The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday recovered from a Shopian village dead body of a woman killed by gunmen.


Dead body recovered in J&K's Shopian


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The Australian Ministry of Defence on Friday confirmed that an Australian air strike in the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2017 against the Islamic State (IS) may have killed several civilians.


2017 airstrike in Iraq may have killed civilians: Australia


Two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants were killed on Friday in a gunfight with security forces in a Jammu and Kashmir village in Pulwama district, police said.


2 Jaish militants killed in J&K


The US military on Thursday said its forces conducted an airstrike near a terrorist encampment in Somalia, killing 24 Al-Shabaab militants.


US military kills 24 Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia


Chairman of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says his telephone conversation with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was their first contact from the Imran Khan administration at the "political and leadership level" and they told him that Kashmir issue cannot be solved  unless India and Pakistan come close to each other.


Mirwaiz told Pak Minister Kashmir row can't be solved unless India, Pakistan come close (IANS Interview)


Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said on Thursday that he was ashamed to see rampant corruption in the state which kept away industrialists and investors and vowed to send corrupt officials to jail.


Ashamed to see rampant corruption, will send corrupt to jail: J&K Governor


India is closely following the Afghan peace process undertaken by different stakeholders and supports all such efforts, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.


India closely following Afghan peace process: Government


India and China discussed regional and international counter-terrorism efforts during the eighth meeting of the India-China Joint Working Group on Counter-terrorism in Beijing on January 29-30, the External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.


India, China discuss counter-terrorism efforts


Two days after their conviction, a special court here on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) chief Ranjan Daimary and nine others for their involvement in the serial blasts of 2008 that left 88 people dead and 540 injured across the state.


Assam court sentences 10 to life imprisonment for 2008 blasts


A grenade attack on a mosque in the Philippine city  of Zamboanga City killed two persons early on Wednesday, authorities said.


2 killed in Philippines mosque attack


Following delegation-level talks between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Chingiz Azamatovich Aidarbekov here on Tuesday, India and Kyrgyzstan agreed to fight terrorism and radicalisation together, besides expanding cooperation in development partnership, among other areas.


India, Kyrgyzstan to fight terror together, expand development partnership


At least three people were killed and five others were injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the police said.


3 killed in Mogadishu car bomb explosion


Five Maoists were killed by security forces in Jharkhand's Khuti district on Tuesday, police said.


5 Maoists killed in Jharkhand


A motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated at a public market in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Mocha, killing six civilians and injuring 26 others, a government official said.


Six killed, several injured in motorcycle bomb blast in Yemen


Militants killed a bank guard on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.


Militants kill bank guard in Kashmir


At least 19 militants were killed and 11 others injured after Afghan warplanes targeted a Taliban training centre in the country's Kandahar province on Monday, officials said.


19 militants killed in Afghan airstrike


A special CBI judge here on Monday convicted 14 people, including NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary, in the October 30, 2008 serial blasts in Assam that killed 88 people, saying the quantum of punishment will be pronounced on Wednesday.


Daimary among 14 convicted in Assam serial blasts


Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani on Monday called on the Taliban to engage in direct talks with the government or be used a "tool" by other countries.


Engage in direct talks or be used as 'tool', Ghani tells Taliban


A Special CBI judge here on Monday convicted 15 people, including National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) chairman Ranjan Daimary, in the October 30, 2008 serial blasts across Assam, saying the quantum of punishment would be pronounced on Wednesday.


Ranjan Daimary among 15 convicted in Assam serial blast case


The Afghan Army launched an operation and freed 38 people from a Taliban prison in Ghazni province, the authorities said on Monday.


Afghan Army frees 38 from Taliban prison


The forces of the US-led coalition bombarded the Islamic State (IS)-held farms in Syria's eastern Euphrates region, killing 42 people, including 13 civilians, a war monitor reported.

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