At least eleven people were killed in drone strikes carried out by the Pakistani army against the Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northern province bordering Afghanistan, a police officer told AFP on Saturday. “Three drone strikes were carried out” on Friday night targeting Pakistani Taliban hideouts, the officer said. “It was only this morning that … Read more
LUCKNOW: At least 29 Nepal nationals, including 17 civilians from Dharan of Sunsari district, Koshi province of the Himalayan nation, had their vision restored by a group of Indian army eye surgeons who travelled to Bagdogra from Delhi and Lucknow to conduct a mega eye camp.A total of 354 surgical procedures, including five minimally invasive … Read more
Just hours after president Donald Trump appealed to Russian president Vladimir Putin to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in the Kursk region, Putin on Friday called on Ukrainian troops to surrender. “We are sympathetic to President Trump’s call,” Putin said in televised remarks. “If they lay down their arms and surrender, they will … Read more
NEW DELHI: Terrorists on Wednesday opened fire at an army vehicle in the Sunderbani area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri, officials told news agency PTI.There were no immediate reports of any casualties in the brief firing near Phal village in the Sunderbani sector, they said.The terrorists, believed to be hiding in a forest, fired a … Read more
MOHALI: Two former Punjab Police cops, both aged over 70, were on Tuesday awarded life sentence for the killing of an Army jawan and a farmer, falsely implicated in a murder case and accused of being hardcore terrorists, in a fake encounter in 1992.A CBI court convicted the two cops – former SHO of Majitha … Read more
ISLAMABAD: At least 18 soldiers were killed and five, including two civilians, injured after separatist militants launched overnight attacks in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, the military’s media affairs wing said on Saturday, adding that 23 terrorists were also gunned down in “sanitisation operations” following the assaults.The incident took place in Mangochar town, in Balochistan’s Kalat … Read more
WASHINGTON: Sixty seven people were feared dead after an American Airlines passenger jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.Sixty passengers and four crew members were aboard the jet flying from Wichita in Kansas, while the chopper was carrying … Read more