12 April 2005	Tuesday	02 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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53 pilgrims die in India after dam discharge BHOPAL, April 11: A discharge of water from a dam swept away scores of Hindu pilgrims while they were praying on the banks of the Narmada River in central India, leaving...		India says it won’t object to China in Saarc NEW DELHI, April 11: India said on Monday that China’s interest in joining the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation would be considered at the next Saarc summit in Dhaka, and...
French photographer’s Kashmir art lost SRINAGAR, April 11: Rare photo prints of Kashmir life taken almost 60 years ago by Henri Cartier-Bresson were destroyed in a fire that engulfed a tourist guest house in the held...		Bush urges Palestinians to accept ‘new realities’: Summit with Sharon CRAWFORD, April 11: President George Bush on Monday urged the Palestinians to accept “new realities on the ground” which “make it unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations...
Threats to president not illegal: US court SAN FRANCISCO, April 11: Mailing a letter to the White House supporting President Bush’s death at the hands of terrorists is not illegal, Federal Appeals Court in San Francisco has ruled....		Zarqawi, Bush among Time’s most influential WASHINGTON, April 11: Vatican power-broker Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Iraq terrorist leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, and a little-known Indonesian school teacher joined US President George Bush and 96 others on Time magazine’s...
Israeli PM pressed to discuss Iran with Bush JERUSALEM, April 11: Israeli defence officials asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to raise a military option against Iran’s nuclear programme with US President George Bush in Monday’s talks. According to Israel’s...		Hezbollah flies drone over Israel TYRE, April 11: Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerillas flew an unmanned surveillance drone over northern Israel on Monday, the guerilla group and the Israeli army said. “In response to repeated and continuous enemy...
Earthquakes rattle Indonesia, Japan JAKARTA, April 11: A strong quake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook Indonesia’s Simeulue island off the western coast of Sumatra on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of...		Delhi begins work on aircraft carrier NEW DELHI, April 11: India on Monday began an eight-year project to build an aircraft carrier in its most ambitious military programme to date, officials said. Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee launched...
Bush nominee accused of intimidation WASHINGTON, April 11: Democrats seeking to block President George Bush’s hawkish choice for US ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday accused the nominee, John Bolton, of trying to intimidate intelligence...		Anti-LTTE party worker shot dead COLOMBO, April 11: A man said to be a member of the EPDP, the main anti-LTTE Tamil Political Party, was shot dead allegedly by LTTE pistol gang in eastern Trincomalee town...
Brazil fears foreigners may eye Amazon MANAUS (Brazil): The Brazilian army has plenty to keep it busy in the Amazon jungle. Drug smugglers, illegal loggers and miners, land grabbers, guerrillas and assorted gunmen all lurk in the...		Australia takes a U-turn to woo Asia SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister John Howard has always been uneasy with the country’s Southeast Asian neighbours and his foreign policy views were more in tune with the United States and Britain....
Domestic dynamics fuelling Japan-China row TOKYO: A bitter feud between Japan and China over history textbooks that sparked massive anti-Japanese protests over the weekend could grow angrier as domestic dynamics in both countries make finding solutions...		Why Einstein may have got it wrong LONDON: A century after Albert Einstein published his most famous ideas, physicists this week will commemorate the occasion by trying to demolish one of them. Astronomers will tell experts gathering at...
EU and US at loggerheads over China BRUSSELS: Six months after they promised to launch a new era in transatlantic relations, the European Union and the United States have become entangled in another acrimonious feud — this time...		Singapore’s expansion SINGAPORE: Few islands have ballooned in size like Singapore, whose original beaches, dunes and mangroves have disappeared under the pavement of its expanding metropolis. Over the last four decades, Singapore’s borders...