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High alert at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad in Hyderabad. Central Industrial Security Force and OCTOPUS have been extensively conducting checking in the airport.
23:47
JUST IN: Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh is likely to visit the Northern Command on Saturday. He will take stock of situation there post Indian surgical strike across the Line of Control and will also review about the possible Pak reactions.
23:32
A suspected Inter-Services Intelligence agent Asif Ali, who is lodged in a jail in Meerut, was today produced before a local court amid tight security.The court has fixed October 5 for the next date of hearing.Ali, 52, was arrested by the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police from Subash...
23:16
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting to discuss the Cauvery river water sharing issue over which Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been at loggerheads.Some ministers and officials were present in the meeting where various options were discussed to resolve the matter. A meeting convened...
22:36
Security forces today continued to comb a forest area near the Line of Control in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, a day after an encounter with suspected militants in which one Special Police Officer was injured.Though the firing has ended, the search and cordon operation is still on, a...
21:49
We note Pakistan's decision to postpone SAARC Summit. They have been compelled to recognise the regional sentiment against terrorism: MEA
21:48
Pope Francis tweets: Lord Jesus, cast forth the shadow of your cross over peoples at war: may they learn the way of reconciliation, dialogue and forgiveness.
21:23
ANI reports: Grandmother of the jawan who crossed over to the other side of the LoC passed away after not receiving any information about him. Home Minister Rajnath Singh talks with the family of the jawan and assures them that they will bring him back.
21:18
Plunging the future of the 2016 Presidential debates into doubt, Donald J Trump said on Tuesday morning that he would not participate in the remaining two debates if Hillary Clinton is there.Trump blasted the format of Monday night's debate by claiming that the presence of Clinton was...
21:09
Petrol price hiked by 28 paise per litre; diesel price cut by 6 paise a litre
20:36
Hafiz Saeed, chief of terrorist outfit Jammat-ud-Dawah and mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, on Friday warned India of a befitting response for its military operation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will now know what surgical strikes really mean.We will...
20:27
Pakistan has postponed the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad after five of eight member nations including India refuse to attend.The General Provisions of the SAARC Charter require that decisions at all levels shall be taken on the basis of unanimity, and this applies to the convening of meetings of...
19:50
Russia issues a statement on the growing tensions between India and Pakistan: Concerned with aggravation of situation along the line of control. Calling on parties not to allow any escalation of tension.We stand for decisive struggle against terrorism in all its manifestations.Expect that...
19:28
Notwithstanding rising tensions between India and Pakistan, trade through the Attari-Wagah land route remained unaffected with more than 180 goods trucks moving both ways for the second day today after Army's surgical strikes across the LoC.Amritsar Customs Commissioner Captain Sanjay Gahlot said...
19:23
Pakistani media says that heads of the country's parliamentary parties will be given a briefing on Kashmir and the security situation.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened the meeting on Monday.
19:16
Film producer Rahul Aggarwal resigns from Indian Motion Picture Producers Association protesting against yesterday's resolution on banning Pakistani artists: ANI
19:13
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of emergence of nuclear suicide bombers from Pakistan if jihadists get access to the country's atomic weapons, a media report has said.We live in fear that they're going to have a coup, that jihadists are...
18:39
Pakistan's cricketers have batted for peaceful relations and resumption of bilateral cricket ties with India despite the escalation of tensions between the two nations following the Uri terror attack. Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal noted that in the past cricket had helped...
18:20
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Friday warned that any misadventure by any adversary will meet the most befitting response, a day after India conducted surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC. The highest state of vigil is being maintained along the Line of...
18:18
Singer Adnan Sami was at the receiving end of Twitter backlash after he congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the surgical strike in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.After surgical strikes Sami tweeted, Big Congratulations to @PMOIndia & our brave Armed forces for a brilliant, successful...
17:53
The Centre on Friday issued a country-wide alert asking the states to heighten vigil to foil any attempt by Pakistan-based terror groups to carry out attacks amid apprehensions of backlash by terrorists after the surgical strike on their launch pads in PoK.In a advisory, the home ministry...
17:37
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12-year space odyssey in a spectacular fashion, crashlanding on a comet it has circled and studied for two years to learn the origins of the solar system. At the mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, as spacecraft...
17:06
The usually mellow and always melodious Asha Bhosle strikes a jarring note with this tweet. Didn't know so many abusive kutte were following me. (Smiley) Deleted all. Doodh ka doodh pani ka pani. Guess my fellow artistes facing same problem.The tweet an hour ago, was followed with this, minutes...
16:53
Just in: AAP rebel leader from Punjab Sucha Singh Chhotepur resigns from the primary membership of the party.
16:51
The use of automated propaganda during crises and elections to manipulate public opinion and suppress voices first witnessed in advanced industrial democracies like the US are increasingly getting used in developing countries including India. The limited Internet base in developing countries...
16:50
Respected filmmaker Shyam Benegal weighs in on the ban on Pakistani artists working in India after the Uri attack. Benegal said today, We are not against the people of Pakistan, nor are the Pakistani people against the people of India. It is about the governments. Artists came cause they were...
16:14
DMK President M Karunanidhi today urged the Tamil Nadu government to put an end to rumours regarding the health of AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa by providing proper information to the people, while wishing his arch rival a speedy recovery. As I had already mentioned, though I...
15:59
Heads up Samsung Note 7 users. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has lifted restrictions placed on using and carrying Samsung Electronics Co's Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones on commercial airplanes, but only for devices purchased after September 15, 2016.The DGCA earlier in September, warned...
15:56
Pakistan's Federal cabinet on Friday rejected Indian claims of carrying out surgical strike inside Pakistan and vowed to continue moral, political and diplomatic support of Kashmiris. Pakistan's The International News reports that the meeting was convened to deliberate on the deteriorating...
15:41
Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains entrapped in his self-cultivated image of being a muscular Hindu nationalist leader. The contradiction needs to be resolved. The starting point lies in diligently addressing the Kashmir problem with a view to find an enduring solution, writes MK Bhadrakumar....
15:23
Salman Khan holds forth on Indian Motion Picture Producers Association announcing a ban on Pakistani actors and technicians from working in India.The superstar said, There is a difference between terrorists and actors; Pakistani artists come with permission and visa issued by the government. The...
15:17
Just in: Sri Lanka pulls out of the Islamabad SAARC summit. Sri Lanka joins Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan in announcing that it will not attend the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad in November.India has already stated that it will not be able to attend the summit following the Uri attack....
15:10
The Army clarifies saying that a member of the team that carried surgical strikes across LoC has received a minor injury during ex-filtration (getting out of enemy territory). The injury is not because of any enemy or terroristaction.DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had said yesterday that one Indian...
14:59
The Supreme Court asks Centre to set up the Cauvery Water Management Board by October 4. The SC pulls up Karnataka for its defiant stand and directs it to release 6,000 cusecs of water between Oct 1 and Oct 6. Wrath of law will fall upon Karnataka in case of any defiance of Cauvery order, warns...
14:55
Qnet scam: Michael Ferreira surrenders before Mumbai police.
14:55
Mohammed Shahabuddin surrenders before the Siwan District Court. Shahabuddin says his supporters will reply to Nitish Kumar in the next elections.
14:19
Indian authorities have begun evacuating people living in villages located within 10 kilometres of the international border. Heads of local gurudwaras and temples with the help of village sarpanches asked the people to evacuate at the earliest. The Border Security Force has put the...
13:45
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed members of the Cabinet Committee on Security not to speak to the media about Wednesday night's surgical strike across the Line of Control, and has said that only the director-general of military operations, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, will address the media.The...
13:38
The Supreme Court has cancelled former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin's bail today. He will be taken to jail forthwith, said Prashant Bhushan who had filed an appeal with the apex court. Earlier in September, the Patna HC had granted bail to the controversial RJD leader in...
13:13
The interests of the United States and India are sharply aligned on the issue of Pakistan-based terrorism. In fact, assuming US-India security relations continue to deepen, Washington could in due course help enhance India's capacities to take out anti-India terrorists, says Michael Kugelman....
13:01
Hailing the surgical strikes by India on terror launch pads across the LoC, the wife of martyred soldier Hemraj, said the action was a befitting reply to Pakistan.The strikes by India have instilled confidence among soldiers and the common man. But if such a step was taken earlier, we would not...
12:55
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi tweeted a day after India carried out surgical strikes across the LoC, saying, When a PM carries out an action worthy of a PM, then I support such a PM. I would like to thank PM Modi for the action he has taken. The Congress and the entire nation stand with PM...
12:30
The Patna high court today struck down the Bihar Excise (Amendment) Act terming it as illegal. Four months after Bihar pased a law banning alcohol in the state, it brought about ammendments by which all adults in a family were made liable if one drank or kept liquor at...
12:05
Beyond Thursday's raid by Indian special forces into Pakistan's side of divided Kashmir, New Delhi is considering new economic and diplomatic measures to bring pressure to bear on its neighbour, Indian officials said. Read more HERE
12:03
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar represents India at Shimon Peres funeral. Peres to be laid to rest at Mt. Hertzel in Jerusalem. A security crackdown ahead of the ceremony has led to the preventative arrests of several people. Guests include the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who will visit...
12:00
Home minister Rajnath Singh says all attempts are being made to free the Indian soldier in captivity in Pakistan. India will take up the issue with Pakistan, the home minister said. Chandu Babulal Chauhan, a soldier serving with the 37 Rashtriya Rifles, was captured after he inadvertently...
11:40
When the new batch of women enters the Officers Training Academy in Chennai on September 30 for a 10-month rigorous course to become officers in the Indian Army, it will have among them two women who have already conquered a battle of their own. Rediff.com's Archana Masih speaks to Nidhi...
11:34
Karachi's Nueplex and Atrium cinemas have ceased the screening of Amitabh Bachchan-starrer, Pink, the Pakistani paper, Dawn reports.Karachi's Nueplex Cinemas followed suit; the management conveyed this to its patrons in a post on the social networking site late last night:In Solidarity with...
11:23
France begins first air strikes against so-called Islamic State from aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, reports say.
11:19
Raise a toast, folks! SC dismisses petition filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, seeking a complete ban on liquor across the country.
11:18
Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar's fanboy moment: I had the pleasure of meeting the US President and First Lady at a reception hosted by them in New York on the sidelines of 71st UNGA.Last week at India's permanent mission in New York, Akbar criticised Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's...
11:07
@USAndIndia tweets: Happy #USIndiaDosti Day! Today, September 30, marks the third annual 'U.S.-India Partnership Day'.The US doubled up its support for India and reasserted that Pakistan should fight against terrorism, but what was left unsaid by the White House was also significant.
10:43
Park Street gang-rape case: Absconding main accused Kader Khan arrested in Delhi. He will be brought to Kolkata today. Khan and four more men had abducted and gang-raped Suzette Jordan from Park Street in Kolkata in 2012. While the three others were sentenced to 10 years of rigorous...
10:36
India will deploy the recently bought Rafale fighter aircraft capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads near disputed regions with Pakistan and China as New Delhi continues to be largest arms purchaser in the world, the Chinese state media predicted on Friday. Read more
10:31
Violating the ceasefire again, Pakistani troops opened fire from small arms along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor district. This is the fifth ceasefire violation in the month of September and the third in the past 36 hours. There was small arms firing (from Pakistan on forward...
10:15
US Senator M Warner and J Cornyn, Co-Chairs of Senate India Caucus tells PM Modi: Will continue to pressure Pakistan to end association with terror groups. Pakistan's possible involvement in this (Uri) attack underscores our broader concern about Pakistan's use of terrorism as a pillar of its...
09:54
A war hysteria has gripped India. It has never happened that those who want peace have been so muted.The inflammatory commentary by politicians, experts, and journalists is a result of the mushrooming clout of the Hindu right-wing, which is ready and willing to discount peace in the region, at...
09:51
Rajnath Singh to chair a meeting to review the internal security at 11 am today.
09:46
Following India's surgical strikes at the terror launch pads in the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Pakistan opposition party leader Imran Khan said he will show his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif how to react to such aggressions.Initially I had to give a message to Nawaz Sharif, but...
09:41
Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia's father NK Kalia reacts to yesterday's surgical strikes on the terror camps in the LoC.I salute our brave Indian army personnel for conducting this and also thank the PM for taking such a bold decision to teach Pakistan a lesson, he said. It is Very...
09:22
This is how the surgical strikes took place. Map courtesy: The Telegraph.
09:10
As part of the new standard operating procedures, defence minister Manohar Parrikar, the chief of the army staff, Gen. Dalbir Singh, and Doval micro-managed the entire operation from the war room in a part of South Block that houses the ministry of defence.A source present in South Block said the...
09:04
Surgical strikeA raid by forces on an identified target, based on intelligence, and from land, air or water or a combination of them.♦ Indian military sources say that teams from the armys 4 and 9 Special Force battalions were inserted through the Line of Control into Pakistani-controlled...
09:01
As India and Pakistan exchange body blows, Kashmir braces anxiously for collateral consequences of escalated hostilities over it. We will pay the heaviest price for this madness, a top Kashmiri bureaucrat told The Telegraph, from his ruffled Srinagar desk amid propaganda fisticuffs between...
08:47
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court to hear a petition on the cancellation of the bail plea of Mohammad Shahabuddin, today.
08:45
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today to discuss the situation in the wake of the surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.PM Modi had also chaired a CCS meeting to review the...
08:35
Pakistan army opened small arms fire on Indian posts in Chapriyal and Samwan along the Line of Control in Akhnoor sector of Jammu early on Friday morning.Jammu deputy commissioner Simrandeep Singh said, Firing had started at about 12.30 am with small arms in Chapriyal and Samwan areas in...
08:08
JUST IN: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson ruled out of 2nd Test due to illness. Ross Taylor will lead the Black Caps in Kolkata.
07:48
A soldier, Naik Rajkishor Singh, died after he succumbed to the injuries he sustained when terrorists cross the Line of Control and struck the army brigade headquarters on September 18. With Singh's demise, the toll in the terror attack has now risen to 19. Yesterday, the Indian Army...
04:12
One Georgia mom was pulling clothes from the dryer, with her 4-year-old son nearby, when she heard the boom and saw the damage. Another woman thought something had crashed through her roof. In one instance, metal shards flung into a hallway and ripped holes in the wall. Laundry rooms have...
03:36
Taking a jibe at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for being 'short-tempered', Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule has said that he 'fights like the way women squabble over water at community taps'.Addressing women workers of NCP in Maval tehsil of Pune district last evening,...
02:59
In 2015, there was one unruly passenger for every 1,205 flights, the International Air Transport Association reported earlier this month.In which case, quite what constitutes an 'unruly passenger incident' is beyond us -- there seems to be one every flight.It's technically defined as including...
02:06
Hillary Clinton campaigned on Thursday in Iowa as early voting began in the pivotal swing state, seeking to pry it away from Republican Donald Trump and spur turnout that could ultimately decide the presidency.The businessman-turned-populist stumped in Iowa a day earlier, appealing to white,...
00:57
Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune quoted the Pakistan Army as saying that it had not captured an Indian soldier alongside the Line of Control.Pakistani military's media wing, ISPR, denied that an Indian soldier was in Pakistan Army's custody.Earlier, Dawn News had reported that one Indian...
00:50
In all party-meet, political leaders unanimously support army's surgical strikeHoboken train crash: 3 dead, 100 injured in New Jersey train crashBK Bansal suicide: NHRC sends notice to CBIHow India reacted to army's Uri responsePunjab on maximum alert, villagers near border told to...
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