New Delhi: Rohit Sharma on Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect, ending the relentless speculation surrounding his future in the longest format and leaving India in need of a new captain for the upcoming five-match series against England. Having already retired from T20 Internationals after leading India to the World Cup…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the strikes carried out by Indian armed forces against targets in Pakistan and PoK is a befitting reply from India to those who dare to challenge our borders, military, and citizens. At a meeting of chief ministers, DGPs, and chief secretaries of the states…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Security Council on Wednesday said the country’s armed forces have been duly authorised to undertake retaliation at a time, place, and manner of their choosing in response to the Indian military strikes. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over the National Security Council (NSC) meeting, which was attended by cabinet ministers, chief ministers,…
New Delhi: India on Wednesday carried out precision strikes across nine locations identified as terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Indian forces hit four targets in Pakistan and five in PoK, using specialised munitions. The strikes were aimed at dismantling infrastructure of terrorist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that India was marching ahead with renewed confidence in the field of space exploration, and its astronauts’ footprints will be on the Moon. Mars and Venus were also on the country’s radar for exploration missions, he stressed in a pre-recorded message for the Global Space Exploration…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here, hours after Indian armed forces’ precision strikes at terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Nine sites, including headquarters and training centres of Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), from where terror attacks against India…
New Delhi/ Mumbai: More than 200 flights have been cancelled, and at least 18 airports, including Srinagar, have been temporarily shut for operations amid restrictions in the wake of the armed forces launching missile attacks against Pakistan on Wednesday morning. Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India Express, Akasa Air, and a few foreign airlines cancelled…
New Delhi: “Fearless in unity. Boundless in strength,” said cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar as he led India’s sporting fraternity in lauding ‘Operation Sindoor’ to destroy terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan. The Indian armed forces, in the early hours of Wednesday, launched precision missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir,…
Lahore: Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar acknowledged on Wednesday that 10 members of his family and four close associates were killed in India’s missile attack on the outfit’s headquarters in Bahawalpur. A statement attributed to Azhar said those killed in the attack on Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah in Bahawalpur included the JeM chief’s elder sister…
Islamabad: Pakistan is ready to “wrap up” tensions with India, if New Delhi de-escalates the situation, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday. His remarks came hours after India carried out a military strike on terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Asif was reported as saying by Bloomberg Television that Pakistan will only respond…
