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Jammu: A terrorist, suspected to be affiliated with the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, was killed in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said Sunday. Also, a fresh encounter broke out in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri district Sunday evening when security...

Jammu/Srinagar: The intense campaigning for the third and final phase of polling in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election concluded Sunday evening, with major political parties, particularly the BJP, Congress, NC and PDP, engaging in fierce exchanges over critical issues, including Pakistan, Article 370, terrorism...

Chennai: High-profile DMK leader V Senthil Balaji, who was days ago granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case, was sworn in as minister by Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi here Sunday. Three other DMK legislators, R Rajendran (Salem-North), Govi Chezhiaan (Thiruvidaimarudur)...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Monday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last month. As per the cause...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has courted controversy by threatening to gherao junior doctors of Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in Berhampore. Expressing his resentment over the "attitude of some junior doctors of Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital," Kabir, the Bharatpur MLA in Murshidabad...

Bijapur: Five security personnel were injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites exploded in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Sunday, police said. The incident occurred in Tarrem police station area when a team of security personnel was out on a demining exercise from...

Chennai: Udhayanidhi Stalin will be sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister with added portfolios of planning and Development as the Tamil Nadu Cabinet reshuffle is scheduled around 3:30pm Sunday at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. This is one of the major political developments in the Dravidian...

Srinagar: People's Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti has said that she has called off her campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections scheduled for Sunday to protest Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah's death in Israeli airstrike in Beirut, the state capital of Lebanon. Hezbollah...

Chandigarh: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said that had he been released from jail three to four months back, his party would have formed government in Haryana after the assembly polls. Kejriwal, however, at the same time said the next government in Haryana cannot...

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the decision to transform Jammu and Kashmir into a Union Territory is “temporary” and the BJP-led government will restore the statehood to the region. Launching a scathing attack on the opposition Congress, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic...