In western and northern Afghanistan there have been a series of Taliban attacks on the country’s security forces and police officers. The taliban has been over running police outposts and killing handfuls of officers at a time. According to reports from President Ashraf Ghani about 28,589 afghan troops have been killed in fighting since 2015. The Taliban has taken full… Read more »
A series of Taliban attacks in western and northern Afghanistan has killed 21 members of the country’s security forces, Afghan officials say. Jamshed Shahabi, spokesperson for the governor in western Badghis province, said the fighters overran outposts there, killing six policemen on Wednesday. Council member Shamsul Haq Baeakzai in northern Baghlan province said seven members of the local police force were killed there on the… Read more »
U A former minister in Israel has admitted to spying for regional rival Iran as part of a plea deal in exchange for an 11-year prison sentence, the Israeli justice ministry has said. The ministry on Wednesday said Gonen Segev reached a plea bargain after confessing to severe espionage and passing information to an enemy country. The Jerusalem District Court set a sentencing hearing for February 11…. Read more »
LUCKNOW: Though opposition parties have targeted the Yogi Adityanath government for alleged “lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh”, official figures have another tale to tell with the graph of major crimes witnessing a downward trend in 2018 in comparison to 2017. “Certainly, graph of key crimes has seen a downward movement in the state in past two years. Maintaining law and order… Read more »
NEW DELHI: A day after Army chief General Bipin Rawatstated India cannot be left out of the “bandwagon” when a number of countries are reaching out to the Taliban, the external affairs ministry on Friday said there is no change in the position on Afghanistanand New Delhi supports the process which is “inclusive” towards achieving peace. External affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar… Read more »
America is not the only country where women are feeling mistreated. In India, a doctor and socialist Swetha Shetty, has started an all woman party. Main issues that the party is fighting for is reservation for women in spots of parliament, and the mistreatment of women in the workplace. The target audience of the party is the underprivileged women who… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Inspired by the decades old National Women’s Party in the United States, a 36-year-old doctor and social activist launched a women’s only party on Tuesday to fight for issues like reservation for women in Parliament and harassment of women at workplace. The newly formed National Women’s Party (NWP) is being headed by Swetha Shetty, who said the party’s… Read more »
NOIDA: It breaks my heart to hear the government call my husband’s murder an accident, said the wife of the senior police officer who was killed by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr. “It’s been 16 days and the main accused has still not been arrested. An SHO (station house officer) is killed on duty and they say he died of heart… Read more »
BENGALURU: With newly elected state governments announcing farm loan waivers within hours of taking charge, attention is once again turning to Karnataka where promises were made to relieve the debt burden on thousands of farmers. Both the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular, who have formed a coalition government in the state, had made separate promises to waive farm loans… Read more »
GUWAHATI, ASSAM: The new MNF government in Mizoram, led by Zoramthanga, has kept its main poll promise. In the first cabinet meeting held today in state capital Aizawl, the new government has decided to ban the sale of liquor by government sale unit with immediate effect and for private vendors a carpet ban has been imposed on the sale of… Read more »