Pokhran : Three post office officials were detained on Monday on the charges of allegedly spying for Pakistan in Pokhran area of Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district. The detentions were made by the Intelligence bureau and their questioning is underway.Post master Kishan Pal, post inspector Vasudev Meghwal and computer operator Naresh Sharma were detained.Pokhran is a vulnerable […]
New Delhi : Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Hema Malini on Monday hit out at the Right to Information ( RTI) activist Anil Galgali for describing her plans to start a dance academy on a plot of land in Mumbai’s Andheri area as an attempt of “land-grabbing”, and said that she had been […]
Washington : A Senior United States General John William Nicholson, nominated to head US and NATO troops in Pakistan, has said that it is important to ‘enlist’ Pakistan for defeating terrorists in Afghanistan.Nicholson said that Pakistan’s military operations in Fata were ‘critical to defeat insurgency’, reports Dawn.Nicholson acknowledged that Pakistan’s ongoing counter terrorism operations in […]
London : Campaigners, urging Latin American governments to reconsider their policies on contraception, fear that the spread of Zika virus will lead to rise in women’s deaths from unsafe abortions as well as the predicted surge in brain-damaged babies.According to The Guardian, several governments in the region have advised women to postpone getting pregnant for […]
Kochi : Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, AVSM, VSM, took charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command ( FOC-in-C, South) here on Saturday. Vice Admiral Luthra, who was serving as Deputy Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (DCIDS – Operations) at the Naval headquarters in Delhi, took over the charge from Vice […]