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Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

No jobs at home: Why war zones lure Indians

Successive Indian governments have successfully evacuated stranded Indians from conflict zones.

22 Mar 2018 12:58 AM

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

Deaths in Iraq: Govt callousness exposed

It only now becomes plain that the government had not a shred of evidence to even hint that the missing workers were alive.

22 Mar 2018 12:49 AM

Harjit Masih however, managed to return to India after giving a slip to the ISIS militants suffering gun wound. (Photo: ANI)

Indians made to kneel down, killed in front of me: Escaped IS captive

Giving details of the incident, Masih said that Indians were working at a factory in Iraq in 2014.

21 Mar 2018 1:37 PM

Relatives of Gurcharan Singh, one of the 39 Indian workers whose bodies were found buried northwest of Mosul, mourn in his hometown in Jalal Usma village, Punjab. (Photo: PTI)

Families learn of death on TV, in shock

On Tuesday, Ms Swaraj reemphasised that Mr Masih’s account on the massacre of 39 Indians was not correct.

21 Mar 2018 1:19 AM

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

ISIS killed 39 abducted Indians: Govt

The DNA of the 39 bodies, Ms Swaraj said, was then matched with the blood of the relatives of the missing Indians.

21 Mar 2018 1:10 AM

Relatives said they received panicked phone calls from some of the workers five days after Mosul was captured, asking for help. (Photo: ANI Twitter)

Killed in front of my eyes: How bodies of 38 Indians slain by IS were found

The abducted workers, most from northern India, had been employed by a construction company operating near Mosul.

20 Mar 2018 8:42 PM

External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had told Parliament on Tuesday that all 39 Indians, abducted by the ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies were recovered. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Hopes trashed as kin get informed on TV about Indian captives' death

Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government authority.

20 Mar 2018 7:04 PM

The External Affairs Minister termed the action of the opposition leaders as unfortunate. (Photo: ANI)

Didn't mislead, needed proof of Indian captives' death, says Sushma Swaraj

Sushma accused Rahul Gandhi of asking Jyotiraditya Scindia to lead protests in Lok Sabha.

20 Mar 2018 4:12 PM

'I told the truth that 39 Indians were killed. The government has misled the 39 families who lost their relatives,' said Harjit Masih. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Told govt all 39 were dead, yet they misguided families: Escaped hostage

However, the Centre denied escaped hostage Harjit Masih's claims saying that he had lied.

20 Mar 2018 3:54 PM

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the second phase of budget session, at the Parliament House in New Delhi on Tuesday. Swaraj says that the 39 bodies exhumed from a mount in Badoosh in Iraq has been identified as those of Indians and will be brought back to India on a special plane.

Govt delayed declaration on Indian captives, gave false hopes to families: Cong

Congress says the way Government gave high hopes to the families was not right and demands answers.

20 Mar 2018 2:54 PM

The Aryabhata Clan by Sudipto Das, Niyogi Books, Rs 595

Cracking symbols the Dan Brown way

The stakes are high — a terrorist group is plotting to destroy India’s most significant and recognisable symbol of Mughal architecture.

18 Mar 2018 1:42 AM

Anger against ISIS ‘rowdiness’ in J&K

Witnessed said that about fifteen daunting youth among thousands of mourners who turned up at Eisa’s funeral on Monday.

17 Mar 2018 1:45 AM

Militant from Telangana killed in J&K encounter

A resident of Bhadradri-Kothagudem district of Telangana, 26-year-old Toufeeq followed the Islamic State (ISIS) ideology.

16 Mar 2018 2:26 AM

Three militants, including Fazli and Owais, both of whom left their B.Tech third year course to join militancy, were killed in the encounter on the intervening night of March 11 and 12, a development seen as a blow to the attempts by ISIS to gain ground in the Kashmir Valley. (Photo: (Photo: AP)

Telangana man among 3 ISIS militants killed in J&K encounter: cops

The person was identified as 26-year-old MD Toufeeq hailing from Bhadradri-Kothagudem district of Telangana.

15 Mar 2018 10:03 AM

An FIR was lodged against Nityanand Rai for violating the model code of conduct by allegedly making provocative speech during campaigning for Araria Lok Sabha bypolls. (Photo: ANI/File)

If RJD wins, Araria will become safe haven for IS, says Bihar BJP chief

Araria is a muslim-dominated area with over 40 per cent of the population belonging to the religion.

11 Mar 2018 6:37 PM

A Ticket to Syria by Shirish Thorat, Bloomsbury India, Rs 399.

A deeply researched thriller on ISIS

The thriller aspect of the book is fairly thrill-less but by the time the plan to get Zahi out is ready, you do feel invested in her escape.

11 Mar 2018 12:26 AM

Funeral of militant Mughees Mir whose body was wrapped in an IS flag in Parimpora. (Photo: H.U. Naqash)

ISIS in Kashmir Valley? Probe on, fingers crossed

Flags of the outfit first appeared in Srinagar during 2014 stone-pelting.

04 Mar 2018 2:04 AM

In November last year, the ISIS had claimed the responsibility for the shootout in which police sub-inspector Imran Tak was also killed in Srinagar’s Gulab Bagh area. (Photo: Representational | AP)

ISIS claims responsibility for killing J&K cop

Presence of terror outfit in Valley needs to be probed: Police chief.

28 Feb 2018 2:33 AM

The Islamic State on Monday took the responsibility for attack on a police post and killing a policemen in Soura area of Srinagar. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Police admit ISIS presence in J&K after extremist group kills cop, calls for war

State police chief SP Vaid said it is now clear that the attack was carried out by ISIS.

27 Feb 2018 1:17 PM

More than 1,300 women and children surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga in August after government forces expelled the jihadist group from the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. (Representational Image)

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for ties with Islamic State

Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children.

26 Feb 2018 3:39 PM

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