http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=65&catid=231News Feed for - Indian-subcontinenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96589962&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T02:46:00OTTAWA - There is 'no evidence' Canadian detainees transferred to Afghan jails were tortured, but Canada didn't monitor them during 2006 and part of 2007 and reports of prison abuse were common, a senior CNEWShttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571447&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:18:00China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade - a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial Jakarta Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96549902&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:20:00by Wang Yan KABUL, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Wednesday rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call for peace talks and scoffed at an expected U.S. troop buildup in a rare Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96417088&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:11:00Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai have commemorated the first anniversary of a three-day killing rampage that left 166 people dead and terrorised the country's commercial capital. Mourners gathered Al Jazeerahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96614895&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:34:00Tens of thousands of Sri Lankans are still displaced The UK will try to block Sri Lanka's bid to host the next Commonwealth summit over its handling of the recent war, a UK government source has said. BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96513423&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:06:00For Mumbai, the financial capital of India, the day is a tribute to all those martyrs who gave up their lives to ensure others could live to tell their tales and a salute to the bravery of those who survived. People's Daily Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96443815&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T03:42:00(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, in October 2010, a top Chinese space scientist told China Daily on Thursday. The newspaper SINAhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96536901&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:23:00LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will oppose Sri Lanka hosting the next Commonwealth summit because of concerns over its conduct of the war against Tamil fighters and its treatment of refugees, a government Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96593235&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T03:08:00MUMBAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee is expected to fall on Friday, weighed down by weak Asian shares following Dubai's debt problems. * The partially convertible rupee INR=IN ended at 46.44/45 Reuters Indiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96615233&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T02:50:00NAD ALI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - From the helicopter, you can see the empty fields of southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley. Now comes the question: when the fields are lush again in spring, will Reuters Indiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96616911&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T02:08:00BHOPAL, INDIA -- Twenty-five years after poisonous plumes of chemicals leaked from the Union Carbide factory here, survivors are protesting a government plan to open the site to the public. Officials Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96623529&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T04:01:00Asian Economic News (RTTNews) - The Indian market may extend its previous session's losses on Friday amid worries about a likely debt default in Dubai, concerns surrounding China and the strengthening RTTNews.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96623327&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T03:56:00NEW DELHI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Indian state explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC.BO) is seeking a 20-25 percent stake in a $7.5 billion phase-12 project of Iran's South Pars gas field, media reports Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96622053&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T03:32:00MUMBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Tata Steel (TISC.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a second consecutive consolidated quarterly net loss, but the world's No. 8 steelmaker by output expects a sharp improvement Reuters Indiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96621146&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T03:15:00New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad People from all walks of life came together to join the NDTV's Hands Together for India campaign in cities across the country and observed a two-minute silence for NDTVhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96617186&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T02:08:00Korea's domestic automobile output is expected to fall behind India to rank sixth in the world in 2015. According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on Wednesday, the OECD said although Korea ranked Digital Chosunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96611862&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:04:00TORONTO -- Canadian immigration officials arrested an Indian man in Toronto on Thursday after he gave a fiery speech at an event where the flag of the outlawed Tamil Tigers rebels was flown. Sebastian National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609679&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:12:00The struggle in Afghanistan will not be won by military means alone, Gordon Brown admitted last night as he warned that it must be accompanied by a political solution. As the US, Britain and Nato allies The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96475336&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T01:36:00LONDON, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday pledged to work with India and other international partners in the fight against terrorism on the first anniversary of the terror Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96610446&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:51:00WASHINGTON: There were the glitterati (Night Shyamalan, Kal Penn and other tinsel town types) and the literati (Amartya Sen, Fareed Zakaria etc); there were the digerati (Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Times of Indiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96608426&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:20:00Polio has almost been wiped out, but a few stubborn areas of resistance remain and India is on the frontline against the crippling disease In a school courtyard in Lucknow on a dusty Sunday afternoon, Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96607999&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:14:00PM to speak in favour of 'McChrystalesque' military and political push, ahead of Commonwealth meeting Gordon Brown will embrace the central thrust of General Stanley McChrystal's report into the future Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96607823&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:11:00In response to U.S. pressure, the government wants to boost the civilian support unit in Afghanistan and could send troops to protect them. At a session of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs, Trade Digital Chosunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96607475&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:07:00(Pawel Dwulit/Canadian Press) The government's former senior adviser on Afghanistan denied trying to muzzle senior diplomat Richard Colvin, who alleges that prisoners turned over by the Canadian military CBC Sudburyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560500&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2312009-11-27T00:10:00The government on Friday said the Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan will be increased from 24 to 150 personnel, and that police and troops will be dispatched to protect the team. The Digital Chosun