UN to Exit Nepal Peace Process July 23 
by Sudeshna Sarkar
The UN agency that was invited by Nepal's major political parties last year to assist in the critical peace negotiations will exit the Himalayan nation July 23 after its contract ends, as it has no hope of getting an extension, according to a report tabled before the UN Security Council. Read On

14 Pakistani Fishermen Freed by India
Reach Karachi by Muhammad Najeeb
Fourteen Pakistani fishermen released from Indian jails in a "goodwill gesture" reached Karachi Saturday where they were received by a team of the Fishermen's Cooperative Society (FCS). Read On

Pakistan's Poor Go Hungry Amid Food Shortages
by Fakhr Ahmad
Sukena, a middle-aged mother of two girls, argued with a shopkeeper as she reached her hands into the pockets of her burqa and counted money. All she had was Rs.25 (35 cents), barely enough to buy bread but no milk in the port city of Karachi. Read On

Chinese Nuclear Missile Base
has North India in Sight
Two weeks after photographs of China's nuclear submarines set alarm bells ringing for the Indian authorities, a commercial satellite has revealed a launching site for over 50 nuclear ballistic missiles, capable of striking all north Indian cities. Read On

Obama Hits Back at Bush
Over Appeasement Comments
Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama lashed out at President George W. Bush Friday for carrying out an "appalling attack" by suggesting the Illinois senator would appease terrorists. "After eight years I did not think I could be surprised about anything George Bush says," Obama said at a campaign rally in Watertown, South Dakota. "That's exactly the kind of appalling attack that divided our country and alienates us from the world," he added. Read On

Colombo Suicide Blast Kills Nine, 95 Wounded
by P. Karunakharan
Seven police personnel and two civilians were killed and some 95 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a police bus in the heart of the busy Sri Lankan capital at midday Friday. Read On

• Now PPP & PML-N Spat over Punjab Governor

Bush Stirs Hornet's Nest in US Presidential Race
by Arun Kumar
President George Bush has stirred a hornet's nest in the US presidential race with his perceived criticism of Barack Obama's foreign policy stance, sending Democratic leaders to rally round the party frontrunner. At issue are Bush's remarks, deliberate or not, that it is a "foolish delusion" to think that negotiations with terrorists and radicals would yield results and likening it to what he called the "false comfort of appeasement" of the Nazis and Hitler. Read On

• US House of Representatives Passes
  Troop Withdrawal Bill 

US with Israel Against Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Bush
Visiting US President George W. Bush expressed unequivocal support for Israel Thursday, saying it had a right to defend itself against attacks by extremists and had American backing in opposing Iran's nuclear ambitions. Read On

McCain too Blames India, China
for Global Warming by Arun Kumar 
Like President George Bush, the presumptive Republican Presidential candidate John McCain too has said a new global pact on climate change must include India and China, the "greatest contributors" to global warming. Read On

• Kings XI Defeat Daredevils as Rain Plays Spoilsport
• Rajasthan Royals Thrash Bangalore Royal Challengers

PM for Separate Agency to Deal with Terrorism
Making a forceful pitch for a separate authority to deal with crimes threatening the country's security, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said several states showed reluctance to surrender power to such an agency. Read On

• Advani Hopeful of BJP Majority in Karnataka
• India Sends 50 Medical Personnel to Myanmar
• Pakistan Should Hand Over Dawood: Advani  

Gowda Fighting his Biggest Political Battle
as he Completes 75 
By V.S. Karnic
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda, former prime minister and currently Janata Dal-Secular president, Sunday completes 75 years - 55 of them spent in active politics. He is busy waging, and relishing, the biggest political battle of his life - the ongoing Karnakata assembly polls. Read On

Six Jaish Militants Killed in Kashmir Gunbattle
Six militants of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit, including two local commanders, were killed by security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, police said. Read On

•  Market Moves Ahead Shrugging off Inflation,
   Rising Crude
• LDF Government's Second Year Ends on Dull Note
• Tamil Nadu Power Board Stressing on Wind Energy
• Noida Girl's Murder Suspect Found Dead on Terrace

PM Pledges Rs.100 bn Economic Partnership
with Bhutan by Murali Krishnan
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday pledged Rs.100 billion ($2.5 bn) over the next five years as part of a package of economic engagement with Bhutan, asserting that the challenge before both countries was to evolve a model of sustainable development. Read On

• Ambitious Programme for Poor in India's Northeast
• Unsure of Democracy's Outcome
  Bhutanese Feel Change is Good 

Rajasthan Chamber Urges Members
to Donate for Victims
Eager to provide relief to those injured in the serial terror blasts here that also killed over 60 people, the Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has asked its over 10,000 members to donate funds. Read On

• Pollock, Jayasuriya Star in Mumbai Indians Win

Apex Court Suspends Calcutta High Court's
Anti-Quota Order
The Supreme Court Friday suspended the Calcutta High Court's anti-quota order, which restrained the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) from admitting backward category students against the 27 percent seats reserved for them by a central law. Read On

India to Develop Bhutan's Hydro Potential,
Import 10,000 MW by Murali Krishnan
In this celebratory year of monarchic Bhutan's transition to the world's youngest democracy, India Friday made a significant move to broaden its energy basket by pledging to import 10,000 MW of electricity by 2020 from a country with one of the world's largest hydropower potential. Read On

• Andhra Man Tops Civil Services, Delhi Boy No 2 
• Reliance Big Entertainment to Spend $1 bn on Films
• 63% Polling in Karnataka
• Time to Seriously Rethink Left Unity: RSP