Topic: India
Paratroopers hurtling head first out of planes, attack helicopters strafing a terror training centre and shacks blown to bits were this week's latest embodiment of China-Pakistan friendship.The war games conducted by 540 Chinese and Pakistani soldiers running around scrubland -- the fourth ...
VILLINGILI ISLAND, Maldives (Reuters) - India and Pakistan hailed progress in diplomatic ties on Thursday, promising to open a "new chapter" in their fraught relationship at a next round of formal peace talks.Lasting peace between the nuclear-armed rivals is seen as essential ...
A recently retired judge from the Indian Supreme Court has launched a blistering attack on the country's police, accusing them of falsely implicating local Muslims in bomb attacks.Markandey Katju, who retired from the top court last month, said Indian police were poorly ...
A suspected bomb exploded at a hospital in the northern Indian city of Agra on Saturday injuring several people, witnesses said, though no deaths were immediately reported.The blast came less than two weeks after a powerful bomb in a briefcase ripped through ...
The United States on Thursday said it has placed the Indian Mujahideen, an Islamist group known for bombings in India, on its list of terrorist organizations."An India-based terrorist group with significant links to Pakistan, IM is responsible for dozens of bomb attacks ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A spate of audacious and deadly terrorist attacks on high profile targets in India is unlikely to be stopped anytime soon because the response by the government, slammed by one tabloid as "clueless," has been half hearted and ...
A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd outside New Delhi's High Court on Wednesday, killing 11 people and injuring 76, many of them petitioners waiting for legal hearings.The device was placed near an entrance gate reception area, where ...
The young Pakistani officer sighs when he thinks about what happened to Osama bin Laden. "Was he really here?" he says. "All that, it's like 9/11, we don't even know if it really happened."Sitting at the end of the track leading to ...
India's embattled premier Monday used his Independence Day address from Delhi's rain-drenched Red Fort to insist the government was taking "the strictest possible action" against corruption.Manmohan Singh, speaking from a bullet-proof enclosure in torrential monsoon rains, also said that inflation running at ...
Police and soldiers were out in force across India on Monday as security was ramped up for Independence Day celebrations held in the shadow of blasts last month in Mumbai which killed 26 people.A senior home ministry official said security measures were ...
