India

New Delhi, Oct 1: India's biggest auction of telecom spectrum kicks off on Saturday with seven operators in fray for a total of 2,354.55 MHz across seven bands, towards which a reserve price of Rs 5.66 lakh crore ($85 billion) has been fixed by the government. The companies that have qualified for the auction are Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Communications, Idea

Delhi, Sept 30: The Centre today issued a country-wide alert asking the states to heighten vigil to foil any attempt by Pakistan-based terror groups to carry out attacks amid apprehensions of backlash by terrorists after the surgical strike on their launch pads in PoK. In a advisory, the Home Ministry conveyed to the states that additional forces should be deployed in all sensitive places

New Delhi, Sep 30: The Supreme Court today set aside the Patna High Court order granting bail to controversial RJD leader Shahabuddin in a murder case. The apex court ordered that either the gangster-turned- politician should surrender or Bihar Police should take him in custody "forthwith". A bench comprising Justice P C Ghose and Amitava Roy directed the state government and the lower court to

New Delhi, Sep 30: All attempts are being made to secure the release of an Indian soldier, who inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. Singh said the government has taken note of the reports which stated that an Indian soldier is in Pakistan's captivity. "All attempts are being made to secure his release," he told reporters here. The Home Minister also said

New Delhi, Sep 30: One more soldier, who was critically injured in the Uri attack, today died of his wounds, taking the toll to 19. The soldier was undergoing treatment at Army's Research and Referral Hospital here.He succumbed to his injuries, defence sources said. The Uri Army base was attacked by heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists on September 18 in which 18 soldiers were killed. India carried

New Delhi, Sep 30: Beyond Thursday's raid by Indian special forces into Pakistan's side of divided Kashmir, New Delhi is considering new economic and diplomatic measures to bring pressure to bear on its neighbour, Indian officials said. In a rare public acknowledgement, Indian officials said teams of elite troops crossed the de facto border dividing the nuclear-armed rivals in the Himalayan state

Bengaluru, Sep 30: In what's being described as the first major use of the Cartosat family of satellites, the last one (2c) launched in June this year, sources in Isro said that the armed forces were aided by high-resolution images for the surgical strikes conducted across the line of control (LoC) in the small hours of Thursday.A source in Isro said: "We've been providing images to the armed

Jammu/Chandigarh, Sep 29: People living within 10 kms of the border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab have been asked to shift to safer places and schools ordered to be shut till further notice in the wake of surgical strike carried out by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC). The 'Beating Retreat' ceremony at Attari-Wagah border in Amritsar in Punjab has also been closed

New Delhi, Sep 29: Seven terror launch pads were targeted across the LoC by special forces of the Indian Army during the 'surgical strike' overnight in which heliborne and ground forces were used, defence sources said today. The sources said the operation began at around mid-night last night and ended at around 4:30 AM this morning. The terror launch pads targeted were in the range of 2 to 3km

New Delhi, Sep 29: India conducted surgical strikes on terror launch pads last night across the Line of Control (LoC) and inflicted significant casualties and heavy damages. The announcement of the sudden action by the army to target terrorists was made by the DGMO Lt Gen Ranveer Singh at a hurriedly called news conference during which External affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup was also