An overnight Taliban assault on checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed 22 troops, after some 100 Afghan forces fled a similar assault in the country’s west last week and tried to cross into neighboring Turkmenistan, officials said Sunday. The two battles mark the latest setbacks for the country’s battered security forces, who come under daily attack […]
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NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said. At one stage, India threatened to fire at least six missiles at Pakistan, […]
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A 26-year-old woman was brutally gangraped by her husband and his brother-in-law on the first night after her wedding. The woman was allegedly gangraped by the two over the dowry. The incident happened in Muzaffarnagar town of Uttar Pradesh. The in-laws of the woman locked her room from outside and she lay bleeding all night. […]
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Army spokesman says Indian quadcopter had came 150 meters inside Pakistan Pakistan claimed to have shot down an Indian spy drone on Saturday along the Line of Control — the de facto border that divides Jammu and Kashmir. “Pakistan army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Rakhchikri Sector along Line of Control,” army […]
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The floods in Sentani, near the provincial capital of Jayapura, were triggered by torrential rain and subsequent landslides At least 42 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province, an official said Sunday, as rescuers raced to find more victims of the disaster. The floods in Sentani, near the provincial capital […]
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India’s election commission issued a notice asking political parties not to use images of the country’s armed forces in their campaign posters and other advertising during its upcoming general election. The notice followed pictures posted to social media recently showing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party used images in their campaign posters of a captured Indian Air […]
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Cricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent Mohammad Isam posted a video to Twitter of the team rushing through Hagley Park away from the mosque where there were active shooters. They ran back through Hagley Park back to the Oval. The Bangladesh cricket team were in the mosque where shots were fired. Bangladesh were due to play […]
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Initially, citizens of 5 countries — including Turkey, UK, China, Malaysia and UAE — will be able to obtain e-visa Pakistan on Thursday launched an e-visa scheme in a bid to boost tourism in the country, and the citizens of five countries — including Turkey — will be able to benefit from the scheme, local […]
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China has once again blocked a move to designate the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group behind the Kashmir bomb attack as a terrorist, sparking indignation and calls for a boycott on Indian social media. Masood Azhar, who founded JeM in 1999, is currently believed to be the coordinator of the February 14 suicide bomb […]
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Blazing a trail through the skies and through the ranks in Air India, Anny Divya has become an inspiration to millions as the world’s youngest Boeing 777 commander, and she’s only getting started. From humble beginnings in a lower middle class family in Vijayawada, India, where Divya was mocked by her classmates for her initial […]
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