Pakistani daily: India-Pak should reduce defence expense

A Malaysian couple was sentenced to hang for starving their Indonesian domestic help to death, a defence lawyer said on Friday, one of a string of shocking cases spotlighting abuse of domestic helpers in the region. Isti Komariyah weighed just 26 kilograms ...

Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, Nigerian new Defense Ministry. allafrica.com Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan shuffled his cabinet this week after a number of defections from his People's Democratic Party (PDP). General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, a ...

ITV News International Correspondent John Irvine has tweeted from Simferopol in the Crimea region of Ukraine. Fear is shaping events in Crimea, the multi-ethnic peninsula that finds itself at the heart of a tussle between great powers. A planned ...

Soldiers from Russia's Western Military District have started large-scale air defence exercises at Kapustin Yar testing range in Astrakhan Region, amid increasing tensions with the West over Ukraine. Involving 3,500 troops and more than 1,000 ...

Defence minister comes under fire for second explosion aboard Indian Navy vessel in 10 days, following fire aboard INS Sindhuratna Reuters New Delhi: Training its guns on the government for the latest mishap involving a naval warship, the Bharatiya Janata ...

China plans to boost defence spending to 808.23 billion yuan (about 9.6 billion euros) this year, up 12.2 per cent from last year and the fourth annual double-digit increase, according to country's defence budget. China's defence spending was ...

Taking a short-term view, 6,550 and 6,700 are the immediate levels for the Nifty and eventually a 12 percent upmove from current level is likely in the next four-six weeks, foresees Gautam Shah of JM Financial.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday hit out at the Defence Ministry helmed by senior colleague A K Antony for neglecting maintenance of military assets such as aircraft and submarines. Chidambaram, addressing a convention of the National Students' ...

‘Chinese budget for defence is growing by two-digit figures… To add to Indian worry, is Beijing’s collusion with Pakistan.’ ‘War is not an option since both India and China are nuclear weapons states.’ ‘Sri Lanka is playing the India vs China game to promote its own interest.’ ‘China is known to be involved in cyber security threats to India.’ Shishir Gupta, author of The Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte ...