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Maoists trigger landmine near Andhra-Odisha border, blast kills Home Guard

News Following the incident, combing operations were intensified in the area. TNM Staff Andhra-Maoist landmine.jpg Screenshot: ETV Andhra A Home Guard died in the Visakhapatnam Agency area on Friday morning, after Maoists allegedly triggered a landmine near the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB). According to reports, the landmine was remotely triggered around 9.15am when the Home Guard was […]

Telangana-Andhra water sharing row: 1.5 tmcft Krishna water for Hyderabad

News This decision by the KRMB comes after escalated tensions between the two states, over water sharing. TNM Staff Nagarjunasagar dam (Flickr – Rajib Ghosh).jpg Image: Flickr/Rajib Ghosh The Krishna River Management Board issued a fresh order on Friday, that allotted 6.5 tmcft water to Andhra Pradesh, and a meagre 1.5 tmcft to Telangana, from […]

South Korea, US conduct military drills despite Pyongyang threats

Author: AFPMon, 2017-05-01 03:00ID: 1493581530618956300SEOUL: South Korea and the US wrapped up their annual large-scale military drills on Sunday, but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered dire threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been running sky-high for weeks, with signs that the North might be preparing a long-range missile launch […]

Chile’s governing coalition splits ahead of November election

Author: ReutersMon, 2017-05-01 03:00ID: 1493582277299081500SANTIAGO: Chile’s Christian Democrat party voted on Saturday to skip primaries and go straight to the first round of the presidential election in November, rupturing the center-left governing coalition and likely boosting the chances of a victory for the right.Delegates at the Christian Democrats’ national assembly voted with a 63 percent majority for […]

Nigeria releases top Biafra separatist leader

Author: ReutersSat, 2017-04-29 00:28ID: 1493495680160740500ABUJA: The leader of a group calling for the secession of an area in southeast Nigeria, formerly known as Biafra, was released on bail after being detained for nearly two years, his lawyer said.Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) campaign group, has been held at Kuje prison in the […]

ASEAN firms up S.China Sea stance as Beijing lobbies over statement

Author: REUTERSSat, 2017-04-29 09:37ID: 1493495569160724600MANILA: Southeast Asian countries have altered a statement to be issued at Saturday’s ASEAN Summit to include references to militarization and island-building in the South China Sea, the latest draft shows, in a move likely to frustrate Beijing.Chinese Embassy representatives in Manila had sought to influence the content of the communique by lobbying […]

Independence push threatens Hong Kong’s autonomy, says Beijing official

Author: REUTERSSat, 2017-04-29 14:50ID: 1493494616730671900HONG KONG: The legal chief of Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong said on Saturday growing calls for independence could make the territory’s current “one country, two systems” constitutional framework unsustainable.Chinese leaders are increasingly concerned about a fledgling independence or secessionist movement in the former British colony of Hong Kong, which returned to […]

Philippine police chief backs ‘secret cell’ detention

Author: AFPSat, 2017-04-29 11:37ID: 1493494526890659800MANILA: The Philippines’ police chief has defended the detention of a dozen people inside a closet-sized secret cell in a case that raised further alarm about abuses under President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs.The government’s human rights commission discovered a dozen men and women packed into the tiny cell behind a wooden […]