London, Aug 4 (IANS) One woman was killed and five others were injured in a mass stabbing in central London’s Russell Square on Wednesday night, police said. According to London Metropolitan Police, the suspect, a…
London, Aug 4 (IANS) One woman was killed and five others were injured in a mass stabbing in central London’s Russell Square on Wednesday night, police said. According to London Metropolitan Police, the suspect, a…
Pyongyang, Aug 4 (IANS) North Korean top leader Kim Jong-un presided over a meeting for exemplary commanding officers and servicemen aimed at strengthening the ruling party’s leadership over the military, state media reported on Thursday….
Tel Aviv, Aug 4 (IANS) Israel’s parliament has passed a law that allows the imprisonment of minors under the age of 14 charged with terrorism crimes. The Knesset, as the legislature is known, on Wednesday…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Civil Lines, B.K. Jha on Wednesday prohibited holding of any public gathering and protest near or around Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines area of…
New York, Aug 3 (IANS) The US authorities have designated as a “global terrorist” a Pakistan-based Islamist organisation, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, that claimed responsibility for the 2014 Wagah terror attack, the State Department announced on Wednesday. The…
New York, Aug 3 (IANS) The US authorities have designated a Pakistan-based Islamist organisation, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, as a “global terrorist” organisation, the State Department announced on Wednesday. The organisation is a splinter group of the Tehrik-e…
Moscow, Aug 3 (IANS) The upgrade of the US B61-12 bomb will threaten nuclear security as its combat characteristics increase the risk of its use, senior Russian Foreign Ministry officials said on Wednesday. “It is…
Ramallah, Aug 3 (IANS) Israeli aircraft will fly alongside Pakistani and United Arab Emirates (UAE) planes in the US Air Force’s Red Flag exercise in the Nevada desert later this month. Red Flag is considered…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday inaugurated an exhibition of defence equipment by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in the Parliament House complex. The three-day exhibition, organised…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Nagaland MP Neiphiu Rio on Wednesday urged the government to expedite the ongoing Naga peace talks a year after the historic Naga Framework Agreement was signed. Speaking in the Lok…
Chandigarh, Aug 3 (IANS) The Haryana government on Wednesday announced that it has increased ex-gratia grant given to the family members of Armed Forces personnel who die in the line of duty. “The revised rate…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The nine-member Lok Sabha panel probing the Parliament video of AAP MP Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday said there were contradictions in his stand on the issue. “The committee gave four…
Kolkata, Aug 3 (IANS) The Indian Army’s Eastern Command launched its Facebook page on Wednesday, a defence ministry spokesperson said. The page can be accessed at Eastern Command_Indian Army. In his inaugural message, General Officer…
Raigad (Maharashtra), Aug 3 (IANS) Rescuers have found two bodies even as a massive search was on for the remaining missing passengers of two buses that were washed away early on Wednesday in flood waters…
Baghdad/London, Aug 3 (IANS) Royal Air Force fighter jets have bombed a major Islamic State training centre housed in a palace built by late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence…
Jammu, Aug 3 (IANS) Cross border trade on the Line of Control (LoC) between the two divided parts of Kashmir was suspended on Wednesday for the week. A senior official of the district administration in…
Srinagar, Aug 3 (IANS) Tempers ran high in Srinagar’s old city on Wednesday after a guard at an ATM booth was found dead, with hundreds of pellets fired from close range, officials and residents said….
Islamabad, Aug 3 (IANS) At least five militants were killed in a shootout with security forces in Pakistan’s northwest on Wednesday, the media reported. The exchange of firing was triggered off when militants opened fire…
Tokyo, Aug 3 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday reshuffled his cabinet, appointing Tomomi Inada of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) the new Defence Minister. Abe’s spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Inada will…