Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control today by firing at Indian positions in Mendhar sector in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.”Around 6.30 am, Pakistani troops fired at Pilli and Noal posts in Dari Dabsi area of the LoC in Mendhar sector,” police sources told IANS.The Pakistan army used automatics […]
India has successfully test-launched its new ballistic missile, Agni-5, which can carry a nuclear warhead not just to Beijing and Shanghai but even the northern-most tip of China – Habin City.The test-launch, done from Wheeler Island at 8:43 am, off the Odisha coast, for the second time in two years, is seen as a major […]
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was served a US court summons in hospital, in a case accusing her of shielding party leaders allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.The rights group ‘Sikhs for Justice’ served the summons issued by federal judge Brain M Cogan to Mrs Gandhi at the Sloan Kettering hospital in New […]
Washington: President Barack Obama, facing implacable opposition to a strike in Syria in Congress and throughout the country, said Tuesday that he would hold off on military action for now and pursue a Russian proposal for international monitors to take over and destroy Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons.Speaking to the nation from the White House, Obama […]
New Delhi: “I am innocent! I am innocent!” shouted one of the four men found guilty of the gang-rape and murder of a young student on a moving bus in Delhi as the group arrived at the court where they could be sentenced today.The men face either life imprisonment or death by hanging, as demanded by […]
A week ago, Hrithik Roshan’s wife Sussanne moved into her parents Sanjay and Zarine Khan’s Juhu home, which is a stone’s throw away from her own home where she lives with her husband, her kids and in-laws. It is rumoured that the star wife and her husband are having problems. Says a source close to […]
New York: Defending champion Serena Williams and world number two Victoria Azarenka marched into a repeat of last year’s US Open final on Friday.Top seed Williams, chasing a 17th Grand Slam title, crushed China’s Li Na 6-0, 6-3 while Azarenka took an error-strewn 6-4, 6-2 win over Italian veteran Flavia Pennetta.Williams, 31, seeking a fifth […]
Off-screen or on-screen, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan make for one of Bollywood’s most romantic couples. But whether she romances other actors in films or sizzles in saucy item numbers, Kareena says she makes sure she never gives her “liberal” husband a chance to be “possessive”. “Saif is a very responsible man and he […]
St Petersberg: US President Barack Obama has resisted pressure Friday to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria and enlisted the support of 10 fellow leaders for a “strong” response to a chemical weapons attack.Mr Obama refused to blink after Russian President Vladimir Putin led a campaign to talk him out of military intervention at a […]
Srinagar: With just hours left for India-born conductor Zubin Mehta’s highly anticipated concert in Srinagar’s Shalimar Bagh, there is heavy security in the city. Called Ehsaas-e-Kashmir, the event, a first of its kind in Kashmir, is being organised by German ambassador to India Michael Steiner. Hundreds of police and military personnel are patrolling the streets of […]