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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Turkish police on Tuesday (June 23, 2026) arrested more than 200 people suspected of links to the Islamic State and outlawed far-left groups, officials said, before an upcoming NATO summit. The Ankara prosecutor’s office said 209 people had been detained in the capital, while 32 others remained at…
The Afghans are understandably furious. After more than two decades of unleashing terror on them from the mujahideen era through the Taliban times, Pakistan decided to bomb Afghan villages on Tuesday, killing some 46 people, including women and children. The villages allegedly sheltered the cadres of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). That’s ironic. The TTP is…
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The exchange of firing is going on. (Representational image) Srinagar: Two CRPF jawans and two policemen were injured in an encounter with terrorists in the Khanyar area here on Saturday, officials said.Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Khanyar in the morning following inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area, they…
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It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari friend, Tabish Khair – now an established novelist and poet – to celebrate the New Year festivities. While waiting for others to get ready, I switched…
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It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari friend, Tabish Khair – now an established novelist and poet – to celebrate the New Year festivities. While waiting for others to get ready, I switched…
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A mural features the image of late Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was slain on the grounds of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in June 2023, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada on September 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh independence advocate whose killing two months ago is at…