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Colorado (US), Sep.19 (ANI): A Colorado man under FBI investigation for his alleged role in a New York subway terror plot has admitted to having ties to Al Qaeda and is in negotiations to plead guilty to a terror charge, a source at the Department of Justice told Fox News.

The source said 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi, [...]

Akhnoor (Jammu and Kashmir), Sep 18(ANI): Security was beefed up in the Akhnoor sector and in the Jammu region on Friday following an incident of border firing from the Pakistani side.

Further, all entry and exit points were sealed and vehicles were being checked.

Earlier on Thursday, at least two Border Security [...]

Washington, September 18 (ANI): A “micro-aircraft” inspired by the manoeuvrability and energy efficiency of an insect may have come closer to reality, for scientists have successfully decoded the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight.

Dr. John Young, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, and a team of animal flight researchers from Oxford [...]

Darjeeling, Sep 15 (ANI): Consequent to the reports about Chinese troops trespassing into the Indian territory, Bimal Gurung, chief of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) asserted that his party would form a special force to remain alert along the India-China border to keep away any kind of foreign intrusion.

Addressing a gathering here on Monday, Gurung [...]

Srinagar, Sep 14(ANI): Hundreds of striking employees of Jammu and Kashmir Road Transport Corporation (JKRTC) suffered injuries on Monday, when they held a rally outside the corporations’ headquarters and marched towards the State Civil Secretariat near Lal Chowk in Srinagar, as police had to use [...]

Lahore, Sep 14 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt has said that he has had constructive talks with Emirates Cricket Board officials about holding a proposed ODI series against New Zealand there later this year.

Butt, who is in London, said that he would officially announce the venues for the four One-day Internationals and two [...]

London, Sep 14 (ANI): British scientists have identified the master gene, called E4bp4, that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting ‘Natural Killer’ (NK) immune cells.

The discovery, by researchers at Imperial College London, UCL and the Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research, could one day help scientists boost the body’s production of [...]

Beijing, Sep 13 (ANI): A Chinese military expert Dai Xu has accused India of “spying” on Chinese military, saying that India violated diplomatic rights by inspecting a China-bound cargo plane of UAE’s Air Force, which was detained by the Indian Security agencies in Kolkata after it was found carrying huge cache of arms and ammunition [...]

Hoshangabad (MP), Sep 12 (ANI): Floods situation continued to remain grim in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh.

Incessant rains, which have lashed Madhya Pradesh for last few days, have led to water overflowing many dams, submerging low lying areas.

State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made [...]

London, Sep. 11 (ANI): An Asian origin Royal Air Force medic, who was racially abused and assaulted by senior colleagues, has claimed that British military investigators tried to cover up his complaints.

The British-born medic told an employment tribunal in central London that he was called [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Sep. 11 (ANI): Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leader M. Manoharan has sued the Malaysian Government for a whopping 100-million-ringgit for calling him a terrorist.

Manoharan, who was accompanied by Hindraf legal adviser P. Uthayakumar, filed the suit against the state and five other defendants at the High Court Registry on Friday, The Star [...]

New Delhi, Sep 12 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will visit on Saturday the site of the helicopter crash, where former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed, in order to probe the crash at Pavirallagutta in the dense Nallamalla forests.

The CBI multi-disciplinary investigation team [...]

Lahore, Sep.12 (ANI): Pakistan has rejected India’s allegations of breaking the ceasefire between the two countries by denying reports of rockets being fired from its side towards India at the Wagah border.

The allegations from India and Pakistan’s denial came during the emergency meeting between the Pakistan Rangers and Border Security Forces (BSF),following reports of [...]

Rorawala (India-Pakistan Border), Sep.11 (ANI): As women constables of the Border Security Force (BSF) were deployed at the India-Pakistan International Border on Friday, a wave of cheer overwhelmed the villagers here.

Male farmers expressed their delight over the development, saying the presence of women security personnel would encourage their womenfolk to join them in the [...]

Daokae (Indo Pak Border) Sep. 11, 2009 (ANI): Farmers in villages along the India-Pakistan border in Attari Sector have been demanding compensation for land acquired from them along the Zero Line along the border since 1947.

A 14 feet wide stretch was prepared later [...]

London, September 11 (ANI): If engineers have their way, Earth’s polar regions would soon have watchmen, in the form of ’sailing’ spacecrafts poised above the planet, relaying vital data on polar climate change or solar storms.

“Solar sailing” has long been a dream for space engineers, who have envisaged craft [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram held meetings here with senior Obama administration officials, including National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (retired) James Jones, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the U.S. Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr. on Wednesday.

Enhanced co-operation [...]

Bhaliana, Sep 10 (ANI): A MiG 21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Bhaliana village in Muktasar District of Punjab, killing a pilot Lt. Manu Akhotri on the spot on Thursday.

This is a seventh crash of a MiG aircraft this year.

Bhaliana [...]

Melbourne, Sep 10 (ANI): An Aussie woman employed by the New South Wales Police Force has been made to work overtime for every minute she spent expressing breastmilk for her child.

The police intelligence analyst, who can only be identified as Sarah for security reasons, was also [...]

Kolkata, Sep 10 (ANI): The China-bound cargo plane of United Arab Emirate’s (UAE) Air Force which was carrying arms and ammunition, finally took off from the Netaji Subhas Chnadra Bose International Air port on Thursday morning.

The UAE aircraft was detained by the Indian Security agencies after it found carrying huge cache of arms and [...]