Raipur: Naxals killed two former colleagues who were working as police informers after surrendering in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district, police said Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Jallu and Bhima, had surrendered before police about two years ago. After quitting the Naxal movement, they were working as “secret informers” for police in the Bastar area, a senior […]
New Delhi: The government has rejected a long-standing demand of the armed forces for higher Military Service Pay (MSP) for around one lakh personnel including Junior Commissioned Officers, military sources told PTI Tuesday. They said the Army is anguished over the decision by the Finance Ministry, and will seek its review.Around one lakh service personnel including […]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (UNI) Making out a strong case for three aircraft carriers, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Monday said the country’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant, under final stage of construction at Cochin Shipyard, is likely to go for sea trials in 2020. Addressing a press conference here on the eve […]
Jaipur: In a notable initiative, India on Sunday offered to Pakistan it’s help and cooperation for fighting out menace of terrorism on the soil of the neighbouring country, if the latter wished so. Making the offer, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, however, categorically held that Kashmir is not an issue for India, it is an […]
New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday made a big U-turn over his decision to visit Kartarpur and said he never went there on the directives of Congress President Rahul Gandhi. “Get your facts right before you distort them. Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan,” Mr Sidhu tweeted. “The […]
Srinagar: Facing reverses in their traditional stronghold, Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar have come up with a new strategy, apparently based on the Vietnamese model of guerrilla warfare, wherein effigies with fake guns are positioned strategically in the forest to take on the troopers. Naxals have suffered heavy casualties in a string of encounters with security forces […]
New Delhi: Slogans like ‘Ayodhya nahi, karz maafi chahiye (Not Ayodhya, need debt waiver), resonated in the air as thousands of farmers across the country assembled at the Parliament Street, here on Friday to demand loan waiver, better price for their produces and special session of Parliament for agrarian crisis. Over one lakh farmers, who […]
Pakistan Foreign Minister, Mehmood Qureshi has said that the people of Kashmir, who were facing “brutality and bloodshed”, should not feel alone, entire “Pakistan was with them”. “I want to tell the people of occupied Kashmiris who are facing relentless brutality and bloodshed that you are not alone,” Qureshi said in an emotive speech on […]
Srinagar: India is facing a major malnutrition crisis as it holds almost a third of the world’s burden for stunting, according to a global nutrition report published Thursday. With 46.6 million children who are stunted, India tops the list of countries followed by Nigeria (13.9 million) and Pakistan (10.7 million), the Global Nutrition Report 2018 […]
Islamabad: Pakistan and Russia on Thursday announced to promote friendly bilateral ties to the level of strategic partnership. An agreement to this effect was reached at during a meeting between Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Russian Ambassador Alexey Dedov here, a report in Radio Pakistan said. Discussions between the dignitaries revolved around bilateral […]
