With sensitive information related to of combat and stealth aspects of India's Scorpene submarines being allegedly leaked, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday sought a report from the navy, adding that it appeared to be a case of hacking. The Indian Navy, in a statement, meanwhile said it is analysing the informatio...
At least four people were killed as an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck central Italy early Wednesday, a government official said. At least four people died in the quake whose epicentre was determined at Rieti, around 170 km southwest of Rome, Xinhua news agency quoted central Amatrice town's mayor Sergio Pirozzi as saying. Stron...
North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a ballistic missile off its east coast as tensions heightened on the Korean peninsula after South Korea and the US started annual war games, Seoul's military said. A South Korean defence ministry official told Xinhua that North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) around 5.30 a.m. (local time) off ...
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump by eight percentage points, according to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Online Tracking Poll issued on Tuesday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the "nationalism" was core identity of the BJP and called upon party workers to defeat elements who were trying to divert people's attention from the development-oriented work of the party-led central government....
The Congress on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks at the BJP workshop of state core committee members, noting that it was a promise of development, growth and jobs which had brought him to power and not a promise of nationalism....
BJP's been slapping sedition charges against any body and everybody so I'm really not surprised... I just said that I disagree with (Defence Minister) Manohar Parikkar sir's comment that Pakistan is hell, Pakistan is certainly not hell... they are very hospitable people... that's all I said," the former Congress MP told India Today news ch...
A group of self-styled cow vigilantes thrashed two Dalits in a village in Gujarat's Saurashtra region for allegedly refusing to dispose the carcass of a calf. ...
Irom Sharmila said on Tuesday that she had only changed her strategy against a law which gives sweeping powers to security forces as years of fasting against it had not helped....
Spelling out at least 14 latest aliases used by wanted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, the UN Security Council has listed three addresses under his name -- all of them in Karachi in Pakistan, with one even in a defence colony....
