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The statement said the test was conducted in accordance with the annual training plan to \raise the operational capability of the armed forces and effectively respond to threats to national security\. (Photo: AFP/Representational)World
New Chinese missile can attack aircraft carriers, THAAD: report

The missile test was carried amid China's vociferous protests over THAAD interceptor missiles in South Korea.

11 May 2017 11:55 AM IST

Kulbhushan Jadhav. (Photo: File)World
ICJ prez asks Pak to cooperate on Kulbhushan Jadhav case

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will be holding public hearings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case on May 15.

11 May 2017 10:53 AM IST

Khamenei spoke during a graduation ceremony in Tehran for cadets in Irans Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line paramilitary force. (Photo: AP)World
Iran's top leader says people disrupting elections will be slapped'

Khamenei's comments came as the Iran's intelligence minister said his agents already blocked one plot to cause trouble.

11 May 2017 10:15 AM IST

A woman checks her laptop at the Beirut international airport. The US and the UK have banned laptops and other devices on flights from some countries. (Photo: AFP)World
US likely to expand airline laptop ban to Europe: government officials

US Department of Homeland Security officials plan to meet airline industry officials today on security issues.

11 May 2017 9:57 AM IST

Philip May and UK Prime Minister Theresa May. (Photo: AP)World
UK PM makes sexist traditional boy jobs' remark on TV show, criticised

Many TV viewers took to social media soon after to express outrage.

11 May 2017 8:56 AM IST

The pills used to reduce gastric acid when taken over a period of time makes the kidneys weaker and may lead to shutting down of the organ. (Photo: Pixabay)World
Painkillers from India sent for Libyan ISIS militants seized by...

The police said that the drugs are used to finance Islamist terrorism, and heighten resistance to pain and stress.

11 May 2017 8:29 AM IST

US defence secretary James Mattis shakes hands with a German soldier as he meets with US troops deployed in Lithuania, with representatives of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and soldiers of the Nato-enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battlegroup in Lithuania, in Pabrade. (Photo: AP)World
US set to play Patriot games in Baltic region

Missiles may be deployed amid tensions with Russia.

11 May 2017 4:20 AM IST

FBI Director James Comey (Photo: AP)World
Nixonian' bid to nix Russian probe

Democrats renew calls for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Kremlin links.

11 May 2017 4:15 AM IST

South Koreas President Moon Jae-in with his wife Kim Jeong-suk as he waves to his supporters near the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Wednesday. (Photo: AFP)World
Peace on mind, Pyongyang in sight

South Korea's new President open to visiting the North over its nuclear progamme, missiles.

11 May 2017 4:10 AM IST

New high buildings (bacground) looming over the French-colonial era Post Office in downtown Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon). (Photo: AFP)World
Out with the old: Saigon's' disappearing colonial architecture

They are the most visible symbols of one of Asia's fastest growing economies.

11 May 2017 4:05 AM IST

The Dalai Lama greets US Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi at Tsugla Khang temple in McLeodganj, Dharamsala, on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)World
China fumes as US leaders call on Dalai Lama

China lodged a diplomatic protest with the US on Wednesday over a Congressional delegation's meeting with the Dalai Lama...

11 May 2017 3:01 AM IST

File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage. (Photo: PTI)World
Pakistan army says ready to respond to ICJ's query on Jadhav's...

Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and discussed the ICJ's stay order on the...

10 May 2017 7:57 PM IST

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