At least seven suspected Maoists, including five women, were killed in a gun battle near Zinganur forests in Maharashtra on Wednesday, official sources said. Security forces overcame the firepower of the Maoists in the deep jungles and eliminated seven of the attackers. Details of the Maoists killed were awaited even as the security forces laun...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Wednesday the British government should apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. Khan, who arrived in Amritsar on Tuesday, paid tributes to martyrs of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre here on Wednesday. "The British government should apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh shootings. Som...
Authorities have stepped up security across Uttar Pradesh on the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya. Twenty-seven additional companies of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) have been posted all over the state. Of these, six companies each have been deployed in Lucknow and in Faizabad district, which i...
Bangladesh is moving ahead with a controversial plan to move Rohingya refugees to a low-lying, flood-prone island, with construction of facilities to begin "very soon". About 100,000 of the one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh will be moved to Thengar Char, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal by November 2019, acco...
US President Donald Trump will unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the White House has said, a move that elicited huge outrage from the Palestinians and the entire Arab world, media reports said on Wednesday. The news comes ahead of an expected speech by Trump on Wednesday. The status of Jerusalem - a holy site for Israelis an...
Indian and Pakistan Army have traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, police said on Wednesday. The Pakistani Army on Tuesday evening resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in the Nowshera sector using mortars, automatics and small arms, a police officer said. They resorted to indiscriminate she...
The BBC has apologised after showing two clips of the wrong person while re...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said that it has served a notice...
Even as programmes of several political leaders were cancelled in Gujarat in view of cyclone "Ockhi", Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to go ahead with his three-day visit to poll-bound state starting Wednesday....
In a preliminary investigation, the north Delhi's Shalimar Bagh-located Max Super Specialty Hospital has been found guilty of not following the prescribed medical norms in dealing with a 22-week premature newborn, due to which he was declared dead on November 30 while he was still alive....
