book by 28% to US$862 million for its EPCIC ...

Swiber Holdings, the offshore oil and gas construction and support services provider, says the company and a consortium partner won a contract from a leading oil and gas operator in South Asia worth US$188.8 million ($264 million). Read more...

Actor Anil Kapoor has made an assured and credible debut on US television with a two-hour season premier of the hugely popular drama series “24″. Playing president Omar Hassan of a fictional Middle Eastern country called Islamic Republic of Kamistan, Kapoor’s was a largely swift performance, laboured somewhat in a place ...

Pakistan Monday rejected Indian allegations of sponsoring terrorism, saying New Delhi was out of tune with the realities of today. Pakistan “firmly rejects the assertions of state-sponsored terrorism and invites India to a deep introspection of its own policies and conduct, notably in Jammu and Kashmir”, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit ...

More than 2,000 Intel employees have made donations to earthquake relief efforts for the people of Haiti. The Intel Foundation is matching employee donations dollar for dollar, up to $2,000 per employee, in addition to donating $250,000. Intel's Information Technology group is exploring ...

Citing the very real threat of a new Pakistan-based terror attack on India, a noted South Asia expert says that unlike in 2008 Indian military restraint “cannot be taken for granted if terrorists strike again”. “India faces the real prospect of another major terrorist attack by Pakistan-based terrorist organizations in the ...

Former external affairs and defence minister Jaswant Singh says he wants to work for peace in South Asia, claiming it was he who put Atal Bihari Vajpayee on a bus to Lahore and thought of an India-Pakistan summit in Agra. Singh also said he had no regrets over the controversial hostage ...

Rawalpindi – The National Command Authority met Wednesday with the Prime Minister in the Chair. This was the 16th NCA meeting, but the first meeting since the Prime Minister was made the Chairman by the President. A matter of great urgency was the ...

Amid tight security, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday offered prayers at Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti’s shrine in Ajmer. “She along with 17 members of her delegation arrived at the dargah at around 12.50 p.m. and spent 50 minutes at the premises,” Ahmed Raza, dargah nazim (shrine official) told IANS on phone ...