Baghdad, June 4 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Saturday liberated Saqlawiyah town from Islamic State (IS) militants near the IS-held city of Fallujah in the western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said. Around…
Singapore, June 4 (IANS) The defence ministers of Japan and India have agreed to boost their trilateral security cooperation with the US. Japanese Defence Minister General Nakatani on Friday said that “it is very significant”…
Chandigarh, June 4 (IANS) The Punjab Police has detained several radical Sikh leaders ahead of the 32nd anniversary of ‘Operation Bluestar’, the Army’s action on Amritsar’s Golden Temple complex in June 1984 to flush out…
Sydney, June 4 (IANS) Australian authorities seized two Vietnamese fishing vessels and detained 30 crew members for allegedly fishing illegally in the country’s waters. The vessels, apprehended in an Australian marine reserve 600 km northeast…
Damascus, June 4 (IANS) The Syrian army on Saturday entered the administrative borders of the northern province of al-Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group. The Syrian army backed by Russian…
Manama, June 4 (IANS) Bahrain tightened security measures in some parts of the country following a prison break, while a probe by the interior ministry is underway, officials said on Saturday. The incident occurred on…
Srinagar, June 4 (IANS) A top Border Security Force (BSF) officer said on Saturday that there are intelligence reports about militants planning to attack the forthcoming Amarnarh Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. At the wreath…
Washington, June 4 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has warned China against aggression in the South China Sea, saying the nation is bucking positive regional cooperation in Asia in pursuit of its own ambitions….
Khartoum, June 4 (IANS) Rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector on Friday claimed to have killed 25 government soldiers in battles that took place between its troops and the Sudanese army in South Kordofan…
Bengaluru, June 3 (IANS) Claiming that most policemen had withdrawn their leave applications, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Friday asserted that the mass protest by the state constabulary on Saturday was unlikely. “We have…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) As ex-servicemen on Friday demanded that the veterans’ commission promised by the government should be formed soon, a Rajya Sabha member suggested no government should appeal in courts in diasbility…
Amritsar, June 3 (IANS) Radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa on Friday took out a march in some parts of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar to mark the 32nd anniversary of the army’s ‘Operation Blue…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday confirmed that he will be visiting the United States next month for a dialogue on homeland security, saying that ‘India and US were…
Singapore, June 3 (IANS) India and Singapore on Friday expressed commitment to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. The two countries reiterated their position during a meeting between Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Singapore…
Islamabad, June 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday presented the country’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17, with a 10 per cent increase in defence allocations. Dar unveiled an budget outlay…
Panaji, June 3 (IANS) When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was striking the Rafale fighter plane deal in France, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Goa buying fish, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Friday,…
Islamabad, June 3 (IANS) Four persons died and seven others were injured in a firing incident in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province during Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s meeting on Friday, media reported. Condition of some of…
Panaji, June 3 (IANS) The NIA’s clean chit to Pakistan in the Pathankot terror attack was a “monumental failure”, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said on Friday, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should explain “if…
Bijbehara: A soldier injured in a Hizb-ul-Mujhadeen attack on BSF convoy on the highway in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district being treated at a hospital on June 3, 2016. Three BSF troopers were killed and…
By Amiya Kumar Kushwaha New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Suspected Islamic State member Mohamed Naser, arrested on charges of motivating people to join the terror group, wrote to his family from Sudan saying he was…