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Animals to track quake
BEIJING: Beijing has launched a new earthquake monitoring station at a wildlife park in the southwestern suburbs, using birds and animals as sensors rather than machines. The station will use more than 50 horses, donkeys, peacocks, snakes, ...

Pakistan: too many inaccuracies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday that the report on Kashmir adopted by the European Parliament contained too many "factual inaccuracies" for it to have any value for the efforts to find a solution to the issue. In a statement, the Foreign ...

Kin of missing soldiers can tour Pakistan jails
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Thursday gave the green signal for country-wide tour of jails by relatives of missing Indian soldiers who they believe are still being held as prisoners of war in this country. The Foreign Ministry ...

INTERNATIONAL
Seaborne offensive repulsed: Sri Lanka
Delft Island is a vital surveillance point

INTERNATIONAL
Maldives opens `virtual embassy'
In Second Life, the online virtual world

Pakistan policemen released
ISLAMABAD: Two policemen who were being held hostage at a hardline Islamist mosque in the capital were released on "humanitarian" grounds by the mosque administrators on Thursday, nearly a week after their capture. The controversial mosque, Lal ...

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Stop rhetoric on Iran, says IAEA chief

Stasi scent profiling on protesters

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China's plea on Darfur
BEIJING: China's special envoy dedicated to the Darfur crisis wants Sudan to do more to help put a peacekeeping plan in place in the war-ravaged region, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry official on Thursday. Liu Guijin, who took up the post of ...

38 killed in mine blast
MOSCOW: A methane explosion tore through a coal mine in southern Siberia on Thursday, killing at least 38 persons, said emergency officials, in the latest deadly accident to hit Russia's ailing mining industry. The blast at the Yubileinaya mine ...

India & World

Pawar calls on Rajapaksa
Discussion on bilateral relations, security scenario in Sri Lanka

Indian boat captain jailed
DUBAI: A court in Bahrain had sentenced the Indian captain of a boat that capsized in the Gulf waters last year to three years' imprisonment. The court found, Rajendrakumar Ramjibhai, guilty of manslaughter of 58 people, including 17 Indians ...

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