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Srinagar, Jul 3: An unidentified militant was killed today in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Kashmir, police said. Security forces launched a search operation in Bahmnoo area of Pulwama this morning following information about presence of militants there, a police spokesman said. He said one militant was killed in the operation,which was still going on. The identity of

Lucknow, Jul 2: The lady cop, who had taken on the BJP leaders and fined one of them for not wearing helmet in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahar town, about 500 kilometres from here, was shunted out of the district allegedly on the demand of the local unit of the saffron party. Shreshtha Thakur, the circle officer (CO) of Syana in Bulandshahar, was on Saturday night transferred to Baharaich, according

New Delhi, Jul 2: India has pushed in more troops in a "non-combative mode" to strengthen its position in an area near Sikkim, where its soldiers have been locked in a standoff with Chinese troops for almost a month now in what has been the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962. India brought in more troops after the destruction of two of its bunkers and "aggressive tactics"

Panaji, Jul 2: BJP president Amit Shah has said that more incidents of lynching had occurred during the previous governments than during the three years of NDA rule, but no one had raised questions then. "I do not want to compare and undermine the current incidents of lynching. I am also serious about it. But there have been more lynching incidents in 2011, 2012 and 2013," Shah told a gathering of

New Delhi, Jul 2: President Pranab Mukherjee joined Congress president Sonia Gandhi in expressing serious concern over growing number of mob lynching cases in India, wondering whether the society is vigilant enough to save the basic tenets of the country. “When mob lynching becomes so high and uncontrollable, we have to pause and reflect, are we vigilant enough?,” Mukherjee said at the release of

Panaji, Jul 2: Hailing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), BJP chief Amit Shah today said the new tax regime would accelerate the country's economic growth and bring an end to the 'inspector raj'. The GST was formally launched in Delhi in a midnight function in Parliament. "The launch of GST has dissolved over 17 different taxes, converting them into a single tax, which will help traders

Bengaluru, Jul 1: Senior leader of the Samajwadi Party and Member of Parliament Azam Khan has been booked under charges of sedition for his controversial comments about the Indian Army. The charges were filed when Anil Pandey, a member of the equally controversial right-wing Hindu groups Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, took offence to the statement and approached the police. Azam Khan, in a

Srinagar, Jul 1: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including commander Bashir Lashkari who was behind the killing of six policemen last month, were gunned down by security forces in Kashmir's Anantnag district today, police said. Two civilians, 44-year-old Tahira and 21-year-old Shadab Ahmad Chopan, were also killed during the operation in Brenti-Batpora village in Dialgam area of the district

Mumbai, Jul 1: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said that the ongoing accelerated reform initiatives like GST and continuing political stability will push the economic growth scale to 7.3% in terms of GVA in the current fiscal year. The Financial Stability Report (FSR) 2017 bases its optimism to the lower fiscal deficit at 3.2% for this year, down from 3.5% in 2016-17, increasing public

Mumbai, Jun 30: NDA ally Shiv Sena today came down heavily on the Centre over its decision to privatise national carrier Air India, saying had such a decision been taken by the previous Congress-led UPA government, the BJP would not have spared it. It also asked the finance minister to spell out the reasons which made the 'Maharaja' (the Air India's characteristic logo) a "beggar." The Sena's