Iran on Monday test-fired two missiles on the last day of navy war games near the Strait of Hormuz, official media quoted a navy spokesman as saying. A Qader ground-to-ship cruise missile and a short-range Nasr anti-ship missile were launched in the tests, which came after the test-firing on Sunday of a medium-range ground-to-air missile in the area, according to Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi. Another missile, named Nour, was to be fired later Monday, …

US officials have expressed concern at the loss of a drone near Iran's eastern border with Afghanistan. A Pentagon spokesman said the US were worried especially as the unmanned aircraft was "in a place where we're not able to get to it". Iranian media say the drone was shot down and was now in the hands of the armed forces. It said the plane had suffered minimal damage. The drone, known as a Sentinel, is the first such loss by the US. US Navy …

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma's next "Not A Love Story" is inspired by the true story of the heinous murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover, but the director claims that it's not a biopic of Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, who has been convicted in the case. "The film is not a biopic. It has been inspired by the incident but not based on that particular incident. The characters are imaginative and I wanted to show the state-of-mind or the emotion that …

Relations between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and US spy agency CIA – that were strained after the secret mission in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden – have now improved, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Sunday. Talking to journalists, Gilani said Pakistan has made it clear to US that Abbottabad-like operation was not acceptable to it, The Nation reported. Al Qaeda founder bin Laden was killed in a secret operation …

US President Barack Obama watched the real action unfold live on a TV screen as a US commando gunned down Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Abbottabad in Pakistan early Monday. He broke the news to the world later that the US Navy Seals had taken the world’s deadliest terrorist. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a US Navy Seal, President Obama saw Osama being shot in the left eye, the Daily Mail reported. The Seal then carried …

Russia will double its production of ballistic missiles from 2013, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday in his annual address to the Russian parliament – his last before legislative elections later this year and presidential elections early next year. “The armed forces will receive new strategic and tactical missile systems, such as RS-24 Yars, Bulava and Iskander M,” Putin said. Speaking to defence sector officials in Siberia inn March, …

At least 11 people, including eight crew members and three labourers, were killed when a Khartoum-bound Russian cargo plane crashed near the Dalmiya road in Karachi minutes after taking-off Sunday. “The plane took-off from Karachi terminal around 1.45 a.m. and crashed at an under-construction site of a naval complex in Gulistan-i-Jamal, just after two-three minutes,” Samaa TV reported. “The pilot had given last message to control tower that he …

K.Nagababu, producer of RamCharan, Genelia starrer ‘Orange’ has planned to take serious actions against Piracy. We have earlier informed that the producer is making his efforts in contacting retired police officers in order to execute the plans. Now, Naga Babu has made a press release from Anjana Productions on taking the serious actions against the piracy of his Orange. Mohammed Vaziruddin, a retired police officer of Assistant Commissioner of …

India Tuesday sought structured global cooperation to defeat the “serious challenge” of piracy and terrorism that has reached “transnational proportions”. Addressing the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus eight (Asean+8) defence ministers meeting in this Vietnam capital, Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony said his country was committed to fighting piracy. “India is committed to working together with other countries in the efforts …

The charming and glamorous beauty Nayanthara, who is busy on working for the film ‘Boss Engira Bhaskaran’ opposite Arya in the lead, was very upset over lots of rumors about her and Prabhu Deva. So, Nayan upset over these rumors says “I came to cinema in 2003. At that time I did not have any big aim. I thought of quitting films after acting in a film. But time has made me an eternal actress. Name and fame flooded me. I will be happy if my film …