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China has reshuffled some of its senior military officials, starting the country’s once in a decade leadership transition which will be finalised at a Communist party congress early next month. The appointment of a new air force chief and senior political officer reveals how the purge of Bo...

The J-15, a heavy bomber independently developed by China, has the features of excellent carrier-based aircraft, but it still needs time for the aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, to become combat effective, a military expert disclosed in an interview recently. The carrier-based aircraft refers to...

Chinese Classes of SSN/SSBN: Type 091 Type 092 Type 093 Type 094 Type 095 Indian Classes of SSN/SSBN: Akula Arihant Let's see Where do they stand? Arihant is on par with Akula: 'More upgrades will hike the Gorshkov's price' The K-152 Nerpa have the SOCKS hydrodynamic sensors to...

A Good Article for Layman's of How things Work at the High Seas. For the Rest, Enjoy! TASK FORCE 31 –INS CHENNAI -INDIAN NAVAL BASE MUMBAI -0600 HRS Like all female officer in the Indian armed forces Captain Urvasi never stopped trying to prove she is as good as the guys even after...

As the situation in Syria intensifies, its neighbor Turkey, which is at the frontline of the offensive against President Assad’s government, is being dubbed as the world's leading jailer of journalists by a New York–based media watchdog. *The latest investigation says that 76 journalists were...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah Monday urged the government to take legal action against what he said the killing of innocent Bangladeshis by Indian border guards, reports UNB. "We demand legal steps against Indian BSF who kill innocent people," said...

Iran will suspend all oil exports, pushing global crude prices higher, if the U.S. and Europe tighten sanctions further on the OPEC member’s economy, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi warned. “If you continue to add to the sanctions, we will stop our oil exports to the world,” he said at a news...

Muslim minority groups in China by population (2010's national population census) 1.Hui Chinese: 10.6 million 2. Uyghur: 10 million 3. Kazak: 1.5 million 4. Dongxiang people: 621,500 5. Kyrgyz: 186,708 6. Salar: 130,607 7. Tajik: 51,069 8. Bonan people: 20,074 9. Uzbek: 10,569 10...

The World Bank (WB) yesterday downsized the growth projection for Bangladesh at around 6% in the current fiscal year from the government’s ambitious target of 7.2% due to constraints in external demand and domestic investment. “The real GDP growth in FY (fiscal year) 13 is projected at around...

Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said that neighbouring Bangladesh is still being used by insurgent groups to conduct terror activities in the region. While addressing an event in memory of martyr policemen in Agartala on Sunday, Sarkar said though militancy in the state has...

The most common indicator used to measure well being of a nation is Per Capita Income. But it does not reflect the true picture of an Economy and the standards of living of its people. A Country's True Worth is the Industrialization of the Country. For Comparison Purposes, 3 Countries are...

Terming the ongoing war in Afghanistan a ‘jihad’, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan parried a question on Wednesday whether the war in Pakistan’s tribal belt could be labelled as terrorism. He was addressing a press conference in Peshawar after paying a visit to inquire after the...

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Thursday gave 24 hours ultimatum to all top muftis and ulema (clerics) of the country to openly denounce the cowardly attack on young Pakistani children’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai or else he will ‘expose’ them, DawnNews...

In a submission to forthcoming international talks on internet governance, the Gulf state said “there is a crying need for international collaboration to address ‘freedom of expression’ which clearly disregards public order”. During the controversy over a 14-minute clip posted on YouTube and...

China is planning a three-phase probe to collect samples from the Mars by 2030, the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project said Wednesday. The three stages are remote sensing, softlanding and exploration, and return after automatic sampling, said Ouyang Ziyuan at a lecture...

Bangladesh's anti-graft agency has charged a former army chief and war hero with stealing $400 million from nearly two million investors through alleged Ponzi schemes, police said on Wednesday. The agency accuses retired Lieutenant General Harunur Rashid, the president of Destiny Group, and 21...

DHAKA: Bangladesh has ordered three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Myanmar, an official said Thursday. France’s Doctors without Borders (MSF) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) as well as Britain’s...

ISLAMABAD: The oil refineries on Tuesday were reluctant to produce clean energy petroleum products according to minimum international standard Euro-II, which has shifted the entire burden on the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. A crucial meeting of oil refineries, officials of the...

Fears of attacks by US drones are scaring away many Pakistani Muslims in the restive tribal belt from performing the Tarawih (nightly prayers) during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. “This is unfortunate, but true, that many, including myself are not offering Tarawih this year because of...

A member of Turkey’s parliament says the country’s Hatay Province on the border with Syria has become a hub for swarms of CIA and Mossad spies infilterating into Syria freely. The legislator of the Republican People’s Party, Refik Er-Yilmaz, said that thousands of CIA and Mossad agents are...