salman_jobs A local official says the Taliban have attacked Afghan troops in eastern Laghman province, triggering a gunbattle that killed two soldiers and wounded a third.
The provincial governor’s spokesman Sarhadi Zwak says the attack began around today in Alishing district.
He says there was an explosion during the shootout, possibly from a roadside mine, which might have caused the casualties.
A Pakistani-born British man on Monday pleaded guilty to beheading his wife in a gruesome attack in which he repeatedly stabbed her and broke both her arms.
Tahira Ahmed, a 38-year-old mother of two, was found by police in May, 2014 after neighbours rang to report a violent row at her home in Northolt in west London.
Her husband Naveed Ahmed, 41, born in Pakistan but now a British citizen, had initially denied the killing when he appeared at the Old Bailey court via video link from prison last October.
Four alleged Islamic State militants, including its regional coordinator who frequently travelled to India, Pakistan and other countries, have been arrested here for plotting to attack key installations and turn Bangladesh into a Caliphate State, police said today.
The four, trained in Pakistan, were arrested during overnight raids in the Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas of the capital, Dhaka.
“Yes, the IS coordinator and the three others have been arrested,” a police spokesman told PTI.
At least six militants were killed today in a US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region where the military is engaged in an operation against al-Qaeda-linked fighters since June last year.
The CIA-operated pilotless aircraft targeted a compound in the Shahi Khel area of North Waziristan. “Six people were killed and four injured,” a security official said, adding “The identity of those killed is not known.” The area is controlled by al-Qaeda-linked Hafiz Gul
Bahadur faction of Taliban.
Distressed over the long-wait of 25 years to go back ‘home’, displaced Kashmiri Pandits today staged a protest here demanding immediate steps for their rehabilitation and accused both state and central governments of doing nothing to facilitate their return to the Valley.
Wearing black badges and bands as a mark of the protest at Jantar Mantar, the Kashmiri Pandits also asked the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government to bring a ‘white paper’ on what they have done so far for their rehabilitation.
The Shiv Sena does not see anything wrong with Maharashtra Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ comment that he considers himself a “powerful CM.”
“With Sena joining the government, we have a very good majority and a stable government after many years. That was not the case during the earlier rule,” Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe told PTI.
“Many CMs so far have worked with the support of independent MLAs and even if a group of 5 or 10 MLAs took another view, there was an issue,” Gorhe said.
Women’s safety tops the chart among the major issues confronting Delhi as it readies to vote for a new government Feb 7.
Most of the more than a dozen residents IANS spoke to said the safety and security of women in the capital would have to be addressed first by whoever wins the election.
Rising food prices, chaotic traffic and the need for uninterrupted water supply and electricity are the other problems people say they are bothered about.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to London next week to attend a foreign ministers’ meeting that would focus on strategising ways to counter the Islamic State (IS), the State Department announced.
Kerry would be in London Jan 22 “to consult with the UK and other counter-IS coalition partners on our shared efforts to degrade and defeat IS,” Xinhua reported, citing State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as saying Sunday.
Kerry would also hold talks with his British counterpart, Philip Hammond, who would co-host the meeting, Psaki added.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will be questioned by the Delhi Police in the next two days in connection with the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar a year back and a notice has been served on him for it, Police Commissioner B S Bassi said today.
The police chief maintained that all those people relevant in the case are being examined by the Special Investigation Team probing the high-profile case.
Asked when would Tharoor be questioned and whether a notice has been served, Bassi said, “Notice has been issued and he may be questioned today, tomorrow or day after tomorrow.”
Delhi High Court today stayed a single judge’s order directing Supreme Court registry to provide information to an RTI activist regarding cases whose judgements have been pending after being reserved.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also issued notice to RTI activist Commodore (retd) Lokesh K Batra, the apex court’s Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) and the Appellate Authority, under the transparency law as they have been made parties in the appeal filed by the apex court registry.
Cybercriminals are now targeting LinkedIn users by scamming them into sharing their credentials by sending out mails claiming to be from the support team of the world’s largest professional networking firm, security software firm Symantec warned today.
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn has over 300 million members globally, of which more than 26 million users are in India (as of June 2014).
Symantec said that over the last week it has observed an increase in phishing emails claiming to be from the US-based firm’s support team.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today dismissed reports linking any possible infiltration bid by terrorists from across the border with the up oming visit of US President Barack Obama.
“The reports of terrorists trying to infiltrate from across the border are unnecessarily linked with Obama’s visit. From the information given by northern command this happens every year,” Parrikar told reporters after launching of four vessels of Indian Coast Guard at port town of Vasco.
Obama will be the chief guest at the Republic Day function in Delhi on January 26.
New Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will promote reconciliation in his island nation with a vision for inclusiveness, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday.
Describing Sri Lanka as “a truly close neighbour and friend”, Modi offered New Delhi`s continued support and partnership to Colombo and the Sri Lankan people in “realising their aspirations”.
The prime minister made the observations when Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera called on him, an official statement said.
Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu asked people here to strengthen the BJP in Andhra Pradesh to solve the problems of the state.
He alleged that the Congress party “ruined the nation, destroyed the administration and degraded the judiciary”, with many uncountable scams like coal scam, Commonwealth Games scam, 2G spectrum scam and Agusta Westland Helicopters scam.
Congress leader Amarinder Singh Saturday questioned the transfer of an Enforcement Directorate officer who had earlier interrogated Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who faces allegations allegations of money laundering.
“He was doing a good job, I don’t know why he was transferred? I hope it was a routine transfer,” Singh, who is deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha and a former Punjab chief minister, told IANS on the sidelines of a programme here.
EDs Assistant Director Niranjan Singh, based in Jalandhar, was transferred to Kolkata Friday.
The censor board was Saturday hit by mass resignations a day after board chairperson Leela Samson quit citing coercion and corruption even as Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at those quitting, calling them “UPA appointees” who had themselves to blame for any corruption.
Amidst the drama, the Punjab government Saturday banned the screening of controversial film “MSG – The Messenger Of God”, which features Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, in wake of a central advisory and intelligence reports that it could lead to tension.
A young Dempo Sports Club held defending champions Bengaluru FC to a goalless draw in their opening Hero I-League match here Saturday with the hosts wasting a first-half penalty that skipper Sunil Chhetri failed to convert.
BFC, who had beaten Dempo 2-1 a week ago in Goa to claim the Federation Cup, looked far from impressive as besides Chhetri, their lead striker Sean Rooney was also guilty of blowing scoring opportunities.
Soumyajit Ghosh upstaged top seed G. Sathiyan 4-2 to regain the men’s crown while Mouma Das outclassed Poulami Ghatak by the same margin to claim the women’s title at the 76th senior national table tennis competition here Saturday.
Ghosh took home Rs.2 lakh and Das, who was taking on Ghatak for the fourth time since their first final appearance in 1998 at Ajmer, received Rs.1.40 lakh. The runners-up in both sections got half the amount as their prize money.
There were more resignations in the Censor Board with nine members putting in their papers protesting alleged government interference, a charge rejected by I&B minister Arun Jaitley saying the government maintains an “arm’s length distance” from functioning of the Board.
West Bengal has introduced the pentavalent vaccination programme throughout the state to prevent infant mortality, a state health official said Saturday.
The combination of five vaccines in one will act against five diseases — diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT), Hepatitis B and HIB (meningitis).
It has to be administered in three doses when the infant reaches six, 10 and 14 weeks and a booster dose at one-and-a-half years.
Two infants Saturday died at a government hospital here allegedly after they were administered BCG vaccine, prompting the state government to issue a clarification.
The infants, admitted to Government Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital, died this morning.
The parents alleged that the infants fell sick after they were administered BCG vaccination last week. The children were in the intensive care unit since then.
BCG vaccine is given to a new-born child to give him or her immunity from tuberculosis.
India’s internet governance model will be consistent with the role private firms play in widening internet’s reach and the pre-eminent role of government in public welfare, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
In recent times, issues related to privacy, content regulation and barrier to access internet or internet-based services have been in the spotlight.
Almost one billion pornographic and harmful posts in 2014 have been self-inspected and deleted by Chinese websites in an Internet cleanup operation.
“Authorities also closed down about 2,200 websites and 20 million online forums, blogs and social media accounts that had spread erotic and illegal content,” said Ren Xianliang, deputy head of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
During the operation, all domestic gateway websites have well cooperated.
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth.
The star, EPIC 201367065, is a cool red M-dwarf about half the size and mass of our own Sun.
At a distance of 150 light years, the star ranks among the top 10 nearest stars known to have transiting planets.
Fiona Harrison, the principal investigator of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission (NuSTAR), has been awarded the top prize in high-energy astrophysics.
The “2015 Rossi Prize” was awarded to Harrison, professor at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena for her “groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars and black holes enabled by NuSTAR.”
Harrison’s “assembly and leadership of the extraordinary NuSTAR team has opened a new window on the Universe,” read the citation for the Rossi Prize.