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I came across an interesting website: Global Firepower - 2013 World Military Strength Ranking Current Top Ten: 1. U.S.A. 2. Russia 3. China 4. India 5. U.K. 6. France 7. Germany 8. South Korea 9. Italy 10. Brazil For seeing the latest military ranking: Global Firepower Military Ranks - 2013...

NEW DELHI: Signaling their growing alarm, senior Japanese officials gave a classified briefing to Indian and US officials on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands earlier this week. China and Japan are locked in a territorial dispute over these islands in the East China Sea that has recently escalated to...

NEW DELHI: Indian government is hoping to start implementing the second phase of its China border modernization project by mid-2013, when the programme's first phase, including formation of two new Army divisions and activation of several advanced landing grounds, would be completed...

MUMBAI: Can dedicated jihadis involved in acts of terrorism also be selfish cheats out to line their own pocket? The answer seems to be a resounding yes going by the investigations into several bomb blast cases in the country. Not only foot-soldiers but even the top brass of the banned outfit...

MUMBAI: The statements of American jihadi David Headley and alleged 26/11 handler Zabihuddin Ansari, alias Abu Jundal, match in one key respect: they have both named the same three Pakistani officials as being involved in the planning and execution of the 26/11 attacks. Sources in the...

ISLAMABAD: An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale on Monday jolted Pakistan's northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The earthquake tremors were felt at about 10.20 am in the provincial capital of Peshawar and its adjoining areas, including Mardan, Charsadda and Nowshera...

NEW DELHI: With the Asia-Pacific region emerging as the theatre of escalating US-China rivalry, India on Wednesday found itself in a rare and enviable situation: of being wooed by the competing giants. Visiting US defence secretary Leon Panetta said India would be "a linchpin" in America's...

BALASORE (Odisha): India today successfully test fired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile as part of a user trial by the Army from the test range at Chandipur off Odisha coast. "The missile was test fired from a ground mobile launcher from the launch complex-3 at about 1122 hours and the trial...

NEW DELHI: The government has finally approved the naval proposal to acquire nine advanced medium range maritime reconnaissance (MRMR) aircraft, which will cost upwards of $1 billion, to ensure Indian Ocean can be guarded against both conventional and terror threats. These MRMR planes will be...

WASHINGTON: The United States is investing in long-term strategic partnership with India, the Pentagon said on Thursday in a new defence strategic document which puts Asia on a bigger priority and identifies China as a security threat. "The United States is investing in a long-term strategic...

SRINAGAR: Union minister Farooq Abdullah today said cinemas and liquor shops should reopen in Kashmir to give more options to tourists visiting the state. "When we can have television at home, when we can watch pirated films at our homes what is wrong with cinemas then? "Are not these...

KOLKATA: The Dalai Lama, who addressed students at IIM Calcutta, said Chinese officials sometimes behave childishly. "I look at people, including the Chinese, at a fundamental level in which everyone is human. These are no differences, from the way we are born to the way we die. But at times...