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Bareilly, March 17 (IANS) Curfew was relaxed in Bareilly Wednesday for 11 hours as the Uttar Pradesh town limped towards normalcy after a serious bout of communal violence, authorities said.
It was the third relaxation since curfew was imposed two weeks ago.
‘As peaceful situation prevails in Bareilly, we have decided to relax the curfew for 11 [...]

Guwahati, Mar 10 (ANI): Holi, the festival of colors, was celebrated with enthusiasm in northeast along with rest of the country recently.
People splashed water, threw water filled balloons, smeared gulal and colors on each other and chanted “Holi Hai”.
The reason for high spirits of the people result from the fact that peace and normalcy could [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods has offered another apology, this time to parents of children at the preschool that his 2-year-old daughter attends, an Orlando television station reported Tuesday.
WFTV reported on its Web site that it has obtained a letter that Woods and his wife, Elin, wrote to parents of children attending Premier Academy [...]

Peshawar, Sep.15 (ANI): North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah would be nabbed dead or alive soon as the security forces have tightened the noose around him.

Hussain claimed that troops have surrounded the region where Fazlullah is believed to be hiding.

“Fazlullah has not yet surrendered [...]

Koraput (Orissa), Sep. 8 (ANI): Orissa’s tribal-dominated Koraput district remained tense on Tuesday, a day after a man was killed in a clash, which broke out between the two factions of the Maoist backed tribal outfit, Chasi Muliya Adivasi [...]

Mumbai, Sep.1 (ANI): Train services along the Western Railway route resumed partially on Tuesday, hours after police had to resort to a baton charge and firing in the air to disperse irate passengers.

The Chief Public Relations Officer of the Western Railway, S.S. Gupta, told a television channel that police and railway officers were trying their [...]

Srinagar, Aug. 29 (ANI): The reports of phased withdrawal of Security Forces from militancy-affected areas have cause concern among locals of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district.

They say they are against such a withdrawal, as it will make things difficult for them once again.

“If the forces [...]

Islamabad, July 11 (ANI): The rehabilitation and reconstruction work in the war ravaged Swat and Malakand Divisions would cost billions of dollars, the United Nations (UN) has said.

Talking to media persons at a press conference here, the UN Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): Containing the global terrorist threat in South Asia will depend largely on the ability of the United States to forge a trusting and cooperative partnership with Pakistan over the next several years, feels Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.

In a [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Air India employees will go on two hour-long strike on Friday between 1300 hrs IST to 1500 hrs IST.

The employees are alleging that the management has failed to keep its promise to pay salaries to all lower grade employees by July 3.Nearly 20,000 employees throughout the country are expected [...]

Imphal, July 1 (ANI): The killing of contractor Y. Krishnadas has evoked widespread condemnation in Manipur.

Denouncing the violent act, thousands of people including employees of the Kakching Municipal Council came out for a mass protest over the recent killing of Krishnadas.

Krishnadas was kidnapped on June 10 and a ransom of Rs. 2 crores was [...]

Imphal, July 1 (ANI): After a successful operation in the Loktak Lake area, security forces have now focused their efforts on flushing out militants from Pumlem Lake, the second largest freshwater wetland in Manipur.
Pumlen Lake is situated in Thoubal district, 40 km from Imphal.
As a part of flushing out militants from the lake area, a [...]

Lalgarh, June 28 (ANI): Security forces on Sunday arrested two suspected Maoists and defused seven landmines from Lalgarh, while flushing out the Maoists hiding around the troubled area of West Bengal’s West Midnapore.

Five landmines were recovered from Binpur, while two more were found near Kargil junction at Bankura district, said Raj Kanojia, Inspector General of [...]

New York, June 28 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has been boasting of success against the Taliban and other extremists, and claims that it has flushed the insurgents out, besides killing scores of them during its offensive in the Swat and Malakand Divisions, but a closer look at the region where the military operation purportedly resulted [...]

Ramgarh, June 27 (ANI): Security forces on Saturday captured Ramgarh, an area under Maoists in a two-sided attack to reclaim areas in West Midnapore district.

“We have secured Ramgarh. We will establish a police outpost and a camp. The police will restore normalcy. The operations will continue,” said Inspector General CID (special operations group) Siddhinath [...]

Kolkata, June 24 (ANI): The West Bengal Government on Wednesday claimed the situation in Maoist-infested Lalgarh was returning to normal, as the operations by security forces entered 5th day on Wednesday.

The operation by security forces and State police is being carried out to reclaim areas [...]

New Delhi, June 24 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S.M Krishna has said that India has sought an explanation from Australia over attacks on its students there.

Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, the Minister said, “We are in close touch with the High Commissioner and we are also in close touch with our High Commission [...]

New Delhi, June 23 (ANI): The West Bengal Government will take a decision today on the question of banning the CPI (Maoist), following central government’s ban imposition on the group, CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury disclosed on Tuesday.

“The Government is privy to [...]

Guwahati/Agartala, May 28 (IANS) The central government has asked the Assam government to step up security along the Lumding-Badarpur rail section in the North Cachar Hills district after repeated attacks by militants on trains.
A five-member central government team arrived in Assam Tuesday to review the security situation after frequent attacks by Dima Haolam Daogah or [...]

Chandigarh, May 27 (ANI): Punjab is slowly returning to normal, as railway traffic has resumed in the state.

Besides local train services, two special trains have left for Delhi from Jammu.

Hundreds of goods trucks, which were also stranded due to the violence, started leaving for their destinations today.

Meanwhile, curfew has been relaxed in Ludhiana, Jallandhar [...]