Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) The US police surrounded a Sikh man carrying a Kirpan — ceremonial dagger — in Pennsylvania after receiving multiple calls about an apparent Muslim man walking around a shopping centre with…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Sep 22 (IANS) The Navy and police went on high alert after some local students reported that masked persons armed with guns were sighted in the coastal village of Karanja near Uran on…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) India on Thursday said the a bill introduced in the US Congress describing Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism was an acknowledgment of Islamabad being the “epicentre of terrorism”,…
Jammu, Sep 22 (IANS) The ongoing unrest in the Kashmir Valley has adversely affected road construction and other work of the Border Roads Organization (BRO), the army said on Thursday. Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Sep 22 (IANS) The Navy and police went on high alert after some locals reported that masked persons armed with guns were sighted in the coastal town of Uran near Mumbai on Thursday….
Istanbul, Sep 22 (IANS/AKI) Police in Turkey arrested economics professor Mehmet Altan on Thursday amid an ongoing crackdown since July’s failed military coup, the Turkish media reported. Altan faces several charges, including an “attempt to…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) India’s Intelligence Bureau Director Dineshwar Sharma on Thursday said terrorism has emerged as a big challenge for the entire world and sought close cooperation and sharing of real-time intelligence to…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Former Border Security Force Director General Prakash Singh said on Thursday that there is an “executive stranglehold” on police forces across states and called for implementation of the Supreme Court’s…
Baghdad, Sep 22 (IANS) At least 33 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Thursday in an operation by Iraqi security forces in Salahudin province’s Shirqat town, officials said. Government troops and allied Sunni paramilitary…
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) The US state of Texas has threatened to withdraw from the federal refugee programme if Washington does not meet its security demands, media reported on Thursday. The Texas Health and Human…
Kabul, Sep 22 (IANS) The Afghan government and the country’s second largest insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami on Thursday signed a peace agreement in Kabul — four months after the group announced its decision to do so….
Imphal, Sep 22 (IANS) An Air Asia flight from here was held up on Thursday and extensively searched after a passenger told the cabin crew he was carrying a bomb. Though it was later declared…
Dhaka, Sep 22 (IANS) A Bangladeshi man was deported to Dhaka from Malaysia for allegedly supplying arms to a terrorist organisation, a media report said on Thursday. The Malaysian police had arrested three foreigners and…
Dehradun, Sep 22 (IANS) As part of the ongoing ‘Yudh Abhyas 2016’ exercise, the Indian and US troops on Thursday participated in joint training operations in the mountainous terrain of Uttarakhand, a defence official said….
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Reliance Defence has won a contract for the refit of three naval warships at its facility at Pipavav in Gujarat, sources said. The value of the order is pegged at…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Asserting that action will be taken to avenge the Uri terror attack, Union Minister and former Army chief V.K. Singh on Thursday insisted any action should be taken in a…
New York, Sep 22 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has presented a dossier containing details of violations in Kashmir to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The Prime Minister on Wednesday night apprised Ban of…
By Aroonim Bhuyan New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Despite the clamour for retaliatory action to Sunday’s daring cross-border terror attack from Pakistan on an army base at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) India and the US discussed with Afghanistan its development goals and steps to counter terrorism in a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 71st Session of the UN General…
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) Authorities have declared a state of emergency in a US city as protests against the police continued after a African-American man was shot dead. Following a second consecutive day of protests,…