Islamabad, Aug 10 (IANS) Islamabad has issued an alert for a possible attack at the India-Pakistan border in Punjab province. Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority on Tuesday, in a letter to Home Secretary of Punjab,…
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday took up for discussion the continued Kashmir unrest with Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s absence in the house during…
Canberra, Aug 10 (IANS) More than 2,000 leaked reports detail widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia’s offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru. The “incident reports”,…
Dehradun, Aug 10 (IANS) Security has been heightened at public places in Uttarakhand ahead of the Independence Day celebrations, a police official said on Wednesday. While there were no immediate inputs from intelligence agencies of…
Srinagar, Aug 10 (IANS) Authorities continued curfew and restrictions in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday for the 33rd consecutive day as separatists did not relent on shutdown and protests. “Curfew will remain in force in Anantnag…
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) The allegation in Turkish press that the Washington-based think tank Wilson Center was behind a failed coup in Turkey is “absolutely not helpful”, US State Department has said. “I think this…
Aleppo, Aug 10 (IANS/AKI) Some two million people in Aleppo are without vital supplies and children in the besieged northern Syrian city are at “grave risk” of disease, the United Nations has warned, calling for…
Brussels, Aug 9 (IANS) At least 82 per cent of Europeans want the EU to do more in the fight against terrorism, according to the latest Eurobarometer poll commissioned by the European Parliament on Tuesday….
By Iboyaima Laithangbam Imphal, Aug 9 (IANS) Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila, who has been an international icon for her crusade against the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), on Tuesday ended her 16-year-long fast…
London, Aug 9 (IANS) A man was taken into custody after climbing over a security fence at Buckingham Palace, a media report said on Tuesday. The 22-year-old man from Croydon was spotted by police officers…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold contempt proceedings against two senior Jammu and Kashmir Police officials for not registering an FIR against a Deputy Superintendent of Police for…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) will organise the first two-day national conference of investigation agencies on August 12-13 here to provide them an annual platform to discuss…
Geneva, Aug 9 (IANS) The UN Children’s Fund on Tuesday warned that two million people living in Syria’s Aleppo city have been cut off from water supplies following attacks on the electricity transmission station that…
Jerusalem, Aug 9 (IANS) A Palestinian employee of the UN Development Programme in Gaza Strip was on Tuesday charged in an Israeli court of using his position to assist Hamas’s military wing. The 38-year-old engineer…
Aden, Aug 9 (IANS) At least 15 workers of a food factory including six women, were killed and eight wounded in a series of Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa on Tuesday. The airstrikes destroyed two food…
Kathmandu, Aug 9 (IANS) Nepal witnessed six air accidents involving domestic airlines in the last one year, raising question over its air safety standards, aviation experts and airline operators said. In the latest incident, a…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) India on Tuesday summoned the Pakistani envoy and served a “strong demarche” against continued cross-border terrorism, as bilateral ties took another dip. Days after India and Pakistan clashed over the…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) India on Tuesday summoned the Pakistani envoy and served a “strong demarche” against continued cross-border terrorism, as bilateral ties took another dip. Days after India and Pakistan clashed over the…
By Ninglun Hanghal Back in November 2000 when Irom Sharmila decided to fast for the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Manipur, she did not get much response. Indeed, she did…
New Delhi: Manipuri rights activist Irom Sharmila who was acquitted by a Delhi court in a 2006 case of attempt to suicide when she was undertaking a fast until death at Jantar Mantar; in New…