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more images more images GUWAHATI - Two senior leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) - Sasha Choudhury and Chitraban Hazarika - were Saturday remanded to police custody for 10 days even as both claimed they had not surrendered and would not sit for peace talks with the government. The two leaders were produced [...]

Pakistan models defy Taliban with 1st fashion week KARACHI, Pakistan — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts. As surging militant violence grabs headlines around [...]

NEW DELHI - Discussing a report by software industry group Nasscom which says that 75 percent engineering students in India are unemployable, education experts here Saturday said that the Indian higher education system must give skill building and practical training equal importance as academics to give them an edge. A.D. Sahasrabudhu, director of the College of [...]

THIMPHU - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought a road to Bhutan through India for bettr trade and people-to-people contact. She told her hosts at this Bhutanese capital that India had accepted the idea in principle. Bangladesh and Bhutan could develop land communication through India at three points in Bangladesh — Burimari Port (Lalmonirhat), [...]