At least four women belonging to a minority community in Pakistan were killed by unknown assailants in an allegedly sectarian-motivated targeted killing late on Tuesday....

Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra on Tuesday created a flutter at a tourism event here by asking Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti if she considered slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani a terrorist, and said that tourism and terrorism cannot go together....
The Congress on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call the "Pakistani bluff" on the surgical strikes as the BJP asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal whether he trusts the Indian Army or Islamabad's propaganda....
India on Tuesday alleged that Pakistan troops resorted to unprovoked heavy firing in at least three places on the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir, stepping up the tension between the tense neighbours....
The BJP Delhi unit on Tuesday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of acting as "Pakistan's spokesperson" and held a protest outside his official residence here to press for his resignation....
A police complaint has been filed against veteran actor Om Puri for his comments that were found to be insulting to Indian soldiers by a section of the film industry....

British trio -- David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz -- won Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" on Tuesday. ...
Parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) experienced intermittent rain on Tuesday afternoon affording residents a little respite from heat, the weather office said. The relief was, however, likely to be short-lived with humidity expected to rise, analysts said....

The situation on the frontier with Pakistan is still "live" after the surgical strikes on terrorist ...
Growing radicalization and cross-border terrorism posed a serious challenge to India's security, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. The Prime Minister made the comments after signing an MoU with his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong to facilitate greater business exchanges and collaborations. "Rising tide of terrorism, especially c...