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http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/all-about-the-ins-visakhapatnam-navys-newest-destroyer-755476?pfrom=home-lateststories New Delhi: Three days before it is launched, fresh details have emerged about the Navy's newest destroyer, the Project 15B Visakhapatnam Class. Four ships of this class are...

Review of Nitin A Gokhale's book, Beyond NJ9842: The Siachen Saga - Life and style How a stranded chopper was brought back from under the nose of the enemy, from Nitin A Gokhale’s book, Beyond NJ9842: The Siachen Saga ‘Flying here is certainly not for the faint hearted’ 3rd June 1990: Two...

General VK Singh May Attend Pakistan Day Dinner, Kashmiri Separatists Invited Too New Delhi: Pakistan's envoy Abdul Basit stated this morning that he does not think that India will object to his dinner invitation tonight for Kashmiri separatists to join him in celebrating Pakistan's Republic...

Jammu: For the second day in a row, terror has struck Jammu and Kashmir. Terrorists have attacked an army installation in Samba near Jammu this morning and are reportedly throwing grenades inside the army camp. A civilian has reportedly died and another is said to be injured in the heavy...

Lahore lynching victim identified as local glass cutter - Pakistan - DAWN.COM LAHORE: A man named Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore's Nishtar Colony police station on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his...

Infiltrators From Pakistan Are Deadlier Than Ever Before New Delhi: Less than 50 metres to the left of a section of jawans of the Kumaon regiment, right at the bottom of a precipice, is the Line of Control. This is the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, an area where Pakistani posts dominate...

Religious parties offer blood money to Taseer’s family - Pakistan - DAWN.COM KARACHI: Religious parties representing the Barelvi school of thought on Tuesday announced that they would challenge the Islamabad High Court decision to uphold the death sentence awarded to Mumtaz Qadri, who was...

Lal Masjid denies Nisar claim of written apology on APS remarks - Pakistan - DAWN.COM ISLAMABAD: A Lal Masjid spokesperson denied on Monday a government claim that chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz issued a written apology to the capital city police over his implied defence of the Dec 16 attack...

PM Modi Saved Me, Says Jesuit Aid Worker Released From Taliban Captivity Fr Alexis Prem Kumar at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Sunday. (Agence France Presse photo) PM Modi Saved Me, Says Jesuit Aid Worker Released From Taliban Captivity New Delhi: Father Alexis Prem...

Aziz has apologised for defending APS attack, says Nisar - Pakistan - DAWN.COM WASHINGTON: Maulana Abdul Aziz, the imam of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, has submitted a written apology to police over his implied defence of the Dec 16 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Interior Minister...

Tejas Handed Over to Air Force, But Training Manual Missing New Delhi: After a crippling three decade wait by the Indian Air Force for the home-made fighter jet Tejas, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has reportedly set a deadline of a month for training and maintenance manuals to be shared...

Indian govt changing Kashmir's demographic: foreign secretary - Pakistan - DAWN.COM ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry on Wednesday accused the Indian government of deliberately altering the demographic makeup of Jammu and Kashmir by settling non-state citizens in...

How Soldiers Get Orders at Line of Control. New And High-Tech. New Delhi: For decades, soldiers of the Indian Army deployed in bunkers along the Line of Control have received their orders from commanders in bases often located far away over the radio. Not any more. According to...

Blog: At Braveheart's Cremation, Daughter Shouts His Regiment's War Cry She stood there, tears rolling down her cheeks, an 11-year-old girl seeing her father for the last time. Alka Rai rose above her grief to shriek an old Gorkha war cry; then she saluted her father Colonel MN Rai, an officer...

Top Bangladeshi Jamaat leader sentenced to hang for war crimes - World - DAWN.COM DHAKA: Bangladesh's war crimes court Tuesday sentenced a leading Islamist to death for crimes committed during the country's 1971 conflict. A.T.M Azharul Islam, 62, became the 16th person and the 11th Islamist...

(The article is from the New York Times' editorial board. Don't shoot the messenger.) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/pakistans-baffling-response-to-extremism.html?mabReward=RI%3A12 Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban...

The crow is white, Bengal is Pakistan - Blogs - DAWN.COM Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It might well have been one. But who...

Jammu and Kashmir Polls: Srinagar Moves On From Boycott Politics - 28% Polling a 30-Year Record Srinagar, New Delhi: Srinagar made a departure from its usual poll boycott this year with 28% voting - a 30-year record - in the penultimate phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The...

Opinion: Manohar Parrikar's Must-Do List is Long Manohar Parrikar's Must-Do List is Long In the month since he took office, Manohar Parrikar has injected a much-needed dose of dynamism into the defence ministry. Mr. Parrikar has repeatedly stated his desire to expedite defence procurement...

Statue of Indian-Origin British Fighter Pilot Unveiled in Kent London: A statue of Mahinder Singh Pujji, an Indian-origin fighter pilot who had served in Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, was unveiled in Kent on Saturday. Pujji had died at the age of 92 in the...