TOKYO: Asian shares retreated on Friday after recent gains, with investor confidence underpinned by Wall Street's record-high close overnight, while the yen hovered near four-year lows against the dollar. European markets were likely to ease also, with financial spreadbetters predicting London's FTSE 100, Paris's CAC-40 and Frankfurt's DAX to open down as much as 0.5 percent. US stock futures were also down ...

Rida Zaheer The first female prime minister in her country's history, Thatcher came to embody a turn toward a free-market political program that sought to unleash economic dynamism through an aggressive program of privatizations and tax reductions. Thatcherism -- as her political program became known to both her supporters and detractors -- would throw off the heavy hand of the state and seek a Britain with ...

Rajesh Roshan  Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has logged a complaint against actor-filmmaker Kamaal R. Khan for misquoting her attributing a controversial rape comment to her on his Twitter page. Recently, we had reported what a big mistake Sunny Leone had made, after she took to Twitter and made acontroversial comment on rape. Soon after Sunny’s tweet, Kamal tweeted, “Ye lo… Sunny Leone says, Rape is ...

Prominent website WikiLeaks again published more than 1.7million U.S. records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world.   The data released today includes  U.S. diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976 - covering a traffic of cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence. Interesting  has granted Mr Assange  is trying to contest Sentor elections in Asutralia . Pr ...

The Constitution, Review Commission has correctly recommended the deletion of Explanation II to Article 25. It will certainly clarify to the world that Sikhism is an independent and separate religion and is no longer a branch or offshoot of Hinduism. The SGPC, the Punjab Government, the National Minorities Commission, Sikh scholars and others have uniformly asked for its deletion. During his visit to Amrits ...

By Korea News Service KNS" - The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following statement on Tuesday. The U.S. anti-DPRK hostile acts being intensified over its satellite launch for peaceful purposes have reached the eve of nuclear war. On Monday U.S. B-52 strategic bombers flied to the sky above south Korea by stealth again to stage a nuclear bomb dropping drill aimed at a surprise nuclear preemptive ...

In an unprecedented action, the Army is going to court martial as many as 168 personnel, including a colonel, two majors, a captain and 17 JCOs (junior commissioned officers), for the violent clash between officers and jawans of an artillery regiment in Nyoma sector of eastern Ladakh on May, 2012. There are 15 officers and over 200 other ranks in the dock in the four cases of officer-jawan face-offs in armo ...

By CHOE SANG-HUN North Korea cut off the last remaining military hot lines with South Korea on Wednesday, accusing President Park Geun-hye of South Korea of pursuing the same hard-line policy of her predecessor that the North blamed for a prolonged chill in inter-Korean relations. Amid tensions over the North’s third nuclear test last month and ensuing United Nations sanctions, North Korea had already shut ...