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FEAR MINGLES WITH CAUTIOUS HOPE AFTER THE BJP’S LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN INDIA’S GENERAL ELECTIONS. Millions of India’s Muslims fear Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi’s landslide election will fuel religious discrimination, intolerance and even bring bloodshed, but some are also prepared to give him a...

Comparison between Anti ship missiles : 1.Naval Strike Missile country : norway/poland range : 185 km speed : 900 km/h weight : 410 kg warhead : 125 kg guidence system : radar 2.RBS-15 country : sweden range : 200 km speed : 1100 km/h weight : 800 kg warhead : 200 kg guidence system ...

Aero India 2013 afforded the first view of a full-scale model of India's Astra BVRAAM. In an interview to a newspaper recently, DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat said 2013 was 'Astra Year' for the agency as the missile would finally see flight trials. The missile has already been tested from a ground...

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BANGALORE: India's biggest coffee-cafe chain Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) opened its first cafe in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi on Wednesday. CCD's first outlet has opened for business in Karachi's Zamzama Commercial Area, famous for its designer outlets and vibrant cafe-culture...

Riots in Guangdong Escalate, Overwhelm Shaxi Chaos is mounting in the ongoing labor riot that began on Monday in the town of Shaxi in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province . On Tuesday, thousands of migrant workers swarmed into Shaxi from Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen and other neighboring...

Jun 21, 2012, 08.53PM IST TNN [ Shobhan Saxena ] Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at a bilateral meeting during Rio+20 Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday.(PTI Photo) RIO DE JANEIRO: In their 13th meeting in eight years, Prime...

In a season of 'cosmetic' Indo-Pakistan diplomatic bonhomie, the security situation along the Line of Control (LoC) in frontier Poonch district is tense. Official sources say the Pakistani army is targeting the Indian posts with rockets, mortars and automatic weapons in the Krishna...

China bank runs away from Iran- Pakistan oil pipeline : Latest chapter in the Pakistan China friendship - "deeper than oceans and higher than mountains".But when it comes to money we are not friends , so is the latest chapter in Pakistan-China relationship?As China and Bank ICBC...

In the first step towards ending India’s dependence on the US-controlled Global Positioning System (GPS), the first of seven satellites that will form the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, or IRNSS, is expected to be launched by December 2012, Indian Space Research...

NEW DELHI: Armed with the capability of providing real time data from multiple sites, the dedicated communication satellites for Indian Navy and Air Force will be launched in the next two years, government told the Lok Sabha today. In a written reply to a question in the House, defence...

NDTV Correspondent with PTI inputs, Updated: April 29, 2012 22:04 IST Gurdaspur: Women officials of the Border Security of Force (BSF) reportedly shot dead an intruder allegedly of Pakistani origin on Sunday afternoon. According to reports, the intruder was trying to enter India through the...

Washington: Ayman Al Zawahiri, who took over leadership of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, remains in the Af- Pak region, a top US counter- terrorism official said on Sunday. "We believe he (Zawahiri) is in that region of the world, as well as other al-Qaeda...

An Indian fisherman was injured in indiscriminate firing by Pakistani maritime agency near international marine border in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast on Thursday night. Officials said that the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) guards opened fire on Indian fishermen near...

New Delhi: Aiming to establish itself as a blue water force in real terms, Indian Navy will be inducting more than 90 fighting platforms in another decade, including aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, which is likely to be commissioned later this year. "Under the Maritime Perspective...

New Delhi: Agni-V, the 5000- km range surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, has catapulted India into an extremely select club of countries possessing such a deadly weapons platform. Agni-V gives India the...

(Updates with Reliance spokesman’s comment in second paragraph.) Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Reliance Industries Ltd., owner of the world’s biggest oil refining complex, and Dassault Aviation SA have signed an agreement to explore defense projects jointly, an official at the Indian company...

Press Trust of India | 28-Jan 21:30 PM Davos: International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde will visit India in March. After meeting Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting here, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told reporters...

Press Trust of India | 28-Jan 19:34 PM Beijing: China on Saturday refuted Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticism over deteriorating human rights situation in Tibet, amid tense stand off in the region over a spate of suicides by Buddhist monks and anti-regime protests. The People's Daily...

Press Trust of India, Updated: January 28, 2012 11:49 IST Imphal: About 30 per cent of the 17.40 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the first three hours in Manipur legislative assembly elections today, officials said. Long queues of enthusiastic voters were seen at many polling booths...