
January 02, 2016 10:53 IST
The attack, the second in Punjab in just months, is likely to lead to sharp attacks on Prime Minister’s outreach to Pakistan from the opposition.
Sat, Jan 02, 2016
December 25, 2015 00:01 IST
Islamism’s attraction for Western, particularly American, policymakers spawned the tyrannies that now ravage West and Central Asia.
Fri, Dec 25, 2015
December 22, 2015 17:56 IST
Though the Prime Minister’s official reason for visiting Kabul is to inaugurate the Parliament building India gifted to Afghanistan after 9/11, its significance is far larger.
Tue, Dec 22, 2015
December 22, 2015 03:22 IST
The strike was to have taken place as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Afghan capital for the first time on December 25, sources said.
Tue, Dec 22, 2015
December 17, 2015 03:50 IST
Arrests of alleged associates in Odisha, Delhi lead investigators to identity of Sanaul Haq.
Wed, Oct 09, 2019
December 15, 2015 00:52 IST
Last week, world leaders met in Islamabad for the annual Heart of Asia conference, in a last-chance bid to contain that outcome.
Tue, Dec 15, 2015
December 09, 2015 02:18 IST
Antony Blinken's remarks come days after the NSAs met in Bangkok for talks, weeks after a planned summit in Delhi broke down.
Wed, Dec 09, 2015
December 08, 2015 18:22 IST
Few of the world leaders gathered in Islamabad for the annual Heart of Asia conference will have read the Iqbal poem from which it draws its name, nor be aware of the religious chauvinism his work is redolent with.
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
December 08, 2015 00:51 IST
Less than four months ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government had drawn a firm line in the New Delhi dust on the future of India-Pakistan engagement.
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
December 07, 2015 03:20 IST
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Janjua also discussed peace and security and other issues including tranquility along the LoC.
Mon, Dec 07, 2015
December 03, 2015 00:00 IST
"The Islamic State would now expand beyond Iraq and Syria", Black Flags states. "It would now expand into... India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan [and several other countries]."
Thu, Dec 03, 2015
December 02, 2015 17:51 IST
There is no simple answer. The numbers of Indians who have responded to the Islamic State’s call is tiny, especially compared to much smaller European countries, or neighbours like the Maldives.
Wed, Dec 02, 2015
November 26, 2015 00:44 IST
Turkish air force F16 jets shot down a Russian Su24 bomber 3 km inside Syrian territory after it had travelled, by Istanbul’s own official account, for less than seven seconds over Turkish territory.
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
November 23, 2015 02:15 IST
The attack should have reminded the world just what the war against Islamist violence is about: savagery can only too easily bury in the sand the great achievements of great civilisations.
Mon, Nov 23, 2015
November 22, 2015 00:51 IST
Why are some young Europeans turning against their own? The answer lies in the stories of those who carried out the Paris attacks.
Mon, Nov 23, 2015
November 19, 2015 01:04 IST
Saint-Denis is France’s most immigrant-dense area, the majority of its population made up of Africans, Arabs and South Asians.
Thu, Nov 19, 2015
November 19, 2015 00:50 IST
The operation aimed at the suspected mastermind of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who has been active with the Islamic State group in Syria.
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
November 18, 2015 02:13 IST
Thousands of Paris residents have been gathering at the historic Republique square to signal that the country hasn't been cowed by Friday night's attacks.
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
November 18, 2015 00:43 IST
French military commanders also said this week’s highly publicised airstrikes on the Islamic State’s headquarters in Raqqa, targeting the alleged planners of the carnage in Paris, were of mainly symbolic value.
Wed, Nov 18, 2015
November 17, 2015 02:49 IST
A five-minute walk from the Bataclan theatre, the site of the worst Friday massacre in Paris, is the former office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that now houses a financial business.
Tue, Nov 17, 2015
November 17, 2015 02:43 IST
Born to Moroccan immigrant parents, the 27-year-old Belgian citizen is alleged to have organised an attempted attack on an Amsterdam-Paris high-speed train and a strike on a church in Paris earlier this year.
Wed, Nov 18, 2015
November 16, 2015 01:54 IST
Thousands of Paris residents have been gathering at the historic Republique square to signal that the country hasn't been cowed by Friday night's attacks.
Mon, Nov 16, 2015
November 16, 2015 01:35 IST
Images from Kabul last week were breathtaking: tens of thousands of women, children and men, marching in the largest mass demonstrations Afghanistan has ever seen.
Mon, Nov 16, 2015
November 16, 2015 00:51 IST
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 but, before Friday, he had "never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association".
Mon, Nov 16, 2015
November 15, 2015 02:06 IST
Eight terrorists divided into groups of two, French officials said, used tactics reminiscent of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks which were carried out by five similar units.
Sun, Nov 15, 2015

