The European Union on Thursday termed as a "heinous act" the terrorist attack outside the Delhi high court on Wednesday that killed 12 people and injured more than 90, a statement said.

India and Bangladesh on Wednesday stressed on the need to conclude an extradition treaty. In a joint statement, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina “undescroed the need to conclude an extradition treaty expeditiously to complete the legal framework for bilateral security cooperation.”

A leaked US diplomatic cable has said that Bollywood welcomed funding from gangsters and politicians, known in India as “black money.”

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, on Tuesday afternoon asked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati to apologise for making personal attacks against him.

Even as Lionel Messi landed in Dhaka, it was failure of the Teesta accord, which dominated newspapers and the audio visual channels. Some local Bengali papers went on to describe the West Bengal chief minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, as a “drama queen.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was in the midst of a major socio-economic transformation. “Your economy has witnessed steady growth during the last several years and you have achieved commendable successes in eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and

The US is considering the option of keeping some 3,000 troops in Iraq by the end of the year, according to media reports.

Handed another demoralising defeat by England on a miserable tour, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni bemoaned the injury-crisis that has hit his side, saying that all his plans fall apart due to the lack of options at his disposal.

Ayaz Memon

Lionel Messi’s presence on Indian soil last week understandably created hysteria. It’s not often that you get a player of such eminence and charisma on display in the country. But apart from fleeting glimpses of Messi’s genius, what the Argentina-Venezuela friendly revealed was the wide chasm between the football played in India and most of the world.

A MiG-21 ‘Bison’ fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Shambu in Punjab’s Patiala district even as the pilot bailed out safely.