Srinagar: Four people, including a terrorist, were killed in south Kashmir's Shopian district after a mobile vehicle check post was attacked on Sunday. According to reports, a joint mobile vehicle check post (MVCP) near Pohan was attacked when the security forces signalled a car to stop in Shopian, but it did not. The Army men were fired upon and they retaliated, in which a terrorist was killed, a senior army official said. ... Read More

Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya gave time to the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party-Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party formations to prove their majority as both staked claim to form the government. T.R. Zeliang refused to resign as Chief Minister even as the BJP and its regional ally NDPP staked claim on Sunday. ... Read More

Opposition parties are all set to raise the issue of financial scams involving public sector banks to corner the government in Parliament when the second part of the Budget session resumes on Monday. ... Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a meeting with the Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled States on Wednesday as the party gets ready for elections to a few big States this year and to the Lok Sabha in 2019. His unambiguous message to the Chief Ministers was to accelerate welfare programmes targeted at the poor and achieve targets of flagship programmes of the Centre. ... Read More

Washington: Describing India as an incredibly valuable and close counterterrorism partner of the US, the Trump administration today said the future is very bright for bilateral co-operation in this arena. US Counterterrorism Coordinator, Nathan Sales credited the meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump early in the latter's tenure as the reason behind a powerful partnership between the two nations. ... Read More

The final rituals for burying the mortal remains of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi in the premises of the Kanchi Sankara Mutt began in Kanchipuram this morning in the presence of a few family members. ... Read More