The Philippines army battles terrorists backed by Islamic State in the first major military encounter with Islamists in that part of the world.
Five-time former Punjab chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who was admitted to a private hospital in Mohali over a week ago, died on Tuesday. He was 95.
Yeh Hai India: Capturing the events and moods across our incredible country.
'Today, two great democratic nations pause to mourn the loss of this courageous young man who chose the life of a soldier,' Campbell said at Uday Singh's residence in Chandigarh.
'Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Ranjeet and Shakti Kapoor were eating mutton biryani.' 'Suddenly, all of them jumped to their feet.' 'Sridevi had entered.' 'It was almost like a top army general had walked in.' 'The kind of respect she commanded without demanding it was incredible!'
Ukraine celebrates its 1991 declaration of independence from the then USSR on the same day.
The lawyer of Bradley Manning, the United States Army trooper accused of sharing classified documents with WikiLeaks, has claimed that his client was stripped of his clothes and left naked in a cell for seven hours. David E Coombs wrote about the incident at the Quantico Marine base in Virginia, where Bradley Manning has been lodged since July. He said that the incident happened on Wednesday and Manning's clothes were returned to him on Thursday morning.
Overall, the record of the second term reveals a contradiction between the image and the reality. The image, especially on media and social media, is one of the man at the height of his power, and unstoppable. The reality on governance is someone who has found it difficult to get things implemented and unsure of what to do next, points out Aakar Patel.
Young soldiers blame commanders of for the debacle at the Uri army camp. Ajai Shukla reports
The right-hand man of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Gerasimov was one of only three, including the President and defence minister, who were in charge of plotting the invasion of Ukraine.
A book has claimed that the United States army personnel, who has been accused of downloading and passing thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, was able to copy them due to a lapse in security. Specialist Bradley Manning, 23, who downloaded the material in Iraq, had 'unrestricted access' to millions of classified documents 'with virtually no supervision or safeguards', revealed extracts from the book.
'I have been touched whenever I have known him personally as a human being.'
'I saw people hanging on to the bridge and later falling into the water as their grip loosened and they slipped into the water.'
Army on Friday handed over about 37 acres of demined farmland to the villagers in the Akhnoor belt along the Line of Control in the Jammu district.
The man sought after by parents when they want to admit their children to Ivy League colleges tells Anjuli Bhargava how a hobby became a source of livelihood.
At Birmingham, Avinash Sable became the first non-Kenyan to win a medal since 1994 at the Commonwealth Games.
General Singh assured the nation that the Indian Army is highly motivated and ready to respond to any threats to national security.
Major Adhikari was a man par excellence and had won our hearts. His supreme sacrifice for the nation shook us till the roots. A fascinating excerpt from Param Vir Chakra Captain (Honorary) Yogendra Singh Yadav's book, The Hero of Tiger Hill.
Army was called in on Wednesday to help control widespread violence sparked by quota agitation by Patel community in Gujarat which has claimed seven lives even as curfew was clamped in several areas.
Priority right now, the defence minister said, is to restore normalcy.
He was a leader who enjoyed acceptance from all sections of the BJP and beyond.
Leading the Opposition attack over the Adani-Hindenburg issue in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday linked Gautam Adani's meteoric rise to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coming to power and said "magic" happened after 2014 that propelled the businessman from the 609th to the second spot on the global rich list.
Internal simmering in the army has come to a boil after the government tries to retain a discriminatory promotions policy.
'Whether Kashmir or anywhere else, whether in peace or in war, pay commissions or no pay commissions, hollowness and shortages notwithstanding, the Indian Army -- and Sekin Fif -- will always be there to keep India together.'
Former World No 1 Deepika Kumari, who was making a comeback after her maternity break, on Monday failed to make the Indian team for the Asian Games, World Cup and World Championships slated later this year.
There's much entertainment coming up from July to December, and Joginder Tuteja highlights those films for us.
Athena is a cold spectacle we don't emphasise with, observes Mayur Sanap.
Earlier, army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said that full cooperation will be extended in investigation of the incident.
The United States has supplied Ukraine with thousands of Javelins, the anti-tank missiles that have become the iconic weapon of the war for Ukraine which has helped in pushing back Russian tanks.
At least three Pakistani soldiers were killed and many others wounded on Saturday when militants from the Afghanistan side attacked border checkpoints in northern Chitral district, local media reported.
A group of retired army officers have come together to provide a home for girls who never had a home before.
The Army was deployed Tuesday late night in Srinagar and indefinite curfew imposed as fresh violence erupted in Kashmir Valley, claiming four lives and leaving over 70 injured after days of calm.
Hard men with guns cannot manage the state forever.
Pakistan on Wednesday hanged a man convicted for attempting to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the seventh execution in the country after a moratorium on death penalty was lifted following the Peshawar school carnage.
Mahadevan, Govindankutty, Appukkuttan and Thomaskutty will be seen together once again in In Ghost House Inn.
Indian security agencies have learnt that Chinese troops are training Pakistan Army personnel right across the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Punjab Police has already invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against the Khalistan sympathiser.
The ongoing war of words between a former Pakistani chief of army staff general and a former ISI chief, trading allegations and counter allegations in the supreme court and blaming each other for payment of millions of rupees among anti-Pakistan People's Party politicians to influence the results of the 1990 general elections, has abundantly made it clear how Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence establishment has been manipulating domestic politics for decades now.
A man has been arrested for allegedly working for a Pakistani intelligence agency and was found in possession of secret documents relating to Indian army which were to be supplied to an 'agent' of Pakistan high commission in New Delhi.
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