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Tamil Nadu and adjacent Coimbatore in south India were put on high alert following intelligence inputs by India’s federal security agencies that six Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, including one from Pakistan, may have entered Coimbatore, Indian media reports said on Friday. The Tamil Nadu home de...
At least three persons were killed and more than 20 injured in a stampede near a temple in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Friday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. Lakhs of people gather at the temple every year on this day to celebrate the birth anniversary of Baba Lokenath Brah...
The Indian government has no immediate plan to scale down security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, whose special status under Article 370 of the Constitution, has been revoked, in view of Pakistan’s provocations to violence there, Minister of State for Home G Kishan has said. "Why will we wi...
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The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi on Wednesday paid homage to the martyrs of the heinous grenade attack at an Awami League rally in 2004 at Bangabandhu Avenue, leaving at least 24 people killed, including Ivy Rahman, and hundreds others injured, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the then oppos...
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has hinted that the government may use legislative action to deal with the ‘wrongful’ inclusion and exclusion of names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) after its final publication on August 31. Sonowal told reporters after a meeting with ...
India’s second unmanned moon mission, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, successfully entered the lunar orbit on Tuesday, creating a major milestone for the country’s space programme. “Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maneuver was completed successfully at 0902 hours as planned, using the on...
Schools across Kashmir reopened on Monday after a 15-day hiatus with teachers reporting to work in many of them as restrictions were eased further but students’ attendance was thinner, officials said. They said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools i...
Indian Space Research Organization said on Monday that it would fire the liquid engine of the country’s second unmanned moon mission tomorrow to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit. "It's tomorrow morning (tentatively between 8.30 am and 9.30 am Indian time). It's challenging...
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Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Dhaka to do the spadework for Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's proposed upcoming visit to India in October. Diplomatic sources in New Delhi said Jaishankar would hold talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Dr. A K Abdul Momen on Tuesday be...
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Restrictions were tightened on Sunday in some parts of Srinagar city of Kashmir Valley following incidents of violence a day earlier, officials said They said restrictions, clamped ahead of the August 5 repeal of the Constitution’s Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, co...
Restrictions on the movement of people in Kashmir Valley were eased on Saturday with landline phone services restored in some areas of Srinagar city even as stringent security remained in place, officials said.They said the curbs have been relaxed in 35 police station areas of Kashmir while 17 telep...
Government offices in Jammu and Kashmir started functioning from Friday and easing of severe curbs on movement of the public would depend on day's development after the 'namaaz', a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said on Thursday.Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik directed the resumption...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has restored mutual trust between Dhaka and New Delhi and brought about a change in the mindset regarding bilateral ties, High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said on Friday.“There is now a greater recognition on both sides that the destinies of o...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made a strong defence of the repeal of the Constitution’s Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and said a “fresh approach” was needed to deal with the Kashmir issue pending for the last seven decades.Addressing th...
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Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi observed the National Mourning Day on Thursday commemorating the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.Panelists at a discussion on “Bangabandhu: The Architect of Bangladesh-India Relation” on t...
India's second unmanned moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' left the earth's orbit early on Wednesday, 23 days after being launched, and is moving towards the moon following successful completion of a crucial manoeuvre by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).The Bengaluru-headquart...
India’s top counter-terror body National Investigation Agency said it has arrested a top absconding militant of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connection with the October 2014 Burdwan blast.Jahirul Sheikh, a resident of Hayeterpara in Nadia district of West Bengal, was arrested from ...
Veteran Bangla cinema actor Soumitra Chatterjee was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday after he complained of breathing problems and doctors said he was out of danger.Chatterjee, 84, was admitted to the Intensive Coronary Unit of the hospital at around 9.30 am with respiratory tr...
Russia has backed India's latest move on Jammu and Kashmir, saying the changes in the status are within the framework of the Indian Constitution. India had on Monday repealed Article 370 of the Constitution to withdraw the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir in 1954 and bifurcated the stat...
The Indian government on Saturday inked a peace pact with an insurgent group of Tripura under which the latter agreed to lay down arms and join the mainstream, the Home Ministry said. According to a Home Ministry statement, the tripartite Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) was signed here by the governm...
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