Curfew has been imposed in large parts of Srinagar and some other districts of the Kashmir Valley after protests and clashes following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Ahmad Bhat on Saturday. 27-year-old Bhat, who had succeeded Burhan Wani, is among 10 terrorists killed by security forces in separate encounters in the last 48 hours. Though authorities said curfew would be in place only in seven police station areas […]

‘Make cash available now, don’t put people into suffering.’ ‘You should not come to a situation where the operation was successful and the patient is dying.’ ‘What did not happen in India for several years, you cannot do in 50 days.’ ‘This is agony and pain.’ K E Raghunathan, national president of the All India Manufacturers Organisation, was the first person to highlight the adverse affects of demonetisation. The AIMO, […]

IMI terrorists, who today fled from Bhopal Central Jail after killing a prison guard, have been killed in an encounter in Eintkhedi village on Bhopal outskirts. “We located the 8 inmates,they fired on us, and all of them were killed in cross firing,” Yogesh Chaudhary,IG Bhopal told ANI Earlier today, eight terror suspects of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who were accused of heinous crimes including murder, escaped […]

  A damaged classroom is pictured after shelling in the rebel held town of Hass, south of Idlib province, Syria. Air strikes that hit a school in rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria killed 22 children and six teachers, the UN children’s agency Unicef said on Wednesday. “This is a tragedy. It is an outrage. And if deliberate, it is a war crime,” said Unicef director Anthony Lake. The Syrian […]

For Christopher Filardi of the American Museum of Natural History, there is nothing like the thrill of finding a mysterious species. Such animals live at the intersection of myth and biology – tantalizing researchers with the prospect that they may be real, but eluding trustworthy documentation and closer study. Indeed, last month, Filardi waxed poetic on the hunt for the invisible beasts that nonetheless walk among us. “We search for […]

At least 300 migrants are feared to have drowned after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa this week in rough seas, the UN says. UNHCR Europe director Vincent Cochetel said the incident was a “tragedy on an enormous scale”. Nine survivors brought to the island of Lampedusa by the Italian coast guard are believed to be from West Africa. Initial reports on Monday suggested that at least […]

This past August, biologists from the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Stranding Response Team were notified of an unusual sighting in the Elizabeth River, a busy, industrial tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. A 45-foot long female sei whale was spotted floating up river, far away from its normal habitat in the Atlantic. Aquarium research coordinator Susan Barco told National Geographic that the sighting was odd, and that the whale […]

Pakistani troops have been helping evacuate children from the school At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say. Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces surrounded the area. The army says most of the school’s 500 students have been evacuated. It […]

Islamabad: Global terrorist organisation al-Qaeda’s branch in the Indian sub-continent confirmed the death of one of its leaders, Adil Qudoos in a US drone attack. Qudoos was alleged to have helped senior al-Qaeda leader, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Xinhua reported. Kahlid was arrested in 2003 from the house of Ahmad Qudoos, the brother of Adil Qudoos, in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. The US had accused Kahlid of mass murder and […]

Washington:  An Islamic militant group released a video on Tuesday showing the beheading of a second U.S. hostage, blaming the killing on President Barack Obama and raising the pressure on him to order military strikes on the group in its sanctuary in Syria. The hostage, Steven J. Sotloff, is shown in the video kneeling like the previous victim, James Foley, while his masked killer stands above, wielding a knife. Sotloff […]