Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said that he will visit Pakistan on June 27 in an effort to improve bilateral relations that are often hampered by mistrust and reciprocal accusations.


Afghan President to visit Pakistan on June 27


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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has brought separatist leader and alleged ringleader of stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir, Masrat Alam Bhat, from a state prison to Delhi to question him in connection with a terror funding case.


NIA brings J&K separatist Bhat to Delhi for questioning


Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday expressed his readiness to observe a ceasefire if the Taliban outfit also does.


Ghani expresses readiness to observe ceasefire if Taliban does


Paris, June 4 (IANS/AKI) United Nations cultural organisation Unesco chief Audrey Azoulay on Monday deplored the killing of television cameraman Obed Nangbatna in Chad last week an attack reportedly staged by Boko Haram jihadists.


Unesco condemns TV reporter's killing in Chad


Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a marathon meeting to take stock of internal security in the country and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, attended by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Intelligence Bureau chief.


Amit Shah holds internal security meeting, focus on J&K


Intelligence agencies in Jammu and Kashmir are verifying reports that a Kashmiri young man who joined the Islamic State is now in US Army custody in Syria in what could be the first such case from the Kashmir Valley.


Kashmiri with IS in US custody? Officials await answer


Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said the system cannot  be changed at gun point, referring to the Maoist agenda and violence.


Jharkhand CM warns Maoists against violence


One security personnel was killed while four others injured during a gun battle with Maoists in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Sunday, police said.


1 trooper killed in gun battle with Maoists in Jharkhand


AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy for his statement that Hyderabad is a "safe zone for terrorists".


Owaisi slams minister for calling Hyderabad 'safe zone' for terror


Five militants were killed and two policemen injured on Friday in three gunfights in Jammu and Kashmir.


Five militants killed, two policemen injured in Kashmir (Third Lead)


The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group said on Friday that it has unintentionally killed more than 1,300 civilians in Iraq and Syria since 2014.


US-led coalition 'killed 1,300 civilians in Syria, Iraq'


Shamima Begum, a British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away in 2015 to become an Islamic State (IS) jihadi bride, was "groomed and radicalized" due to a failure by UK authorities to protect her from the influence of extremists, a lawyer representing her family said.


UK failed to protect Shamima Begum: Lawyer


Three militants were killed and two policemen injured on Friday in two gunfights in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Kishtwar districts.


Three militants killed in Kashmir


A gunfight broke out between the security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Friday.


Gunfight erupts in J&K's Shopian district


As many as six people were killed and 16 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military training centre here on Thursday, officials said.


6 dead in suicide attack on Kabul military centre (2nd Lead)


The Punjab Police's Intelligence wing on Thursday said it averted terror attacks in the state with the arrest of two members of an ISI-backed Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) module.


Two BKI militants arrested in Punjab


At least six people were killed and six others wounded in a suicide blast outside a military training centre in the Afghan capital on Thursday, officials said.


Suicide blast near Afghan military training centre kills 6


Security forces on Thursday carried out a search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore area, police said.


Search operation in Kashmir's Sopore


Pakistani troopers resorted to indiscriminate shelling from across the line of control (LoC), leaving a woman injured in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday evening.


Woman injured in Pakistan shelling in J&K's Poonch


A total of 864 civilians and 29 personnel of security forces were killed in 47 terror attacks witnessed from 2004 till last year in the country, excluding Jammu and Kashmir and North East, as also the incidents of Left Wing extremism.


Terror attacks in India, excluding J&K and N-E, killed 864 civilians, 29 security men from 2004 to 2018	 (Lead, Correcting Headline)


A civilian was killed on Wednesday in clashes between security forces and protesters in Pinjora village of Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district.

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