Jerusalem, Oct 2 (IANS) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that the attacker in the Flydubai incident underwent Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board.
Jerusalem, Oct 2 (IANS) Pakistan’s military establishment has long sought to divide provinces in the name of restructuring, with critics alleging that the move is driven by a lust for centralised power to subjugate distinct nationalities and sub-nationalities inhabiting resource-rich lands, a report has detailed.
Abu Dhabi, Oct 2 (IANS) Anwar Gargash, an Advisor to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohammed bin Zayed, on Friday praised Indian Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar for his courage and professionalism during what he described as Wednesday's “dangerous terrorist act”.
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have launched an all-out war against each other, but this time it is not on Afghan soil, but in Pakistan, with the former's entry into the Pakistan theatre putting Islamabad on the back foot and adding to the already existing miseries in the form of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
Nicosia, Oct 2 (IANS) India and Cyprus are advancing their strategic partnership through high-level diplomatic engagements, with India's High Commissioner to Cyprus, Manish, attending the country's Independence Day celebrations and meeting President Nikos Christodoulides, the High Commission of India in Nicosia said on Friday.
Kathmandu, Oct 2 (IANS) More than 800 historical documents relating to Nepal's political, legal, intellectual and cultural heritage, which had been housed in a private museum in Germany, have been handed back to the Himalayan nation.
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has urged the Prime Minister's Office to consider Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot of Flydubai Flight FZ1073, for an appropriate national bravery award for his conduct during the mid-air emergency in which reportedly 182 people were on board.
Islamabad, Oct 2 (IANS) Pakistan’s repeated attacks on Afghanistan, despite their limited effectiveness, reflect a troubling sense of impunity and expose serious shortcomings in Islamabad’s counterterrorism strategy, a report has stated.
Brussels, Oct 2 (IANS) The current phase of the conflict in Pakistan’s Balochistan province resurfaced in the early 21st century, driven by longstanding disputes over political autonomy, representation and control of the region's rich natural gas and mineral resources, while its strategic importance has grown with the Gwadar port and its role as a crucial hub of the so-called China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a report has stated.
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) India is rapidly emerging as a global space power. From Aryabhata in 1975 to Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1, Gaganyaan and the planned Bharatiya Antariksh Station, India has progressed from the early use of space technology for development to the frontiers of scientific exploration and is now moving towards human spaceflight, according to an article in Tanzania’s The Guardian newspaper.
