Manila, Aug 19 (IANS) The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Friday night issued a unilateral declaration for a seven-day ceasefire to “celebrate and bolster” the resumption of formal peace talks with the government….
Damascus, Aug 19 (IANS/AKI) The Islamic State militants publicly beheaded two alleged thieves in eastern Syria and crucified their headless corpses, a rights watchdog reported on Friday. The two men were executed in front of…
Mon (Nagaland), Aug 19 (IANS) Heavy exchange of fire took place on Friday between Assam Rifles and banned terrorist outfit NSCN (Khaplang) after the soldiers allegedly raided some of the villages along the Indo-Myanmar border….
Srinagar, Aug 19 (IANS) At least four Border Security Force troopers were injured when militants attacked their camp in Kupwara district of Kashmir on Friday. A gunfight began in the area when the militants attacked…
Singapore, Aug 19 (IANS) Four Singaporeans have been prosecuted under the Internal Security Act for their involvement in terrorist activities, the Home Affairs Ministry said on Friday. Rosli bin Hamzah, 50, Mohamed Omar bin Mahadi,…
Dhaka, Aug 19 (IANS) At least 18 Jamaat-e-Islami activists were arrested here on Friday from a school run by executed war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s wife, police said. Police said they were arrested from the…
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the deaths in the current unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and also offered his good offices to facilitate dialogue between India and Pakistan to…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) India has been “constructively engaging” with the UN’s Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) to project the correct picture in violence-hit Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government…
Kabul, Aug 18 (IANS) At least three Afghans were killed and 49 injured on Thursday in a mortar attack in the country’s eastern province bordering Pakistan during the country’s Independence Day celebrations, officials said. The…
Islamabad, Aug 18 (IANS) Pakistan is to “forcefully” present its stance on India’s “state terrorism” in Jammu and Kashmir at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York, the Foreign Office said on Thursday. “Prime…
Damascus, Aug 18 (IANS) At least 70 rebels were killed in airstrikes that struck Syria’s Aleppo city, the state-run news agency Sana reported on Thursday. As many as 74 airstrikes were conducted over the past…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar has accepted his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Chaudhry’s invitation for talks but has made clear that the agenda should concern only issues related to terrorism, a top…
Geneva, Aug 18 (IANS) The UN Special Envoy to Syria on Thursday sent out a strong message calling off a humanitarian task force meeting after only a few minutes due to “lack of progress on…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) As Union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said the Congress statements on Kashmir show its internal divisions and political opportunism, the opposition party asked the Prime Minister to reveal…
Damascus, Aug 18 (IANS) At least 25 people, including children, were killed in a bombing in Syria’s Idlib town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday. The Human Rights observatory said the victims…
Sanaa, Aug 18 (IANS) At least six women have been killed in airstrikes by the Saudi-led military coalition, officials said on Thursday. The coalition warplanes fighting Shia Houthi rebels to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s…
Islamabad, Aug 18 (IANS) Pakistan is to “forcefully” present its stance on India’s “state terrorism” in Jammu and Kashmir at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York, the Foreign Office said on Thursday. “Prime…
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) A Muslim mother of Pakistani origin has sued a New York school for $25 million claiming her disabled son was forced to sign a confession saying he was part of…
Ankara, Aug 18 (IANS) At least two people killed and 100 injured in a car bomb explosion in Turkey’s Elazig province on Thursday. The bombing, blamed on the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party, hit the neighbourhood…
Islamabad, Aug 18 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about Balochistan and Pakistani Kashmir in his Independence Day speech “have not helped matters on the bilateral front”, a Pakistan daily has said, terming the…