Chief minister Omar Abdullah is set to recommend denotification of some parts of Jammu and Kashmir declared as disturbed areas and if accepted by the governor will pave the way for removing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from those places, highly placed government sources said on Friday.

New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori was philosophical about his brain snap which cost him his first Test century against Australia at the Gabba on Friday.

Pakistani officials gave the green light for the Nato strikes that killed 24 of their troops last month, unaware that the forces were in the area, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

With the wedding and festive season fast approaching, menus have undergone a complete makeover. The current trend is to tweak the traditional and classic to fit modern recipes and create innovative dishes that will go well with these festivities. Here is one such recipe that has undergone a makeover to fit your party menu.

Airbrushing pictures is as common as applying make-up before stepping out of your home. Everyone from movie stars to college kids ensure that tiny flaws like pimples, stray strands of hair, dark circles, uneven skin tone and the odd bulge and wrinkle are erased out of their snaps before they are posted on social networking websites, preserved in albums or flaunted on magazine covers and billboards.

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This is the first time in many seasons that the selectors have picked a squad purely on form. There isn’t one player who is traveling to Australia just on reputation. The selection of the squad to England was poorly handled with too many assumptions on fitness while there were also players who toured on the sheer reputation rather than proven recent performance.

India on Thursday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a military base in Odisha, a defence official said.

Seeking urgent Central initiative on the vexed Mullaperiyar Dam issue, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday and stress on the importance of holding early talks between the state and Tamil Nadu to defuse the crisis.

After narrowly escaping defeat in the series opener, India would look to guard against complacency and hope for an improved showing from their batsmen when they take on the West Indies in the second cricket one-dayer here on Friday.

In a setback to the Narendra Modi government, the Gujarat high court on Thursday ordered the CBI to probe the 2004 fake encounter case of teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others and held that the Gujarat police does not instill confidence among the victims.