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Relations with India 'fragile', says Chinese ambassador AFP – Zhang Yan, China's Ambassador to India, has said relations with India are "fragile", but … Mon Dec 13, 3:42 am ET NEW DELHI (AFP) – Relations with India are "fragile", China 's ambassador said on Monday, but the two countries can work together to emerge as a "world factory and a world office". Ahead of a visit to India on Wednesday by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, ambassador Zhang Yan said trust was badly needed between the neighbours. "It is a fragile relationship and it needs special care," Zhang said. Taking up the view that Asia can accommodate the rise of both countries peacefully, Zhang stressed how both had different strengths -- China in manufacturing and India in the IT and outsourcing sectors. "The two neighbouring countries should work together as a world factory and world office," Zhang said at a summit organised by an industry body in New...

For the first time, securitymen kill more civilians than terrorists in J&K Josy Joseph, TNN NEW DELHI : As the central government looks at concrete steps to stem the tide of violence in Kashmir , statistics paint a worrisome picture of what is wrong in the Valley. For the first time since insurgency started in Jammu and   Kashmir   in the late 80s, more   civilians   have been killed by security forces than   terrorists .   This sudden twist in the reality of Kashmir should weigh heavily in their minds as the   Prime Minister   and his senior colleagues assemble for a   Cabinet Committee on Security   meeting later this week to chalk out a strategy to deal with the upsurge in street protests and casualties in firing by the security forces. According to the latest statistics, the number of civilians killed in firings by security forces is almost three times the number of those killed in actions by terrorists. A...

BRAMPTON , ONT.  A patient who recently travelled to India and was later treated at a health facility in Brampton , Ont., has tested positive for the NDM-1 superbug, Ontario health officials confirmed Saturday. It is the first-known case of NDM-1 in Ontario , and the third in Canada , said provincial Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care spokeswoman Joanne Woodward Fraser. The patient was being treated at the William Osler Health System facility in Brampton , she said, and is no longer in hospital. NDM-1 is a bacteria that is highly resistant to most antibiotics. World health officials have recently become concerned about the spread of the bacteria from countries like India , Pakistan and Bangladesh . Cases have already been reported in British Columbia and Alberta . “The chief medical officer of health (in Ontario ) is apprised of the situation and she's in close touch with the local public health unit,” Fraser said. The patient, whose name and age can't be revealed ...

May 27th, 2010 --  Age Correspondents   | New Delhi There was further reason for India to be greatly annoyed with the Canadians after it emerged on Wednesday that an Intelligence Bureau official who was to have travelled to Canada as part of preparations for the Prime Minister’s forthcoming visit to that country was denied a visa as his organisation had “engaged in violence”. The IB official, who was due to travel to Toronto, was later given a visa but only after New Delhi lodged a strong protest about the visa denial. In an understandably angry reaction, the home ministry on Wednesday wrote to the ministry of external affairs asking that Canada “apologise” for citing the reasons it had for repeated denial of visas to various officials, and also described the developments as “unacceptable”. Wednesday’s revelations only added fuel to a fire which was stoked when it became known earlier this week that a retired BSF official too was denied a Canadian visa for having served...

Posted By Shahid R. Siddiqi On October 6, 2009 - - - - - - o o o - - - - - - This article was first published at Axis of Logic - - - - - - o o o - - - - - - Driven by paranoia with resurgent Islam as a threat to the established social order in the West and their obsession to control this very important oil rich region, American strategists have toyed with the idea of redrawing political boundaries of Islamic states along ethnic lines. The American attack on Afghanistan and Iraq on false pretexts of ‘war on terror’ was the initiation of this strategy. Now they seek to legitimize their actions by labeling them as efforts to dispense justice for ‘oppressed Muslim minorities’. - - - - - - o o o - - - - - - They believe that smaller entities would be easier to micromanage through puppet regimes, enabling them to contain militancy and squeeze into extinction Jehadi outfits by choking their funding. - - - - - - o o o - - - - - - This ‘remapping’ involves splintering the Muslim w...

Arun Kumar Singh - - - - - - Sept.16 : - - - - - - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s latest admission that military aid provided by the United States to Pakistan for the war against terror during his tenure had been used to strengthen defences against India, and that he ensured Pakistan’s strategic weapons programme was "speeded up", as well as China’s latest border incursions should finally clear the cobwebs from the minds of India’s political leadership. - - - - - - Many Indians wonder why we continue to suffer nasty surprises at the hands of Pakistan and China. Forty-seven years after the Sino-Indian war in 1962, India has again been taken by surprise by China in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Uttarakhand. - - - - - - India’s lack of strategic culture has been repeatedly exposed and its military often forced to fight under very disadvantageous conditions. - - - - - - Our political-bureacratic leadership has allowed defence preparations to fa...

Delhi - In yet another sordid tale of ragging in the city, a 17-year-old boy who had struggled to get an education for himself was allegedly asked to strip and then hit on his private parts by his seniors — all in the name of an “introduction”. The boy, a student of Industrial Training Institute at Vivek Nagar in east Delhi, is recuperating at the GTB Hospital where he received three stitches on his genitals. The incident allegedly took place around 11.15am on September 2, the second day of college for the victim. The boy’s father, an auto driver from Nand Nagri, alleged that his son was beaten up with thick metal rods and sticks. The Vivek Vihar police station has registered a case under IPC sections 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person), 342 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (common intention) and arrested six students including a minor. “The victim was ragged on the first day of his college on September 1. The student claim...

Sarju Kaul London Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, attending his first G-20 meeting, on Friday afternoon announced that India would contribute $10 billion from its reserves in the Bric combined contribution of $80 billion to supplement the resources of the International Monetary Fund. China has already contributed $50 billion and the remaining sum will be divided between Russia and Brazil. Despite American insistence that the Bric governments provide new resources to the IMF through its New Arrang-ement to Borrow (NAB), the Bric nations made it clear that demand for added resources should not be used to put off quota reforms in the international financial institutions. "The Bric nations are not too happy with NAB," Brazilian foreign minister Guido Mantega said and added that the Western nations "should change rules to reflect the new economic scenario in the world". The Bric nations also agreed to a joint stand on the issue of IMF and World Bank quota ref...

Pakistani youth in danger of radicalisation: study *Brookings report says US should make socio-economic aid conditional upon Pakistan’s ability to spread benefits to masses instead of tying it solely to terrorismBy Khalid HasanWASHINGTON: Pakistan’s potential for youth radicalisation is high, given a poor education system stratified along socio-economic lines and disparate economic opportunities across society, according to a study published by the Brookings Institution.Authored by Pakistani scholar and journalist Moeed Yusuf, the study, titled ‘The Prospects of Youth Radicalisation in Pakistan: Implications for US Policy’, finds warning signals that increase the likelihood for young members of society being lured towards extremist causes. The prospects of this are increased because of the presence of an extremist infrastructure, the impeccable organisational discipline and widespread social networks of Pakistan’s Islamic political and militant outfits, a failure of the moderate forc...