Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday lifted all the restrictions on Durga Puja immersion imposed by the West Bengal government, allowing it till 12 a.m. on all days including on ‘Ashura’,…
Srinagar, Sep 21 (IANS) Three civilians were killed when militants hurled a grenade in Jammu and Kashmir’s Tral town on Thursday, with state police chief S.P. Vaid saying that PDP leader and cabinet minister Naeem…
By Garima Tyagi Kuala Lumpur, Sep 21 (IANS) Twenty three-year-old Mohammad Imran, a Rohingya who has grown up in a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar after his family fled violence in Myanmar, says he…
New York, Sep 21 (IANS) Member states of the G4, including India, have reaffirmed the need for early reform in the UN Security Council (UNSC) while calling for text-based Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) in this regard….
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The malicious outsider attack on food delivery app Zomato that exposed 17 million records was the sixth biggest data breach globally in the first half of 2017, a new report…
London, Sep 21 (IANS) A sixth suspect has been detained over last week’s terror attack on a London Tube train, the Metropolitan Police said on Thursday. Scotland Yard said a 17-year-old was arrested after midnight…
San Francisco, Sep 21 (IANS) Revealing the operations of Iranian hacking group APT33, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Thursday the cybercriminals, who have targeted the energy and aviation sectors, are likely to have…
Seoul, Sep 21 (IANS) South Korea on Thursday decided to offer $8 million of humanitarian aid to North Korea through UN organisations. The inter-Korean exchange and cooperation committee was chaired by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon…
Srinagar, Sep 21 (IANS) Three civilians were killed and 30 others, including policemen and paramilitary troopers, injured in a grenade attack by militants in Pulwama in south Kashmir. Police said militants hurled a grenade near…
Srinagar, Sep 21 (IANS) Two civilians were killed and five others, including two policemen, injured on Thursday in a grenade attack in Pulwama in south Kashmir. Police said militants hurled a grenade near a bus…
Jammu, Sep 21 (IANS) The firing incident outside the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) post near the Jawahar Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday in which one SSB trooper was killed and another injured was…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Global losses due to cyber attacks, including cost of damage control and productivity loss, amounted to as much as $4 billion in the first half of 2017, a new report…
Jammu, Sep 21 (IANS) Educational institutes close to the international border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir remained shut on Thursday following overnight Pakistan shelling. “All schools within 5 km from the IB in Jammu district…
San Francisco, Sep 21 (IANS) Twitter executives will meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee which is investigating alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential elections next week, the micro-blogging platform announced. The executives would speak…
New York, Sep 21 (IANS) The US will provide a humanitarian aid package worth $32 million to the Rohingya Muslim minority who have fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh, the State Department…
United Nations, Sep 21 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said politics must be prioritised in the reform of UN peacekeeping operations. Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the reform of UN peacekeeping on…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A group of youths from Jammu and Kashmir met President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here, official sources said. The President called the youths, living in…
Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) In a bid to pay homage to the killed Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, BSF’s South Bengal Frontier will organise a half marathon in the city on October this year, an…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The cross-LoC surgical strike last year was carried out by Indian troops to send across a “strong message” to Pakistan, which could not have been conveyed through other means, former…
Kolkata, Sep 20 (IANS) Asserting that there were no specific instructions from the central government on the Rohingya refugees, the BSF on Wednesday said there were no new cases of their infiltration into India this…