South 24 Parganas: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, May 1 (IANS) Issuing a virtual threat to police, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said those…
Mumbai: “Kalvari”, the Scorpene class submarines, being built at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd Mumbai ventures into the sea for the first time as sea trials begin off Mumbai coast on May 1, 2016. (Photo:…
Baghdad, May 1 (IANS) At least 33 people were killed and 63 others injured on Sunday in two car bomb explosions in Muthanna province of Iraq, a security source said. “Our reports said that 33…
Bhubaneswar, May 1 (IANS) Maoists operating in Chhattisgarh are now entering Odisha as insurgents in the eastern state have lost support from the Odia people to carry out their operations, a top police official said…
Jammu, May 1 (IANS) The Indian and Chinese armies on Sunday agreed to maintain peace on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region. A spokesman for the army’s Udhampur-headquartered Northern…
Aden, May 1 (IANS) Six policemen were killed and several others wounded on Sunday in a car bomb attack that targeted armoured police vehicles protecting Aden’s governor and the city’s security chief, police said. The…
Istanbul, May 1 (IANS) At least one person was killed when anti-riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons during May Day parade on Sunday in Istanbul. The Turkish police said that several hundred…
Baghdad, May 1 (IANS) Iraq’s Prime Minister on Sunday ordered the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in Baghdad on Saturday. Haider al-Abadi said those who caused damage and attacked police should be…
Islamabad, May 1 (IANS) Pakistan on Sunday maintained that the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets by the US to Pakistan was still under discussion between the two countries. Commenting on media reports regarding the…
Ghaziabad, May 1 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Police should learn from its mistakes to become a better force, a senior officer told his colleagues on Sunday. “We should learn from the faults committed during encounters,”…
Baghdad, May 1 (IANS) At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded on Sunday in two car bomb explosions in Muthanna province of Iraq, a security source told Xinhua. “The latest…
Ghaziabad, May 1 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Police here on Sunday introduced a criminal tracking app which is hoped to offer help, especially to the office going women who commute by auto rickshaws. Launching the app…
Dehradun, May 1 (IANS) Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters sprayed water in a bid to control forest fires raging in Uttarakhand, union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. A team of 40 National Disaster Rescue…
Manila, May 1 (IANS) The Philippines-based extremist group Abu Sayyaf on Sunday released 10 Indonesian sailors it had held hostage. The maritime company for which the Indonesian hostages were working and whose vessel was hijacked…
Washington, May 1 (IANS) The threat against Europe from the Islamic State (IS) militants is worse than the threat from Al Qaeda was in the late 1990s, a US expert has said. “I think the…
Beijing, May 1 (IANS) Malaysian police repatriated 97 telecom fraud suspects, including 32 from Taiwan, to China, a media report said on Sunday. The 97 arrived in south Guangzhou city around 8.00 p.m., shackled and…
Abu Dhabi, May 1 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expressed deep concern at the upsurge in attacks on civilians in Syria, especially in the city of Aleppo. It described the targeting by the…
Islamabad, May 1 (IANS) Following the suspension of US funding for the F-16s deal, the State Department acknowledged that Pakistan needs those aircraft for its antiterrorism activities. “We believe theyre the right platform to support…
Lagos, May 1 (IANS) Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase has said 359 policemen were killed on duty between January 2014 and April 2016. Speaking at a lecture in University of Jos on Saturday,…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The CBI on Saturday questioned former IAF deputy chief, Air Marshal J.S. Gujral (retd.) in connection with the VVIP AgustaWestland helicopter deal, sources said. Central Bureau of Investigation sources told…