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On April 17, militants had shot dead a former public prosecutor affiliated with opposition National Conference in Shopian district.

Each of these 300 WhatsApp groups had around 250 members, the official said while explaining how determined attempts were being made to disrupt the operations of the security forces by mobilising stone-pelting mobs at the encounter sites.

Mehbooba, whose PDP is in alliance with the BJP in the state, is likely to press for some political initiative from the Centre to address the situation.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has raised the issue of restrictions on H-1B visa with his US counterpart Steven Mnuchin as India fears the curb would impact the movement of Indian IT professionals to America.

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday found himself on the wrong side of the Yogi Adityanath government with his bungalow in Etawah being raided by the state power department.

Vamshi Chowdhary was facing financial problems and wanted to cancel his trip to Mumbai and Goa with his girlfriend. What Chowdhary did to achieve this led to panic in the Indian security establishment. The 32-year-old sent a hoax mail warning of simultane...

Madhya Pradesh has prepared a proposal seeking death penalty for rapists.

MP bureaucrats are no stranger to controversies. IAS officer Dipali Rastogi had recently courted controversy by questioning PM Narendra Modi’s Open Defecation Free (ODF) Campaign in her guest column in a national daily.

Students of schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Kendriya Vidyalyas may have to compulsorily study Hindi till class X with recommendations of a Parliamentary panel in this regard getting the President's nod.

Forensic test conducted on the clothes seized by National Investigation Agency (NIA) the house of Subhani Haja Moideen, the main accused arrested in connection with an ISIS-inspired terror module in Kerala, revealed the presence of explosive residue.

The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has favoured the shifting of British-era tanneries releasing toxic wastes into the river Ganga at Kanpur.

Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday said the Centre is "actively considering" a plan to resume -- after 22 years -- the use of the Arabian Sea route to ferry Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and consultations with the Shipping Ministry are already on...

A Congress activist of Dalit community was injured in a clash with BJP workers here following a dispute on who will garland the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar on his birth anniversary.

During the 2012 elections to the urban local bodies, the EVMs provided by the EC were made in 2006 and were not suited as per the requirements, he added.

“Thirteen parties came and requested an all-party meeting and the EC has agreed. So people are taking bits and pieces of information from that. The commission wants all stakeholders to have belief in the system.… Whatever is coming in the media, is just g...

Baig went on to say Islam does not permit the killing of any animal — even a goat — if it gives milk or has given birth.