NEW DELHI: The US military’s top-ranking officer said Thursday he feared extremists might launch another attack on India, similar to the 2008 rampage in Mumbai, in a bid to spark a war with Pakistan. Speaking to reporters on board his plane bound for New Delhi, Admiral Mike Mullen praised India for showing restraint in the aftermath of the bloody November 2008 attacks that left 166 dead.
At least 70 people were killed when a fast-moving passenger train rammed into one waiting at a station in eastern India early on Monday, officials said. This was the second major accident in the state of West Bengal within two months
WASHINGTON: India and the US Thursday vowed to strengthen their cooperation in key areas like defence, counter- terrorism, education, nuclear energy, agriculture and climate change. Kicking off their first-ever Strategic Dialogue, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his American counterpart Hillary Clinton began their day-long deliberations at the State Department with the American leader calling India a “rising global power”. Clinton said the US was committed to the modernisation of India’s military and that the US military holds the maximum number of joint exercises with the Indian Army
Air India Crash latest updates :- Today The Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Air India Express is crashed. The accident happened to the plane in the morning time
KOLKATA: A violent tropical storm killed at least 116 people and devastated an estimated 100,000 homes in impoverished rural areas of eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said Wednesday. Winds of up to 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour tore across northeastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh overnight Tuesday, ravaging mud and tin-roofed homes, uprooting trees and bringing down electricity lines. Officials in the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam said a total of 114 people had been killed
US citizen of Pakistani origin David Headley has admitted 12 counts of conspiracy. He pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai. Prosecutors will therefore ask for a lesser sentence since Headley was cooperating with the prosecutors, but US District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber said Headley could still be jailed for life
WASHINGTON: The United States is looking forward to a stable relationship between India and Pakistan, especially as they resume peace talks next week, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robert Blake said.
WASHINGTON: Pakistan had to do more to combat terrorists on its soil if it wanted to continue to receive substantial US aid, says John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate.
NEW DELHI: Relations with Pakistan, which have been frozen following the Mumbai attacks in 2008, will improve only if Islamabad cracks down on terrorism, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told a Gulf paper in an interview.
India willing to Take up Balochistan Issue With Pakistan, India has set February 18 and 25 for Secretary-level talks, while terrorism would top the dialogue agenda between the two countries. Talking to media in New Delhi, Indian Home Minister Chidambaram has said that India extended talks offers to Pakistan. He sought immediate arrest of Hafiz Saeed, saying that terrorism would be the main focus during the dialogue