By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 22 (IANS) Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas, who had laid a siege to parliament since the fall of their government in May, Sunday said they would lift the five-month ...

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 ...

Mumbai, Nov 21 (IANS) Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday announced the setting up of a museum here in memory of the victims of last year's Mumbai terror attacks. Launching three new ...

Mumbai, Nov 20(ANI): Personnel of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) platoon, who were deployed at the Gateway of India in Mumbai to guard the Taj Mahal Hotel- one of the prime ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (ANI): The Maoists on Friday called for a shutdown in Jharkhand to protest against the police operation against them. A tight security arrangement was made through out the state. Security ...

Imphal, Nov 19 (IANS) At least three people, including two paramilitary troopers, were injured in a grenade attack on an Assam Rifles security patrol van near a crowded marketplace in Manipur Thursday, ...

Thoubal (Manipur), Nov 18 (ANI): Hundreds of students from various schools of Thoubal District of Manipur under the banner the Private Schools Development Council formed a human chain to condemn the burning ...

Hyderabad, Nov 18 (IANS) Actor-politician K. Chiranjeevi had a narrow escape when electric wires almost fell on his open top vehicle during campaigning for the municipal elections in this Andhra Pradesh capital. Standing ...

Kohat/Khar, Nov 16 (ANI): At least 24 militants were killed as jets bombed Taliban positions in the tribal region of Orakzai and troops maintained pressure on terrorists in South Waziristan and ...

Islamabad, Nov 14 (DPA) At least five people were killed and 25 injured in a suspected car suicide bombing near a police check post in Pakistan's northwestern region Saturday, officials said. A ...

Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Nov.14 (ANI): Security of hotels in Ahmedabad has been beefed up in the wake of reports that US terror suspect David Coleman Headley stayed at top-end hotels in various cities ...

Hoshiarpur (Punjab), Nov 13 (IANS) Trained guards from Punjab will help private security agencies to secure the venues of the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in New Delhi October next ...

Guwahati, Nov 13 (IANS) About 200 tribal militants armed with guns and machetes overran a paramilitary post in Assam Friday, injuring four troopers and decamping with more than 20 automatic weapons, officials ...

Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 13 (ANI): Security at the Taj Mahal here has been tightened following threats of an eminent terrorist attack. The Taj Mahal, a monument of unsurpassable architectural beauty, is one ...

Reasi (J-K), Nov 13 (ANI): Security personnel on Thursday busted a militant hideout and recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunitions and several documents in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district. One AK 47 ...

Kathmandu, Nov 13 (ANI): Cadres of the Unified CPN (Maoist) clashed with riot police while staging protest outside the country's administrative center, Singha Durbar, as part of their second -phase protests against ...

Peshawar, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured Friday morning in a powerful suicide bombing outside a Pakistani intelligence agency office in this northwestern city, an ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Hundreds of curious passers-by thronged the Noida City Centre Metro station Thursday afternoon and even moved on to Metro tracks posing serious doubts on security issues, barely ...

Peshawar, Nov.12 (ANI): Unidentified gunmen shot dead an official of the Iranian Consulate in Peshawar on Thursday. According to sources, Abul Hasan Jaffri, director Public Relations at the Iranian Consulate, was attacked near ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh today alleged that he received a death threat call for Abu Azmi, a legislator of the newly elected Maharashtra State ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Two police personnel were abducted by the Maoists ultras in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Tuesday evening. One of the abducted men was released later after his indisposed ...

Lahore, Nov.10 (ANI): Wanted Afghan warlord and Hizb-e-Islami chief Gulbudin Hekmatyar has said that Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is still alive. A private television channel quoted Hekmatyar as saying that the ...

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) A Maoist functionary wanted in two states to stand trial for carrying out landmine blasts and attacks on security personnel, was gunned down in a forest area in ...

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Agitated over the sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets Monday, clashed with the police, damaged railway tracks, stopped trains, blocked highways ...

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Agitated over relatively low sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets Monday, damaged railway tracks and blocked highways in parts of western ...

Quetta (Balochistan), Nov.8 (ANI): At least 17 people, including a student and security personnel were injured in two separate grenade attacks in different parts of Quetta, the capital of the insurgency hit ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) A traffic jam on the busy Ambala-Chandigarh highway Saturday held up a minister of state in Haryana from reaching the Raj Bhawan to take oath of office. Sukhbir Kataria, ...

Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Steeping up attacks on government buildings, Maoist guerrillas blew up a primary school building in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said Saturday. Some 80-100 Maoists set explosives inside a primary ...

Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) Though not yet having lost a patient to swine flu, Nepal Friday sounded an alarm after the discovery that the epidemic could be spreading in two districts in ...

Ranchi, Nov 6 (IANS) Maoist rebels blew up a school building in Chatra district of Jharkhand, police said Friday. Maoist rebels blew up a middle school building at Asona village of Chatra, around ...