Narayanpatna (Orissa), Nov 22 (ANI): The Orissa Government on Sunday ordered heavy deployment of security forces in Korapat Distrct following the death of two activists of the Maoist backed Chasi Mulia Adivasi ...

By Smita Prakash Geneva, Nov.21 (ANI): India is to get state of the art surveillance gear as part of its counter-terror cooperation with US. Both countries are expected to move forward on counter-terrorism ...

Kolkata, Nov 21 (IANS) Adhering to a court directive, the West Bengal government Saturday said it would submit a status report to the judiciary Nov 23 on alleged disruption caused to educational ...

Peshawar, Nov.21 (ANI): North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti has blamed 'foreign powers' for the recent wave of terror attacks in the region. Interacting with journalists after a ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (IANS) The authorities Saturday deployed additional security forces in an Orissa town after two people were killed when tribal activists attacked a police station in the area Friday, an ...

Imphal, Nov 20 (ANI): Suspected militants lobbed a grenade on an army convoy here on Thursday, injuring two soldiers. The attack took place when the convoy of four vehicles was moving from ...

Islamabad, Nov 20 (DPA) A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan's troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said. The casualties occurred when a police vehicle ...

Budapest, Nov 19 (DPA) A NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a strengthening of al-Qaeda and cause instability to spread through the region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday ...

Islamabad, Nov.19 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has challenged media reports that claim that SwatTaliban commander Mullah Fazlullah is alive and has sneaked into Afghanistan. Addressing a function at the police ...

New York, Nov.18 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has claimed massive success in the offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, establishing control over Sararogha, the town which the militants referred to ...

Agartala, Nov 18 (IANS) A Tripura State Rifles (TSR) trooper was killed and another shot at and injured during a gunfight with separatists from the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) Wednesday, ...

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Nov 18 (ANI): A large number of militants are ready to enter the country from various points along the international border and the Line of Control (LoC), security ...

Raipur, Nov 17 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday slammed the Maoists for spreading rumours in the state's Bastar region that police would target all those who failed to produce photo ...

Islamabad, Nov 17 (DPA) The leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan. Fazlullah ...

Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani security forces have cleared the Taliban stronghold of Srarogha in South Waziristan after an intense five-day battle in which 180 militants and seven soldiers were killed, ...

Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir), Nov 16 (ANI): An encounter between the army and militants has ended here after nearly seven hours. The army has killed both Jaish-e-Mohammad militants. The militants had concealed themselves ...

Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has written a letter to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, asking him to step up the offensive against the Taliban and al ...

Kochi (Kerala), Nov 16 (ANI): A 58-year-old ex- naval officer has built a replica of the Taj Mahal here to pay reverence to the war heroes, freedom fighters and the victims of ...

Cairo, Nov 15 (DPA) Egypt defeated Algeria 2-0 at their football World Cup qualifier match, setting up a playoff later this month between the two teams, who have seen tensions between them ...

Srinagar, Nov 13 (IANS) Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was released on bail here Friday evening, hours after he was hospitalised while in detention. Geelani was arrested from outside the ...

London, Nov 13 (IANS) British officials have proposed the Afghan government reconcile with senior Taliban leaders and have them removed from an international sanctions list, the BBC reported Friday. The leaked ...

Karkala (Karnataka) Nov 13 (ANI): Karnataka Police on Friday launched a massive anti Naxal operation in the four districts of the Malnad region. The operation led by Inspector General of Police (Western Range) ...

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) The 72-hour shutdown called by the Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) entered its second day Friday, partially affecting life in West Midnapore's Jhargram sub-division. "No violence has ...

Agartala, Nov 13 (IANS) There was tension along the India-Bangladesh border in southern Tripura after Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers threatened to open fire if labourers did not stop repair work on an ...

Malkangiri (Orissa), Nov 13 (ANI): At least three CRPF personnel, including an officer, were killed when suspected Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Orissa's Malkangiri district today. According to sources, the blast took ...

Kabul, Nov 13 (DPA) A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a military base in the eastern part of the Afghan capital Kabul and wounded three people, officials said Friday. Interior ...

Srinagar, Nov 12 (IANS) Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was Thursday evening shifted to the central jail in Srinagar, a day after he was arrested from outside the University of ...

Kolkata, Nov 12 (IANS) The Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) called a 72-hour shutdown in Jhargram in West Bengal from Thursday to protest police action on villagers who had taken ...

Islamabad, Nov.12 (ANI): Censuring extremists for the recent spate of violence across the country, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has termed the terror attacks as an act of ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) Security forces Wednesday fought a long-drawn gun battle with the Maoists in West Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district while police fired tear gas shells to quell an agitation ...