Hanoi: The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three previously restricted sites to help the search for and excavation of the remains of US servicemen listed as missing in action, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The agreement was unveiled at a meeting between visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh, spokesman George Little said. He gave no details about the sites. "The Department...
01:22 PM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Troops of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) will stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to conduct counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda after British soldiers leave, a media report said. Sources told the Daily Mail said members of the elite regiment will remain in Helmand province to help Afghan forces weed out the militants. Officials said a "great majority" of British forces would come home but the SAS...
05:58 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: India on Monday made it clear that it has no plans to thin out troops from wartime positions in border areas where they were deployed post 26/11. Denying the report published in Pakistani daily Express Tribune, the Defence Ministry said, "There are no such plans (to move troops from their existing locations)." Quoting unnamed military and diplomatic channels, the news report had said that the two countries reached...
10:25 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Shortly after a surprise visit by US President Barack Obama to Afghanistan early on Wednesday morning on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, serial bomb blasts and a suicide car bomb attack rocked Kabul killing six people including one Gurkha guard. The blasts occurred near the foreign military bases in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed it in a...
07:49 AM, May 02, 2012
Indian Air Force chief NAK Browne said the terror outfit is getting closer to Wagah border in Amritsar. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of US soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said on Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps. Karzai joined top American officials in denouncing that two-year-old photos, the latest in a string of embarrassing controversies that have jeopardised relations between the two countries in the midst of negotiations over the...
11:03 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Taliban suicide bombers unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks at the diplomatic enclave in Kabul and three other cities on Sunday. Has America blundered by announcing its troop pullout from the troubled nation? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar for a discussion this week in World View on Friday at 10 pm. ...
01:57 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Complying with an order of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Wednesday asked the media not to telecast any programme pertaining to movement of Indian troops. The ministry has said the High Court in the matter pertaining to a petition filed by Nutan Thakur had considered the issue of reports related to movement of troops in the media. The ministry said...
08:35 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that there is no reporting on movement of troops by print or electronic media, days after a newspaper report on movement of two army units towards Delhi had created a storm. "Without interfering with the independence of media and keeping in view the fact that the news items relating to movements of troops has...
08:03 AM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen VK Singh has dismissed reports of "unusual" movement of two elite units of Army towards the capital in mid-January calling it "routine" for which there was no no need to "notify" the government. "Notify for what? What was happening? We keep doing this so many times," he told 'The Hindu' when asked if the army had notified the government on the movement of the two...
03:49 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh on Saturday hit out at the Indian Express report earlier this week that claimed that two Army units made an "unauthorised" movement towards the capital on the night of January 16. In an interview to the Hindu newspaper, the General called the report "fables of a sick mind", "absurd and deplorable". According to The Hindu, the Army Chief said that there was no...
10:21 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Kabul: Demonstrators hurled grenades at a US base in northern Afghanistan, and a gun battle left two Afghans dead and seven NATO troops injured Sunday in the escalating crisis over the burning of Muslim holy books at an American airfield. More than 30 people have been killed, including four US troops, in six days of unrest. Still, the top US diplomat in Afghanistan said the violence would not change Washington's...
08:25 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Kabul: Two American officers were shot dead at close range in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a US official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base. NATO recalled all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital, Kabul, following the attack, with its top commander in Afghanistan calling the killer a coward. "For obvious force...
07:52 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Bagram: More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran and other religious items, Afghan officials said. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up the demonstrators, some of whom were chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones. Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor's spokeswoman, said Korans had been burnt inside...
05:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Beijing: Concerned over the Chinese troop presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, India has taken up the issue with the top leadership here. The matter was raised by visiting External Affairs Minister SM Krishna during his talks with the Chinese leaders on Wednesday. Krishna, who met four Chinese leaders including Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, said India's concerns in this regard were conveyed during the talks. "On the issue of Chinese presence in...
06:57 PM, Feb 09, 2012
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