Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) A suspected Islamic State operative was killed in an anti-terror operation here early on Wednesday and hours later, a National Investigative Agency (NIA) team arrived to take the probe forward. The…
Kuala Lumpur, March 8 (IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday said his country currently has no plan to cut diplomatic ties with North Korea. The Malaysian government still needs a channel to talk…
United Nations, March 8 (IANS) The UN Security Council will discuss on Wednesday North Korea’s latest missile test amidst high tension in the region resulting from the tests and the start of the installation of…
London, March 8 (IANS) Facebook will be questioned by a powerful group of British parliamentarians over its failure to remove sexualised images of children following a BBC investigation, a media report said. The Culture, Media…
Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) A suspected IS operative was killed here in the wee hours of Wednesday after a 11-hour-long anti-terror operation conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) commandos. Many efforts to…
Moscow, March 8 (IANS) US deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea poses a great threat to Russia’s security and will be factored into its foreign policy…
Washington, March 8 (IANS) Anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected…
Cairo, March 8 (IANS/AKI) The Tobruk-based parliament in eastern Libya on Tuesday opted to suspend dialogue with the United Nations backed unity government of Fayez al-Seraj and the 2015 accord that created it, news site…
Shillong, March 7 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Tuesday assured a judicial inquiry into police firing in which three people suspected to be militants were injured in the state’s North Garo Hills district….
Rome, March 7 (IANS/AKI) Italian authorities on Tuesday expelled a radical Tunisian Muslim who allegedly voiced support for the Islamic State jihadist group’s 2015 attacks on Paris and incited racial hatred and violence towards women….
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) The gunfight between a suspected IS operative and commandos of the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) was on late Tuesday night with the man holed up inside a house refusing…
Imphal, March 7 (IANS) A polling official and an Assam Rifles trooper were wounded in two bomb blasts by militants near the India-Myanmar border in Kamjong district of Manipur on Tuesday evening, the state police…
Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday issued notice to televangelist Zakir Naik to appear before it in a case against him for allegedly promoting enmity between groups on religious and…
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) Preparations for the seventh and final phase of polling for the Uttar Pradesh assembly have been completed, poll panel officials said on Tuesday. Talking to media persons, chief electoral official T….
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The security at Delhi airport was rated better than in prominent airports around the world, including in London and Dubai, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Director General O.P. Singh said…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Tuesday welcomed the life-imprisonment sentence awarded to DU professor G.N. Saibaba, saying the latter played a big role in spreading Maoism in urban…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Another soldier has taken to social media to complain about the system of ‘batman’ in the Army and what he said was “poor quality food served to the men in…
Mosul (Iraq), March 7 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Tuesday dislodged Islamic State (IS) militants from main government buildings in Mosul city. The federal police and interior ministry special forces after overnight clashes with militants…
Chennai, March 7 (IANS) A 21-year-old fisherman from Tamil Nadu was shot dead in Sri Lankan waters igniting tensions in the state but Colombo insisted its Navy was not involved. Six fishermen from Thangachimadam in…
Moscow, March 7 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pardoned a woman who had been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of high treason. Putin said in the pardon decree,…