By C. Uday Bhaskar Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers…
Chandigarh, Nov 17 (IANS) Decorated war veteran Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri died in a private hospital in Mohali near here on Saturday, family sources said. He was 78. Chandpuri, who was an Army Major during…
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) Life across the Kashmir Valley was adversely affected on Saturday due to a separatist shutdown called against the ongoing panchayat polls in the state. The shutdown was called by the Joint…
Gaza, Nov 17 (IANS) Chief of Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yehia Sinwar on Friday warned Israel not to wage any future military offensive on the enclave that his movement has been ruling…
Madrid, Nov 17 (IANS) Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs has expressed confidence that the Persian nation can find a way around the US’ sanctions regime and thereby prevent the nuclear deal from collapsing….
Shillong, Nov 16 (IANS) Noting that that Russian-made S-400 Triumf missile system is one of the most advanced air defence systems, Eastern Air Command Chief, Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar on Friday said India is also…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The government on Friday approved three new proposals – fast-track special courts, procurement of forensic kits in sexual assault cases and setting up video surveillance system at 50 railway stations…
Islamabad, Nov 16 (IANS) A Pakistani government official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has been missing from the capital, officials said on Friday. Muhammad Ayaz, Deputy Director of CDA, went missing from the G6…
Jammu, Nov 16 (IANS) Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, General Officer commanding in chief (GoC-in-C), Northern Command on Friday applauded Army Goodwill Schools in Jammu and Kashmir for the excellent work these institutions have been doing….
Beijing, Nov 16 (IANS) China on Friday said it supports the proposed second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next year. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Beijing…
Jerusalem, Nov 16 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allocated $135 million for communities near the Gaza Strip, which have been affected by the firing of rockets from the enclave, after Israeli residents criticized the…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Facebook has recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian government in the first six months of 2018 — a steep rise compared to a total of 22,024 requests in the…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Facebook has recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian government in the first six months of 2018 — a steep rise compared to a total of 22,024 requests in the…
Deori/Seoni (Madhya Pradesh), Nov 16 (IANS) Flaying Prime Minister Narendra Modi for inflicting the “biggest scam” on the nation in the form of demonetisation, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday assured the people of Madhya…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) India has secured a bank guarantee for about Rs 1,500 crore from Dassault in the Rafale jet deal as a safeguard against any violations of the offset policy prepared in…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Nov 16 (IANS) India will look at its own interest in the Indo-Pacific region where China and the US are vying for influence, India’s envoy Gautam Bambawale has said here. India…
Chennai, Nov 16 (IANS) Speakers at the AVAR 2018 international cyber security conference will discuss advanced persistent targeted attacks on governments and industries to security for smart cars in the Internet of Things (IoT), said…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Stressing that data localization is an irrelevant debate in an era of Cloud, the deliberations must be in the direction of how people own and control their…
Varanasi, Nov 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday briefly stopped at his parliamentary constituency here in Uttar Pradesh on his way to poll-bound Chhattisgarh, an official said. He reached the Lal Bahadur Shastri…
Seoul, Nov 16 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a test of a newly developed high-tech weapon, amid faltering nuclear disarmament negotiations with the US, Pyongyang’s state media reported on Friday. The Korean…