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NEW DELHI: Canada-based Pakistani origin author and activist Tarek Fatah passed away on Monday after prolonged illness. He was 73."Lion of Punjab. Son of Hindustan. Lover of Canada. Speaker of truth. Fighter for justice. Voice of the down-trodden, underdogs, and the oppressed. @TarekFatah has passed the baton on… his ...

NEW DELHI: The National Security Act was invoked against self-styled Khalistani preacher Amritpal Singh as he had designs to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of Punjab, which intelligence sources said could be gauged from his indulgence in abduction and assault of another Sikh Varinder Singh earlier this year, his open ...

NEW DELHI: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced it had evacuated 66 citizens of "brotherly and friendly countries", including India, from conflict-hit Sudan.More than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials, rescued from battle-scarred Sudan arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, the Saudi foreign ministry said, in the ...

NEW DELHI: The CBI will examine former governor Satyapal Malik next week in connection with his claim that during his tenure as governor of Jammu and Kashmir, he was offered Rs 300 crore in bribe for clearing files dealing with contracts to provide health insurance to state government employees ...

NEW DELHI: A major operation with special forces, regular troops, helicopters and drones is under way by the Army to hunt down the 5-7 terrorists who attacked an Army truck in a well-planned ambush in Poonch district of J&K on Thursday afternoon, killing five Rashtriya Rifles soldiers and grievously ...

NEW DELHI: The CBI has asked former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik to answer certain queries in connection with an alleged insurance scam in the Union Territory, officials said on Friday. Reacting to the development, Malik told PTI that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked ...

NEW DELHI: Russian deliveries of military supplies to India have ground to a halt as the countries struggle to find a payment mechanism that doesn’t violate US sanctions, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the matter. Indian payments for weapons amounting to more than $2 billion have been ...

SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Five soldiers of the Army’s Rashtriya Rifles were killed and a colleague was gravely wounded after terrorists ambushed their truck around 3pm Thursday with gunshots and grenades that ignited the vehicle when it was winding through blinding rain in Bhata Dhurian on a thickly-forested mountain ridge in Poonch ...

JAMMU: At least two jawans were killed in a fire triggered by a suspected blast in an Army vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, sources said.The incident took place on a highway in the Bhata Dhurian area.According to initial reports, the blast was caused by a lightning strike, ...

NEW DELHI: The Army should be prepared for any contingency along the northern borders, even as talks will continue with China for a peaceful resolution of the military confrontation in eastern Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday.Addressing the Army commanders' conference, the defence minister said the situation ...