New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Indian Army Chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat said on Thursday that the army is prepared for an operation to retrieve Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) from the clutches of Pakistan, if the government…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) An Indian Army officer, who went missing five days ago during a kayaking trip in Congo’s Lake Kivu, was found dead in Lake Kivu on Thursday, officials said. Lt Col…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Thursday that the armed forces and its medical services have to be on the forefront of combating the threat of bio-terrorism. Singh was…
Hyderabad, Sep 12 (IANS) The immersion of Ganesh idols was underway across Telangana with a mammoth procession in Hyderabad amid tight security on Thursday. More than 50,000 idols, majority of them in Hyderabad and outskirts,…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) An Army officer deputed as a military observer in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has gone missing from the Lake Kivu area during a kayaking…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Indian and Chinese troops were engaged in a heated exchange on the northern bank of Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, but disengaged after holding talks. According to sources, the exchange…
Tripoli, Sep 12 (IANS/AKI) US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland thanked Italy for its “crucial role” in efforts to end the conflict wracking the North African country, the US embassy said in a tweet on…
By Rajnish Singh Srinagar, Sep 12 (IANS) Fruit growers and traders linked to the business are on the “specific” radar of Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed who have been threatening them for the…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) The indigenously-developed Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) was successfully tested by the Defence Research Development Organization in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool on Wednesday. The test on Wednesday was the third…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Indian intelligence agencies recently cracked some code words being used by the Pakistan Army and various terrorist groups based there to communicate with militants in Jammu and Kashmir in order…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) The Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) handed over the second airborne warning plane, Netra, to the Indian Air Force on Wednesday. The indigenously-built aircraft was handed over to Western Air…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) India’s second Scorpene-class attack submarine INS Khanderi will be commissioned into the Navy by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Mumbai on September 28, defence officials said on Wednesday. The conventional…
Srinagar, Sep 11 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Wednesday asserted that the erstwhile state is on the edge of normalcy, with restrictions almost lifted from most of the…
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) Mobile services were activated in yet another part of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday marking another step towards restoring normal communication links in the Valley. Post-paid mobile services were restored…
Srinagar, Sep 11 (IANS) In a major operation, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday gunned down a top Lashkar-e-Taiba militant who was responsible for attacking a leading apple trader’s family in which a girl child…
Kabul, Sep 11 (IANS) About 30 Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s Takhar province, a local source said on Wednesday. In the strike that was conducted late on Tuesday acting on an…
Kabul, Sep 11 (IANS) A powerful explosion occurred near the US embassy in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attack in the US. No casualties have been reported…
Panaji, Sep 11 (IANS) Heavy rains have deteriorated the runway at Goa’s Dabolim international airport and the proposed shut down of the runway from November 2, for six hours every Saturday for its maintenance, was…
Seoul, Sep 11 (IANS) North Korea said Wednesday it has test-fired a super-large multiple rocket launcher similar to the one tried out by the regime in August. In a statement, the state news agency KCNA…