Pakistan training groups for ‘Samundari Jihad’: Govt
New Delhi: Pakistan-based militant groups continue to train their cadre for underwater strikes and exhort them for ‘Samundari Jihad’ (seaborne jihad) against India, Union minister HansrajAhir said Wednesday. Replying to a written question in RajyaSabha, he said as per available information, there is no specific input about any militant group planning a 26/11 type Mumbai […]
Passports of 23 Indians misplaced
New Delhi: The government Wednesday said it has declared as “lost” passports of 23 Indians after receiving information that the documents were misplaced by the Pakistani High Commission here. It is learnt that the Indians, whose passports went missing, had applied for visa in Pakistan High Commission to travel to that country. “The Ministry of […]
Voluntary use of Aadhaar for SIMs, bank accounts: Govt tables bill
New Delhi: The government Wednesday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha that will allow individuals to voluntary offer biometric ID Aadhaar as a means of identity verification for obtaining services like opening a bank account and getting a mobile phone connection. The bill, which seeks to amend three separate laws governing Aadhaar, telecom sector, and […]
Complex security challenges a threat to territorial integrity: Gen Rawat
New Delhi: India is facing complex and dynamic security challenges along its borders, which are a threat to the country’s territorial integrity and internal stability, Army Chief Gen. BipinRawat has said. In a new year message to Army personnel, he hailed the collective grit, determination and sacrifices of the troops in standing up to the […]
Nawaz Sharif challenges his conviction in graft case
Seeks suspension of the case
Islamabad: Pakistan’s jailed ex-premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday filed an appeal against his conviction in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case, a week after an accountability court sentenced him to seven years in jail in the graft case. Sharif, 69, also filed an application seeking suspension of his sentence. On December 24, 2018, Accountability Court II […]
India to welcome 69,944 babies on New Year’s Day: UNICEF
New Delhi: India would welcome as many as 69,944 babies on New Year’s Day, the highest in the world, the UNICEF said Tuesday. India would be followed by China which would welcome 44,940 babies, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund said in a report. In Nigeria, 25,685 babies will be born, it added. The […]
2019 will be beginning of Pakistan’s ‘golden era’: PM Imran Khan
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said the new year will be the beginning of the country’s “golden era” as he vowed to “wage jihad” against poverty, illiteracy, injustice and corruption in 2019. Khan took to microblogging site Twitter to greet people and share his New Year resolution with the countrymen. “Our New […]
US and Israel exit UN cultural agency, claiming bias
Paris: The United States and Israel officially quit of the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organisation fosters anti-Israel bias. The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the […]
Nagaland gets AFSPA extension for another six months
New Delhi: The entire state of Nagaland has been declared “disturbed area” for six more months, till June-end, under the controversial AFSPA, which empowers security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone without any prior notice. In a notification, the Home Ministry said the central government is of the opinion that the area comprising […]
