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  • No Firm Decision Made Yet on New British Super Aircraft Carriers, Say Officials

    The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that no firm decision has yet been made on the future of the partially completed program to build two, new, large aircraft carriers. Media reported Sunday that the program to build two, 65,000 ton aircraft carriers would be axed or reduced, despite the fact that construction had started, contracts […]

    Largest Air Show At Italy

    Italy celebrated 50 years of the Tricolors Arrows, the aerobatic patrol of the country’s Air Force, with two days of flights on Saturday and Sunday. The major military aerobatic teams in the world, like the British Red Arrows, the Spanish “Patrulla Aguila” and the Jordanian Falcons, joined the air show at Rivolto Air Force Base […]

    Cross-Border Violence Intensifies Ahead of Fresh-Round Mideast Direct Talks

    Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the shelling at Gaza targets Sunday evening, an incident in an escalation of back-and-forth reprisals between the two sides since last week. “IDF soldiers identified a number of suspects attempting to fire an RPG (rocket) in their direction, and returned fire towards the suspects,” the army said in a statement. […]

    Five CPI(M) supporters shot dead by Maoists

    Five CPI(M) supporters were shot dead by Maoists at Nachupatina village in West Midnapore district, police said on Monday. A large group of Maoists descended on Nachupatina village’s Dompara area late on Sunday night and exploded bombs before firing in the air to terrorise the villagers, they said. One group went to the house of […]

    Turks approves constitutional amendments

    Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters have approved changes to a military-era constitution in a referendum widely seen as a vote of confidence for his government. Erdogan said on Sunday that the constitutional amendments passed with 58 percent of the vote in favor. The government says the changes are a key step in […]

    CCS meets today amidst volatile Kashmir situation

    The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) will meet on Monday to discuss a peace package for Kashmir amidst the volatile situation in the Valley and the hardened stance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFPSA) from any part of the state. The CCS meeting is […]

    Israel to seek recognition as ‘Jewish state’ in peace talks

    Prime Minister Benjamin Natalyahu has underlined that peace will be possible only if the Palestinian leadership agrees to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, as the two sides prepared for the crucial second round of US-backed direct talks. Amid widening differences over the formula for peace talks, the hardline Prime Minister warned that the recognition […]

    Minister’s house attacked; curfew reimposed in Sringar

    Police fired in air and lobbed tear gas shells after a mob attacked a J-K minister’s house in Anantnag on a day when curfew was reimposed in Srinagar and six towns of the Valley and cases registered against Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq following Saturday’s violence. A mob indulged in heavy stone pelting on Sunday […]

    MP on verge of drought, 23 districts get below ave rains

    Although many parts of the country have received ample amount of rainfall this monsoon the picture is quite dismal in many parts of Madhya Pradesh, Met Department officials said. The state is on the verge of drought for the second consecutive year as 23 out of 50 districts have received below average rainfall, they said […]

    No differences in CCS over AFSPA: Defence Minister

    Ahead of a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Monday, Defence Minister A K Antony has maintained that there were no differences in the CCS on the AFSPA in J&K, but admitted “there may be various points of view”. “There are no serious differences in the cabinet. (It is the) same government. When […]