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Pakistan violated ceasefire, hours after reaching agreement NEW DELHI: After three nights of intense aerial warfare, India and Pakistan reached an understanding to end the fighting that President Donald Trump claimed was “mediated” by the US, but which India insisted was achieved bilaterally through director general of military operations (DGMO)-level talks initiated by the Pakistani…

A structure in Muridke damaged in the Indian strike LONDON: Sky News has traced social media accounts expressing support for jihadist terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and al-Qaida to the exact location of the building in Muridke, Pakistan, which was struck by India last week in retaliation for the Pahalgam terrorist attack.A Sky News…

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File photo) called National Command Authority meeting; however, Pakistan’s defence minister later said that no such meeting was held NEW DELHI: Government on Saturday mocked Pakistan for calling a meeting of its National Command Authority, the top military and civil body overseeing the country’s nuclear arsenal, only to cancel it shortly…

NEW DELHI: India’s Operation Sindoor, conducted on the night of May 6 and 7, resulted in the elimination of around a dozen high-value terrorists in Pakistan, including IC-814 hijacker Yusuf Azhar, chief of Lashkar’s Muridke headquarters Abu Jundal aka Mudassar, and the son of the 2016 Nagrota attack plotter.Sources termed the deaths of the jihadi…

Subbanna Ayyappan (File photo) MYSURU: Subbanna Ayyappan (70), the first non-crop scientist to head Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was found dead in the Cauvery river near Srirangapatna, Mandya, about 20 km from Mysuru, on Saturday. Police retrieved his body after the public saw it floating in the river.Mandya SP Mallikarjun Baladandi confirmed that…

The border area of Uri was targeted by Pakistani troops (Image credit: Bilal Bahadur) NEW DELHI: Before the pause in hostilities on Saturday evening, cross-border combat had rapidly moved up the escalation ladder with India strongly striking back at Pakistan by targeting nine airbases and two radar sites to inflict heavy damage in the early…

Isro is scheduled to launch the EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) satellite on May 18 NEW DELHI: India’s surveillance power from the sky is set to get a big boost as Isro is scheduled to launch the PSLV-C61 mission carrying the EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) radar imaging satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit on May 18. The launch is scheduled at…

NEW DELHI: India has witnessed a significant improvement in key maternal and child health indicators between 2014 and 2021, according to a health ministry statement. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has declined by 37 points from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 93 in 2019-21, the statement mentioned, citing the Sample Registration System…