Ranchi, Sep 25 (IANS) The Jharkhand government on Monday set up a two-member team to probe the blast at an illegal firecracker unit in East Singhbum district as the toll increased to 10. An NDRF…
Patna, Sep 25 (IANS) An army jawan shot dead his colleague and then killed himself in the Bihar capital on Monday after an altercation, police said. Both were jawans of the Bihar Regiment, an infantry…
Srinagar, Sep 25 (IANS) Normal life across the Kashmir Valley was affected on Monday by a protest shutdown called by separatists and traders. Shops, other businesses and public transport remained closed in Srinagar and other…
Islamabad, Sep 25 (IANS) The Pakistan and Russian militaries are currently holding a two-week long joint exercise, the Pakistani Army said here on Monday. The opening ceremony of the exercise codenamed as “DRUZBA 2017” in…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Sep 25 (IANS) Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed during an attack on a UN convoy in Mali, according to the international organisation. The peacekeepers were a part of the UN…
Moscow, Sep 25 (IANS) A Russian lieutenant general was killed in a shelling launched by Islamic State (IS) militants in northeastern Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “As a result of the sudden…
Damascus, Sep 25 (IANS) The US has sent large shipments of military gears to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help them in the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria’s, the…
Washington, Sep 25 (IANS) An overwhelming majority of US citizens oppose a preemptive strike on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and trust US military leaders instead of President Donald Trump to handle the…
Tehran, Sep 25 (IANS) Iran blocked all flights to and from Iraq’s Kurdistan on Sunday and launched a large-scale military drills near Iraq’s Kurdistan borders. Closing off the borders by Tehran came at the request…
Rome, Sep 25 (IANS) A military plane of the Italian Air Force crashed while taking part in an air show in central Italy on Sunday, killing the pilot on board. The Eurofighter jet was flying…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday slammed the Narendra Modi government over the visit of absconding don Dawood Ibrahim’s wife to Mumbai last year, terming it a “failure of intelligence” and a…
Srinagar, Sep 24 (IANS) A major terror attack was averted after three Pakistani ‘fidayeen’ were shot dead in a gunfight in a forested area near the border town of Uri in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla…
Ranchi, Sep 24 (IANS) Three Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Jharkhand’s Simdega district on Sunday, police said. An AK-47 assault rifle, a carbine and a machine gun along…
Islamabad, Sep 24 (IANS) Security forces killed three terrorists on Sunday in a clash in northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, the Pakistan Army said. The clash started after the terrorists riding motorcycles refused to stop at a…
Erbil (Iraq), Sep 24 (IANS) The US on Sunday warned its citizens resident in Iraq about possible unrest in the Arab country resulting from an independence referendum scheduled to take place in the autonomous region…
Dhaka, Sep 24 (IANS) At least 470,000 Rohingyas are in need of shelter in refugee camps in Bangladesh, the UN office in the south Asian country said on Sunday. According to a report by the…
Jerusalem, Sep 24 (IANS) Israel denounced Iran’s testing of a medium-range missile as a “provocation” to the US and its allies, Israeli Army Radio reported on Sunday. In defiance of US warnings, Iran on Saturday…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Lt. Nidhi Dubey and Lt. Swati Mahadik were two “extraordinary brave” women officers who evoked a new inspiration among millions of our countrymen….
Jammu, Sep 24 (IANS) Two Indian soldiers were injured on Sunday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. A Defence Ministry source said here that the Pakistan…
Srinagar, Sep 24 (IANS) An alert Special Police Officer (SPO) on Sunday threw back a grenade hurled by militants from inside a security force vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town, averting casualties to over…