In a unique punishment, the Bombay High Court on Thursday directed four youth from Thane, who stand accused of molestation and attempt to murder, to sweep public roads every week for six months, in return for quashing police proceedings against them....
Punjab's Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts remained on high alert on Thursday after earlier reports of suspicious people being seen in the area. Security forces carried out a thorough search operation in several villages around the Tibri army cantonment area near here....
India has named Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of the banned terror organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad, as well as the organisation itself and others as being responsible for the Pathankot attack in evidence shared by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval with his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Janjua, according to sources here. ...
India on Thursday said the ball was in Pakistan's court on continuation of the resumed bilateral talks, following the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab....
Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra returned here on Thursday evening, indicating that the oath-taking ceremony of Mehbooba Mufti as chief minister was likely to be delayed. ...
Thousands offered the 'Nimaz-e-Jinaza' (funeral prayer) of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed here on Thursday, with his daughter Mehbooba Mufti likely to succeed him, party sources said....
The death of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has left a huge void in the nation and in Jammu and Kashmir, President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. "Heartfelt condolences on the passing away of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed," tweeted the president, adding that Sayeed's ...
Tourism experts in Nepal have come up with a new proposal for cross-border tourism in the Himalayan region, the media reported on Thursday. At a forum here on Wednesday, tourism entrepreneurs proposed promotion of the Himalayan region -- including Nepal, Tibet's capital Lhasa, India's north-eastern state of Sikkim and Bhutan -- as a cross-border to...
Gajendra Chauhan on Thursday morning assumed office as FTII chairman as a large number of students staged a vociferous protest outside the campus. Police caned and detained at least 20 students. The police, deployed in large numbers, resorted to mild caning after some students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) a...
Chennai, Jan 7 (IANS) Nearly 340,000 bank employees across the country will strike work on January 8 to protest the implementation of the new Career Progression Scheme (CPS), a leader of the All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) said here on Thursday. He said the strike will be in protest against the violation of the bilateral settleme...
