Everything you need to know about Dari Chaura: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Dari Chaura: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Chandigarh, March 7 (IANS) For the first time ever in India, Punjab Police Thursday said they had recovered two sophisticated automatic MP-5 guns from the state on the basis of information from a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist arrested recently.
Amritsar, Feb 27 (IANS) A Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist with a reward of Rs.10 lakh on his head has been arrested in Punjab, police said Wednesday.
New Delhi, Jan. 29 (ANI): A high-level media delegation from Afghanistan called on Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari here on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Theatre in Afghanistan is trying to connect to audiences as a tool of communication and story-telling even 11 years after the curbs on performing arts by the Taliban during 1996-2001 were lifted. The people are coming out to watch plays despite the fact that they do not have money to pay due to low disposable incomes.
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Eleven years after curbs on theatre imposed by the Taliban were lifted, theatre is making a comeback in Afghanistan.
Los Angeles, Dec 19 (IANS) Actress Naomi Watts, who has got her first Golden Globe nomination for "The Impossible", not only enjoyed sightseeing and shopping during her India visit, but was also impressed by the "strength and determination" of HIV mothers whom she met in the capital.
Stockholm, Oct 9 (IANS) Learning new languages is a good way to keep the brain in shape and could encourage your brain to grow, shows a study.
Islamabad, Aug 29 (IANS) At least nine people, including three children, were killed and several went missing when a bus carrying around 40 people was washed away by floods in northern Pakistan Tuesday night, Xinhua reported.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Aug.12 (ANI): The dilapidated condition of a freedom fighters' memorial here, has angered residents even as the nation gets set to observe its 65th Independence Day.
Nashik (Maharashtra), July 13 (IANS) The fate of around 600 secondary and higher secondary school students hangs in balance after a bank attached the school building and premises for defaulting on a loan repayment, an official said.
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) An Afghan theatre company, which escaped a Taliban attack in Kabul last August because of a last-minute change in schedule, will stage an Afghan version of Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' here Tuesday.
Chicago, May 21 (IANS) After all the assertions of their deep existential and strategic interests in Afghanistan, the United States and Pakistan are squabbling over how much to charge for every truck carrying supplies across the latter's border.
Washington, Jan 26 (ANI): Lea Michele is the face of Candie's spring marketing campaign, titled 'Hangin at Home.'
Beijing, Jan 9 (ANI): Hundreds of angry Tibetans forced Chinese police to hand over the body of a monk who died after setting himself on fire on Sunday, and then carried it through the streets in the country's northwest region.
London, Oct 27 (ANI): Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton's former girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger has replaced 'Mad Men' star Christina Hendricks as the face of US outerwear label London Fog.
Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), Oct.5 (ANI): With the Taliban controlling the hours of usage for mobile use, defying the government's authority, in more than half the provinces in Afghanistan, it exemplifies its new and more subtle ways of assertion.
Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): The US spy agencies are lacking in language skills required to talk to locals in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East, translate intercepted intelligence and analyze data, it has emerged.
Lucknow, Aug 14(ANI): Ahead of the 65th Independence Day, the dilapidated condition of freedom fighters' memorials in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, drew sharp criticism from the locals.
Kabul, May 13 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday said the primary agenda of his visit to Afghanistan was to renew ties of friendship, solidarity and fraternity.
Chamba (HP), Mar 3 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Police on Thursday confirmed that around forty-one people, including 32 members of a marriage party, were killed and seven others were injured in two separate accidents in the state's Chamba District.
Kabul, Nov.14 (ANI): In Herat, the tie to Iran is hard to miss. Iranian money builds roads and industrial parks, store goods are likely to be from Iran, and Iranian cash buoys new mosques and opulent homes.
Kabul, Oct. 2 (ANI): The U.S.-led coalition is finding itself on the defensive in the media war against the Taliban.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 14 (ANI): On the eve of India's 64th Independence Day, the dilapidated condition of freedom fighters' memorials here has drawn sharp criticism from the citizens.
Washington, July 31 (ANI): US soldiers working on foreign lands would soon not face any problems in communicating with locals, thanks to new language translation devices being tested by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
London, July 28 (ANI): Afghanistan has closed down a private television station 'Emroaz TV', owned by an Afghan MP Najibulla Kabuli, for allegedly 'fueling religious tensions and harming national unity." The channel recently criticised leading Shia politicians in the country for being 'agents of Iran'.
Kandahar (Afghanistan), June 9(ANI): The proposed 'do-or-die' battle for Kandahar which had been expected to begin this month, has evolved more into a civilian reconstruction effort with military action in a supportive role.
Kabul, June 8 (ANI): The head of the Pul-e-Charki prison, Afghanistan's most notorious detention centre, has revealed that nearly 1,000 Taliban inmates could be freed from as part of an amnesty deal offered by Hamid Karzai's government.
Marja (Afghanistan), Feb.13 (ANI): Thousands of American, Afghan and British troops launched an attack on the watery Taliban fortress of Marja on Saturday morning.
London, Oct.1 (ANI): Eight days into Operation Panther's Claw it was not a 500lb bomb that killed an unnamed girl on June 27 this year, but a box of public-information leaflets.
Islamabad, Sep.16 (ANI): The controversial US private security company, Blackwater, is reportedly running a covert recruitment drive through its website in Pakistan.
Washington , Aug.25 (ANI): The United States is planning to set-up a training centre at the Central Command to train military officials and secret agents to focus more on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Kabul, Aug.11 (ANI): Ten days before Afghans cast their votes for their next president and provincial council members, a five-member Electoral Media Commission has been set up by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission to monitor the August 20th poll to ensure fair coverage to all candidates.
Tallil Air Force Base (Iraq), Aug.1 (ANI): The Pentagon's focus has moved from Iraq to Afghanistan even as a string of bombings inside mosques in Baghdad on Friday indicated the prospect of renewed violence.
Washington, July 30 (ANI): Gisele Bundchen, who is expecting a child with husband Tom Brady, recently did a photo shoot for a coat company and her baby bump was not visible.
Shimla, June 21 (ANI): Rampant smuggling of maple tree wood through border areas of Tibet and China in Himachal Pradesh state has become a serious cause of concern for residents in Himachal Pradesh.
Ottawa, May 1 (ANI): Fewer than 20 per cent of Afghan law-enforcement officials are aware it's illegal to torture someone accused of a crime in that country, a report by a Canadian government-supported human-rights watchdog says.
Agra, March 16 (IANS) A four-day SAARC literary festival ended here Monday with a declaration calling for greater involvement of poets, writers and intellectuals in containing terrorist activities which affect lives of millions.
New York, Mar 4 (ANI): Pop diva Britney Spears has become the new face of the apparel brand Candie's.
Washington, February 4 (ANI): Gisele Bundchen has made her debut as the new face of the contemporary fashion line Rampage and posed for its campaign minus the essentials.
Toronto, Dec 19 (IANS) A Canadian of Afghan origin will be the next governor of the volatile province of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 14 (IANS) Two boys were injured in Delhi's Noida suburb Friday in an explosion in a garbage dump in Chaura locality where they were sifting through the refuse.
Kabul, July 19 (ANI): A Pakistani female suicide bomber was apprehended by US troops while she was allegedly fixing explosives on her body to attack a provincial governor in central Afghanistan. Her 13-year-old son was also arrested along with her.
