A top Inter-Services Intelligence official had a narrow escape in an attempted suicide attack outside the Pakistani spy agency's headquarters when the bomber's explosive vest failed to detonate, sources said on Thursday.
Four young children were killed and a senior police officer escaped an attempt on his life in two separate incidents in Pakistan's restive northwest on Friday, officials said.
It won't be wise old Modi versus an immature Pappu any longer. It will be Modi versus a whole collection of experienced Opposition leaders, predicts Vir Sanghvi.
Orissa Congress Member of Parliament Hemananda Biswal escaped an attempt on his life by his erstwhile personal assistant, who reportedly tried to shoot him at his government bungalow at Kamraj lane in Delhi.Reports indicated that the MP was safe but he refused to meet the media.Biswal reportedly contacted the local police station after the incident. The Delhi police are investigating the incident.
A Babbar Khalsa terrorist, who was undergoing sentence in an attempt to murder case, escaped from police custody in Punjab while being taken to a court from Delhi's Tihar jail, police sources said on Tuesday.
Yatchan is an unexciting action comedy, writes S Saraswathi.
Asha Devi said that justice was delayed, but not denied, and added that they would continue their fight for justice for India's daughters.
50 of at least 350 children abducted by the rebels managed to escape, state media said.
India remained winless in their qualifying campaign so far.
It is critical to think seriously about how to provide opportunities for children to not only learn but also imagine, dream, ponder and create, notes Chintan Girish Modi.
'If the minister does not resign, then it will be the darkest incident of Indian democracy where power prevailed over the people.'
'As she was dragged off the yacht, the princess cried, "I won't go back to the UAE, just kill me now!"' 'She hasn't been heard of since then.' 'Perhaps she is dead.' 'If so, Modi's government has blood on its hands,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Police forces of several states were on the look out for him.
'I was told to go to the next room and strip -- that's when it really hits you for the first time... that you are a criminal and you are being treated like one.' 'It comes as a shock when, instead of your name, you hear, "Yeh naya Maowadi aaya hai (A new Maoist has arrived)".'
Steve Smith has scored almost half of Australia's runs himself in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston; how he performs on day four is likely to have a big say in who gains the early advantage in the series.
Congress alleged that the changes were made from a government of India Internet Protocol address.
A prominent Pakistani rights activist was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Karachi as she was returning home after hosting a seminar about human rights abuses in Baluchistan province, police said on Saturday.
The paper also includes musing that SARS -- which hit China in 2003 -- could have been a man-made bioweapon deliberately unleashed by "terrorists".
Madhavan doesn't try to be Charlie, and makes Maara stand out like a fresh film, feels Divya Nair.
The party has always advocated abrogation of Article 370 and has also been speaking against Article 35A, but its renewed pitch during elections assumes significance.
The step was taken following questioning of another arrested functionary of the sect in connection with an alleged conspiracy to facilitate Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim's escape after he was convicted for raping two disciples, police said.
Superintendent of Police Malla Reddy said Koneru Krishna, brother of TRS MLA Koneru Kannappa, has been arrested and booked under various sections of the IPC.
Images from Day 5 of the fourth Ashes Test, at Old Trafford, Manchester.
The UK prime minister stressed that a complete lockdown was the only answer to prevent the overrunning of the country's state-funded National Health Service, which would be a "medical and moral disaster" beyond the raw loss of life.
India's Mars orbiter has sent a picture of regional dust storm activities over the northern hemisphere of the red planet, Indian Space Research Organisation said on Monday.
Sukanya Verma offers some diversion in in the form of Bollywood's typical torture tactics.
In a video uploaded on Facebook on August 15, they claimed the attack on Khalid was supposed to be an 'Independence Day gift' to the citizens.
The department of economic affairs is said to be in discussions with various probe agencies, including the income tax department and the Enforcement Directorate, and bankers in drafting the final rules.
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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A key Pakistani Taliban commander involved in an assassination attempt on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been arrested in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region, sources said on Wednesday.
Sukanya Verma tells us just what makes Mirch Masala a must watch.
78 vehicles. A scenic trail along winding tea estates and forests. And plenty of challenges along the way.
Shots were fired at an Observation Post of the Border Security Force in Akhnoor sub-sector of Jammu district by Pakistani snipers on Sunday, prompting Indian troops to retaliate.
The blast targeted Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri when he came out of a mosque after addressing a gathering.
The faculty and students of Jawaharlal Nehru University alleged that over 10 students, including the visually and physically challenged, were injured due to the "brutality" of police personnel who severely baton charged them during their protest against the hostel fee hike on Monday, even as the Delhi Police denied the accusations.
Secularism as a principle and practice in India is in "danger", but "forces of hatred" cannot alter the country's secular character, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said during an interview on his new book 'The Battle of Belonging'. In the book, Tharoor makes a stinging critique of the Hindutva doctrine, asserting that it is a political doctrine, not a religious one.
For two decades after his release in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, Azhar has since been the darling of Pakistan's external snooping agency Inter-Services Intelligence.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday slammed the "dirty politics" being played over the killing of eight SIMI operatives by police and said the slain men were "dreaded terrorists" who could have wreaked devastation.
Adam Le Fondre put Sergio Lobera's men further ahead in the 59th minute as Hyderabad tasted their first defeat of the season.
