Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday said conspirators were plotting to bring down his four-year-old government. “I want to make it clear today that conspiracies are being hatched here to pack up the elected government,” Mr Gilani told a gathering at the National Arts Gallery. “But we will continue to fight for the rights of the people of Pakistan whether or not we remain in government,” Mr Gilani added.

Noting that Pakistan deliberately uses terrorism against India, a US scholar has advocated stronger ties with New Delhi and asking Islamabad to start cooperating or lose its aid and face outright isolation.

The West Bengal government on Thursday alleged that the CPI(M) was hatching a conspiracy to kill people in the state.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself accused the CPI(M) of spreading rumours that water supplied from the Nodakhali water supply project in South 24 Parganas was poisoned.

A wave of attacks in Baghdad on Thursday killed 57 people as Iraq faced a political crisis, with its vice-president accused of running death squads and the premier warning he could break off power-sharing.

India's economy is likely to grow less than 7.6 per cent this fiscal year and the RBI's aim to bring inflation down to 7 per cent by the end of March faces uncertainty over the rupee, oil prices, and the euro zone debt crisis, Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Thursday.

Under attack from RJD leader Lalu Prasad and other parties, government on Thursday decided to bring back the provision of reservation for minorities in the Lokpal Bill.

Team Anna on Thursday rejected the Lokpal Bill describing it as 'anti-people and dangerous' and demanded that a new Bill be brought in Parliament that will make CBI independent and decentralise the proposed anti-corruption body.

Former Australian batsman Darren Lehmann on Thursday called for a seamer-friendly pitch for the opening Test against India, saying the visitors should not be afforded the luxury of batting on "flat turners" they are used to at home.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian believes her family's reality shows could go on for years and expects to see her younger siblings feature more prominently in future.

North Korea has hailed Kim Jong-Il’s young son as a 'great successor' at the helm of the isolated country after the death of the leader who built an atomic arsenal and presided over a devastating famine.