Tehran, March 12 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated on Saturday that his country will counter any threat to the holy Shiite shrines in Iraq, Tasnim news agency reported. Iran has made it clear that…
Baghdad, March 12 (IANS) At least 44 Islamic State militants were killed on Saturday in air strikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, a provincial security source said. The Iraqi security forces…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) The sixth in the series of eight indigenous Landing Craft Utility (LCU) designed and being built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) for the Indian Navy, was launched…
Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), March 12 (IANS) Two BSF personnel were killed and four wounded in a gunfight with Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region. The incident occurred around 2.30 a.m. Friday night when a BSF patrol…
Taipei, March 12 (IANS) Over 1,000 Taiwanese people rallied in capital Taipei on Saturday against nuclear energy, calling on the government to shut down three operating nuclear plants and halt the ongoing construction of a…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) We need to create more weapons for peace and not new weapons for war, former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said on Saturday. Speaking at a session on “Creating…
Sanaa, March 12 (IANS) Over 100 people were killed in clashes in Yemen’s Taiz city after security forces broke a rebel siege of the city, officials said on Saturday. “We announce that our forces on…
Agartala, March 12 (IANS) Around 600 troopers of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) would be deployed in West Bengal and Assam to facilitate peaceful assembly elections in the two states, an official said here on Saturday….
Colombo, March 12 (IANS) Sri Lankan Tamil prisoners, who launched a hunger strike demanding their release, called off their fast after a minister assured them of speedy trials. As many as 13 former Liberation Tigers…
London, March 12 (IANS) Britain is set to send at least 30 more military trainers to Iraq to boost its training mission there, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said. This will bring the number of British…
Washington, March 12 (IANS) Using satellite data, researchers have found that shipwrecks near the coast can leave sediment plumes at the sea’s surface that help reveal their location. Using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8…
Seoul, March 12 (IANS) South Korea and the US on Saturday carried out their largest-ever landing drill in the port city of Pohang. The landing drill involved 17,200 soldiers, including 12,200 American marine and navy…
Paris, March 12 (IANS) The names of three of the Paris attackers have appeared in the Islamic State’s files, the media reported. Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Omar Ismail Mostefai, the three men who carried…
Gaza, March 12 (IANS) A ten-year-old boy was killed on Saturday morning in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Xinhua quoted medics and security officials as saying.
Juba, March 12 (IANS) Fresh fighting in previously peaceful areas of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state has forced thousands of people to flee into countries including Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and even…
Panaji, March 11 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday hit out at critics of the DefExpo 2016, scheduled to be held in the state later this month, terming the opposition “political”. “The four-day…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Technodinamika, a holding company of Russian Rostec State Corporation, on Friday announced it has got a contract to supply nine new auxiliary power units for the IAF’s Ilyushin-76 (IL-76) fleet….
Moscow, March 11 (IANS) The exclusion of the Syrian Kurds from the upcoming intra-Syrian reconciliation talks in Geneva will only feed separatism in the war-torn country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “A…
Bengaluru, March 11 (IANS) State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Friday announced it has delivered the first set of structural assemblies to Swiss firm Ruag Aviation for its new generation Dornier aircraft. “We have manufactured…
Jammu, March 11 (IANS) The Indian Army on Friday handed back to Pakistan authorities a boy who had inadvertently crossed the line of control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, an army official said. “Yesterday (on…