NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday visited Siachen Base Camp and addressed the soldiers posted there. He also visited the Kumar Post. President Kovind is the second President of India to visit Siachen. The previous visit was undertaken by President A P J Abdul Kalam in April 2004. This makes President Kovind the first President to travel to Siachen in 14 years. ... Read More

Bengaluru: A day after the Election Commission deferred a decision on the recovery of nearly 10,000 voter ID cards from a flat in Rajrajeshwari Nagar Assembly seat of poll-bound Karnataka, a delegation of Congress leaders will meet the poll panel officials on Friday. According to reports, the delegation including senior Congress leaders will meet the Election Commission officials around 10:30 am at Nirvachan Sadan in the national capital. ... Read More

NEW DELHI: In a big development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday confirmed the rape allegations against Bangarmau BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case. Confirming the charge, the probing agency said that Sengar's accomplice Shashi Singh had lured the victim - who was a minor at the time - to Sengar's residence on the pretext of a job last year. ... Read More

GANDHINAGAR: Based on its interrogation of two suspected ISIS operatives who were nabbed last year, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has exposed a sinister plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to reports, the Gujarat ATS has filed a chargesheet in which it claimed that an unidentified associate of one of the two men arrested by it last year had actually talked about assassinating Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ... Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium, or a group of five most-senior judges, is meeting at 1 pm today to take a call on Justice KM Joseph's elevation to the top court that was rejected by the government in April. This is the collegium's second meeting to firm up its response to the centre's decision that has set up a face-off between the judiciary and the executive and has been described as an attack on the independence of the judiciary. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad denies that the centre's decision had anything to do with the Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice's 2016 verdict cancelli ... Read More

Singapore: Three Indian naval ships sailed out of Singapore on Thursday to join upcoming MALABAR exercise which will be held jointly with the US and Japanese navies off Guam in the Pacific Ocean. Speaking to reporters at the sailing off, India's High Commissioner to Singapore Jawed Ashraf said the Eastern Team fleet is continuing India's commitment and objective to see the oceans remain peaceful, open space and uncontested. ... Read More