An Indian soldier on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in strife-torn Congo was killed during a firefight between the Congolese Army and armed assailants.
Lt Gen S A Hasnain on Saturday took over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the strategically most important Kashmir Valley-based corps of the Indian army.
The five United States origin terror suspects, who were arrested from Sargodha earlier this month, were planning to attack the Chasma nuclear power plant and other strategic establishments in the country, a private television channel has reported.The Daily Times reported Sargodha Cantonment Station House Officer, Amir Sherazi, as saying that the suspects had disclosed their plans during interrogations.Earlier, a local Pakistani court extended the custody of terror suspects.
Multiple blasts and gunfire rocked this provincial capital of Pakistan's restive northwest, close to the US consulate and highly sensitive military installations, hours after 25 people were killed when a suicide bomber struck a political gathering in Timergara.
One of the terrorists was under the scanner of investigators for his role in the CRPF convoy attack.
Most names figuring in the investigations of the 2007 bomb blasts in Ajmer, at Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid, and in Malegaon hail from Madhya Pradesh's Malwa region. Rediff.com's Krishnakumar Padmanabhan traces the common thread that could have brought these men together.
JD-U sources conceded that the BJP's "Bihari martyrdom" line will give the coalition an edge or "at least help us combat anti-incumbency if the Opposition makes an issue of Nitish's governance".
Indian Army officers, serving and retired, will tell you that the one thing that makes the Indian soldier singularly unique is his josh and jazba.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday night cut short his visit to Odhisa and returned to the capital after his wife Suvra was hospitalised following illness.
Former Congress Member of Parliament Sajjan Kumar was on Wednesday chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a Delhi court in two separate cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The agency filed its investigation report in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. The cases in which the chargesheets were filed against Kumar and others were registered in two police stations -- Sultanpuri and Delhi Cantonment.
Aurangzeb was abducted when he was on his way home in Rajouri district for Eid celebrations.
A Russian cargo plane crashed in a fireball into a naval residential compound seconds after taking off from the airport of the southern Pakistani city on Sunday, killing at least 11 people--all eight crew members on board and three persons on the ground.
The prosecution demanded the "highest sentence" for the accused in a bloody mutiny by border guards early this year that left 57 Bangladeshi army officers, including their chief Major General Shakil Ahmed, dead. As the nine accused were hauled up before a paramilitary court at southeastern Rangamati cantonment, the prosecution, on Wednesday served them with copies of charge sheets in which they sought the "highest punishment" for them.
In the wreath laying ceremony for the slain Colonel Santosh Mahadik in Srinagar, all the officers and the jawans of the 41 RR paid their tributes to him.
Seven people were killed in a suicide blast near a Pakistan air force base in Kamra on Friday morning. Nearly 12 people were injured in the blast
'The central government is putting conditions on farmers organisations, that they have to allow passenger trains to ply, only then will they allow goods trains to ply.'
A 24-year-old mechanic with the Navy has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and police claimed to have recovered from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photographs of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment.
Suspected Pakistani ISI agent Asad Ali, arrested from Haridwar, allegedly had a string of relationships with local women apparently to win people's confidence to extract information regarding cantonment areas.
Acting on an intelligence tip-off, security agencies have nabbed the Punjab chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khalilullah, along with a trained suicide bomber.
'Whatever Modi had promised us on OROP has not been delivered. He lied to us'
Setting off powerful explosions and firing from automatic weapons, militants dressed in battle fatigues on Monday made a brazen attempt to storm the US consulate within the cantonment in Peshawar today, killing at least one person and injuring several others.
A co-accused of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases on Saturday pleaded before a Delhi court to transfer the matters to a judge having territorial jurisdiction to try them.
In the video clip, the captured Pakistani nationals identified themselves as Mohammad Khalil and Mohammad Nazim, hailing from Rawalpindi area of Pakistan.
A Pakistani-origin Iranian Consulate official was shot dead by unidentified gunmen within the army cantonment in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Syed Abul Hassan Jaffri, spokesman for the Iranian consulate in the capital of the North West Frontier Province, was attacked by two gunmen when he emerged from his home in Gulberg Colony on Thursday morning.
Pakistani law enforcement agencies on Sunday claimed to have made a breakthrough in their probe into the recent three near-simultaneous terror attacks on security facilities in Lahore by arresting a Punjabi Taliban militant, from whom banned literature and 'jihadi' compact discs were also seized.
Terrorists struck on Friday in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar for the second straight day as a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police station near a mosque, killing at least 11 people and injuring 16 others.
The Indian and US armies started the joint war games under Yudha Abhayas 09 at Babina cantonment area in Jhansi District of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
The Agra police have claimed that the April 16 church attack in Agra occurred because of a romantic relationship gone awry.
Abdul Jabbar alias Sikandar, a resident of Pakistani port city of Karachi, was arrested on Tuesday night by the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad, Additional Director, General (Law and Order) Brijlal told media-persons in Lucknow. "Maps of restricted cantonment areas in Lucknow and secret information regarding Central command were recovered from Sikandar," he said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up when he was stopped at a police check post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least four persons and injuring 11 others in the latest in a wave of terrorist attacks across the country.
Flight PK8303 crashed among houses in the Model Colony residential area on Friday as it approached Karachi airport, killing 97 people, including nine children.
The explosion took place at about 2115 hours. Some soldiers were working in the section when a battery meant for charging vehicles went off triggering a blaze, Naresh Vig, Public Relations Officer of the Army, said.
Even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has been busy fighting his father and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to take control of the party, his step-brother Prateek Yadav has kept himself away from the hullaballoo and has been busy building his biceps.
It was a quiet reopening with few people venturing warily to watch a mix of regional, English and Hindi reruns such as "Chhichhore", "Thappad", "Tanhaji" and "The Spy".
Three back-to-back blasts went off near a market in Lahore on Friday night, but there was no immediate report of any casualty, hours after 45 people were killed and over 100 others injured when two suicide bombers targeted the army in the cantonment.
Several people were feared killed on Sunday when a bomb blast ripped through a cinema hall in a northwestern Pakistani city. Around 90 people were inside Regal cinema hall, located within the cantonment of Bannu city in the North West Frontier Province, when the blast occurred, state-run PTV reported.
At least six persons were killed and 12 others injured on Thursday when a motorcycle-borne suicide bomber struck a bus carrying government employees in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Over 30 people were injured in a blast outside Hotel Pearl Continental in Peshawar on Tuesday night. The strong blast damaged nearly 40 cars parked in the hotel's parking lot.
A stenographer in the office of a sub-divisional magistrate in Jhansi was allegedly passing on sensitive information about the army illegally since 2009
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