Fifty years after India shut its consulate in Lhasa in the wake of hostilities with China, South Block is showing renewed interest in returning to ...
11:28 AM, May 29, 2012
In the last three months, according to various Indian intelligence estimates, the Pakistani army has shifted three more units from the border with India to ...
01:40 PM, May 24, 2012
Ever heard of Puntland? What about Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud? Well he's the president of this "state of Somalia", as the MEA describes it. It's the ...
04:13 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Controversy simmers over who leaked Army Chief General V K Singh's letter exposing the state of defence preparedness. Despite PMO denial, CNN-IBN has learned that a 1987 batch woman officer in the Cabinet secretariat is under suspicion and has been transferred. The government had denied reports that a joint secretary level officer from the Economic Service leaked the Army Chief's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on deficiencies...
09:58 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Army will soon get its first artillery guns since the Bofors deal in 1986. The Defence Ministry on Friday cleared a Rs 3000 crore deal to buy 145 M777 ultra light howitzers from the USA defence manufacturer BAE Systems. The M777 artillery guns are essentially used in the mountains. These guns are air transportable and are currently used in Afghanistan by the US Army where their performance...
05:59 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's refusal to act against anti-US militant groups mirrors its position on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, ranging from outright denial, to obfuscation and silence. Slowly but surely it appears that Pakistan is obliterating all evidence of Osama bin Laden's presence in that country. The Abbottabad compound where the al Qaeda chief and his family lived for many years has been demolished. The doctor who confirmed Osama's presence in...
09:56 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The United States has backtracked on the bounty announced on Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 26/11 suspect Hafiz Saeed. The American Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter blamed the Pakistani media instead for misreporting the issue. Cameron Munter said that the reward was for any UN declared terrorist and it could apply to any country. He was quoted by the local media in Lahore as saying, "Though Hafiz Saeed is a...
09:49 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Nineteen years after the failed attempt to restore hope in Somalia, it appears the West is getting ready for another crack at Africa's Horn. The ...
01:31 PM, Apr 23, 2012
The test of Agni-V not only demonstrates India's technological capability, but also the intent to deter real and potential adversaries. ...
01:19 AM, Apr 20, 2012
As records go, this could be it: An appendix surgery on board an Indian Navy submarine hundreds of feet below the sea. The sailor recovered ...
07:22 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Heavy vehicle maker Tatra has sought permission from the Defence Ministry to begin court proceeding against Army Chief General VK Singh following his allegations he was offered a bribe to clear the trucks supplied by the company to the Indian Army which were sub-standard. The company has written a letter to Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma expressing shock at the Army Chief's allegation that Tatra truck are sub-standard and...
07:08 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh was not offered any bribe to clear the purchase of Tatra trucks for the defence forces, claimed Ravi Rishi, Chairman of Vectra Group, the largest shareholder of Tatra trucks. Ravi Rishi said that his company had no direct dealings with the Defence Ministry or the Army Chief. He also rubbished the allegation that Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh, who has been accused by the...
05:49 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh's explosive claim that he was offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore to clear the purchase of sub-standard vehicles for the forces has stirred a hornet's nest. While General Singh said that he informed Defence Minister AK Antony about the incident, he added that he did not take any further action as the bribe offer was an indirect one. "It wasn't like he...
09:47 PM, Mar 26, 2012
At 82, Hassan Abdul Azim has seen it all: a reported 14 years in and out of the prisons of Syria's late President Hafez al ...
01:12 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Damascus: Military forces in Syria have launched a fresh offensive on several towns in the northwestern province of Idlib. This came even as the world leaders attacked Syria's referendum as the Constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2018, was voted in. The European Union imposed new sanctions against the country amidst ongoing clashes. Opposition groups said at least 125 people were killed on Monday. The UN...
08:36 AM, Feb 28, 2012
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