PakSCwants Haqqani in court in Memo case
Islamabad: Pakistan’s SC on Tuesday directed authorities to ensure former Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani’s presence in court over a case related to an alleged memo sent to the US military in 2011 to help stave off a feared coup.
Sulabh founder gets French award
london: Environmentalist Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the famed Sulabh project that provides basic and affordable toilet access to India’s poor, has been presented with the ‘legend of Planet’ award in Paris.
indiato b’desh: will follow protocol
Dhaka: India on Tuesday assured Bangladesh that it would abide by the country’s laws for proposed construction of a port after Dhaka denied being aware of any such plan. Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry had sought a clarification from MEA over media reports that India plans to carry out feasibility studies for the Narayanganj river port container terminal without informing Dhaka.
3 lTTE bombers sentenced to jail
Colombo: Three members of the lTTE, including a woman, were on Tuesday sentenced to jail by a Sri lankan court for bombing a passenger train in 1996 that left 58 people killed. The Tamil rebels, Robert Maxillan, Saveri Muttu loganathan and Thirumagal alias Ramani, pleaded guilty to the charge of having conspired to explode a bomb on a crowded passenger train at Dehiwala, a Colombo suburb, on July 27, 1996 that killed 58 and injured 270
Road bomb kills 3 children, father
Kabul: An official says three children and their father died when their car hit a bomb on a road in Afghanistan, the latest in a sharp rise in civilian casualties. The mother was critically injured.