New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said, it has taken up the investigation of Shaurya Chakra awardee Comrade Balwinder Singh Sandhu's murder case.

Washington [US], January 27 (ANI): The US considers Pakistan a "major non-NATO ally," a status bestowed upon only seventeen countries that facilitate military trade and cooperation.

Amsterdam [Netherlands], January 27 (ANI): The discourse on security has shifted from 'traditional' security issues such as inter-State conflict and nuclear war to 'non-traditional' threats by non-State actors such as the Al-Qaeda, IS and Lashkar-e-Taiba. European and South Asian countries need to adopt a multifaceted response to counter it, said a European think tank.

In this special feature, we look at 10 fine Bollywood actors who won National Awards for the wrong movies, as well as the films we believe they should have won National Awards for (or at, least winning for those movies made more sense).

Hong Kong, January 26 (ANI): People who have fled Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, following the imposition of the draconian National Security Law by Beijing, said that is suffocating to live in the city.

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 26 (ANI): Safiullah Amiri, deputy head of the Kunduz provincial council, and his bodyguard were wounded in the Kunduz blast on Tuesday morning, reported TOLO News.

Bogota [Colombia], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): Former Colombian paramilitary member Hernan Giraldo Serna was extradited from the United States after serving 12 years in jail for drug trafficking to face over 40 arrest warrants at home for terrorism, torture, the sexual abuse of minors, abduction and murder, Colombia's migration authorities said on Tuesday.

New York [US], January 26 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, countries like India have launched vaccination drives and are assisting others while at the same time, there are countries that continue to foment terror and undertake disinformation campaigns, India's Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu said on Tuesday.

New Delhi [India], January 26 (ANI): India and the United Kingdom strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and emphasised the need for "strengthening international cooperation to combat the global menace of terrorism comprehensively including cross border terrorism in South Asia".

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 25 (ANI/Sputnik): A roadside bomb blast targeting policemen in Afghanistan's western Herat province killed a chief of a counter-terrorism unit in the Shindand district on Monday, a source told Sputnik.