Bari, Feb 10 (IANS/AKI) Police in southern Italy on Thursday seized an Albanian’s passport and banned him from leaving his place of residence after they found jihadist propaganda videos, including executions staged by the Islamic…
Brussels, Feb 9 (IANS) The European Union and India underlined their desire on Thursday to strengthen strategic partnership and to boost cooperation in many sectors, including political, security, trade, economy, human rights and environment. “India…
Washington/New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to maintain the pace and momentum of their partnership, particularly in the defence ties, after US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis spoke over phone…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday inducted its own pilots and crew in its Air Wing. The border force’s own pilots and other air crew flew the maiden flight…
Paris, Feb 9 (IANS) Five persons were injured in an explosion and fire at a nuclear power plant in northern France on Thursday, but no radiation was released from the plant, according to the power…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The family of BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav, whose social media video clip on “substandard food” dished out to the men in the force triggered an uproar, on Thursday filed…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Union Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar on Thursday questioned the United Nation’s “coy approach” in defining terrorism, and stressed on the need to identify countries that support…
Islamabad, Feb 9 (IANS) India has accumulated a stockpile of nuclear weapons which threaten to undermine the strategic balance of power in the region, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said on Thursday. Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria…
Paris, Feb 9 (IANS) An explosion at Flamanville nuclear plant in northern France on Thursday left several people injured, the media reported. The blast occurred in the engine room of France’s flagship nuclear plant, on…
Kabul, Feb 9 (IANS) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended operations in Afghanistan after the killing of six of its employees by militants in northern Afghanistan. ICRC’s director of operations Dominik…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) BJP MP R.K. Singh on Thursday said bilateral relations between India and China will be adversely affected if the latter keeps blocking the move to have JeM terror group chief…
Kabul, Feb 9 (IANS) Repeated terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, especially suicide bombings in capital Kabul, have angered citizens with many of them slamming the government over its failure to check militant activities, a media report…
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) US forces killed 11 Al Qaeda operatives, including a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden, in two airstrikes last week in Syria, the Defense Department has said. Abu Hani al-Masri was…
Seoul, Feb 9 (IANS) North Korea could own up to 45 nuclear arms by 2020 owing to an anticipated rise in its reserves of plutonium and enriched uranium and its growing pace of arms development,…
Beijing, Feb 9 (IANS) Foreign nationals will have to submit to fingerprinting when they enter China, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. During this year, exit-entry departments across the country will begin to…
Islamabad, Feb 9 (IANS) A Russian anti-submarine ship arrived in Pakistan for the Aman 2017 international naval exercises, the media reported on Thursday. The ship, which set off from Oman’s Salalah port, will take part…
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) India and the US agreed to maintain the pace and momentum of their partnership, particularly their defence ties, after Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis spoke on the phone with his Indian…
Srinagar, Feb 9 (IANS) Heavy deployment of security forces was made here on Thursday as Kashmir observed the fourth death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, a police official said. Markets, public transport, coaching…
Nay Pyti Taw, Feb 9 (IANS) Myanmar authorities will investigate allegations made in a recent human rights report on the Rohingya Muslims based in Rakhine state, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The Office of…
Sanaa, Feb 8 (IANS/WAM) The Yemeni popular resistance forces backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition on Wednesday took full control of the liberated city of Al Mokha while scores of Houthi militias were killed or…