Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari left for home after wrapping up his three-day visit to Botswana Monday night.
Ansari reached Gaborone Saturday and held delegation level talks with his host, Botswana Vice President Momfati Merafhe, a former army officer who got military training in India.
They signed two agreements in agriculture and education.
Ansari’s engagements on [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) He died once but was cremated twice. This is what happened in Ernakulam due to the callousness of a private hospital that got the identities of two bodies kept in the mortuary mixed up.
A retired army officer and a close relative of a senior judge of the Kerala High Court, both [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) A woman officer of the Indian Army was arrested for a day, said an official Wednesday.
The officer was appearing as a witness in an army court in the army’s eastern command.
‘The woman officer entered into verbal altercation with the court , leaving it with no choice but to put [...]
Islamabad, Nov 25 (IANS) Pakistan Wednesday confirmed that a retired army major had been arrested for his alleged links with terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, nabbed by FBI on charges of plotting attacks against India and Denmark.
However, no serving army Officer is in custody as being reported in the foreign media, [...]
Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani security forces have cleared the Taliban stronghold of Srarogha in South Waziristan after an intense five-day battle in which 180 militants and seven soldiers were killed, disclosed an army officer Tuesday.
Briefing reporters in South Waziristan’s largest town of Wana, Brigadier Shafiq, the commander of the Rah-e-Nijat military operation, said troops [...]
Jammu, Oct 30 (IANS) A helicopter of the Indian Army crashed into the waters of Chenab river in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday afternoon, police said.
‘The wreckage of the crashed chopper has been sighted, but there is no sign of its occupants,’ a police officer who reached the spot told IANS over the [...]
Jammu, Sep 9 (ANI): At least two militants and an army major were killed in an encounter on Wednesday when security personnel foiled an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir’s in Poonch district.
According to sources, the incident occurred when troops observed movement of a group of armed terrorists along the LoC in Sonagali area of [...]
