52 cyclists take on Himachal mountains
byShimla: Fifty-two intrepid cyclists set out from here Saturday for the second off-road mountain biking adventure race, Shimla Edition 2013, organisers of the event…
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Chechens fighting in Syria are mercenaries, says Kadyrov
byDubai, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed Chechens fighting in Syria as merely mercenaries “fighting for money and not an…
Pakistan may use LeT for proxy war in Kashmir: US report
byWashington: Raising the spectre of a renewed conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a US study has warned that Islamabad may well turn…
Dutch tourist arrested for British woman’s murder in Srinagar
bySrinagar, April 6 (IANS) A British tourist was found murdered on a houseboat in Srinagar Saturday. Police have detained a Dutch national suspected to…
Advanced Sukhoi to be unveiled in Paris show
byMoscow: Russia will unveil its most advanced aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker fighter jet and the Ka-52 Alligator helicopter gunship, at the Paris air…
WWII arsenal found in Russian apartment
byKaliningrad, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) An arsenal of World War II firearms have been discovered in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad in an apartment…
Moscow has world’s worst traffic
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) With its notorious traffic jams, the Russian capital has topped a “congestion index” among 161 cities with a population…
Putin to take up literature, sports after quitting politics
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Literature, sports, jurisprudence and public projects will top the list of Vladimir Putin’s interests when he decides to quit…
Syria needs negotiations to stop ‘massacre’: Putin
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is not looking to oust Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and wants the conflicting parties to negotiate and stop…
Russian officer jailed for $1.5 mn fraud
byMoscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A former Russian Federal Security Service (or FSB) officer has been sentenced by a Moscow court to two years…