United Nations, June 1 (IANS) Nearly 3,700 people, or 624 families, have fled Fallujah over the past week amid a new offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the besieged city from the Islamic State (IS),…
Beijing, May 31 (IANS) A senior North Korean official arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks between his country and China, whose ties are formally close but have eroded recently because of the Norths nuclear…
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs chairman Pradip Bhattacharya on Tuesday demanded a National Investigation Agency probe to find out whether there was any “sabotage angle” in the massive fire at…
Baghdad, May 31 (IANS) Islamic State is using several hundred families as human shields in Fallujah, Iraq, witnesses told the UN agency for refugees UNHCR. It comes just one day after Iraqi troops forced their…
Kiev, May 31 (IANS) Ukraine’s former military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who was freed after two years in Russian prison and is now member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, was given the charge of national security…
Kabul, May 31 (IANS) The number of internally displaced people has doubled to 1.2 million in the past three years due to the escalation in conflict in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said in its report on…
Chandigarh, May 31 (IANS) The Parkash Singh Committee report on the large-scale violence during the Jat agitation for reservation in February, has blasted the civil and police administration, particularly senior officers, for abandoning their authority…
Beijing, May 31 (IANS) Beijing will pressure Washington over maritime issues during the upcoming annual strategic and economic dialogue, as the US’s increasing military presence in the South China Sea is among the country’s major…
Wardha: Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Army chief General Dalbir Singh visit soldiers injured in the fire that broke out at Indian Army’s largest ammunition depots in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon, in Wardha, on May 31,…
Taliban Maulvi Haibatullah Akhunzada. (File Photo:Xinhua/Afghan Islamic PressIANS) Kabul, May 31 (IANS) The turmoil in Afghanistan has got impetus since Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has been appointed as the Taliban group’s supreme leader. “Kidnapping innocent passengers…
Nagpur, May 31 (IANS) A Lt. Colonel and a Major were among the 16 dead when a massive blaze swept through India’s biggest Central Ammunition Depot at Pulgaon in Maharashtra’s Wardha district early on Tuesday,…
Madrid, May 31 (IANS) A Pakistani man was arrested on Tuesday in the city L’Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona for spreading jihadist propaganda, the Spanish Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday. “The jihadist spread Daesh…
Islamabad, May 31 (IANS) The mortal remains of Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a US drone strike, were handed over to his kin in Afghanistan after a DNA test confirmed his…
Pulgaon (Maharashtra) May 31 (IANS) At least 16 persons, including two army officers, were killed and 17 injured in a massive fire at India’s largest ammunition depot in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon town early Tuesday, raising questions…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) In a step towards self-reliance to meet defence requirements and to cut the dependence on imports, especially from China, India is all set to produce its first lithium ion (Li-ion)…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The following is the list of major fire disasters at India’s ordnance depots that have always raised questions about alleged safety violations at these defence facilities in the country. Pulgaon,…
Kannur: Pinarayi Vijayan CPI-M candidate for Dharmadam constituency during an election campaign ahead of the Kerala Assembly polls in Kannur on April 16, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Thiruvananthapuram, May 31 (IANS) Kerala Police chief T.P. Sen…
Islamabad, May 31 (IANS) The JF-17 multi-role combat aircraft is capable enough to meet Pakistan’s defence requirements, a top Pakistani minister said on Tuesday. Federal Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer said Pakistan had a…
Baghdad, May 31 (IANS) At least four people were killed and 11 others injured on Tuesday in two suicide bomb attacks targeting government-backed paramilitary Shia unit in Iraq’s Salahudin province, a security source said. A…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) With an estimated 18.35 million men, women and children trapped in modern slavery through human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage or commercial sexual exploitation, India is…