Moscow, Feb 7 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered a surprise inspection of the Aerospace Forces in order to gauge its readiness for combat, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The goal was to…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Many internet users in India are coming online for the first time and there is a need to simplify ways to make them safe, a Google executive said here on…
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) A new Congressional report has said that the systems in place to vet the nearly one million people who work within US airports are insufficient. The House Homeland Security subcommittee report…
Pyongyang, Feb 7 (IANS) North Korea marked the first anniversary of its space rocket launch on Tuesday and said it is ready to launch more satellites into space, a media report said. Pyongyang’s space rocket…
Vilnius (Lithuania), Feb 7 (IANS) Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has proposed that the country’s parliament urgently ratify the defence cooperation agreement with the US, the president’s office said. Recently, Lithuanian and the US signed agreement…
By C. Uday Bhaskar The annual budget was presented on February 1 and the allocation for the Defence Ministry offers some instructive insights about how India plans to nurture its military — that is, the…
Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 7 (IANS) A second meeting of Myanmar’s Panglong Peace Conference has been scheduled for February 28 with the participation of about 700 representatives, the media reported on Tuesday. “We agreed to…
London, Feb 7 (IANS) At least 13,000 opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in a government jail, where mass executions of up to 50 people at a time occur every week, the…
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) A US raid in Yemen last week missed its primary target — an Al Qaeda leader considered the third most dangerous terrorist in the world — who survived and is now…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The wife of BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav on Monday met the force’s Director General K.K. Sharma here and urged him to expedite the departmental enquiry initiated against her husband…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) In a rare recovery, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found three boxes of ammunition deep from a well in the historic Red Fort here. The boxes contained five…
Islamabad, Feb 6 (IANS) Pakistan wants India to bring its entire civilian nuclear programme under the safeguards laid out by the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA), Director General (Disarmament) at the Foreign Office Kamran Akhtar…
Mumbai, Feb 6 (IANS) National Award winning actress Kangana Ranaut will felicitate and interact with jawans at an Army camp in Jammu on Tuesday. She will also pay tributes at the martyrs’ memorial. Kangana will…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) In a glaring case of misconduct, 59 newly-trained commandos of the CRPF’s elite anti-Maoist CoBRA squad went to their homes in Bihar without informing or seeking permission while on their…
N0ew Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Afghan envoy to India on Monday said that US President Donald Trump’s way to fight radicalisation and global terrorism was the only way to combat it. “The greatest challenge…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and Army chief Bipin Rawat on Monday saw the firing of Brahmos missile from INS Chennai, surface-to-air missile engagement and gunnery shoot at Indian Navy’s…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Advanced Hawk, the upgraded version of the Hawk trainer jets in service with the Indian Air Force, will make its debut in this year’s Aero India, a statement said…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it would put in place, within a year, an effective mechanism for the verification of pre-paid mobile users who constitute…
Tehran, Feb 6 (IANS) If Iran were attacked, it would retaliate against the US Navy base in Bahrain as well as Israel, a senior Iranian MP warned. It comes amid an escalation of tensions between…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) A grenade was found by a team of Archeological Survey of India inside a well at the Red Fort during a cleaning operation on Monday. It was later examined by…