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Locals said there was an explosion inside the depot around midnight. At least 20 people were killed and 19 others were injured on Monday night after fire broke out at a military ammunition depot in Pulgaon in Maharashtra's Wardha district. Locals said there was an explosion inside the depot...

WASHINGTON: The US Senate Armed Services Committee has approved a proposal to set up a new fund to reimburse Pakistan for its efforts in the war against terror. The new fund also delinks the country from Afghanistan. The committee’s chairman, Senator John McCain, introduced the bill, which sets...

WASHINGTON: Defence experts in the US capital believe that Pakistan may get the disputed F-16s by the end of July, despite a strong opposition from American lawmakers. The experts, who spoke to Dawn, said that the Obama administration would ultimately succeed in convincing Congress that it was...

WASHINGTON: The United States (US) House of Representatives on Thursday voted 277 to 147 in favour of a defence policy bill seeking to increase restrictions on military aid for Pakistan unless certain conditions are met. The House, expressing frustration over what they term Islamabad's failure...

May 9, 2016 View photos F-16 Viper In the late 1980s, F-14 Tomcat pilot and Topgun instructor Paul Nickell found himself strapping into the cockpit of a brand new Navy jet that would never land on an aircraft carrier. Instead, it was built specifically to challenge the skills of the best...

FARIDKOT: At least two people were killed and over 100 people, including cops, injured during clashes between Sikh community protestors and police over an alleged incident of desecration in Faridkot district of Indian Punjab, according to reports published on The Hindu reported and the Hindustan...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have crossed an all time high mark of US $20 billion on Thursday, said a statement issued here. According to details, the reserves includes $15.24 billion that are with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) while another $4.83 billion are held by the...

Indian army troops patrol next to the burnt-out remains of vehicles after violent protests in Ahmedabad. —AFP AHMEDABAD: A court in Gujarat ordered a police inquiry on Thursday after at least ten people died in the worst violence to hit the Indian prime minister's home state in more than a...

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Pakistan falls short of the list of top ten countries receiving the greatest amount of military and total foreign assistance from the US. ─ Reuters/File The United States, over the period 1946-2012, has given India the largest amount of economic assistance, while providing Israel the greatest...

CHENNAI/KOCHI: A Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard which went missing with three crew members on board on Monday night off Chennai coast was yet to be traced, said Indian Navy sources. The Indian Navy, Coast Guard and Tamil Nadu Coast Security Group have launched a massive search and...

— Reuters/File KOLKATA: The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested after being accused of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police said on Saturday. The girl told a school teacher in Dhupguri town in West Bengal state on Thursday...

Colin Freeman, The Telegraph | March 2, 2015 | Last Updated: Mar 2 10:11 AM ET More from The Telegraph MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty ImagesIn this photograph taken on September 11, 2013, Indian Defence lawyer AP Singh addresses the media outside the Saket Court complex in New Delhi. One of the...

The 2012 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in New Delhi shook the nation. Many young boys and girls from schools and colleges across India held protests and candlelight marches condemning the rape. But a study conducted in 11 Indian cities, including New Delhi, suggests...

CCTV Shows Bangalore Child Walking with Man Who Would Kill Her All India | Written by Maya Sharma | Updated: February 06, 2015 16:02 IST Ads by Google Left Handed Epiphone – Browse Our Line of Vintage & Modern Guitars. Performance is our Passion epiphone.com A CCTV grab shows the...

In this photograph taken on March 3, 2015, British film director of the 'India's Daughter' documentary Leslee Udwin looks on during a press conference in New Delhi. — AFP/file NEW DELHI: An Indian court has banned the country's media from broadcasting a documentary in which one of the men who...

Indian activists belonging to various rights organisations hold placards while they stage a demonstration in Bangalore on Dec 21, 2012, condemning the recent gang rape in New Delhi. — Photo by AFP One of the convicted rapists in the Delhi gang rape case of 2012 made a shocking statement Sunday...

By Nilim Dutta The December 23 carnage It was between 17:00 and 17:50 hours when a series of calls came. It was Dec 23, 2014 and I was in Guwahati, Assam that evening where I was born and have grown up. “Sir, our people have been killed in an attack in at least two villages in Ultapani...

ISLAMABAD: The country’s indigenous defence production has reached $1.5 billion per annum, according to a report published in the Jane’s Defence Weekly. The journal quoted an unnamed Pakistani official as saying: “We have substituted imported defence equipment worth $1.5bn [per year], which for...

WASHINGTON: The United States is seriously considering speeding up the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan because of frustration with President Hamid Karzai, the New York Times reported. And a so called 'zero option' -- having no US troops in Afghanistan after 2014 -- is also on the...