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KOLKATA: A day after theatres in Tamil Nadu stopped screening “The Kerala Story” as a “precautionary measure”, the Bengal government on Monday banned the controversial film in a bid to maintain “peace and harmony”. CM Mamata Banerjee dubbed the film a “distorted story” and accused BJP of “defaming the ...

NEW DELHI: A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in the Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan on Monday during a routine training sortie on Monday, leaving at least two civilians dead and as many injured on the ground.In a statement, the IAF said the pilot of the ...

NEW DELHI: Posting of women officers of the Territorial Army (TA) with engineer regiments of the force along the Line of Control with Pakistan has been approved by defence minister Rajnath Singh.The defence ministry on Sunday said women TA officers will now also be posted as staff officers at ...

NEW DELHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane mistakenly entered Indian airspace for almost 10 minutes after it was unable to land in Lahore due to heavy rain, according to a media report on Sunday. The incident occurred around 8pm on May 4 when PIA flight PK248 was returning ...

Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) chief and designated terrorist Paramjit Singh Panjwar (63) was shot dead in Pakistan’s Lahore early on Saturday.The native of Panjwar village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district joined the outfit in 1986. He faced several cases in the state and fled to Pakistan in 1990 with ...

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Security forces gunned down two terrorists on Saturday, one each in Baramulla and Rajouri districts, amid a heightened counteroffensive following the death of 10 soldiers in two big terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on April 20 and May 5.Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Army chief Gen Manoj ...

NEW DELHI: The Army has temporarily grounded its fleet of ALH Dhruv choppers following a crash in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar on May 1 in which one soldier was killed and two others were injured. "In view of the crash in which one Army jawan lost his life on ...

PUNE: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials Friday said they were investigating, among other things, the angle of financial gains in lieu of information in the spying case in which a scientist from a DRDO laboratory in Pune was arrested on Wednesday."We have received an internal investigation report from DRDO's ...

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday ripped into Pakistan for its promotion and funding of terrorism, and called foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto a "spokesperson of a terrorism industry".During a press conference, held after the conclusion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting ...

PUNE: A 59-year-old scientist at a defence research and development organisation laboratory in Pune has been arrested on charges of spying and sharing security-sensitive information with a suspected female Pakistani intelligence agent.The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad said on Thursday that the scientist had been in contact with the Pakistani operative ...