Russia will create a new bank to finance defence needs and major state contracts in the wake of Western sanctions, the Russian Finance Ministry has said.


Russia to set up bank for defence financing


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The Japanese government lodged a protest with the US military Thursday over their military helicopters flying above an elementary school in Okinawa again after a US chopper dropped a window on the school about a month ago.


Japan lodges protest over US military helicopter flying over school again


At least one civilian was killed and five others injured in a hand grenade attack in a busy market in Pakistan's Karachi on Thursday, a senior police official said.


1 killed in Karachi grenade attack


Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Thursday said that his government will come out with a separate policy for aerospace and defence.


Tamil Nadu to come out with aerospace, defence policies: Palaniswami


An international expo on security systems would be held in Tamil Nadu this April, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.


TN to host security systems expo in April


US-based technology firm Redmorph on Thursday forayed into the Indian market with its security solution for the Indian smartphone users.


US firm enters India with smartphone security app


The Indian Coast Guard will sensitise nearly 1,500 fishermen from West Bengal and Odisha to act as its "eyes and ears" to check for illegal movements along the eastern seaboard and the coastal waterways, an official said on Wednesday.


Coast Guard to sensitise eastern coast fishermen on security


The police has arrested a man resembling the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab in Pakistan.


Man resembling Pakistani minor's rape-murder suspect arrested


Researchers from Russian cyber security company Kaspersky Lab have found an Android spyware that has the ability to steal WhatsApp messages via Accessibility Services and connect an infected device to Wi-Fi networks controlled by cybercriminals.


Researchers locate Android spyware that can steal WhatsApp messages


A former CIA officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle Washington's spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said.


Ex-CIA officer suspected of helping China arrested


Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on Tuesday discussed bilateral trade and the situation on the Korean Peninsula by phone.


Xi, Trump discuss trade, Korea over phone


A day after he reappeared from his brief disappearance, Vishwa Hindu Parishad's international working president Pravin Togadia on Tuesday expressed the possibility that he may be killed. But Gujarat Police have dismissed it as a "made-up story" while their Raj


People had come to kill me, claims Togadia, police say it is 'made-up' story


The Border Security Force has seized 23 kg of ganja from near the Bangladesh border in West Bengal, it said on Tuesday.


BSF seizes 23 kg ganja near Bangladesh border


Three persons were killed when a trooper with Maharashtra's Special Reserve Police Force posted on duty in Daund here allegedly opened indiscriminate fire in two public places here on Tuesday, police said. He was arrested later.


Maharashtra police trooper opens fire in public, killing three; held


The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to register FIRs in all 30 cases of alleged fake shootouts by the security forces in Manipur.


Register FIRs in all staged shoot-out cases in Manipur, SC tells CBI


The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, cleared a Rs 3,547 crore proposal for procurement of assault rifles and carbines on fast track basis.


Fast-track procurement of assault rifles, carbines cleared


Suspected Naga militants set afire nine tankers loaded with crude oil in the remote Namsik area on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on Tuesday evening.


Nine oil tankers set afire on Assam-Arunachal border


Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) R.P. Sharma on Tuesday issued an advisory to the police, educational institutions and parents to ensure that colleges are free of crime.


Odisha Police issues advisory to ensure crime-free colleges


Two labourers were injured in an explosion inside an army field ammunition depot in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Tuesday, police said.


Two injured in blast at army depot in J&K


Police in Imphal have recovered a foreign-made hand grenade on Tuesday here in M-Sector where some army offices, including the defence wing of the Press Information Bureau, are located.


Hand grenade found in army office in Manipur


India and Israel on Monday signed nine agreements, including in the areas of cyber security and oil and gas, following delegation-level talks headed by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu here.

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