New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) There is no Indian among the casualties following two massive explosions at Brussels airport in Belgium on Tuesday, the external affairs ministry has confirmed. Have spoken to our Ambassador (Manjeev…
Seoul, March 22 (IANS) South Korea and the US on Tuesday began a four-day joint navy exercise in South Korean waters amid mounting tensions with North Korea. The joint maritime exercise will be conducted in…
Islamabad, March 22 (IANS) India’s increased investment to improve its naval capacity will be seen as a threat by Pakistan, a Pakistani daily said on Tuesday. In an editorial “Expanding Horizons”, The Nation said that…
Agartala, March 22 (IANS) A trooper of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) gunned down his girlfriend and later shot himself with his service rifle, police said here on Tuesday. Mrinal Das, 32, stormed into the…
Tokyo, March 22 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s on Tuesday decided that the new national security laws will come into effect from March 29 which will allow the nation to exercise the right to…
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) is set to come into effect from April 2, and it will provide for fast-tracking procurements which…
San Francisco, March 21 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook, referring to the ongoing battle with the US government over encryption to unlock an iPhone used by an attacker in a mass shooting in San Bernadino…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A laser-guided bomb fired by the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft missed its target during an exercise in Pokhran in Rajasthan and the Indian Air Force is looking into the…
Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said that increased pensions under the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme have been disbursed to…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) is set to come into affect from April 2, and it provide for fast-tracking procurements which are of an urgent nature, Defence Minister Manohar…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A laser-guided bomb fired by the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft missed its target during an exercise in Pokhran in Rajasthan and a probe had been ordered into this, a…
Islamabad, March 21 (IANS) Pakistan on Monday ratified an international agreement for the safety of its nuclear material, a foreign ministry statement said. Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998 in a tit-for-tat reaction to those…
Lagos, March 21 (IANS) At least 27 Boko Haram terrorists were confirmed dead in separate raids over the weekend by the military in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a military spokesperson said on Monday. Nigerian Army…
Agra, March 21 (IANS) Five students of the Central Hindi Institute here accused of eating beef have been identified but officials denied the charges saying they were now on a holiday. The alleged ‘beef-eating’ photos…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) Shillong, March 21 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday admitted that there was a need to strengthen security along the international border in the northeastern…
Dhaka, March 21 (IANS) The Bangladesh Police on Monday pressed charges against ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 33 others in a violence case. A…
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The central government has a “multi-prolonged strategy focussed on development” to improve the quality of life in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas of Chhattisgarh, a Union minister said…
Mogadishu, March 21 (IANS) At least 70 Al-Shabaab militants have been killed and 30 captured in heavy fighting by Somalia’s Puntland forces, officials said on Monday. Puntland Minister of Information Mohamud Hassan said the battles…
Panaji, March 21 (IANS) In a significant disclosure, Goa Police have said that 45-year-old chartered accountant Samir Sardana, a former army officer’s son who was arrested by the state anti-terrorism squad (ATS), is allegedly linked…
Tel Aviv, March 21 (IANS) Israeli authorities on Monday said it airlifted 19 Jews out of Yemen, the last group who agreed to leave the war-stricken country. Seventeen Yemeni Jews arrived in Israel on Monday,…