Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, currently being built at the Cochin Shipyard Limited, is likely to be based at Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command to add…
Maymana (Afghanistan), Dec 5 (IANS) Eight militants including a Taliban key commander were killed in an operation by Afghan security forces in the country’s Faryab province on Wednesday, officials said. “Acting upon intelligence report, the…
Moscow, Dec 5 (IANS) Russia opposes the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) and it will respond “in an appropriate manner” if Washington goes ahead with the pullout, Russian President Vladimir…
Hyderabad, Dec 5 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being the “protector, benefactor and promoter” of AgustaWestland and its parent company Finmeccanica, the Congress on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into Modi’s role in…
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, the IT infrastructure arm of Tokyo-headquartered Hitachi Systems, on Wednesday launched its first Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Mumbai. The SOC has been established to enable management…
Srinagar, Dec 5 (IANS) A soldier was injured on Wednesday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan Army violated the 2003…
Srinagar, Dec 5 (IANS) Senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Wednesday condemned the “nocturnal raids” by police in Srinagar city during the separatist-called Human Rights Week. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate…
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, the IT infrastructure arm of Tokyo-headquartered Hitachi Systems, on Wednesday launched its first Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Mumbai. The SOC has been established to enable management…
Washington, Dec 5 (IANS) Pakistan continues to use the Taliban as a hedge against India rather than utilizing it as part of a stable, reconciled Afghanistan, a top American commander has said days after US…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) A large-sized enterprise in India loses an average of $10.3 million owing to cyber attacks and a mid-sized organisation an average of $11,000 annually, a Microsoft-led study said on Wednesday….
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) British national Christian Michel James, the middleman wanted in Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, was extrdited to India on Tuesday night from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) India and China reviewed the progress made in bilateral relations since the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China earlier this year,…
Yerevan, Dec 4 (IANS) Two pilots were killed in an Armenian military aircraft crash in the mountains in the northwestern area of the transcaucasian state, officials said. The SU-25 jet crashed near the town of…
Sabarimala, Dec 4 (IANS) For the first time since the Sabarimala temple opened on November 16, there has been a sharp increase in the number of pilgrims. One reason attributed for this is that the…
Dubai, Dec 4 (IANS) Christian James Michel, a British national and a middleman, has been extradited to India, a development that comes as a boost to Indian agencies investigating the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre, the Delhi government and Delhi Police to file a reply on a plea seeking directions to allow Sikhs to carry a…
Mumbai, Dec 4 (IANS) In the wake of the recent #MeToo India movement, Silicon Valley-based bot and messaging platform Gupshup on Tuesday launched a chatbot called ‘Shakti’ to help women in India find a voice…
San Francisco, Dec 4 (IANS) Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo has apologised after hackers stole personal information of over 100 million of its users including their names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Quora discovered the breach…
Palermo (Italy), Dec 4 (IANS) The Italian police on Tuesday arrested an alleged leader of the notorious Sicilian mafia and 46 other people thought to be linked to the criminal gang on the island of…
Ranchi, Dec 4 (IANS) Jharkhand will add the names of 20 Maoists to the bounty list, police said on Tuesday. “The names of the 20 Maoists have been sent to state Home Department for approval,…