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A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said today. The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles...
22:52
India's Ministry of External Affairs has responded to Pakistan's cancellation of NSA-level talks with India saying Pak's decision is unfortunate. We only reiterated that Pakistan respect the spirit of the Simla and Ufa Agreements to which it was already committed, the MEA said.
22:31
Ten people were killed while thousands fled to higher ground as powerful typhoon Goni brought torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and floods, officials said today. Nine people died in Mountain Province and Benguet in the northern highlands after their houses...
22:00
BJP chief Amit Shah met Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight and both the leaders are believed to have discussed the NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan, whose fate remained uncertain with both the countries trading charges. Shah called on Modi on a day India made it clear to Pakistan...
21:31
Pakistan has called off the NSA-level talks with India, saying the conditions laid down by India are unacceptable. A few hours External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a press conference that Pakistan had only till tonight to give a categorical assurance on two issues -- no third party...
21:08
At least 12 people including three NATO contractors were killed today when a suicide car bomber struck a foreign forces convoy, officials said, underlining the precarious security situation in the Afghan capital. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, which struck outside...
20:20
The issue of Indo-Pak NSA level talks was trending on social networking sites with former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah drawing parallel with a tennis match having entered into a tie- breaker which will be completed under lights. As soon as External Affairs Minister Sushma...
19:31
Separatist leader Bilal Lone was detained at Delhi Airport today and taken to his residence in Delhi. Lone was taken to his rented residence in South Delhi where he was put under house arrest, the police said.
19:19
Officials say a suicide car bombing targeting a foreigners' convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed three civilians. The attack today struck near the private Shinozada hospital in the capital's Macrorayan neighbourhood. The powerful blast echoed across the city. Wahidullah Mayar, a...
18:59
Backing the recommendations made by a government-appointed committee to ban sale of junk food in school canteens, Centre for Science and Environment today urged the government to control availability of such items among children. Noting that consumption of junk food among children was a big...
18:57
Thai police hunting for the Bangkok shrine bomber have shown a copy of a Turkish passport to hotel staff and motorcycle taxi drivers and asked about visitors from Turkey, it has been reported.Thailand issued an arrest warrant for an unidentified foreign man' last week,...
18:41
The suspected gunman who wounded two during an attack aboard an Amsterdam-Paris train travelled from France to Syria, a Spanish anti-terror source said today. He lived in (southern) Spain in Algeciras for a year, until 2014, then he decided to move to France, the source said. Once in France...
18:35
Pakistan Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid today said his country will go ahead with NSA- level talks unless India refused to host the meeting. He was reacting to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's press conference in New Delhi in which she made it clear that the first-ever...
18:25
TV reports say that Pakistan is likely to reject India's terms for the National Security Advisers' meet in New Delhi, scheduled for tomorrow. Pakistan is expected to respond to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's press conference later today evening.
18:08
So are India-Pakistan talks on or are they called off? Well, we still do not have a clarity. But, toughing its stands further India through its External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has set a midnight deadline for Pakistan. The ball is back in the neighbour's court. While Pakistan NSA says...
17:12
While Pakistan NSA Sartaz Aziz said that there would be no dialogue without Kashmir, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, India is not running away from talks on Kashmir, but this an issue to be discussed this time.Talks will be strictly between India and Pak, Hurriyat and other third...
17:02
Over and over the MEA emphasis: If Pakistan does not give an assurance by tonight, NSA talks will not happen. If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks. Pakistan has time till 12 midnight to assure that the talks will be on terrorism, she says.On the...
16:57
So, once again the ball is in Pakistan's court. But External Affairs Minister has now set a deadline. Pakistan has time till tonight if they want come ahead for talks, says Sushma Swaraj.Give us assurance that only terror will be discussed by tonight or there will be no talks... batcheet nahin...
16:49
On reports on Dawood Ibrahim, Sushma Swaraj says, No country will accept media reports as evidence.The MEA says that Pakistan has only one night to answer whether they want to come ahead for talks. If Pakistan wants to discuss Kashmir there will be no talks, the minister makes it clear. On...
16:32
Sushma Swaraj says, Pakistan carried out 90+ ceasefire violations. Then Gurdaspur and Udhampur. But the government resisted domestic pressure to call talks off. Dialogue can take place only in an atmosphere free from terror and violence. India is not avoiding talks.If there are talks it...
16:27
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj slamming Pakistan says, The neighbours took three weeks to respond to our proposed meeting draft agenda and added several issues to it. They did not respond to us for 22 days.She says, At Ufa, India and Pakistan have decided to tackle terror. The Ufa agenda...
16:22
In a press conference clarifying India's stand on NSA-level talks Sushma Swraj says, There have been several attempts to resume talks with Pakistan but there have been many obstacles. All talks stopped after 2012 beheadings along the LoC. Pakistan has repeatedly derailed composite dialogue....
16:18
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addresses the media on India-Pakistan NSA talks. She begins saying that she will be visiting Egypt and Germany, ahead of which she wants to clarify India's stand on the ongoing controversy.India and Pakistan established composite dialogue in 1998. But every...
15:57
Coming up at 4 pm: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's press conference in New Delhi on NSA-level talks with India. Pakistan's NSA Sartaz Aziz said in a presser earlier in the day that he was ready to hold talks tomorrow and it was up to India to take a final call. Read Sartaz Aziz's...
15:45
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Surinder Singh was granted bail today in the alleged assault case by a Delhi court. Arrested for allegedly assaulting an New Delhi Municipal Council worker, Singh today questioned jurisdiction of a court in Delhi to deal with the case lodged under the SC/ST Act as he sought...
15:19
Alleging lack of sincerity on part of Pakistan, the Congress today said there is no purpose of going ahead with the NSA-level talks unless there are tangible deliverables. We would advise the government... unless there are firm assurances of tangible...
14:26
Pakistan NSA Sartaz Aziz says he is all set to come to India for a dialogue. Along with him, he will carry these three dossiers, which Islamabad claims, carries evidence of R&AW's involvement in Pakistan. Is this a tit-for-tat over the Dawood report?Photograph: ANI/Twitter
14:20
There maybe uncertainty over NSA-level talks tomorrow, however, Pakistan's Sartaz Aziz said at the press conference that the meeting between military officers of India, Pakistan will take place in September as scheduled. Pakistan has now put the ball in India's court with Aziz confirming that he...
14:07
Clearly, Pakistan's Sartaz Aziz has once again put the ball in India's court as far as the NSA-level talks are concerned. Claiming that he has dossiers of R&AWs involvement in Pakistan, Aziz says today, If I don't get opportunity to hand over the dossiers to Indian NSA in New Delhi, I hope to...
14:00
Pakistan NSA says he is disturbed over reports of arrest of Hurriyat leaders. Earlier, in the day separtist leader Shabir Shah was detained as he arrived at Delhi aieport. Despite the atmosphere, if NSA talks lessen tensions, then they will be worth it, he says addressing a presser in...
13:55
Pakistan's Sartaj Aziz said, The most important outstanding issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir. India seems reluctant to recognise the most important outstanding issue -- the future of J&K. Aziz said that he leaves it to India to cancel talks. I am still prepared to go to New Delhi...
13:50
Addressing the media ahead of the talks with India, Pakistan National Security Advise Sartaj Aziz, said in Islamabad today, It was India who cancelled the talks last year over the issue of separatist. If the talks are cancelled again by India it would be over the same issue. Will India cancel...
13:29
And here is what Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has to say minutes ahead of the crucial press conference by Pakistan NSA Sartaz Aziz. India will firmly stick to its stand on agenda decided between PM Narendra Modi and Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif during Ufa meet, Rajnath said.Agenda for...
13:21
Coming up at 1.30 pm: The presser by Pakistan NSA Sartaz Aziz. Will Pakistan budge or will go ahead and meet Kashmiri separatist leaders?
13:11
Just in: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his 7 Race Course residence and briefed him ahead of tomorrow's talks with Pakistan. The duo reportedly discussed the agenda of the dialogue. India and Pakistan talks are in jeopardy over Kashimiri separatists. As...
12:53
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today suggested shifting the venue of Indo-Pak NSA-level talks from Delhi to Islamabad to call Pakistan's bluff. Here's a thought -- why doesn't the Indian NSA call Pakistan's bluff & shift the venue to Islamabad since both sides are so...
12:48
Just in: The Delhi police have detained separatist leader Shabir Shah. He has been taken into custody on his arrival at the airport. Shah came to Delhi to attend the reception to be held for Pakistan NSA Sartaz Aziz. The top separatist leaders have received an invite from the Pakistan High...
12:39
A 60-kg British-era copper chandelier at the main entrance of 17th century Taj Mahal crashed down recently, prompting the Archaeological Survey of India to initiate a probe into the matter. The six-feet high and four-feet wide chandelier, gifted by Lord Curzon and installed at the Royal Gate of...
11:38
A Special Task Force official was killed and a jawan injured when Naxals ambushed a team of security forces in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bastar district today, police said. The attack occurred at 2.00 am when a contingent of STF was out for an operational task on NH30 in...
11:13
As suspense mounted over holding of the Indo-Pak National Security Adviser-level talks after both sides hardened their positions on the issue of Kashmiri separatists, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today called a press conference in Delhi....
11:03
Voting has begun to elect Bengaluru's civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high prestige political battle. The election is being held after a prolonged court battle, as the Siddaramaiah-led government sought to defer it on grounds of...
10:53
Separatist leader Shabir Shah said today that they will not back out of the talks between India and Pakistan. The Hurriyat leader is on his way to Delhi to meet Pakistan National Security Adviser Sartaz Aziz. He is likely to be detained by the Delhi police, sources tell CNN IBN.We will...
10:51
Just in: Separatist leader Shabir Shah has left for New Delhi. I will be Pakistan National Security Adviser Sartaz Aziz, he told CNN-IBN. A deadlock over Kashmiri separatist leaders has cast a cloud of uncertainty over the upcoming Indo-Pak NSA-level meeting after the two countries engaged in...
09:23
India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, according to a report in The Hindustan Times. Documentary evidence available with Indian security agencies proves that Dawood, wife Mehjabeen Shaikh, son Moeen Nawaz and daughters Mahrukh, Mehreen and Mazia are based in Pakistan with...
03:57
A massacre on a high-speed train in France was prevented Friday when two US marines in civilian clothing surprised an Islamist militant who was loading his automatic Kalashnikov rifle, a senior European counterterrorism official told CNN.The gunman fired on the Marines with a handgun, the...
03:02
Fragments from an ISIS mortar fired on Kurdish forces near Makhmour, Iraq, earlier this month tested positive for sulfur mustard agent during a field test conducted by the U.S. military, a US general told reporters at the Pentagon Friday. Read this story HERE
02:43
Amid reports that US President Barack Obama has invited Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a meeting at the White House in October, a top American official has said this was news to him. The White House clarification over the Obama-Sharif meeting came amid media reports in Pakistan that the...
02:17
Balwant Kumawat, who had taken a vow two years ago to remain barefoot until he meets Narendra Modi, today met the Prime Minister here, and began wearing footwear after his meeting today.Two years ago, he (Kumawat, who hails from Bhailwara district) had taken the pledge of not wearing footwear...
02:07
An armed man has injured three people on a train between Amsterdam and Paris before being overpowered by two American passengers, officials say.The incident happened on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras, and the attacker was arrested at Arras station.Two of the victims, said to be an...
01:21
According to CNN, The ISIS' second-in-command, Haji Mutaz, is believed to have been killed in a drone strike this week in Iraq. More details are awaited.
00:27
As the proposed talks between the National Security Advisers of India and Pakistan appeared deadlocked, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the two sides to return to dialogue in the interest of their people and exercise maximum restraint.The UN chief would urge both sides to keep...
00:23
The US is reportedly set to block a military aid tranche to Pakistan because of its failure to crack down on the Haqqani network, a designated terrorist organization with ties to the Taliban, that attacks U.S. and Afghan forces on a regular basis.Read this story HERE.
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'Disapppointed by India's response' Pak on NSA talksMalala secures top marks in British school examsWill they, won't they? NSA-level talks in dire trouble
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Paju, South Korea (CNN)The United States suspended, then resumed joint military exercises with South Korea this week after North Korea fired artillery shells across the Demilitarized Zone, Assistant Secretary of Defense David Shear told reporters Friday.The news of the pause, which happened...
