Pakistan Army under Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is sponsoring a large-scale guerrilla war through Afghan proxies to keep India out of Afghanistan, according to a Canadian diplomat and former deputy head of the UN mission in Kabul.

Dhobi Ghat, directed and produced by Aamir Khan’s wife Kiran Rao, will have its world premiere at 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), organisers announced here on Tuesday.

Stewart Beck, who currently serves as his country’s consul general in San Francisco, is among the front-runners to be appointed Canada’s new high commissioner in India soon, according to well placed sources.

The sexual harassment scandal that cost David Davidar his job as president of Penguin Canada has been buried with his accuser Lisa Rundle settling her lawsuit with him and the publishing company amica

The “recycling” of a previously worn gown is something not new to the British Queen.

Was it a nefarious Canadian plot that left French President Nicolas Sarkozy standing silently at a microphone in the dark?

Debt-ridden Americans can no longer “borrow and buy” the world’s way toward prosperity, US President Barack Obama said on Sunday, warning new drivers of growth were needed to fuel global recovery.

Leaders of G-20 nations have decided against any immediate withdrawal of economic stimulus measures, strongly pushed for by India, to preserve the “fragile” global recovery, while agreeing that countr

Regrouping and power rebalancing is under way at the G-20 while the G-8 is likely to turn into a strategy forum for developed countries led by the US, France and Germany.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pressed US President Barack Obama at their 30-minute face-to-face meeting here to convince Pakistan to take strong action against terrorists involved in anti-India activities in that country following disclosures made by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative David Coleman Headley.