Sunday, February 22, 2026

Author: Worldsnap Staff

International
Worldsnap Staff

No third party in Indo-Pak talks, Obama tells PM

Prime minister Manmohan Singh leaves on Thursday for the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) conference in Trinidad. Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will attend the conference and will probably have discussions with his Indian counterpart. Here are excerpts of the Singh’s free-wheeling press conference in Washington.Talks with Pakistan on sidelines of CHOGM We cannot simply wish away Pakistan. When politicians meet we discuss things. As of now nothing is planned…

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Sports
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State dinner is like Broadway play

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle will host their first state dinner on Tuesday evening, almost a year into their White House tenure, and it is shaping up to be the US power capital’s most glittering party. Hollywood, Bollywood, stuffed shirts, fancy pants and political top dogs will converge for a glittering party in honour of prime minister Manmohan Singh on the White House lawns. The White House kitchen garden, Michelle’s much-discussed vegetable patch, which h…

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Bangalore
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San Francisco Mayor to visit city from Nov 29

The sister-city project between Bangalore and San Francisco is set to take off. The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsoms, and 50 delegates from that city will visit Bangalore from November 29 – December 3, 2009.The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will play host. The Mayor and his team will be welcomed by chief minister BS Yeddyurappa here. In 2008, the then administrator of the BBMP and Mayor of San Francisco signed a memorandum of understanding to engage in a partnership to enhance ec…

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Mumbai
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Thackeray defends attack on IBN

Bal Thackeray is unwilling to admit that the Shiv Sena attacked the media when party activists ransacked IBN-Lokmat’s office and beat up a couple of journalists on Friday."Will you call it an attack on the media if a journalist’s wife beats himup for his wrongdoings?" the Sena chief asked.Thackeray on Monday said the partymen had attacked a person, Nikhil Wagle, and not the entire media. Other political parties too had targeted the media in the past, he said. alt1…

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Bangalore
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Hunt on for fake passport kingpin

The Bangalore International Airport (BIA) police are searching for the kingpin of a fake passport racket, following the arrest of a woman and two men at the airport on Saturday.Police identified the man as Shamsuddin from Kasargod. BIA police had arrested Prema alias Saraswathi (21) from Madikeri, while she was about to board a Dubai flight. Though her arrest was claimed to be in connection with human trafficking, it was learnt that the police were aware of the developments as early …

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