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Its a grand day for Indian sports as the Queens baton relay has started its journey from London where Queen Elizabeth II will pass on the Commonwealth Games torch to President Pratibha Patil.

Lahore, Oct. 29 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told Pakistan that if had peaceful relations with India, its economic developments would skyrocket.

Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil was handed over with Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia on Wednesday at a ceremony held in London by two Indian-origin industrialists.

Islamabad, Oct.29 (ANI): Security in and around the police headquarters in Islamabad has been tightened following warnings from intelligence agencies that terrorists may target the high profile installation.

India's Trade Minister Anand Sharma and Nepalese Minister of Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahto, in Kathmandu on Tuesday, signed the 2009 India-Nepal treaty of Trade and Agreement of Cooperation to Control Unauthorized Trade, which renews the 1996 trade pact and widens its scope.

New Delhi, Oct 27 (ANI): An insecure Chinese man has encouraged his pretty girlfriend to eat more and gain weight, so that she never leaves him for another man.

Chicago (US), Oct.27 (ANI): Real estate agents have put a 1.85 million US dollar price tag on a house located next door to US President Barack Obama's Chicago home after failing to sell the property.he 5040 South Greenwood Avenue building, a 17-room, 6,000 square feet brick-fronted house, is in need of renovation, reports The Australian.

Indian President Pratibha Patil arrived in Britain on Monday for a state visit during which she will join Queen Elizabeth II to launch the baton relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing a press meet at Hua Hin in Thailand on Sunday said that India and China have reaffirmed the need to maintain peace and tranquillity on the border.

Islamabad, Oct.26 (ANI): The much touted meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif is being seen as an important event which could decide the country's future political scenario, but analysts believe nothing is going to come from the summit of the two arch-rival politicians.

Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): Ivanka Trump has tied the knot with Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York Observer, on Sunday.

India has granted the Market Economy status to Vietnam, which responded by entering into the Indo-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement,which was signed with other members of the 10-nation block in August.

Thailand, October 25 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an address to the 7th India-ASEAN summit at Hua Hin in Thailand, on Saturday, called for an early conclusion of negotiations on the Trade-in-Services and Investment Agreement.

Jakarta, Oct 24(ANI): Several parts of Indonesia were jolted on Saturday by a strong earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Saturday, hoping to douse an escalating verbal duel between the Asian giants cantered around their decades-old border dispute.

Atleast 10 people are said to be injured when a high-intensity bomb went off near a restaurant in the upscale locality of Peshawar. The bomb was reportedly placed in a car.

Melbourne, Oct. 21 (ANI): A German-born Australian convicted kidnapper, who had slipped through Australian customs with a fake Indian passport and a remarkable disguise, has received an extended jail term.

Islamabad, Oct. 20 (ANI): Following the launch of the Pakistani Army's offensive against militants in South Waziristan, people living in the tribal region of Southern Punjab are panic-stricken over the prospects of fleeing Taliban militants infiltrating into their areas.

A suicide bomb attack in the International Islamic University killed four and injured 16 in Islamabad today.

Lahore/Islamabad, Oct 15 (PTI) Suspected Taliban militants today unleashed a fresh wave of terror in Pakistan storming three security facilities in Lahore in near-simultaneous attacks and carried out a suicide bombing at a police station in northwestern Kohat city, leaving at least 41 people dead.