Force deployed in Orissa town after violence

BHUBANESWAR - The authorities Saturday deployed additional security forces in an Orissa town after two people were killed when tribal activists attacked a police station in the area Friday, an official said.

2 killed as police fire at mob in Orissa

BHUBANESWAR - At least two people were killed when police opened fire Friday on a mob attacking a police station in Orissa’s Koraput district, an official said

Include Pakistan’s input in Afghan policy, US urged

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad’s input in it.

Landmines killed 3,000 Indians in 10 years

NEW DELHI - Some 3,000 Indians, mostly in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed in landmine explosions over the past 10 years, according to an NGO working for a world free of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions.

First women navigators commissioned in Indian Navy

KOCHI - Another glass ceiling was broken Friday as two women were commissioned into the Indian Navy as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces.

Cross border terrorism hampering Afghanistan, Pakistan: Clinton

WASHINGTON - Noting that a “cross border fertilisation of terrorism” is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the two countries to work together to defeat terrorism.

After bad publicity, government removes cops from Gateway of India

MUMBAI - Embarrassed after the criticism from various quarters, the Maharashtra government Thursday evening shifted a platoon of police - entrusted with guarding the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower - from the Gateway of India where they were living since nearly two months.

Israel bombs weapons factory, two tunnels in Gaza

TEL AVIV - The Israel Air Force attacked what the military said was a weapons factory and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn Thursday.

Delhi’s squatters, hawkers to be surveyed

NEW DELHI - In order to facilitate better security in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will do a survey of squatters and hawkers to monitor their activities, Mayor Kanwar Sain said Friday.

Former IB chief in Assam for talks with militant groups

GUWAHATI - Former Intelligence Bureau chief P.C. Haldar, appointed by the central government as interlocutor for advancing talks with separatist groups, arrived here Thursday amid hopes of providing the deadlocked peace process a boost.

Indian Navy to commission its first women navigators

KOCHI - Another male bastion in the Indian Navy will fall Friday when two women will be inducted as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces.

IAF’s UN peacekeeping contingent leaves for Congo

NEW DELHI - The sixth batch of the Indian Aviation Contingent (IAC) Wednesday left on a UN peacekeeping mission in Congo.

Pakistan facing international conspiracy: former army chief

ISLAMABAD - Pointing a finger at the intelligence agencies of India, the US, Israel and Afghanistan, a former Pakistani army chief said Wednesday that an international conspiracy was being hatched against this country but Islamabad had the wherewithal to deal with the situation.

FBI gets time till Jan 14 to indict Rana

WASHINGTON - A Chicago court has given federal prosecutors time till Jan 14 to seek indictment of Tahawwur Hussain Rana on charges of plotting major terrorist attacks in India and Denmark at the behest of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT).

Pakistan has more nuclear weapons than India: Report

WASHINGTON - Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the sub-continental neighbours, along with China, are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent American atomic experts claim.

Indo-US ’strategic dialogue framework’ on anvil

WASHINGTON - US officials are giving finishing touches to a “strategic dialogue framework with India” to take their relationship to the next level during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s state visit, the first hosted by the Obama administration.

India’s nukes are ‘ground zero’ for jihadists: Canadian media

TORONTO - Even as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resolved to deepen bilateral ties, the Canadian media says a nuclear deal could be risky because of terrorist threats to India’s sites. They cite the recent alert at India’s nuclear facilities as a warning to the Canadian government that is keen to clinch the deal.

Manmohan assures safety of nuclear installations

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday assured the nation that his government was doing everything possible to ensure the safety of Indian nuclear installations.

Where presidents dare: Pratibha Patil to fly in fighter jet

NEW DELHI - Pratibha Patil is 74 years old, the president of the country and she will do what no woman has done before when she flies in a Sukhoi, a frontline Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet Nov 25.

Women fighter pilots ‘economically not viable’, says IAF

NEW DELHI - While the country’s first women President, Pratibha Patil, takes to the skies in a fighter jet Nov 25, the Indian Air Force maintains that women fighter pilots are not “economically viable”.

Police identify 2 Paharganj cyber cafes used by Headley

NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Tuesday conducted extensive searches at cyber cafes in Paharganj area of central Delhi and identified two internet cafes used by suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley during his three-day stay here in March this year, police sources said.

Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists being trained in Pakistan: British PM