Beirut, Jan 14 (IANS) A booby trapped car exploded on Sunday in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon targeting Mohammad Hamdan, an official with the Palestinian Hamas movement, Al-Jadeed TV reported. According to the TV…
Srinagar, Jan 14 (IANS) Security forces on Sunday detected an improvised explosive device (IED) on the outskirts of Srinagar, averting a tragedy. Police said the IED was found in Maloora area. “A bomb disposal squad…
Ankara, Jan 14 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey would conduct military operations in Syria’s Afrin if Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) militants do not withdraw in a week. Speaking…
Akuluto (Nagaland), Jan 13 (IANS) Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang on Saturday said that solution to the seven-decade-old Naga insurgency must be finalised at the earliest. “Solution to the protracted Naga political issue must be…
Mumbai, Jan 13 (IANS) In what is claimed to be a breakthrough, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has nabbed seven Telangana-based Maoists living in from Kalyan in neighbouring Thane district, an official said here on…
Jammu, Jan 13 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Syed Altaf Bukhari said on Saturday that the army should concentrate on its own job and not meddle with the state’s education system. The minister’s remark…
Kabul, Jan 13 (IANS) At least 26 armed insurgents have been killed and 16 injured since Afghan security forces launched operations across the country over the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday…
Srinagar, Jan 13 (IANS) Security forces on Saturday recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway, police said. Traffic on the highway was disrupted for some time in the morning when security forces…
Islamabad, Jan 12 (IANS) Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday told a US military commander that the entire Pakistan felt betrayed over the recent statements by US, the military said. General Bajwa…
Mazar-i-sharif (Afghanistan), Jan 12 (IANS) A total of 17 militants, including shadow district Governor Mawlawi Abdul Khaleq, were killed when security forces stormed their hideout in Afghanistan’s Balkh province on Friday, police said. “Acting on…
Berlin, Jan 12 (IANS) The trial of a man accused of stabbing a man to death and injuring six others in a German supermarket last year began on Friday with a long confession by the…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The education system in Jammu and Kashmir needs to be overhauled to check radicalisation, Army chief General Bipin Rawat said on Friday, also seeking checks on madrassas and mosques. Addressing…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) China is strong, and has been asserting itself, but India is not a weak country, Army chief General Bipin Rawat said on Friday, stressing that the focus now needs to…
Srinagar, Jan 12 (IANS) Militants attacked a police post in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Friday evening but no casualties were reported, police said. “Militants fired at Keegam police post. The fire was retaliated…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) It is “premature” to assess the impact of US President Donald Trump’s policy of putting pressure on Pakistan will have and India will have to continue its job of fighting…
London, Jan 12 (IANS) A 27-year-old British woman was arrested on Friday at the Heathrow Airport on suspicion of “preparing for terrorist acts”, police said. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command arrested the…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The NIA on Friday told a court here that it will file next week a chargesheet in the case of terror funding in the Kashmir Valley as a court extended…
Kabul, Jan 12 (IANS) Twenty journalists and media workers were killed in violence in Afghanistan in 2017, the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC), an independent media safety group protecting the reporters’ rights, said on Friday….
Dhaka, Jan 12 (IANS) Three militants were killed on Friday in a raid by Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force on a militant hideout near Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s office here. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General…
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Pakistan has not done enough to eliminate safe havens for terrorists on its soil, new US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster said on Thursday even as he described India as…