New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) In view of the Republic Day function and Bharat Parv 2019, the Red Fort will remain closed for visitors from Tuesday, the government said. The 17th century monument will re-open…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Jan 22 (IANS) China has cut down troops in the world’s largest standing Army by more than 50 per cent as part of President Xi Jinping’s plans to turn the force…
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) Experts have revealed an undeclared site that reportedly serves as the headquarters of one of North Koreas ballistic missile programmes, the media reported on Tuesday. The Sino-ri site, one of 20…
By Rachel V. Thomas Bangkok, Jan 22 (IANS) The world is on the brink of facing mega cyber attacks and the enterprises need to be prepared more than ever before, a top executive of Israel-based…
Srinagar, Jan 22 (IANS) Three militants, including the brother of an IPS officer, were killed and a soldier injured on Tuesday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district. Police sources said Shamsul Haq…
Srinagar, Jan 22 (IANS) Two militants were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police sources said. Firing exchanges were underway in the orchards of Heff…
Srinagar, Jan 22 (IANS) A gunfight between security forces and militants began on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police sources said. Firing exchanges were underway in the orchards of Heff Shermal village. “The…
Paris, Jan 22 (IANS) French Defence Minister Florence Parly has said the global strategic context is “tough, violent and moving” and the arms race has “well and truly recovered”. “Every day the arms control regime…
Agartala, Jan 21 (IANS) Even as 31 Rohingya Muslims are stranded along the India-Bangladesh borders since Friday, 30 more Rohingyas, including 12 children, were on Monday night apprehended along the Tripura-Assam border, a police officer…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajanth Singh will inaugurate the upgraded spectator gallery at the Attari border on Tuesday, a Home Ministry official said on Monday. The Minister is also expected to…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Keeping regional security in mind, India has scaled up its defence cooperation with its extended neighbourhood in the last three years under New Delhi’s Neighbourhood First, Act East and Look…
Bengaluru, Jan 21 (IANS) Flight operations at the Bengaluru airport will be affected for 11 days from February 14-24 during the flying display of military and civilian aircraft at the biennial Aero India air show…
Jerusalem, Jan 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that Iran would face consequences for threatening Israel, hours after Israeli fighter jets struck targets in Syria’s capital Damascus. “We are acting against Iran…
Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) Three militants were killed on Monday in a daylong gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district. Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that searches were still going on in the…
Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) A militant was killed on Monday in a gunfight between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district. Police said the body of the slain militant had been recovered…
Damascus, Jan 21 (IANS) A suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy in Syria’s Hasakah province on Monday killed five members of a Kurdish-led force accompanying US-led coalition troops, a war monitor reported. The…
Jerusalem/Damascus, Jan 21 (IANS) The Israel military on Monday said it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital Damascus in retaliation to a rocket fired from Syria towards the occupied Golan Heights. In a…
Washington, Jan 21 (IANS) Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu Congresswoman, has said that she does not regret her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of using chemical weapons to attack…
Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested here on Monday. JKLF sources said Malik was arrested from his uptown Maisuma residence. Malik’s arrest comes the same…
Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) A gunfight between hiding militants and the security forces began on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district, police said. Following specific information about militant presence in Hapatnar forests of Chrar-e-Sharief…