The air strike was carried around 3:30 am, the sources said.
In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
At least 52 people were killed when twin suicide bombings ripped through a town in northwest Pakistan's restive tribal belt on Friday in a sudden surge in violence against the minority Shia community.
Germany has been on edge after suffering two attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in July.
Tourists were among the victims of the explosion, reports indicate, while wounded persons were transferred to nearby hospitals, mainly Haseki Training and Research Hospital.
Riot police fired water cannon at far-right football hooligans who invaded a square in the Belgian capital that has become a memorial to the victims of the Brussels.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said the National Investigation Agency taking over the case of a vehicle laden with explosives being found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in Mumbai suggests something was 'fishy'.
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'The only effective defence against a suicide attack is 'pre-emptive' destruction of the attacker,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A top US intelligence official has said that there is a ''substantial potential'' for security threats against the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but the key concern for an attack centers on locations outside the main event areas.
A young Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded government office in Pakistan's restive northwest killing 26.
Muhammad Usman, a suspected bomb-maker for the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, had set out from the capital of the self-declared Islamic State caliphate in Raqqa, Syria, six weeks before the Paris attacks along with Algerian-born Adel Haddadi, the report said, citing investigation documents.
BCCI had expressed concern about security during the World Cup in a letter to the ICC after last month's attack in the disputed region that killed 40 Indian paramilitary troops.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea moved by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini Sriharan seeking early release from prison.
They have been exposed again by the IAF's ability to strike 80 km into Pakistan without being intercepted or incurring casualties.
In the wake of the incident, the CRPF has issued a 'high vigil' alert to all its formations in the Kashmir Valley and other places in the state.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has been left to ponder over the fate of the Pakistan Super League final scheduled to be played in Lahore on March 7 following a suicide bomb attack killed 15 people and injured scores in the city.
The security was jacked up after a website showed graphics of the Taj Mahal with a terrorist standing alongside holding what looked like a weapon.
Both police officers killed in the attack were women.
Raising fears over the growing threat of home-grown extremism, three Americans, including two women, have been charged in separate cases of plotting terror strikes on United States soil using "weapons of mass destruction" and of travelling to Pakistan to fight against American forces.
A Sri Lankan court on Friday named former president Maithripala Sirisena as a suspect in the 2019 Easter bombings in which 270 people, including 11 Indians, were killed.
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The attack is claimed by the Taliban.
Two Taliban suicide bombers struck a historic church in Peshawar Sunday, killing at least 78 people, including women and children, in the deadliest attack on the minority Christian community in Pakistan's history.
Officials suspect Islamic State to be responsible for the attack.
The United States has issued a global travel advisory for its citizens alerting them of possible risks due to increased terror threats from the dreaded Islamic State and other terror groups in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and Mali.
The terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of "critical", meaning further attacks may be imminent.
Tunisia is on a manhunt for the third attacker in the Bardo Museum in Tunis last week that left more than 20 people dead.
With only three balls remaining, Gulbadin Naib hit a six to clinch a narrow win and prompt delirious scenes in the Afghan capital, where heavily-armed cricket fans fired automatic rifles into the air.
Amit Shah's visit on June 26, 2019, was already touted to be a precursor for a dramatic announcement and "I got a call at 2 am in the morning, informing me of a meeting with the home minister at 7 am", Dhillon said in his book.
Swaraj also said that she is in constant touch with Indian high commission.
The death toll is feared to rise with women and children casualties in the deadly blast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics on Friday determined to prove his doubters wrong after militant attacks, a row over gay rights and ballooning costs overshadowed preparations.
Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who helped kill 14 people when he set off his suicide vest at Brussels airport on Tuesday, left the will in the bin of the terror cell's Schaerbeek safehouse.
'The Pakistan army is trying to mainstream the LeT.'
New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White said the country would now also need to accept they were no longer immune from acts of extreme violence and that would need to be factored in when they hosted sports events and teams.
The names of both Maregowda and Puttaraju had figured in the list of missing Janata Dal-Secular workers tweeted by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday.
Here are some of the worst terror attacks in recent history with trains and passengers as intended targets.
Not ruling out the violation of Standard Operating Procedures when such a huge movement of central forces is taking place in the troubled state, officials requesting anonymity said a clear picture on loopholes, if any, will be known after a thorough probe.
Police have found the DNA of a newly-identified suspect on explosives used in last year's Paris attacks, a French source said on Monday.
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