New June 20 (IANS) The liberalised FDI regime announced on Monday permits Foreign Direct Investment up to 100 per cent in defence sector as India looks ahead to increasing indigenous manufacturing in defence under ‘Make…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Monday conducted raids at 10 places in Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal….
Seoul, June 20 (IANS) South Korea has strengthened security around US airbases after the country’s spy agency reported that the Islamic State (IS) terror group has included the US facilities in the country as its…
Tehran, June 20 (IANS) Iran has thwarted one of the biggest terrorist plots in Tehran recently, the intelligence ministry said on Monday. “The anti-Islamist Takfiri group had schemed to carry out a series of bombings…
Kabul, June 20 (IANS) Eight civilians were killed and 30 wounded in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province on Monday, an official said. “The blast ripped through the main square of Faizabad city in…
Wellington, June 20 (IANS) New Zealand will extend its deployment in Iraq to train Iraqi Security Forces until November 2018 and to expand to a second military base, Prime Minister John Key said on Monday….
Mexico City, June 20 (IANS) At least three persons were killed in violent clashes between teachers opposing an education overhaul, and security forces in Mexico’s Oaxaca state, officials said. In a statement, the state government…
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday that Japan was now a permanent member of Malabar exercise which also involves India and the US. “Till now India and US…
Hyderabad, June 19 (IANS) A police constable died when his gun went off at the office of Telangana Police’s anti-terror wing OCTOPUS here on Sunday evening, police said. It was not clear if the gun…
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday that the Indian government was making effors to trace Judith D’Souza, who has been abducted in Afghanistan, and also pursuing the case…
Patna, June 19 (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was killed on Sunday when Maoists detonated a landmine in Bihar’s Aurangabad district, police said. Aurangabad Superintendent of Police Babu Ram told the media…
Jerusalem, June 19 (IANS) Israel’s recently-appointed Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday started an official visit to the US, his first overseas trip in his new post. Lieberman, who joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government…
Srinagar, June 19 (IANS) A militant was killed during an ongoing gunfight on Sunday between security forces and militants in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. “Following specific information about the…
Cairo, June 19 (IANS) At least eight Syrian civilians were shot dead and eight injured by Turkish border guards while trying to cross into Turkey from northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…
Srinagar, June 19 (IANS) A gunfight started on Sunday between the security forces and the militants in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. “Following specific information about the presence of some…
Abuja, June 19 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed in an attack by gunmen in Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ogun, sources said. Baale Musa Ogundare, a traditional chief in Imushin community at Ogijo area…
Seoul, June 19 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) terror group has released information about US military bases in South Korea with the aim of attacking them, Seoul’s intelligence services announced on Sunday. The IS revealed…
By C. Uday Bhaskar China has just tipped its hand in relation to India ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in Seoul on June 24. An op-ed in the Global Times (June 14)…
Moscow, June 19 (IANS) Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his portfolio’s press office said on Saturday. “Topical issues concerning military cooperation between the two countries’ defence ministries,…
Hyderabad/New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Flying Officers Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh on Saturday created history by becoming India’s first three women fighter pilots when they were formally commissioned into the Indian Air…