Republic Day - India

Afghan girl's torture shocks world

For refusing to get into prostitution, Gul's in-laws subject her to torture no 15-year-old deserves.

15-year-old Sahar Gul, is carried into hospital in Baghlan north of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to officials in northeastern Baghlan province, Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months, ripped her fingernails out, tortured her with hot irons and broke her fingers _ all in an attempt to force her into prostitution. Police freed her last week after her uncle called authorities. Horrific images of Sahar, bruised and bloodied, captured on video, transfixed Afghanistan and set off a storm of condemnation. President Hamid Karzai set up a commission to investigate, and his health minister visited her bedside at a Kabul hospital. The in-laws have been arrested _ they deny abusing her _ and a warrant has been issued for her husband, who serves in the Afghan army.

Death Certificate of Bhagat Singh - 1931

Hillary laughs when Pak woman compares US to never-satisfied mother-in-law

"I think that's a great analogy I have never heard before," said Hillary Clinton at Islamabad town hall meeting.

How about this????????

Pakistan bag kabaddi gold at South Asian Beach Games

Pakistan clinched their first gold medal at the South Asian Beach Games after beating India 42-33 in the kabaddi final.

Clinton calls Iran plot ‘dangerous escalation’

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday denounced an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington as a ‘dangerous escalation’ by Tehran and called for international condemnation.

The plot is “a flagrant violation of international and US law and a dangerous escalation of the Iranian government’s long-standing use of political violence and sponsorship of terrorism,” Clinton said.

“Iran must be held accountable for its actions.”

PSLV-C18 puts four satellites in orbit

Along with Indo-French satellite Megha-Tropiques, PSLV-C18 rocket on Wednesday successfully placed in orbit three nano satellites —— VesselSat1-1 from Luxembourg, SRMSat from SRM University, Chennai, and Jugnu from IIT, Kanpur

World powers pre-occupied; India must stand on own feet: Manmohan

Manmohan Singh told top commanders of the armed forces that international strategic and political environment has deteriorated and it must be factored in the policies that India adopts internally or externally.