London, May 20 (IANS) British intelligence, the MI5 opened a file on UK’s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn amid concerns over his links to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the media reported. The Labour leader…
Washington, May 20 (IANS) A passenger aboard an American Airlines plane has been detained for causing in-flight disturbance, police said. According to other passengers onboard the flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii on Friday, a…
Washington, May 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has re-nominated two of the highest military officers for a second term in office, according to the Pentagon. Trump is renominating Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford as…
Narobi, May 20 (IANS) At least 19 organisations in Kenya have been affected by the ransomware virus in an ongoing global hacking attack. Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) on Friday issued the update, noting the…
Raipur, May 19 (IANS) Two CRPF personnel were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Left-wing extremists in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Friday and were evacuated by an Indian Air Force…
Imphal May 19 (IANS) Four Manipur Police commandos were wounded in an ambush on Friday by suspected militants who exploded a bomb along the Trans Asian Highway, police said. The injured personnel were evacuated to…
Bengaluru, May 19 (IANS) The second prototype of the indigenously-developed basic trainer HTT-40 made its maiden flight here on Friday, the HAL said. “The first flight of prototype two of HTT-40 was successful today. Flight…
Hyderabad, May 19 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday said that the state police has proved wrong those people who created apprehensions that if Telangana state is formed, there will be increase…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman S. Christopher has been given a one-year extension of his term, days before his retirement slated for May 29. Christopher was appointed chief…
Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday backed an army officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep bonnet as a defence against stone-pelting mobs, saying he had the responsibility to…
Guwahati, May 19 (IANS) A member of Ulfa’s anti-talks faction was gunned down by a joint army and police team in Assam’s Udalguri district after a brief gunfight, a defence official said on Friday. A…
Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the government wanted peaceful lives for the ordinary people of Jammu and Kashmir, but asserted that the security forces will act “very tough” against…
Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that the fact that Hurriyat leaders were taking money from Pakistan was already known in “informed circles”, and called it a conspiracy against not…
Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) Pakistan on Friday filed a plea in the ICJ to rehear within six weeks the case of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court. Dunya…
Raipur, May 19 (IANS) Nearly a month after the Sukma attack, three Maoists surrendered to CRPF personnel during an anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Friday, police said. Bastar district Inspector General Vivekananda Sinha…
Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the Indian Army was fully confident of not allowing infiltration from across the border as well as giving an adequate response to ceasefire violations…
Washington, May 19 (IANS) A 58-year-old Indian man died in Atlanta in the US after he was detained by US Customs for not possessing necessary immigration papers. Atul Kumar Babubhai Patel, taken into custody by…
Mogadishu, May 19 (IANS) Some 30,600 Somalis have returned to their country from Yemen since the beginning of war in Yemen in 2015, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. The UNHCR said increasing numbers…
Manila, May 19 (IANS) The Philippines and US on Friday concluded their annual joint military exercises. The 2017 Balikatan exercise, in which fewer troops participated than in previous years and which was limited to counter-terrorism…
Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the government wants people of Jammu and Kashmir to have a peaceful life but security forces will act “very tough” against militants. Jaitley on…