QUEZON CITY, Sept. 14, 2015 (Xinhua) — South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo speaks to the media during a press conference at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) headquarters in Quezon City, the Philippines,…
Moscow, April 6 (IANS) The Islamic State terror group located in Afghanistan is growing and wants to use the country “as a springboard to expand further”, a Russian official said on Wednesday. The situation in…
Tokyo, April 6 (IANS) A Japanese high court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal from local plaintiffs filed last year and opted aggainst granting an injunction to suspend the operation of two nuclear reactors restarted at…
Moscow, April 6 (IANS) Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Armenian counterpart Hovik Abrahamyan have expressed concern over the outbreak of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the Russian government website said on Wednesday. The…
Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) A day after tension erupt in National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, a two-member team of union human resource development ministry (HRD) will arrive here on Wednesday to assess the situation…
Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) A militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was killed by the security forces overnight in a gunfight in Pulwama district of Kashmir. “A militant of LeT outfit identified as Bilal was killed…
London, April 6 (IANS) British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras discussed over phone the implementation of the recent European Union (EU)-Turkey agreement on migrants, the Downing Street said. Cameron in…
Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) Tension gripped the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar after a group of students clashed with police on Tuesday. “A group of NIT students, all of them non-locals, marched to the…
Srinagar, April 5 (IANS) Eight protesters were injured on Tuesday in clashes with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district where a gunfight was on between holed-up guerrillas and the security forces, said…
Bengaluru, April 5 (IANS) State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) posted sales turnover of Rs.16,524 crore for the just-concluded fiscal 2015-16, registering 5.8 percent annual growth from Rs.15,622 crore in 2014-15. “Profit before tax grew marginally…
Beirut, April 5 (IANS/AKI) Two Hezbollah commanders were among a dozen fighters from the militant Lebanese Shia group killed in attacks at the weekend in northern Syria, medical sources close to Hezbollah said Tuesday. The…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) A 34-year-old man was on Tuesday detained by the NIA at the Pune airport while he was about to fly to Syria via Dubai to join the Islamic State terror…
Jammu, April 5 (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) head constable, posted near the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, shot himself dead on Tuesday, police said. “A head constable…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Indian Air Force, which is participating in the Red Flag-Alaska exercise that will have “near realistic scenarios”, on Tuesday said the event will provide an opportunity for “exchange of…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) An all-women team of the Indian Navy has completed a high altitude trek to Pindari Glacier at a height of 3,353 metres, thereby opening an alternate route, after the original…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) India on Tuesday termed as “total concoction” a Pakistan report, quoting sources in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that visited India, that the Pathankot attack was staged by India. Meanwhile,…
By S.P. Singh Bijnor, April 5 (IANS) Both personal issues and the terrorist angle are being examined thoroughly to determine who murdered NIA official Mohammad Tanzil Ahmad, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. The…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The home ministry has set up a committee to recommend measures to strengthen border protection and address issue of gaps and vulnerability in border fencing along the India-Pakistan border, an…
Pyongyang, April 5 (IANS) New satellite images have shown “suspicious activity” at a North Korean nuclear facility at Yongbyon, 38 North, a Washington-based monitoring group announced on Tuesday. Plumes of exhaust steam, a byproduct of…
Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) A petition seeking ban on the exhibition of Indian movies in Pakistan was on Tuesday filed in Lahore High Court. The plea, registered by local producers and distributors, challenged the display…