Chandigarh, March 9 (IANS) Two AAP MPs from Punjab on Wednesday offered to pay from their MPLADS funds the expenses borne on the deployment of paramilitary forces during a terror attack on the Pathankot Air…
Srinagar, March 9 (IANS) Two guerrillas were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district and efforts are on to identify them, police said. “Two militants have…
Kabul, March 9 (IANS) Eleven civilians were abducted on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan’s Saripul province. “A group of armed men intercepted a vehicle in Sayad district and abducted 11 people,” an official told…
By Arun Kumar Washington, March 9 (IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, India and the US have agreed to deepen their collaboration against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), responsible for…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The national security advisors of India and Pakistan continue to remain in touch with each other following the cross-border terror attack on the Pathankot airbase in January this year, the…
Srinagar, March 9 (IANS) A gunfight was raging on Wednesday between security forces and separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. “A gunfight has started in Awantipora (Pulwama) plant nursery area between…
Kabul, March 9 (IANS) At least eight people were killed on Wednesday after Taliban militants attacked government offices in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an official said. The gunbattle started at 6.00 a.m. in Gereshk district, Xinhua…
Srinagar, March 9 (IANS) Security forces had a brief gunfight with separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday and seized an AK-47 rifle. “An AK-47 rifle was recovered by the security forces…
Kabul, March 9 (IANS) Casualties were feared as Taliban militants attacked government offices in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Wednesday, sources said. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. “Unknown number of militants arrived and seized a…
Kabul, March 9 (IANS) Casualties were feared as Taliban militants attacked government offices in Afghanistan’s Gereshk district on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
By Arun Kumar Washington, March 9 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to deepen their already close collaboration against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), blamed for terrorist attacks in India, and…
Washington, March 9 (IANS) A US airstrike in Syria last week targeted a minister of war of the Islamic State extremist group, the Pentagon has said. The airstrike occurred on March 4 near al Shaddadi,…
Bhubaneswar, March 8 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday urged the Centre to sanction critical road projects in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected districts and unconnected habitations in the state. The state government…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Denying any strategic tilt towards China, former president of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, on Tuesday said his country is welcoming Chinese proposals because it finds them more attractive. Delivering a…
Kabul, March 8 (IANS) A total of 35 militants were killed during military operations in Afghanistan, the country’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. “The Afghan National Army in close coordination with other Afghan security force…
Mogadishu, March 8 (IANS) The US carried out an airstrike in Somalia killing over 150 militants associated with the Al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab, the media reported on Tuesday. Both Somalia and US officials said…
Paris, March 8 (IANS) A simulation of terrorist attack in a fan zone will be held in the French city of Nimes on March 16 as part of the preparations for Euro 2016, the media…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, March 8 (IANS) Pakistans top civil-military leadership on Tuesday vowed to eliminate terrorism and reviewed the internal security situation, a day after a suicide bombing claimed…
Islamabad, March 8 (IANS) Twenty-one militants were killed in air strikes and ground operation in Pakistan’s North Waziristan on Tuesday, the militarys media wing Inter Services Public Relations said. Combined strikes by PAF, the army…
Dhaka, March 8 (IANS) The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld death sentence for Mir Quasem Ali, former Al-Badr and Jammat-e-Islami Party leader, for being involved in atrocities against Bangalis during the Liberation War in…