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Security personnel during an encounter with terrorists at the police station in Dinanagar town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur. — AFP

Challenge of Pakistan’s asymmetric warfare & lies

The shrill anti-India rhetoric in Pak media and recent attacks are definite indications of the mood in Pakistan’s...

12 Aug 2015 5:48 AM IST

Opposition stir murder of democracy: Speaker

Opposition stir murder of democracy: Speaker

With pandemonium in the Lok Sabha worsening on Tuesday, a furious Speaker Sumitra Mahajan termed the Opposition’s...

12 Aug 2015 2:48 AM IST

Greece in shock as banks shut

Greece in shock as banks shut

Greeks struggled to adjust to shuttered banks, closed cash machines and a climate of rumours and conspiracy theories on...

30 Jun 2015 6:03 AM IST

David Cameron: ISIS plotting terrible attacks in Britain

David Cameron: ISIS plotting terrible attacks in Britain

Prime Minister David Cameron warned on Monday that ISIS militants based in Syria and Iraq were planning specific attacks...

30 Jun 2015 6:03 AM IST

Solar Impulse past point of no return

Solar Impulse past point of no return

A revolutionary solar-powered aircraft was past “the point of no return” and flying over the Pacific Ocean...

30 Jun 2015 4:15 AM IST

Merkel says open to talks after Greece referendum

Merkel says open to talks after Greece referendum

German Chancellor Angela Mer-kel played down prosp-ects of a breakthrough with Greece in the coming days, but said she...

30 Jun 2015 4:11 AM IST

Supreme Court: Obama pollution rule invalid

Supreme Court: Obama pollution rule invalid

The US Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a key Obama administration environmental regulation aimed at limiting...

29 Jun 2015 11:14 PM IST

Egypt’s top prosecutor killed in Cairo bombing

Egypt’s top prosecutor killed in Cairo bombing

Egypt’s state prosecutor has died hours after a powerful bomb hit his convoy in Cairo on Monday, officials said,...

29 Jun 2015 11:12 PM IST

Afghanistan: Taliban kill 11 soldiers in ambush

Afghanistan: Taliban kill 11 soldiers in ambush

At least 11 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, officials said Monday, as...

29 Jun 2015 11:11 PM IST

Pakistan: JuD on watch list since 2003

Pakistan: JuD on watch list since 2003

Pakistan had placed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) on a watch-list in 2003 for monitoring purposes but did not take any further...

29 Jun 2015 11:10 PM IST

‘Too early to tell if Iran deal sealed’

‘Too early to tell if Iran deal sealed’

US secretary of state John Kerry warned Monday it was too soon to tell if a nuclear deal with Iran is possible as he...

29 Jun 2015 11:08 PM IST

Ageing UK peer to be tried for sex crimes

Ageing UK peer to be tried for sex crimes

British prosecutors said on Monday that an ageing member of the House of Lords would now face criminal action over...

29 Jun 2015 11:05 PM IST