External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today sought a "zero-tolerance" approach against terror and underscored the nodal role of the UN in combating international terrorism. Speaking in the deliberations at the Russia-India-China (RIC) ministerial meet, Mukherjee also thanked Moscow and Beijing for solidarity and sympathies expressed by them in the wake of the Jaipur terror strike.

Eye-witness accounts of oppression and torture in Tibet. You will bever read such a story in the communist toilet paper AKA Hindu newspaper.

Home grown terrorists are creating problems in secular India

You think your commute is tough? Trying taking the train in Mumbai, India. Mehul Srivastava takes us along on the overcrowded and dangerous ride.

Binayak Sen, humanitarian doctor to the community of Chhattisgarh, was imprisoned a year ago, accused of collaborating with Maoists. Demonstrations took place around the world yesterday in support of his release. (Here's a link to an article about the protests: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Free_Binayak_campaign_gathers_steam_across_globe/articleshow/3037844.cms)

They may be inspired by ideologues in Pakistan or Bangladesh, but the terrorists themselves are most likely to be Indian

Another powerful storm headed toward Burma's cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has reached that the U.N. warned on Wednesday of a "second wave of deaths" among an estimated 2 million survivors. The U.S. military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center said there is a good chance that "a significant tropical cyclone" will form within the next 24 hours and head across the Irrawaddy delta area.

case where Pakistanis prefer to be known as 'Indians?'...POOR, young Latvian women are being lured to Ireland with promises of up to €10,000 to "marry" illegal immigrants here, men mainly from Pakistan, most of whom are believed to have wives back in their home countries.One advert in Latvia stated: "Young unmarried women wanted. Women who would agree to help Indian guys in Dublin with registering marriage on paper.Although the advert claimed that "Indian" men were involved, investigations into such marriages by the Garda National Bureau of Investigation (GNIB) found that those involved are all from Pakistan.

A curfew has been imposed in the old city in Jaipur in western India after a series of bomb blasts killed at least 60 and left more than 150 wounded.

Two Indian teenagers are chasing an American dream as baseball professionals and their promoters hope they can stir up interest in the game in their cricket-mad homeland. Rinku Singh, 18, and fellow javelin thrower Dinesh Patel began a year-long training stint in Los Angeles last week after winning an India-wide pitching contest, "The Million-Dollar Arm". The boys, from poor families, used their natural shoulder strength to take the top two spots from among 8,000 participants