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JAMMU AND KASHMIR: (Web Desk) A First Investigation Report (FIR) has been registered against the Indian Army after a video of a Kashmiri youth being used as a human shield by the army sparked outrage on social media, the Hindustan Times reported The FIR was registered after Indian Army Chief …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) A day after the US military targeted alleged Islamic State (IS) hideouts with the “Mother Of All Bombs,” (MOAB) a Hindu hardliner called for India to “bomb Pakistan” to free jailed Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav. According to the hard-line organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activist Pravin …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party expects national elections in 2019 to deliver a bigger mandate than it did in 2014, its leaders said on Sunday, buoyed by a thumping victory in the country’s most politically important state. As well as winning Uttar Pradesh with the …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) India’s ambitious plan to recycle thousands of tonnes of gold lying idle in temples and households looks to have foundered on concerns over high costs and slight returns, in a blow to government hopes of cutting imports of the metal. After 16 months, temples and households …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) Narendra Modi’s party won a landslide in India’s most populous state on Saturday in a massive vote of confidence for the prime minister halfway into his first term. Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party claimed victory in four states including Uttar Pradesh in the north, which …

New Delhi: (Web Desk) Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed, the two men that India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) had suspected of guiding terrorists to an army camp in Uri last year, were handed over to their families on Friday. The NIA had freed the two men on Wednesday, saying …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said it had released two men from Muzaffarabad who were arrested last year for their suspected involvement in the Sept 2016 Uri army base attack in India-held Kashmir, India Today reported. Faizal Hussain Awan and his friend Yasin Khurshid, …

ISLAMABAD: (Web Desk) Aerial surveillance drones manufactured in the United States are being deployed by India against Pakistan for surveillance along the Line of Control in Poonch and Rajouri Sectors of Indian-held Kashmir, according to sources. The data centre of these drones has been established in Srinagar for monitoring, processing …

WASHINGTON: (Web Desk) A 41-year-old citizen of India was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in a US prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring while living in northern Nevada to plot terror strikes in his home country on the border with Pakistan. US District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno also …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) India’s Ministry of Home Affairs may have approved as much as a 600 per cent increase in the supply of pellet guns to troops stationed in held Kashmir, Indian media reported on Thursday. The Indian police claim that pellet guns are non-lethal weapons, but according to …