New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Faridabad module case linked to the Delhi car bomb blast in November last year has served as a stark wake-up call for Indian security agencies. While several white-collar modules have been uncovered in the past, the Faridabad network operated on a far larger and more organised scale.An Intelligence Bureau official said that emerging patterns point to a growing preference among terror groups for white-collar operatives, indicating a shift in recruitment and operatio…
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Ankara, April 15 (IANS) As many as four people, including three students and a teacher, were killed and 20 others injured in a shooting incident at Ayser Calik Middle School in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras on Wednesday. Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerrem Unluer stated that the attacker was an eighth class student who carried weapons to the school, Turkey’s leading Anadolu news agency reported.The shooting incident in Kahramanmaras comes a day after a former student opened fire in his former school in Siv…
Ankara, April 14 (IANS) At least 16 people were injured after a young man opened indiscriminate fire in the corridor of his former school in Siverek district of Turkey on Tuesday. The attacker died later after committing suicide, local media reported. Sanliurfa Governor Hasan Sildak met the injured people at Siverek State Hospital in connection with the shooting incident at Ahmet Koyuncu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School. Speaking to reporters outside the hospital, he stated that 16…
Doha, April 11 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a sharp verbal attack on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, accusing him of “massacring his own Kurdish citizens” while accommodating Iran’s “terror regime”. Jewish Prime Minister’s statement comes as high-stakes US-Iran negotiations are underway in Islamabad.In a post on X, Netanyahu said: “Israel under my leadership will continue to fight Iran’s terror regime and its proxies, unlike Erdo…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) The United States has sharply criticised the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer calling it “ineffective and dysfunctional” after the 14th Ministerial Conference failed to deliver meaningful reform, particularly on digital trade rules. In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, following the conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Greer said the WTO is no longer a “serious forum” and wa…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) India and Turkey held the 12th round of Foreign Office Consultations in New Delhi on Wednesday, reviewing bilateral ties with a focus on diverse sectors such as trade and investment, tourism, technology and innovation, energy, cooperation in educational and cultural fields, people to people ties and fight against cross border terrorism. Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Sibi George and Turkey’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Berris Ekinci c…
Paris, April 8 (IANS) A leading international press freedom organisation strongly condemned Turkey’s use of digital censorship against exiled journalists, calling on the authorities to end the “oppressive policy”. Describing the act as a continuation of the crackdown on journalists already forced into exile, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asserted that cyber censorship is increasingly being used as a tool to silence exiled media professionals. It added that at least five reporters were ta…
Jerusalem, April 7 (IANS) Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Tuesday severely condemned the terrorist attack on the Israeli Consulate in Turkey’s Istanbul while vowing that “terror will not deter” them. The statement came after a gunfight erupted between three attackers and police personnel deployed outside the building housing the closed Israeli Consulate in Turkey’s Istanbul city on Tuesday. All three attackers were killed in the incident outside the consulate building in Besiktas d…
Ankara, April 7 (IANS) All three attackers were killed after a gunfight erupted with police personnel deployed outside the building housing the closed Israeli Consulate in Turkey’s Istanbul city on Tuesday. The gunfire erupted outside the consulate building in Besiktas district, local media reported. Turkey’s Justice Minister Akin Gurlek stated that Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation after receiving reports of gunfire sounds in the vicinity of the Israeli Con…
Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) Shares of Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the parent company of Domino’s outlets in India, plummeted sharply in early trade on Tuesday after the company reported weak like-for-like (LFL) growth in its fourth quarter (Q4) business update.The stock fell as much as 9.23 per cent to Rs 418.50 on the NSE, underperforming the benchmark Nifty 50, which declined 0.6 per cent.Jubilant FoodWorks reported a consolidated revenue growth of 19 per cent year-on-year to Rs 2,506 crore in the Janu…