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COIMBATORE: DRDO is in the process of developing robotic soldiers, which would take a final shape soon, a top official said here on Thursday. These soldiers are capable of sensing and clearing mines, which would benefit and help all forces and works are going on in Bangalore and Pune units...

MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday confirmed that some of its Western partners had asked Moscow to offer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asylum but said it had dismissed the idea as a joke. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the idea was first raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her...

Iran's Press TV quotes parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani as saying that U.S., 'Zionist regime' are the prime sources of tyranny and gloom in modern times. The time has come for the disappearance of Israel and the West from the face of the universe, a senior Iranian official was quoted as...

(Reuters) - China's central bank cut interest rates for the second time in two months on Thursday to bolster an economy widely expected to record its sixth successive slide in growth in April-June. China announced the rate cut as the Bank of England launched a third round of monetary stimulus...

In further evidence that confirms India’s fear of importing polio virus from neighbouring countries, a recent study has revealed that a major chunk of children below three years in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not receiving the oral polio vaccine. According to the study published in Lancet...

The UK has banned Indian Mujahideen (IM), citing the "indiscriminate mass casualty attacks" carried out by the LeT-linked terror group in India and the threat it posed to British nationals there. British MPs voted unanimously last night to ban IM, placing it on the list of 47 organisations...

LONDON: In an early morning swoop, British police on Thursday arrested five men and a woman in London as part of a pre-planned intelligence-led operation. The Metropolitan Police clarified that the operation was not linked to the forthcoming Olympic Games. The men and woman were all arrested...

Instead of renewing contract with Bangladeshi government for recruiting additional workers, Saudi authorities are actively considering sending back around two million Bangladeshi workers, who currently are employed in various projects in that country. The decision of the Saudi government is...

PESHAWAR: Pakistani officials accused up to 60 Afghan soldiers on Monday of crossing into Pakistani territory and sparking clashes that killed two tribesmen. It was the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are inflaming tensions along...

(Reuters) - An Afghan policeman shot dead three British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Helmand province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, the latest in a chain of increasingly frequent rogue killings. A fourth British soldier was also injured, provincial governor spokesman Daoud Ahmadi...

London: Al Qaeda is plotting a terrorist attack on a US airliner, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing intelligence sources. The broadsheet said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had recruited a Norwegian Muslim convert and given him terrorist training in Yemen, and that the...