Washington, May 22 (IANS) A Pentagon watchdog has said that US troops made “minimal progress” in Afghanistan during the first quarter of 2018 as challenges facing US and Afghan forces mount. In a quarterly report…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) As Pakistani Rangers continued shelling on the international border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the security forces have a free hand to…
San Francisco, May 22 (IANS) Intel has disclosed a new variant of the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws in the chips that hackers may use to extract sensitive data from hundreds of millions of computers…
Srinagar, May 22 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Police Chief S.P. Vaid on Tuesday said the ceasefire announced during the holy month of Ramzan has been successful and has helped improve the overall law and order…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Over a month after a blast at an Indian field office at Biratnagar in Nepal, India has said that its has closed down the office “The Biratnagar Camp Office of…
Stockholm, May 22 (IANS) The Swedish government is sending an instructional war pamphlet to all 4.8 million households in the country, educating them for the first time in more than 30 years on the perils…
Seoul, May 22 (IANS) North Korean authorities on Tuesday morning denied permission to South Korean journalists to attend the dismantling of their nuclear base scheduled to take place between May 23-25. Pyongyang had originally invited…
Jammu, May 22 (IANS) The Pakistani rangers on Tuesday continued shelling on the international border (IB) in the Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir affecting 30 BSF border outposts and some two dozen…
Washington, May 22 (IANS) Gina Haspel was sworn in on Monday as the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its 71-year history. Speaking at a ceremony at the agency’s headquarters in…
Panaji, May 21 (IANS) After braving eight-foot waves, hurricanes, sub-zero temperatures, broken steering gear and spending 194 days at sea, the six women crew of the Indian Naval sailing vessel ‘Tarini’ sailed into Goa on…
Jammu, May 21 (IANS) Six people were injured on Monday in indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan Rangers across the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jammu district, police said. Meanwhile, an eight-month-old baby, who was…
Panaji, May 21 (IANS) The completion of the arduous ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’, a global circumnavigation expedition undertaken by six women sailors of the Indian Navy, has shown that youngsters can complete any difficult task if…
Washington, May 21 (IANS) The US will aim to “crush” Iran with economic and military pressure by imposing the “strongest sanctions in history” unless it changes its behaviour in the Middle East, Secretary of State…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) India takes seriously any comment that calls for peace with it, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday, days after Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa favoured talks to…
Sochi (Russia), May 21 (IANS) Moscow and New Delhi will strongly oppose attempts to politicize the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday…
Jammu, May 21 (IANS) Six people were injured on Monday in indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan Rangers across the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jammu district, police said. Six people – a special police…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, May 21 (IANS) India and China on Monday discussed security and law enforcement cooperation as Deputy National Security Adviser Rajinder Khanna met Chinese Public Minister Zhao Kheji here. Khanna met Zhao…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das and his Kalyani University counterpart Shankar Kumar Ghosh were on Monday granted the rank of Honorary Colonel by the Central government for furtherance of NCC…
Sochi (Russia), May 21 (IANS) Stating that Russia has always been a true and fast friend of India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that his informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Seoul, May 21 (IANS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in headed to Washington on Monday on an apparent mission to help broker a nuclear deal between the US and North Korea ahead of their first-ever summit…