New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) India is set to host a major international conference next week to mark the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), bringing together representatives from more than 80 countries of the Global South to discuss the evolving challenges of biosecurity, biosafety and emerging biological technologies.
Raipur/Sukma, Nov 24 (IANS) The killing of the most-wanted Maoist commander Madvi Hidma on the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border has triggered a wave of desertions inside the outlawed CPI (Maoist), with fifteen active cadres carrying a combined bounty of nearly fifty lakh rupees laying down arms in Sukma district on Monday.
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) The Kolkata Police have arrested a man from Mumbai on charges of engaging in a sexual relationship with a woman on the pretext of promising marriage, the police said on Monday.
Jaipur, Nov 24 (IANS) Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Kirodi Lal Meena said on Monday that if Vallabhbhai Patel had been the country’s first Prime Minister instead of Jawaharlal Nehru, there would have been no Pakistan or Article 370, and India would have remained completely united.
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Ahead of the much-anticipated elections in Bangladesh slated for 2026, there are clear signs that the exercise would not be a peaceful affair. Pakistan is trying to maintain leverage in Dhaka and in order to do so, it is attempting to exploit the fault lines within the political ecosystem.
The ongoing probe into the Delhi Red Fort blast is closing in on the direct role played by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). An operation of such a massive magnitude that also included setting up the Faridabad module could not have been possible without institutional backing, an official said. It has now been established that a person named Faisal Iqbal was the one who played a major role in setting up the module. Iqbal, an Intelligence Bureau official says, is an ISI operative and he was roped in specifically to set up the module and orchestrate the operation which involved carrying at least 200 blasts.
Dehradun, Nov 24 (IANS) India and Nepal are set to conduct the 19th edition of the annual bilateral military Exercise Suryakiran from November 25 (Tuesday) to December 8 in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand.
Jerusalem, Nov 23 (IANS) Israel on Sunday claimed it has killed senior Hezbollah commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai in a precision airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, in what officials described as one of the most consequential eliminations of the group's leadership since last year's conflict, according to media reports.
Johannesburg, Nov 23 (IANS) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday expressed solidarity with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, asserting her commitment to work together to combat terrorism.
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Sunday, stirred a fresh debate by suggesting that the Sindh region, which became part of Pakistan during the 1947 Partition, could one day return to India.
