Moscow, Sep 18 (IANS) The US-led coalition killed 62 Syrian government troops and injured some 100 others in a round of airstrikes in eastern Syria’s province of Deir al-Zour, the Russian Defence Ministry said on…
Damascus, Sep 18 (IANS) The airstrikes of the US-led anti-terror coalition against Syrian military positions in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Saturday evening killed over 30 Syrian soldiers, a monitor group reported.
Srinagar, Sep 17 (IANS) Internet services on landline broadband connections were restored on Saturday evening after six days, officials said. Authorities had suspended the internet services on landline connections on September 12, a day before…
Srinagar, Sep 17 (IANS) Kashmir Valley remained shut for the 71st consecutive day on Saturday amid sporadic clashes at half a dozen places across the valley, police said. A 14-year-old-boy identified as Momin Iqbal Ginai…
Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Sep 17 (IANS) Narayanpur district police has nabbed three Maoists, including the head of a local outfit, during a search in Kuinar village in Chhattisgarh, police said on Saturday. One of the arrested…
Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) Navy Chief Sunil Lanba said on Saturday that preliminary investigation into the Scorpene data leak shows that it did not happen in India but in the DCNS office in France. “There…
Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) The Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL)’s second Visakhapatnam Class-destroyer, with more than 60 per cent indigenization and increased stealth power, was launched ahead of its schedule here on Saturday, officials said….
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The CBI on Saturday registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against unidentified Defence Ministry officials and others to probe allegations of kickbacks in the purchase of three Embraer aircraft in a…
Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) The Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL)’s second Visakhapatnam Class-destroyer, with more than 60 per cent indigenization and increased stealth power, was launched ahead of its schedule here on Saturday, officials said….
Srinagar, Sep 17 (IANS) A class seventh student was allegedly killed, with pellet wounds found in his body, in a late Friday clash with security forces in a hilly village on the peripheries of Srinagar…
Manila, Sep 17 (IANS) Thousands of Philippine Coast Guard personnel on Saturday cleaned up the country’s littered shores as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day. Coast Guard officials said some 5,000 staff and auxiliary members…
Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) The US Air Force said that it has grounded 10 of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, just over a month after they were declared “combat ready”. The decision affecting the most…
Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) The death toll has gone up to 28 in Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque during Friday prayers, authorities said. A suicide bomber targeted…
Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) The US has given a “donation” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in January 2015 by a US drone strike. Documents detailing…
Pentagon, Sep 17 (IANS) A senior Islamic State leader who, as the extreme group’s “minister of information,” oversaw the group’s production of torture and execution videos, has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, Pentagon…
Siliguri/Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) One person was killed and ten others sustained injuries when an army truck hit a car from behind in Siliguri town of West Bengal’s Darjeeling district on Friday, police said. Nine…
Guwahati, Sep 16 (IANS) The Indian army apprehended eight hardcore cades of the insurgent group Karbi People Liberation Tiger (KPLT) in a series of “multi directional and synchronised operations” since Thursday night in Assam’s West…
Jammu, Sep 16 (IANS) Curfew was reimposed on Friday in Rajouri town of Jammu region after clashes erupted again during the curfew relaxation period. “Curfew has been reimposed in Rajouri town after miscreants resorted to…
Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) The Indian Air Force is on a trajectory of modernisation and is transforming into a strategic aerospace power with full spectrum capability, a senior officer said on Friday. Eastern Air Command…
Moscow, Sep 16 (IANS) There is no reason for India to be concerned about the forthcoming Russia-Pakistan joint military drills, authorities said on Friday. “We were informed by the Russian Defence Ministry that these exercises…