In a violation of ceasefire, Pakistani troops intruded into Jammu and Kashmir and killed two Indian soldiers. ...
11:25 AM, Jan 12, 2013
It's almost a week of flared tensions between India and Pakistan. Across the Line of Control, fresh firing has been reported from eight posts, and even as India tried to de-escalate the tension, the Pakistan foreign office on Friday summoned the Indian envoy, issuing him a demarche over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in incidents of firing on Thursday evening. ...
08:13 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Calling the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan Army an "isolated incident", a senior Pakistani senator on Friday said such events should not be allowed to "spin out of control" which could result in vitiating the atmosphere of peace. ...
07:47 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The distraught father of Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh, who was one of the soldiers killed in an attack by Pakistan Army across the Line of Control (LoC), wants that the neighbouring nation be given a "befitting reply" for the dastardly act. "The government should respond to the dastardly act by the enemy (Pakistan army) in a befitting manner. That will be the real tribute to my martyred son," Lance Naik...
10:35 AM, Jan 11, 2013
The India-Pakistan tension after the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops is showing signs of escalating. India claimed that Pakistan opened unprovoked firing in Poonch and Mendhar on Thursday. The exchange in Poonch lasted for almost 2 hours. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Two soldiers were killed in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district along LoC in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani troopers. The Army confirmed that the body of one of them had been badly mutilated. ...
10:16 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Pakistan again violated the ceasefire in Mendhar and Poonch with the Indian Army reporting renewed firing since Thursday evening. Army sources told CNN-IBN that Indian units retaliated to the firing and while they were not aware of any casualties, Pakistan claimed one of its soldiers had been killed, the incident taking place in the same sector where two Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops on Tuesday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Pakistani attack on an Indian Army area domination patrol in Poonch could have been planned over a month if not more, say Indian Army sources. ...
07:19 PM, Jan 10, 2013
What should be India's reaction to Pakistan's ceasefire violation, killing of Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the Line of Control and mutilation of a soldier's body? The director of centre for land warfare studies Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
05:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Following the killings of two Indian soldiers on Tuesday, media invitations to cover NCC parade have been cancelled. The decision to not invite media was being seen as an attempt by Army Chief General Bikram Singh to avoid questions on the death of the soldiers. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 10, 2013
The bodies of the two jawans killed by the Pakistan army were brought to Delhi on Wednesday. They will be cremated with state honour. ...
09:57 PM, Jan 09, 2013
India has lodged a strong protest of the serious ceasefire violations and mutilation of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan. India also summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner, Salman Bashir, and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai talked tough on the issue. ...
07:33 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Foreign Secretary Shri Ranjan Mathai summoned Pakistan High Commissioner to the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday and lodged a strong protest on the actions of the Pakistan army on January 8, 2013. Regular Pakistan troops crossed the Line of Control at Mendhar sector and engaged the Indian troops who were patrolling this sector. ...
02:00 PM, Jan 09, 2013
In a major escalation to the ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts, a group of Pakistan Army soldiers raided across the Line of Control in Mendhar Sector and killed two Indian soldiers and injured one more. The Pakistani troops attacked an area domination patrol party of the Indian Army. In the ensuing gunfight two Indian soldiers were killed and the body of one of them mutilated by the intruders. ...
06:32 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized. ...
02:39 AM, Jan 03, 2013
The Pakistani Taliban have seized at least 22 men from a regional paramilitary force in attacks on three checkpoints in northern Pakistan, a regional official said on Thursday. ...
03:06 AM, Dec 28, 2012
The pictures would classify as "passport sized", usually faded black and white, showing a man or a number of men with name, rank and number ...
02:49 PM, Dec 14, 2012
"Captain Saurabh Kalia and his platoon of six soldiers were brutally tortured during Kargil encounter and this is a serious violation of the Geneva conventions which govern the rules of war between two civilised nations," said Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar. ...
05:56 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Colombo: Notwithstanding stiff opposition from political parties in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka on Wednesday asserted that it was "very firm" on continuing the training programme of its defence personnel in India and ruled out sending them to countries like China. Sri Lanka's powerful Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa, also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said his country looks at India in a "much bigger way" than China. During an...
12:22 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Haifa (Israel): While remaining unknown in their own country, some Indian soldiers will become household names in Haifa in northern Israel after figuring in the history textbooks taught at schools for their contribution in liberating this city in 1918. The municipality of Haifa has gone ahead with its decision to immortalise the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers, many of whom are buried in the cemetery here, by including the stories...
02:20 PM, Sep 23, 2012
