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New Delhi, May 3: The Government on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, to the Ministry of External Affairs and conveyed New Delhi's outrage over killing of two Indian soldiers and mutilation of their bodies by the personnel of the neighbouring country along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Basit was summoned to the South Block where Foreign Secretary S

New Delhi, May 3: The government on Tuesday asserted in the Supreme Court that Aadhaar was made mandatory for PAN card to weed out fake PAN cards which were used for terror financing and circulation of blackmoney, while terming the concerns over privacy as "bogus". The idea behind bringing Aadhaar was to have a "secure and robust system" to ensure that the identity of a person cannot be faked, it

New Delhi, May 3: BJP ally Shiv Sena and the Congress party on Tuesday attacked the government over the mutilation of two soldiers' bodies by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control (LoC) with Uddhav Thackeray asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop his "Mann ki baat" and instead take up "Gun ki baat". Congress leader and former HRD Minister Kapil Sibal recalled the remarks of Smriti Irani

New Delhi, May 2: The crisis in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) following Delhi civic poll debacle took a new turn on Tuesday with senior leader Kumar Vishwas saying he will take a decision soon, a remark that set tongues wagging about his future course of action. Vishwas virtually defied Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's dictat to senior leaders not to air their views and grievances

Beijing, May 2: On a day when India is mourning its braveheart soldiers who were subjected to barbarity by Pakistan, a report suggests that China is increasingly getting interested in playing a role in resolving the Kashmir dispute. An article in the Global Times, a ruling Communist Party of China publication, says that China now has a "vested interest" in mediating between India and Pakistan

New Delhi, May 2: While most travellers try to strike the best deal by booking flight tickets months before their trip, a new survey has revealed that making the bookings precisely 24 weeks prior to departure is the ideal time. Conducted by online travel portal Skyscanner, the study crunched two years' worth of data from over 50 million monthly users to cull out the Best Time to Book (BTTB) travel

Srinagar, May 2: Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists today carried out a major attack in Kashmir, killing seven people, including five policemen, after dragging them out of a banks cash van in Kulgam district. The cash van of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, which was returning to Kulgam district headquarter from Damhal Hanji Pora, was waylaid by a group of heavily-armed terrorists this afternoon, police said

New Delhi, May 2: A day after accusing senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas of conspiring to break the party, Delhi legislator Amanatullah Khan on Monday night resigned from the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC). Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is also the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) national convener, had called a PAC meeting to discuss the issues that arose after the allegations

New Delhi, May 1: : India and Turkey have decided to work together to strengthen cooperation, both bilaterally and multilaterally, to effectively counter terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two leaders agreed on the need to act and stand against those who create and conceive, support and sustain, shelter and spread

Jammu, May 1: An army JCO and a BSF head constable were today killed and another soldier was injured as Pakistan fired rockets at a forward defence location (FDL) post of the paramilitary force along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. The ceasefire violation took place around 8:30 AM. A junior commissioned officer of the army and a BSF head constable were killed in the attack, a