Amidst the flare-up in the Kashmir Valley and objections raised by the armed forces and the main Opposition BJP, the government on Monday decided not to take a final call on the demand to partially withdraw the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some areas in J&K. It instead decided to call an all-party meeting on

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Monday told top commanders of the armed forces that “there has been an increasing assertiveness on the part of China” and that India is taking all steps to upgrade its defence capabilities. The statement, made at the Armed Forces Combined Commanders’ Conference on Monday, comes in the wake of the recent Chinese refusal to permit a visit of the Indian Army’s Northern Command chief Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal to China.

Iran’s Press TV has been banned in Jammu and Kashmir following its footage of a small group of conservative Christians tearing some pages from a Quran in a protest outside the White House to denounce what they called the “charade of Islam” on the anniversary of the 9/11attacks.

A statement issued by the government after the Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on Monday said the Centre’s intention was to restart the dialogue process with different sections of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The CCS meeting had set off speculation that the government could consider a partial withdrawal of the AFSPA. The official statement, however, did not mention that law.

In the wake of the violence that has been rocking the Kashmir Valley, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reached out to the “youth of Kashmir”, saying they were Indian citizens and that their grievances have to be addressed. He said the government was willing to talk to every group that abjures violence, but made it clear that the

The much-talked about democracy in the Pradesh Congress seems to have come to an end, after the election for the post of president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) and the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) turned into a selection process on Monday. The MPCC has sent a one-line proposal to the AICC president Mrs Sonia Gandhi, asking her to nominate the heads of both the Congress committees.

Increasing possibilities of the BJP inviting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to campaign for it for the Assembly polls in Bihar have heightened the JD(U)’s worries and set the stage for yet another showdown between Bihar’s two ruling allies.

The Narendra Modi issue continues to keep the BJP-JD(U) alliance on the edge, with a flip-flop by senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on the likelihood of Mr Modi campaigning in Bihar.

A Class 3 student of Amity International School in Mayur Vihar was strangled to death by his aunt who held the father of deceased responsible for her matrimonial dispute.
The accused, identified as Shivangi alias Neena, walked into the Krishna Nagar police station at around 6 pm on Sunday and confessed that she had strangulated her b

The doctors at Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre, AIIMS, conducted a rare surgery on a 30-year-old man from Mathura who had a rod pierced from the space between eye and nose through spinal cord.