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Following yesterday's openly confrontational, deliberately protectionist presidential address by president Trump, which in various circles has been dubbed the "American carnage" speech for obvious reasons, some of Obama's closest foreign friends are scrambling to find a role in a world that has...

The brother of one of two Pakistani teenagers held on suspicion of facilitating a terrorist attack on the 12 Infantry Brigade’s headquarters in Uri, in which 19 soldiers were killed, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order a review of the case, saying he hopes Islamabad’s decision...

Mossad, MI5 roped in to shield Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Turkey? NEW DELHI: National security adviser Ajit Doval and intelligence agency chiefs redrew PM Narendra Modi's security apparatus early on Saturday to secure him from any crisis during his visit to Turkey from Sunday on. A special...

BRICs Will Be ICs If Brazil and Russia Don't Shape Up Brazil and Russia’s membership of the BRICs may expire by the end of this decade if they fail to revive their flagging economies, according to Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist who coined the acronym. Asked...

India Rules BRICs as Modi Scores Big in Investor Poll Modi mania is taking hold across global markets. Financial professionals are now more bullish on India relative to the largest emerging markets than at any point in the past five years after Narendra Modi scored the biggest election...

Typhoon, Gripen back in fray, Rafale deal split wide open ensing some hesitation on the part of the new NDA government to confirm the UPA's Rs 120,000 crore ($20 billion) defence deal for 126 French Rafale fighters for the Air Force, both the Swedish Gripen and the European Eurofighter Typhoon...

Iraq: India wastes Army’s Special Forces resource The ISIS onslaught in Iraq is being watched by the whole world. For India, many challenges have sprung with 46 nurses trapped in Tikrit that fell to the ISIS and some 40 Indian workers under evacuation from Mosul were kidnapped. Latter are...

Indian troops for Iraq? Won't speculate, Arun Jaitley says NEW DELHI: Defence minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday refused to "speculate" when asked if India planned to send troops to Iraq to rescue Indians trapped there. "I am not going to speculate," the minister told the media. Nearly 120...

ISIS militants may use Indian hostages as human shields, reveals escaped worker ISIS militants may use the remaining 39 Indian hostages as human shields in case of a military offensive by Iraqi or US authorities, the only person among the group to flee the captors has told government...

End of minority tokenism: Narendra Modi offers modernization, and not sops, to the Muslims The Muslim community in India, the second largest in the world, has seen its parliamentary representation come down to its lowest ever since independence, at 22 MPs with not a single one from the...

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has requested Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to raise the defence budget by 25% :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Defence News - Armed Forces seek 25% hike in Defence Budget Defence ministry seeks 25% hike in budget - The Times of India

Narendra Modi's government kicks into gear with defence, dam projects NEW DELHI: Modi government kicked into gear this week, clearing billions of dollars worth of long-delayed defence projects, including a big navy base, as well as approving the scaling-up of one of the country's biggest dams...

News channels reporting that Modi govt. is planning to change the name of P-O-K to P-O-JK. Further reports awaited. Exclusive: Kashmiri pandits to be repatriated, Azad Kashmir to be renamed as PoJK?

India's lightning raid inside Pakistan in 1971 war After some minor tasks at Madarpur, picquet No 405 at Satwal (the group was given a worth while job at Mandhol, a village about 12 miles South-West of Punch (Map 28). Close to this village was a Pakistani battery of six 122mm Chinese made...

Burqa-clad women prone to vitamin D deficiency: Doctors HYDERABAD: In an alarming trend, an increasing number of women from across the city who wear the burqa or observe purdah are being diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency on account of inadequate exposure to sunlight. Exposure of at least...

Intruder from elite Bangladesh force held He was part of an illegal raid on a border village An intruder soldier of an elite security force of Bangladesh landed in an Indian jail after the Border Security Force (BSF) failed to hand him over to its Bangladeshi counterpart, the Border...

The 10 largest employers in the world Rank 1: US - Department of Defense - employs 3.2 million Rank 2: China - People's Liberation Army - employs 2.3 million Rank 3: US - Walmart - employs 2.1 million Rank 4: US - McDonalds - employs 1.9 million (including franchises) Rank 5: UK...

Russian missiles have arrived in Syria, President Bashar Assad says BEIRUT: The Syrian president has told Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned TV station that Damascus received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released on Thursday. Bashar Assad's comment on the...

India set to use Japanese bullet train technology for Mumbai-Ahmedabad route TOKYO: India is seen set to use Japanese bullet train technology for a high-speed connection between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a report said on Wednesday, the centrepiece of a huge package of infrastructure sales...

Chinese daily calls Japanese leaders 'petty burglars' for trying to turn India against China BEIJING: Piqued over Japan's warm ties with India, an influential Chinese daily on Tuesday said New Delhi's wisdom lies in dealing with its disputes with Beijing calmly, undisturbed by "internal and...