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After the cowardly attack on sleeping family members of the Indian Army in Sunjuwan, Pakistan is scared of the revenge that will likely follow. Safe haven for world’s terrorists, Pakistan has warned India against cross-border strikes. Saturday’s attack on the Sunjuwan camp in Jammu was the worst in months, with five soldiers and the father …

Are you planning to get your Aadhaar updated? If yes, then be ready to shell out more money. The Aadaar issuing authority Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has suggested that it will apply 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax on updation of Aadhaar details. The UIDAI has tweeted the new charges in addition to Rs 25 that it …

After revealing last year that he does not have any interest in joining any social media network, Russian President Valdimir Putin said that he still does not have a smartphone. At a meeting with scientists and academics, Putin made the admission in response to a speech by Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of the Kurchatov nuclear research institute, while travelling in Siberia …

Setting yet another example of bravery and compassion, soldiers of Border Security Force helped a pregnant woman to reach the hospital in Odisha. A troop of 8 Battalion BSF carried a pregnant woman, who was under labour pain, in a boat from remote areas of Badapada in Odisha to Chitrakonda hospital. Troops of Company Operating Base (COB) Janbai and Badapada …

The Delhi Police have arrested Group Captain Arun Marwaha on charges of passing on details of secret IAF documents to Pakistani spy agency ISI. DCP (special cell) Pramod Khushwah has confirmed the arrest. Marwaha, 51, was allegedly using his smartphone to click pictures of classified documents pertaining to combat exercises at the IAF headquarters and then sending them across via …

Residents in Bomja village in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh have all become crorepati overnight, thanks to the land compensation they received from the Central government. The 200.056 acres of land belonging to 31 households in the village was acquired by the Indian Army about five years ago to set up “key location plan units” of its Tawang Garrison. Prema …

Maldives is engulfed in a political crisis, after the President Abdulla Yameen defied a Supreme Court ruling to reinstall opposition MPs and release political prisoners. He instead declared a state of emergency, sent in troops to the Supreme Court and ordered the arrest of a predecessor. The Armed forces are on standby for any contingency in the Maldives, from the …

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued a statement warning to public against going for plastic or laminated Aadhaar smart cards saying their unauthorised printing could render the QR code dysfunctional or even expose personal data without an individual’s informed consent.  UIDAI asserted that the Aadhaar letter, its cutaway portion, downloaded versions of Aadhaar on ordinary paper or …

BJP government in Uttarakhand led by Trivendra Singh Rawat has spent a whopping Rs 68.59 lakh in just nine months on tea and snacks, revealed an RTI query. The Right To Information request was sent by Hemant Singh Gaunia to the Bharatiya Janata Party government here on December 19, 2017. youtube/Representational Image He sought to know the expenditure incurred on …

Caught playing truant, a Class XI student on Monday stabbed the headmaster at a government-aided school in Tirupattur, Vellore district, leaving him with abdominal injuries that required emergency surgery. The 16-year-old boy attacked R Babu, 53, with a sharp kitchen knife, which he appeared to have carried to school, in the stomach and head around noon before fleeing the spot. …