New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) India and Myanmar have signed an MoU with New Delhi pledging $25 million to develop Rakhine State, from where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh following a military…
Canberra, Dec 21 (IANS) Two men were arrested on Thursday after a car drove into a crowd of pedestrians outside Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street station, the Australian police said. The incident left 19 people injured,…
Canberra, Dec 21 (IANS) A car struck at least a dozen pedestrians outside Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street station on Thursday and officials quickly shut down the centre of Australia’s second largest city. The driver of…
By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The government is set to increase by an unprecedented 125 per cent the manpower of the Special Security Group (SSG) that provides security cover to highly protected…
Seoul, Dec 21 (IANS) South Korea on Thursday fired warning shots towards North Korea as Pyongyang’s forces were trying to locate a soldier who crossed the border and defected to the South earlier in the…
Seoul, Dec 21 (IANS) A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Thursday, crossing on the western side of the border, without any exchange of fire between troops from both sides, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs…
Rome, Dec 21 (IANS/AKI) Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano on Wednesday hailed the resumption of United Nations brokered peace talks in Geneva between the Syrian government and opposition. “I greatly appreciate the efforts made by…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) As many as 35 defence aircraft, including 11 helicopters, crashed between 2014 and 2017, killing 14 pilots, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In a written reply, Minister…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) has put in a formal request to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for an additional 83 Tejas Mark-1A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), an official said…
Pyongyang, Dec 20 (IANS) North Korea on Wednesday rejected reports by some US media that Pyongyang is pushing forward her “biological weapons development programme” amid its development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capacities. The…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Liberalised Family Pension — so far given to soldiers posted along the Line of Control and the International Border with Pakistan — has been extended to Army personnel working along…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill to amend the regulations on the compensation payable by the Central government for acquiring property. Moving The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh Governor B.D. Mishra on Wednesday briefed Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat on the security environment along the international border in the state….
Jammu, Dec 20 (IANS) Indian Army’s Northern Command chief, Lt Gen Devraj Anbu on Wednesday visited forward areas on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Rajouri districts, a defence statement…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday rejected allegations that Rafale fighter jets being bought by India from France are priced higher than under an earlier deal, and said the charges…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The share of Defence Budget as a percentage of the GDP has gone down over the last few years even as the expenditure in absolute terms has increased, the Defence…
Lucknow, Dec 20 (IANS) The Lucknow Frontier of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which mans the porous India-Nepal border, celebrated its 54th Foundation Day here on Wednesday. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, the Uttar Pradesh Tourism and…
Ranchi, Dec 20 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas on Wednesday damaged a mobile tower and set it on fire in Jharkhand’s Giridih district even as security forces seized five IEDs in West Singhbhum district, police said. Maoists…
Chandigarh, Dec 20 (IANS) Inderjit Singh Sandhu, one of the masterminds of the sensational Nabha jailbreak in Punjab, has been arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, Punjab Police said on Wednesday. Sandhu,…
Jaipur, Dec 20 (IANS) Additional forces were deployed in some villages of Rajasthan on Wednesday to maintain the peace after the demolition of a temple built on encroached land led to tension. Incidents of stone…