US, UK electronics ban on Middle East flights takes off
London, March 25 (IANS) A ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage on flights from Turkey and some countries in the Middle East and North Africa to the US and Britain came into effect…
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Pakistan allows Gen Sharif to head Saudi-led military alliance
Islamabad, March 25 (IANS) Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday said that Pakistan government has formally permitted ex-army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to head the Saudi Arabia-led military alliance to fight militancy. The minster revealed…
Swaraj Bir Singh is new Meghalaya DGP
Shillong, March 25 (IANS) Swaraj Bir Singh, a 1986 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has been appointed as Meghalaya’s Police Chief, an official said on Saturday. The ruling Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance…
Coast Guard seizes Pakistani fishing boat off Gujarat coast
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has seized a Pakistani fishing boat with a crew of nine in Indian waters off the Gujarat coast, an official statement said on Saturday. “A…
London attacker ‘was not lone wolf’
London, March 25 (IANS) The Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was not a “lone wolf” and others had played a key part in indoctrinating him and helping to carry out deadly attacks in London, a media…
Police foil jailbreak bid in Gurdaspur, situation under control
Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Rioting prison inmates in Punjab’s Gurdaspur central jail fought pitched battles with security forces till Saturday morning, but were thwarted in their attempted jailbreak by heavy police reinforcements rushed there, police…
16 killed in Syria airstrikes
Damascus, March 25 (IANS) At least 16 civilians were killed and 50 injured in airstrikes on a Syrian town on the outskirts of the country’s capital, according to a war monitoring group. The United Kingdom-based…
US Senators push Trump on defence deals with India
Washington, March 25 (IANS) Two senators have written letters to the Trump administration to push for the sale of F-16 fighter jets to India as well as to approve a drone sale to the country,…
Sikh-American girl harassed in US
Washington, March 25 (IANS) A Sikh-American girl was harassed on a subway train here by a man who mistook her as a Middle-Easterner and told her to “go back to Lebanon” and “you don’t belong…
BSF gets first woman field officer
Bhopal, March 25 (IANS) The Border Security Force on Saturday received its first woman field officer after a convocation ceremony conducted in the BSF academy at Tekanpur in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district. Tanushree Pareek, a…
Ajit Doval in US, meets top officials
Washington, March 25 (IANS) India and the US pledged to continue their strong defence partnership during a meeting here between Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and US Secretary of Defence James Mattis. According to…
IS claims Dhaka airport ‘suicide attack’
Dhaka, March 25 (IANS) The Islamic State has taken responsibility for a blast in front of a police box at the entrance to Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport, describing it as a “suicide attack”. Terrorism monitoring…
Borders will be sealed: Rajnath Singh
Gwalior, March 25 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the country’s borders will be sealed. Rajnath said this while taking part in the passing out parade of the Border Security Force…
Russia denies supplying Taliban after NATO claim
Moscow, March 25 (IANS) Russia has denied a top NATO general’s allegation that Moscow is secretly supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan. Zamir Kabulov, the Kremlin’s special envoy in Afghanistan, on Friday said the allegation of…
3 injured in shooting outside France metro station
Paris, March 25 (IANS) At least three people were injured after a gunman opened fire outside a metro station in the city of Lille in northern France, days after the attack in London. Armed police…
US jets conduct bomb drill over Korean peninsula
Seoul, March 25 (IANS) A group of US stealth fighter planes carried out the first precision bombing drill on the Korean peninsula this week, American military officials in South Korea said on Saturday. Aircraft from…
US probes 300 civilian deaths due to airstrikes
Washington, March 25 (IANS) The US military is investigating whether it was responsible for the deaths of nearly 300 Syrian and Iraqi civilians in three different sets of airstrikes this month, a media report said….
N.Korea ready to conduct nuclear test: US
Washington, March 25 (IANS) Specific intelligence indicators have shown that North Korea is ready for its sixth underground nuclear test at any time, US officials said. Satellite imagery indicates a potentially significant change at the…
Outgoing UN peacekeeping head praises Indian, South Asian troops
By Arul Louis United Nations, March 25 (IANS) The outgoing head of peacekeeping operations, Herve Ladsous, has praised the quality of troops from India and other South Asian nations and the sacrifices they made in…
Pakistani fishing boat seized off Gujarat
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard on Friday seized a Pakistani fishing boat in its territorial waters off the Gujarat coast, officials said. Coast Guard officials said the boat, operating within Indian…