Kashmir encounter: Security forces have successfully foiled an infiltration bid even as four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists were killed in Jammu and Kashmirs Dulanja Uri. It has been learnt that a operation was launched jointly by the state police, Army and the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).Four JeM terrorists killed in Dulanja Uri while infiltrating in a joint operation by J and K Police, Army and CAPF,said DGP of Jammu and Kashmir Police Shesh Paul Vaid. This comes days after the dreaded terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed suffered a major blow on December 26 when its top commander Noor Mo ... Read More

United States President Donald Trump has shelved plans to open the new US embassy in London next month, according to reports. Concerned about the welcome he would receive in Britain, Mr Trump is understood to be sending US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson instead, according to the Independent. British Prime Minister Theresa May invited Mr Trump for a state visit when she became the first world leader to visit the President in the White House a year ago. ... Read More

Ever since China announced last year that it no longer wanted to be the worlds garbage dump,recycling about half the globes plastics and paper products, Western nations have been puzzling over what to do when the ban went into effect, which it did on Jan 1. The answer, to date, in Britain at least, is nothing. At least one waste disposal site in London is already seeing a buildup of plastic recyclables and has had to pay to have some of it removed. Similar backups have been reported in Canada, Ireland, Germany and several other European nations, while tons of rubbish is piling up in port cit ... Read More

Parliament attack convict Afzal Gurus son Ghalib has passed his higher secondary school exams with flying colours, nearly five years after his father was hanged to death in Tihar jail. An excited Ghalib spoke of a day of joy.The 18-year-old scored 88 per cent in the Class XII exams, and now wants to be a civil servant. Speaking to India Today on the phone from Baramulla, Ghalib said, We will be celebrating it for a day or so before getting back to studies. I promised my parents I would become a doctor, but I am keen to take give civil services a shot. If I could, I wish to be an IAS officer ... Read More

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday issued fresh summons to Karti Chidambaram, son of Congress leader P. Chidambaram, in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in FIPB clearance accorded to INX Media in 2007, an official said. Karti Chidambaram has been asked to appear at the ED headquarters in New Delhi on January 16 and record his statement before ED officials probing the case. The agencys move comes after he did not appear at the agency's headquarters on Thursday in response to earlier summons issued against him. The ED had registered a money laundering case a ... Read More

The Supreme Court collegium is understood to have recommended senior woman lawyer Indu Malhotra and Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court K M Joseph, who was part of the bench that quashed the imposition of President's rule in Uttarakhand in 2016, for appointment as judges of the apex court. Malhotra, if appointed, will be the first woman lawyer to be made a judge of the Supreme Court directly from the bar instead of being elevated from a high court. Justice Fathima Bheevi became the first woman judge of the Supreme Court decades ago. Justice V Bhanumathi is the lone woman judge of the ... Read More