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US snubs plea to blacklist India for religious bias
Washington: The State Department on October 7 rejected a suggestion by a US
government advisory panel to declare India as a country of "particular concern" on the ground that it had tolerated "severe" violence against religious minorities.
World should force Pak to end aid to terror: PM
Nicosia: Pakistan cannot use its membership of the international coalition against terror as a cover for terrorist activities against India, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on October 7 said hoping the global community would succeed in its efforts to persuade Islamabad to end its support to the scourge.
PM arrives in Cyprus on first leg of 3-nation tour
Nicosia: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived in Nicosia on October 7 on the first leg of his three-nation tour, declaring that India's concerns about terrorism would top the agenda of the talks with the leaders of Cyprus, Denmark and Britain.
2 Britons, American share Nobel Prize in Medicine
Stockholm: Sydney Brenner (Britain), H Robert Horvitz (USA) and John E Sulston (Britain) were on October 7 awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on organ development.
No racial profiling of South Asians in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Despite tightening of security and immigration measures following the September 11 terror attacks, Hong Kong has not adopted racial profiling of South Asians including Indians, officials said on October 7.
Yugoslav Army denies air defence links with Iraq
Belgrade: The Yugoslav Army on October 6 denied a British newspaper report that Yugoslav radar and experts were helping Iraqi air Defences ahead of anticipated US and British air attacks.
9 Palestinians killed as Israel attacks Gaza
Gaza City: At least nine Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured when Israeli tanks, backed by helicopter gun ships, launched a major overnight incursion into the Gaza Strip, witnesses and Palestinian security sources said on October 7.
India needs financial aid to combat TB: WHO
New York: India and 21 other countries, worst hit by worldwide tuberculosis epidemic, urgently need extra financial assistance to meet the global targets of detecting and successfully curing a large percentage of TB patients by 2005, the UN health agency has said.
Saddam Hussein gives nod to use chemical weapons
New York: Viewing the war with US as a "life and death" campaign for his regime, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has given his commanders the authority to use chemical weapons if communications with Baghdad were cut during the war, a US media report said quoting intelligence intercepts.
Laden threatens fresh attack on US: Al-Jazeera
Doha: Osama bin Laden, head of the al-Qaida terror network, has issued a new threat to strike US economic interests, the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera reported on October 6 night.
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