June 13, 2009 Saturday
Updated

ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN unveiled a deficit national budget on Saturday, proposing an increase in defence expenditure to help fight Taliban militants while boosting agriculture and industrial output and reducing poverty.

The budget for fiscal 2009-2010 starting from July 1 comes amid increasing suicide attacks and other militant violence in the major towns and cities of the nuclear-armed South Asian country.

 
Sri Lanka seeks post-war aid

COLOMBO - SRI Lanka on Saturday sought aid from the United Arab Emirates to rebuild swathes of land devastated by the near four decades long ethnic war with the Tamil Tigers.

Curry powder sparks fire alert

MUMBAI - AN AIR India passenger jet heading to Frankfurt was forced to return to Mumbai after a bag of curry powder set off smoke and fire alarms, it was reported on Saturday.

Chinese sub smashes US sonar

WASHINGTON - A CHINESE submarine collided with an underwater sonar array towed by the destroyer USS John S. McCain off the coast of the Philippines, CNN television said, quoting a US official who said it was an 'inadvertent encounter.'

   
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