Baghdad, May 31 (IANS) At least four people were killed and 11 others injured on Tuesday in two suicide bomb attacks targeting government-backed paramilitary Shia unit in Iraq’s Salahudin province, a security source said. A…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) With an estimated 18.35 million men, women and children trapped in modern slavery through human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage or commercial sexual exploitation, India is…
Kabul, May 31 (IANS) Taliban militants killed at least 17 people after abducting nearly 200 bus passengers in the early hours of Tuesday in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan. Local government officials, quoted by Khaama…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) An enquiry has been ordered into the massive fire that engulfed one of the Indian Army’s largest ammunition depots in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon early on Tuesday and left 16 dead including…
New Delhi: The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba being handed over the baton by the outgoing Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral R.K. Dhowan, in New Delhi on May 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New…
Islamabad, May 31 (IANS) Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested former assistant director of the National Database and Registration Authority Ghulam Muhammad Bugti for suspected involvement in the issuance of identification papers to…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) An enquiry has been ordered into the massive fire that engulfed one of the Indian Army’s largest ammunition depots in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon early on Tuesday and left 14 dead, a…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The following is the list of major fire disasters at India’s ordnance depots that have always raised questions about alleged safety violations at these defence facilities in the country. Pulgaon,…
Chandigarh, May 31 (IANS) With a section of Jats all set to resume their agitation for job quota in Haryana from June 5, raising fears of recurrence of violence, the Manohar Lal Khattar government on…
Kabul, May 31 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday as Taliban intercepted three buses in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, kidnapping over 180 passengers besides the drivers, police said. “Over 160 passengers were released….
Ranchi, May 31 (IANS) A police officer was abducted and shot dead by Maoist guerrillas in Gumla district of Jharkhand, police said on tuesday. According to the police, the bullet ridden body of Badrinath Tiwari…
Nagpur, May 31 (IANS) At least 17 army men, including two officers, were killed and 19 injured in a massive fire that engulfed one of India’s largest ammunition depots in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon early Tuesday, officials…
Nagpur, May 31 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and another 19 injured, some seriously, in a major fire followed by a blast at the Central Ammunition Depot, Pulgaon, in Wardha district in Maharashtra…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed grief over the deaths caused by a fire at Central Ammunition Depot in Wardha in Maharashtra. Modi said he was “pained by loss…
Seoul, May 31 (IANS) North Korea on Tuesday fired what was believed to be a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile but appeared to have failed, a media report said. “The DPRK (North Korea) launched a projectile,…
Nagpur, May 31 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and another 19 injured, some seriously, in a major fire followed by a blast in India’s biggest Central Ammunition Depot, Pulgaon in adjoining Wardha district…
Algeris, May 31 (IANS) Algeria and France held a security meeting in Algiers to boost their bilateral anti-terror cooperation, the media reported. Co-chaired by the Algerian Minister for Maghreb Affairs, the African Union and the…
Beirut, May 31 (IANS) Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk has said that security forces in recent months have uncovered three networks plotting to carry out bombings in the country. “In the last three months, we…
Tehran, May 31 (IANS) Iran will continue sending military advisers to Syria and Iraq in a fight against terrorism, Iranian Defence Minister said here on Monday. “We will help Syria and Iraq as much as…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 30 (IANS) Kerala’s new Pinarayi Vijayan government on Monday night effected a high-level shake-up in the police force at the highest level. T.P.Sen Kumar, the Director General of Police, Law and Order was…