Colombo, May 24 (IANS) Sri Lanka Parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has set up a special panel to probe the April 21 Easter Sunday terror attacks, which claimed over 250 lives, authorities said here on Friday….
San Francisco, May 24 (IANS) The Indian government requested Facebook to provide data for 20,805 users (including 861 emergency requests) in the July-December 2018 period — second only to the US government — and the…
Srinagar, May 24 (IANS) After nocturnal protests in parts of Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian and some other places in the Valley when the news about the killing of Zakir Musa, chief of Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, spread,…
Washington, May 24 (IANS) The US Justice Department has filed 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who is facing extradition from the UK. The latest charges accuse him of receiving and unlawfully publishing…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) Phishing accounted for 29 per cent of all fraud attacks in the first quarter of 2019 and India stood second to the US on the list of top phishing hosting…
Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday announced training launch of Shaheen-II surface-to-surface ballistic missile, capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear war-heads up to 1,500 km. “The training launch was aimed at ensuring (the)…
Cagliari (Italy), May 22 (IANS/AKI) A total 54 migrants reached Italy’s Sardinia island overnight aboard two boats, sources said on Wednesday. Two small boats landed in Teulada and Porto Pino with a total 13 Algerian…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth is now the first woman fighter pilot to qualify for combat missions. She completed the operational syllabus on Wednesday on MiG-21 Bison jet. Posted in Nal…
Cooch Behar (West Bengal), May 22 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Rabindranath Ghosh on Wednesday courted controversy by getting involved in an altercation with Cooch Behar’s Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar Singh, after police sought to…
Rome, 22 May (IANS/AKI) Italian hostage Alessandro Sandrini has been freed from captivity “after a complex operation in foreign territory”, Premier Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday after a jihadist group in northwest Syria announced Sandrini…
Rome, May 22 (IANS/AKI) Kidnappers have “recently” released Italian national Alessandro Sandrini, the hardline militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which largely controls the embattled northwest Syrian province of Idlib, said on Wednesday. Sandrini had been…
Colombo, May 22 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday extended by a month the state of Emergency that was imposed immediately after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed over 250 people and injured…
Kabul, May 22 (IANS) At least eight people were killed and 10 injured when a Taliban truck bomb exploded after coming under fire by security forces in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, officials said. “A Taliban Humvee…
Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), May 22 (IANS) As many as 16 Taliban militants, including one of their local leaders, were killed in a series of air-strikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, officials said on Wednesday. The air…
Bengaluru, May 22 (IANS) A four-tier security had been put in place for Thursday’s counting of votes in all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies across Karnataka, an official said on Wednesday. “The four-tier security comprises…
Srinagar, May 22 (IANS) Indian and Chinese soldiers held a meeting on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, a defence official said on Wednesday. According…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The Indian Air Force on Wednesday carried out second test of air-launch version of supersonic cruise missile which was fired from a Sukhoi30 MKI fighter jet. The IAF said in…
Mogadishu, May 22 (IANS) At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a car bomb attack in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, the police said. A police officer told Xinhua news agency…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The security scenario of the country will become more challenging in the coming times and technology will play a key role in protecting the nation, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval…
Washington, May 22 (IANS) The prospects of Iranian attacks on US forces in the Middle East have been put “on hold”, acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has said after the Donald Trump administration deployed…