PM Modi Meets Ministers Over Punjab Attack
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and other senior ministers over a terror attack in a Punjab town that left nine people dead. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu also attended the meeting.Parrikar had earlier... read more »
Afghanistan: 21 dead, 10 wounded in wedding gunfight
KABUL: A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and another 10 wounded, an official said Monday. Jaweed Basharat, spokesman for the governor of Baghlan province, said a gunfight broke out between two groups attending the wedding in Andarab district late Sunday.... read more »
Delhi on high alert after Gurdaspur attack, security stepped up
Authorities sounded high alert across Delhi on Monday with hundreds of policemen deployed at railway stations, railway stations, shopping malls and crowded markets in the wake of a terrorist attack in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district that left five people dead. A burst tyre near Parliament also... read more »
At least 13 dead in al Shabaab attack on Somali hotel
The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. A Reuters witness said blood and pieces of flesh were spattered around the site... read more »
