Sydney : Prime Minister Tony Abbott denies that comments on China being unable to play a serious global leadership role by the head of his own department are provocative.Michael Thawley, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, expressed frank views at a forum at the Australian National University (ANU) yesterday.”[China is] not willing […]
Beijing, July 1: A Chinese submarine’s visit to Pakistan was in no way a threat to India, according to a military spokesman of the defence ministry here.Asked by visiting journalists to the Chinese ministry of national defence whether such a visit could be seen as a threat to India, as some commentators have said, Major […]
Washington, Jul 1: Greece has become the first developed country to default on its debt to the International Monetary Fund, after missing a 1.5 billion euro (USD 1.7 billion) payment. “I confirm that the SDR 1.2 billion repayment due by Greece to the IMF today has not been received,” said Fund spokesman Gerry Rice yesterday.“We […]
New Delhi, July 1: The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that there can be no compromise in a rape case in the name of promising wedlock.An apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said that any compromise promising wedlock between a rape accused and the victim compromises the dignity of the woman.The court said […]
The Bharatita Janata Party in Punjab seems to have made it a single point agenda to corner its alliance partner, the Shiromani Akali Dal, on the issue of increasing menace of drugs going by the developments during the last ten days. What happened on the stage in Hoshiarpur at the state level function to mark […]