A double suicide bombing killed 26 people in Baghdad on Monday, officials said, the second such attack in the Iraqi capital in three days. Dr Abdel Ghani al-Saadi, health chief for east Baghdad, reported 26 dead and 90 wounded. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Tayyaran Square in central Baghdad,said General Saad Maan, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, which includes the army and the police. Tayyaran Square is a bustling centre of commerce and a place where day labourers gather in the early morning waiting for jobs. It has been the site of deadly attacks in the past. An ... Read More

The army today said it had killed seven Pakistani soldiers in retaliatory action along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmirs Poonch, according to news agency PTI. At least four of the deaths were confirmed by the Pakistani government in a tweet. The armys action comes after an Indian soldier was killed in Pakistani firing in the Rajouri district on Saturday. The army has carried out retaliation against Pakistani troops across Jaglote area along the LoC in Mendhar sector of Poonch district,a senior Army officer was quoted as telling PTI. This morning, Army Chief Bipin Rawat said at a fu ... Read More

RINAGAR: Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley remained several degrees below the freezing point on Monday with Kargil town freezing at minus 20 degree Celsius. At minus 20 degree Celsius as the minimum temperature, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir followed by Leh at minus 10.9 degree Celsius. Minimum temperature recorded in Srinagar was minus 3.3, in Pahalgam minus 5.6 and minus 6.4 degree Celsius in Gulmarg,an official of the MET department said. The official said the weather was likely to remain cold and dry during the next four to five days and as such the nig ... Read More

Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday strongly condemned the proposed move by the Centre to come out with an orange colour passports for those who have not passed their Class 10 examination, calling it discriminatory. No way this proposal should go forward. This is creating two different types of citizens, one with education and one without, discriminating Indians based on educational qualifications,said Mr Chandy. If this becomes a reality, the moment an orange colour passport holder lands in a foreign country, he will be treated with disdain and it will have a telling impact ... Read More

NEW DELHI: Aadhaar will soon include face recognition as a way of verifying users, along with the iris and fingerprint scan, the authority in charge of the national identity card system said today, calling it an extra layer of security. Face authentication will be enabled by July to help people facing difficulty in biometric authentication due to fingerprints worn-out because of age or hard work, or other factors, said the UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India in a statement. But the authority clarified that face recognition would be allowed only in fusion mode along with one mor ... Read More

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