Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condemned "most strongly" the terror attack earlier in the day in Kandahar, Afghanistan, that claimed the lives of three top provincial officials.


India condemns terror attack in Afghanistan


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Three top Afghan officials and a local journalist were killed in a shooting at a meeting attended by Afghan and US officials in this southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Thursday.


3 top Afghan provincial officials killed, US general unhurt


Meghalayas most wanted separatist leader and Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) General Secretary Cheristerfield Thangkhiew surrendered before Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Thursday at the Police Headquarters.


Meghalaya secessionist leader enters India, surrenders


At least two Americans and an Afghan were injured in a shooting at the Governor's complex in the country's Kandahar province on Thursday, but the commander of Nato's Resolute Support Mission, Austin 'Scott' Miller, escaped unhurt.


2 Americans, 1 Afghan injured in Kandahar shooting


Raking up the pet saffron agenda ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday pitched for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya "at the earliest" through law and accused "fundamentalist forces" of obstructing the process.


Bring law to build Ram temple at Ayodhya: Bhagwat (Roundup)


A militant was apprehended after a grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pattan town on Wednesday left three policemen and a civilian injured.


Militant apprehended after hurling grenade in J&K


Maoists on Tuesday called for a boycott of the Telangana Assembly elections scheduled for December 7.


Maoists call for boycott of Telangana polls


Two suspected female militants surrendered on Wednesday after Bangladeshi security forces raided the hideout of a banned Islamist group under siege in the country's Narsingdi district.


Two women surrender in Bangladesh militant hideout raid


At least 10 people were killed and around 50 were injured on Wednesday in an explosion at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea.


10 killed as explosion rocks college in Crimea


Three policemen, including a senior officer, were injured along with a civilian on Wednesday in a grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police sources said.


Four injured in grenade attack in J&K


A bomb ripped through the campaign office of a leading parliamentary candidate in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Wednesday, killing him and injuring eight others, the police said.


Poll candidate killed in Afghan blast


The US military on Tuesday said its special forces conducted an airstrike in the vicinity of Harardhere town in Mudug region of central Somalia on October 12, killing 60 Al Shabab militants.


US airstrike kills 60 Al Shabab militants in Somalia


Yemen's Houthi rebels fighting government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah claimed they have killed 13 soldiers during an attack on Tuesday.


Yemen's rebels claim killing 13 soldiers in Hodeidah attack


At least 17 civilians have been killed and several others injured in clashes between two rebel factions in South Sudan's border town of Yei in the southwest of the country, the police said on Tuesday.


17 civilians killed in South Sudan fighting


Two bodies suspected to be of militants were found on Tuesday after Bangladeshi security forces stormed a hideout of the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in the country's Narsingdi district, the police said.


Raid on militants' hideout in Bangladesh kills 2


Some traders in the capital city of Jharkhand have received letters allegedly from Maoist extremists asking them to pay Rs 10 lakh each for expansion of the ultra-left organisation in the state.


Maoists seek Rs 10 lakh from Ranchi traders


At least 19 members of the Afghan security forces were killed and 16 others were injured in Taliban attacks, few days ahead of parliamentary elections in the country, officials said on Tuesday.


Taliban attack Afghan check posts, kill 19 troops


Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that terrorists have been devising new strategies to strike and warned that increased use of the social media by anti-national forces is a new threat.


Terrorists devising new strategies to strike: Rajnath


Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Tuesday urged Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar to intervene and ensure a smooth conduct of academic activities in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).


J&K Governor speaks to Minister Javadekar over AMU row


The Naxals blew up railway tracks in Jharkhand's Giridih district affecting train services on the busy Grand Chord Dhanbad division, an official said on Tuesday.


Naxals blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand


Students of the Kashmir University staged a silent march on Monday to show solidarity with Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students facing sedition charges for trying to offer funeral prayers in absentia for a slain Ph.D scholar-turned-militant commander.

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