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NEW DELHI: As counter-terror forces mount offensive against terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, the gains are starting to show. As many as 92 terrorists were killed till July 2 this year, against 79 in the corresponding period of 2016. In fact, the numbers of terrorists killed in counter-insurgency...

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NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of global terrorism knocking on India's doors, the government is working on a proposal to set up India's first 'Counter-Terrorism Academy' with an aim to redirect security establishment's focus on training, research and forensics. "The proposal is in the works. The...

Various defense deals have been cleared and reported on news channel. Like 36 Advanced light helicopters etc. Will post more information.

Of course we all were little (OK I admit, very excited) about who will be next PM of India, especially Indians. But as soon as results were declared and BJP got clear majority, Modi is all set to become PM. Now everyone on this forum is talking about Modi. Nothing wrong about it. But...

New Delhi: After seeking a referendum on the presence of the Army in Kashmir, senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan on Saturday favoured that Maoists should join the “AAP movement”. While the Centre and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have labelled Maoists as the main “security threat”...

Introduction In a country like India, with such a huge diversity in the population on basis of various factors like religion, caste etc., criminal events like riots are bound to happen due to disputes among communities which have been living together for centuries and has been violent against...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) and India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC.NS) (ONGC) purchased the remaining 35 percent of a Brazilian offshore oil block from their partner, Brazil's state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA), Shell said in a statement on Monday...

The UN agency for children says attacks against children have reached new levels of viciousness in theCentral African Republic(CAR), where fighting between Muslim Seleka rebels and Christian militias left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced an estimated 400,000 in Bangui, the capital, this...

3 killed, 7 injured at Jalpaiguri in West Bengal due to IED blast

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), chaired by former CBI director RK Raghavan who investigated the 2002 Gujarat riots has concluded in its 541-page closure report that the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took ample measures to control riots rather than stoking the...

A Muslim youth group and a neighborhood authority led two separate anti-Santa campaigns on the eve of Christmas in Turkey. The Istanbul University branch of a group called Anatolia Youth Association (AGD) released an illustration of a Muslim youth punching Santa Claus in the face and announced...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the final pieces were in place for the 2015 launch of an economic union with Belarus and Kazakhstan that Moscow hopes can also be joined by Ukraine. Putin promised following talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarussian...

KARACHI: A blast near the Old Sabzi Mandi area of Karachi targeted the former Mauripur police station chief, and killed at least two people and and injured 24 others, Express Newsreported. Express Newscorrespondent Nadeem Khan said that according to initial reports, former Mauripur SHOShafiq...

QUETTA: At least one person was killed and another 22 were injured in a powerful blast in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province on Thursday, police said. Five of the injured are said to be in critical condition. Police said miscreants had planted a bomb near an ice cream shop in Mitha...

ATHENS: Two suspected members of the Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn went on trial on Wednesday accused of stabbing a 27-year-old Pakistani man to death. Dionyssis Liakopoulos, 25, and Christos Steriopoulos, 29, risk a life sentence if found guilty of the drive-by killing of Shehzad Luqman in...

LONDON: In a big breakthrough, Indian scientists have done what medical science has been trying to achieve since 1930 - an insulin pill for diabetics. Since insulin's crucial discovery nearly a century ago, countless diabetes patients have had to inject themselves with the life-saving medicine...

ISLAMABAD: A spokesperson for the Punjab government announced on Sunday that there would be no relaxation in the curfew that has been imposed in Rawalpindi and urged the residents of the city to remain indoors, DawnNews reported. Moreover, Section 144 was also imposed in the city in addition to...

Congress, BJP now more open to recruiting politics students 21 Dec, 2009, 0232 hrs IST, Writankar Mukherjee & Sreeradha D Basu, ET Bureau KOLKATA: Damasthapuram Vasanth Kumar says he is nobody's son. Well, he means his parents are not political worthies. His parents' political activity is...