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New York building explodes, catches fire
12 Mar 2014
Saudi Arabia clubs Egypt’s Brotherhood with terrorist outfits
08 Mar 2014
The king’s decree followed the enactment of a sweeping new counterterrorism law that targets virtually any criticism of the government
Crimea votes to join Russia, West dismayed
07 Mar 2014
The sudden moves by Crimea, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula, has unnerved European Union leaders who held an emergency summit to look for ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation.
Hackers break into defence, DRDO computers, hit classified files
07 Mar 2014
The computers that were hacked are located in the South Block and belong mainly to the Army and also to the other two forces and the DRDO
China to again expand defence spending by 12.2% this year
05 Mar 2014
China has for years boosted defence spending, reflecting its military ambitions as it asserts its territorial claims
Revealed: MI5 ‘super-spy’ infiltrated UK Nazi ring during WWII
01 Mar 2014
A ‘super-spy’ working for MI5, the domestic arm of British intelligence, secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based Nazi sympathisers during the Second World War by pretending to have Gestapo links, newly-released files reveal
Navy chief Joshi resigns after new submarine disaster
26 Feb 2014
The chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral D K Joshi, resigned today taking moral responsibility for the third submarine mishap in the last seven months
Ballistic missiles not on negotiating table: Iran
11 Feb 2014
Iran insists that its missile programme does not have a nuclear dimension as it is not developing atomic weapons
India’s nuclear sub ‘Arihant’ to be fitted with Agni-V for sea trials soon
08 Feb 2014
The nuclear-tipped missiles are ready for installation and their integration would begin after some of the scheduled sea trials of Arihant are over
Rafale fighter deal put off as India’s defence budget exhausted
07 Feb 2014
India has postponed finalising the deal to buy 126 Rafale fighter planes until2014 - 15, as the budget for defence procurement for the current year is almost exhausted
UK expert’s advice ignored in ’84 Golden Temple assault: Hague
04 Feb 2014
The British role in the 1984 Operation Blue Star, ordered by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to flush out Sikh militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, was "limited" and "purely advisory", UK's foreign secretary William Hague told the UK parliament on Tuesday