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Six ex-Pak army officers guard Dawood: Aide-India-The Times of India MUMBAI: Dawood aide Karimullah Habib Khan is singing. A day after being arrested from Nalasopara, where he had assumed a new name and a new vocation, the man who shepherded the RDX consignment to their deadly end in March...

Indian oil giant ONGC takes lead in race for Imperial - Telegraph India's state-owned oil company ONGC has raced into the lead in the bid to buy Imperial Energy, the £1.2bn London-based oil exploration and production company. State officials in India have given approval to the...

Antony likely to ink three pacts during US visit- Hindustan Times Defence Minister A.K. Antony is likely to ink three pacts during his maiden US visit Sept 7-10, an official said in New Delhi on Monday. Under one of these pacts, the Indian and US militaries can refuel ships and aircraft...

Croissants & Crescents: How Pakistan insulates India from terror-Special Report-Sunday Specials-Opinion-The Times of India A few days ago, the government of Pakistan abandoned a ceasefire pact with insurgents operating across the tribal Pakistan-Afghanistan border, reached by Pervez Musharraf...

Link: NDTV.com: Chinese prostitutes trafficked to Afghanistan A string of lights spells out the name of the bar in the back of the basement in capital letters, PARADISE. A dozen Chinese women in skintight miniskirts and halter-tops flit around clusters of beefy Western men and flirt in...

Waking up to the threat posed by China acquiring capability to shoot down satellites by missiles, India on Tuesday announced setting up of an integrated space cell to counter growing threats to the country's space-based assets. The space cell, under the aegis of the Integrated Defence...

NEW DELHI: India is launching a futuristic programme to develop sophisticated NBC (nuclear-biological-chemical) defence technology to counter the threats posed by hostile armies or terrorists resorting to such warfare. The new programme, being spearheaded by Defence Research and Development...

While many think that PNS Gzahi kept Indian Navy at bay during the 71 war, the sub was actually sunk just before the war started on 3 Dec 1971. The fact is that INS Rajput was not fully operational when the war was declared. It was running on one engine only. At that time, Lt-Cdr Inder Singh...

India is still labelled an emerging market, but the Forbes magazine has argued that the country's economy has already emerged. And as the economy spreads its wings, its companies are turning to new international markets, perhaps beginning a reverse imperialism. For proof, the US business...

NEW DELHI: In a move that could make overseas defence companies uncomfortable, the government has embarked on a major indigenisation of the military aviation sector. The total investment will be Rs. 22,000 crore and the bulk of the amount is to be spent on design and development of fixed wing...

Significant damage has been done to China's defense industry by the earthquake, specifically the Chengdu aerospace complex that is just northwest of the city and comprises a large production facility, the largest military aircraft design center in all of China, and a jet engine production plant...

ISI agent gets 14 years in jail, two aides convicted GWALIOR, May 29: A sessions court here has sentenced an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI to 14 years in jail after he was nabbed with secret documents. Additional Sessions Judge Meena Singh also sent two of his associates to...

Around 15,000 Muslims from all over India gathered at Delhi's famous Ramlila Grounds to fight against global terrorism. Not just ordinary Muslims but religious leaders, scholars and many different Muslim organisations joined in to take a pledge that they will work together to fight...

Pak releases 96 Indian fishermen Karachi, May 23 (PTI) Pakistan today released 96 Indian fishermen here coinciding with the resumption of the composite dialogue process. The fishermen, who were arrested in the last one year for allegedly fishing in its waters and were kept in the Landhi...

Large number of youths turn up for army recruitment- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times SRINAGAR: Ignoring threats by militants, a large number of youth turned up for jobs in the Indian army in the frontier district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir. The army recruiting office...

6 rebels killed in gunbattle in Indian Kashmir, army says - International Herald Tribune SRINAGAR, India: Security forces killed six suspected Islamic militants in a gunbattle Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the army said. Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Anil Kumar Mathur said the...