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New Delhi: Security agencies have found that close to four dozen Chinese study centres and other monasteries are present along India's frontiers with Nepal and Bhutan and are allegedly indulging in propaganda programmes. The development…
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Kabul: NATO will hold a ceremony in Kabul today formally ending its war in Afghanistan, officials said, after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence. The event was arranged in secret due…
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London: Soldiers guarding key Royal palaces in the UK are on high alert following reports of a planned attack on the Queen's guards by Islamic State militants. The Queen's Guard have been warned about the threat to kidnap and murder one of…
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Washington:  Indo-US relations were back on track in 2014 after overcoming major hiccups and bilateral ties are set for a big boost with President Barack Obama slated to make a historic second visit to India next month. As the year 2014…
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Singapore: An AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people aboard reportedly went missing today after losing contact with air traffic controllers. Flight QZ8501 lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control just after 07:24am…
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Bangkok/New Delhi: Ten years after a massive Tsunami triggered by an earthquake smashed the coastline of around 14 nations, India today announced a USD one million contribution to a UN fund for strengthening early warning systems for…
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Islamabad:  Legal loopholes, weak evidence and irrelevant sections invoked against Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, led to the granting of his bail, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here said. ATC judge Judge…
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Seoul: North Korea today blasted US President Barack Obama as a "monkey" inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and threatened "inescapable deadly blows" over the movie. The isolated…
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Peshawar:  At least 23 militants were killed when Pakistani fighter jets today pounded terrorist hideouts in the restive North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Military fighter jets targeted militant hideouts in Dattakhel…
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Peshawar:  A senior Taliban commander, believed to be a key planner in the Peshawar school massacre, has been killed by the security forces in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Agency. "Saddam had been killed in the Gundi area of Jamrud by the…
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