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US mobilises troops as tension between two Koreas escalates
22 Aug 2015
Any war between North and South Korea, however, 'could go nuclear,' experts warn
Pentagon to increase drone use by 50 per cent
18 Aug 2015
Supreme Court bars interns, tightens security after fresh threat
18 Aug 2015
The Supreme Court has barred all law interns and tightened security in and around the court complex after an anonymous letter threatening to blow up the highest court
France settles Mistral warship issue with Russia for $1.3 bn
07 Aug 2015
France was forced to call off the contract early last year at the behest of its western partners as part of the sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis
Pak investigator says 26/11 attack was `Made in Pakistan’
04 Aug 2015
Pakistan must also bring to book other identified facilitators and operatives who live as fugitives as the trial “will not be over with the disposal of those under arrest or on bail,” he wrote
ISIS threat: Centre convenes meeting of state DGPs
01 Aug 2015
The government is looking at de-radicalising the youth swayed by the idea of `jihad’ as the best way to combat the ISIS threat in India
Justice delayed, not denied: Yakub Memon hangs, finally
30 Jul 2015
Yakub Memon, one of the masterminds of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that left 257 people dead and over 700 injured, was hanged to death at Nagpur central jail early on Thursday
ISIS wants to `trigger war in India' report
29 Jul 2015
An ISIS recruitment document found in Pakistan’s lawless tribal lands reveals its plans of raising a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to trigger a war in India
SC shows no mercy on Yakub Memon, President the lone hope
29 Jul 2015
A three-judge Supreme Court bench today dismissed the 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon's plea to stop his execution scheduled for tomorrow
SC bench refers Yakub Memon's petition to larger bench
28 Jul 2015
The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred the hearing of 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Memon's petition against his death sentence to a larger bench of Chief Justice H L Datu
Terrorists on a rampage in Gurdaspur, shoot down 5
27 Jul 2015
The gunmen, numbering about five, are now holed up in Dinanagar police station complex and the Army has cordoned off the whole area
Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon to be hanged as SC rejects his plea
21 Jul 2015
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a curative petition filed by Yakub Memon, the lone convict facing death sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, paving the way for his hanging on 30 July
Iran offers India expanded role in strategic port: report
18 Jul 2015
Chabahar in southeast Iran is key to India’s efforts to access and pursue its economic and security interests in landlocked Afghanistan and the Central Asian nations circumventing Pakistan
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