Washington, July 1 (IANS) US Joint Base Andrews in the US state of Maryland was briefly placed on lockdown on Thursday due to a report of an active shooter. The base later gave the all-clear….
Shillong, June 30 (IANS) Senior IPS officer Sunil Kumar Jain was appointed on Thursday as the acting chief of Meghalaya Police following the retirement from service of Rajiv Mehta. The state’s Congress-led government had written…
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) Sixty Naval Wing NCC cadets of West Bengal and Sikkim Directorate were flagged in here on Thursday after completing an arduous 430 km sailing expedition from Farakka in Murshidabad district to…
Washington, June 30 (IANS) ‘All clear’ was sounded at the US Andrews Base, just outside of Washington, D.C., after a lockdown was ordered earlier due to “presence of an active shooter” reportedly barricaded inside the…
Bhubaneswar, June 30 (IANS) India on Thursday successfully test-fired twice a medium-range surface-to-air ballistic missile, developed jointly with Israel, off the coast of Odisha, officials said. The missile, having a strike range of 70 km,…
Hyderabad, June 30 (IANS) Hyderabad Police Commissioner M. Mahendar Reddy on Thursday appealed to people not to believe rumours being circulated in social media about threat to public safety and security. The police chief made…
Istanbul, June 30 (IANS) Some CCTV footage has caught one of the attackers at Istanbul Ataturk Airport smashing his rifle on the floor in frustration over being unable to find new victims. Forty three people…
Washington, June 30 (IANS) US military Joint Base Andrews, just outside of Washington, DC, has been put on lockdown after an active shooter was reportedly barricaded inside the medical center. Known as “America’s airfield”, Andrews…
Hyderabad, June 30 (IANS) Security was beefed up in the Information Technology hub and at the Hyderabad airport here on Thursday, a day after the NIA busted an Islamic State (IS) module with the arrest…
Chandigarh, June 30 (IANS) Lt Gen Gurdeep Singh on Thursday relinquished the charge of Chief of Staff, Western Command on superannuation after four decades of professionally enriching experience. During his stint as Chief of Staff…
New York, June 30 (IANS) US military Joint Base Andrews, just outside of Washington, was on Thursday put on lockdown following reports of an active shooter at a medical centre. Known as “America’s airfield”, Andrews…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Pakistan’s Karachi city has arrested six suspects who were planning to kill 100 citizens in the port-city during the holy month of Ramadan, a…
Bhubaneswar, June 30 (IANS) India on Thursday successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-air ballistic missile, developed jointly with Israel, off the coast of Odisha, officials said. The missile, having a strike range of 70 km, is…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday hinted that negotiations on the funding of F-16 fighter jets for Islamabad may still be possible with Washington. “US Senator John McCain will be visiting Pakistan soon to…
Kabul, June 30 (IANS) Two suicide explosions hit a line of Afghan police buses in the western part of Kabul on Thursday, leaving at least 30 people dead, authorities said. The attack, claimed by the…
By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A two-year Intelligence Bureau trail helped the NIA to bust Islamic State sympathizers planning to carry out terror attacks in Hyderabad, official sources said on Thursday. The…
Kabul, June 30 (IANS) At least 27 people were killed and around 40 were wounded when two Taliban suicide bombers detonated their explosives in buses carrying police cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul, officials…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday dedicated to the nation an indigenously-developed converged communications network for the armed forces — a major step towards ensuring their network centricity. The state-of-the-art,…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday called on BRICS nations to work together for UN Security Council reforms and be united in the fight against terrorism. “Today, BRICS (Brazil,…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, June 30 (IANS) Given the alacrity with which militants have carried out attacks against the security forces this year, the annual Amarnath Yatra to the Himalayan cave shrine beginning July 2…