Telangana government today accorded sanction for prosecution of AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in a case related to alleged "hate speech". 

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump today exuded confidence that he will earn the party's nomination for the November elections and said he is in a "good shape" to go against "crooked" Hillary Clinton.

The dreaded Islamic State terror group may be linked to the explosion at a gurudwara in Germany's western city of Essen, media reports said today quoting officials investigating the attack.

Delhi High Court today refused to stay the release of the movie 'Santa Banta Pvt Ltd' scheduled for tomorrow. Justice J R Midha passed the order declining the plea of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee seeking stay on the film on the ground that Central Board of Film Certification has not complied with the high court's direction.

A Communist Party of India-Marxist supporter was killed and four other party workers were injured during the third phase of polling in 62 assembly seats in West Bengal where over 67 per cent turnout was recorded.

With the last three hearings in the the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case being adjourned, Pakistani officials have warned that the trial, going on for six years, could face further delay if India does not send 24 Indian witnesses to Pakistan to record their statements.

More than 1 crore LPG consumers have given up their cooking gas subsidies in one year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call to the well-heeled to give up the same. 

Just in: BJP senior leader Dr Subramanian Swamy, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, Olympian boxer Mary Kom, senior journalist Swapan Dasgupta, economist Dr Narendra Jhadav, Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

The BJP government has recommended these names to President Pranab Mukherjee. A communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan is expected shortly.

This list has since been approved by the Union Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Office.

The RS has 12 nominated members in its total strength of 245. At present, the upper House has 10 nominated members. On the government's recommendation, the President nominates members from those with special knowledge or having made their mark in literature, science, art and social service.

Sir Roger Moore @sirrogermoore  Incredibly, incredibly saddened to hear the wonderful director Guy Hamilton has gone to the great cutting room in the sky. 2016 is horrid.


British film director Guy Hamilton, known for his work on four key James Bond movies, has died at the age of 93.

The film-maker worked with Sean Connery on Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever and Roger Moore on Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, actress Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the '100 Most Influential People in the World'.


Time's annual list, released today, includes pioneers like American composer Lin Manuel-Miranda, leaders like IMF head Christine Lagarde and icons like Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio who are "exploring the frontiers of art, science, society, technology and more."


Terming Rajan as "India's prescient banker," Time said he is among a rare breed of "economic seers" who he "steered" India through the global crisis and fallout, "playing a large role in making it one of the emerging-market stars of the moment.


While serving as the youngest chief economist of the IMF from 2003 to 2006, Time said Rajan predicted the subprime crisis that would lead to the Great Recession, standing up to critics like former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who labeled him a "Luddite".


"Since then, more and more of the economic establishment has come to share Rajan's view that debt-fueled growth is just a saccharine substitute for the real thing," Time said.


In a profile for Mirza, cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar writes that her "confidence, strength and resilience reach beyond tennis" and she has inspired a generation of Indians to pursue their dreams " and to realize that they can also be the best." Tendulkar described Mirza, who recently was awarded India's third highest civilian honour the Padma Bhushan, as an "inspiration" on the court.


He lauded her "dedication and willpower" to reinvent herself fully as a doubles player when her singles career was cut short by wrist injuries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was among the probable contenders for the list, was not in the final list determined by Time's editors.


Modi was among Time's 100 most influential people in the world last year. On Chopra, who was awarded the Padma Shri this year, actor Dwayne Johnson said she is a "star rising higher" and lauded her "drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there's no substitute for hard work."


Time said Flipkart founders Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal may have come across as arrogant when they told investors the company they started in 2007 as an online bookstore could be worth USD 100 million in a decade. "It turned out to be modesty: Flipkart now has 75 million users and a USD 13 billion valuation," Time said.

Anticipating that the Centre would move the Supreme Court against the Uttarakhand HC verdict, Harish Rawat files a caveat in the court. 

The Uttarakhand High Court's verdict setting aside imposition of President's rule in the state on Thursday spurred an elated Congress to attack the BJP, demanding an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for "trampling" democracy and "murdering" the constitution.


The verdict is a slap on face of BJP for trying to dislodge an elected government, it said.Terming the court's verdict as a victory of people of Uttarakhand, democracy and constitutional norms, AICC Incharge Communications Randeep Singh Surjewala said Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah should learn a lesson from this "decisive and resounding verdict.


"This is a victory for the people of Uttarakhand, democracy and constitutional norms. This is also a slap on the face of those in BJP who sought to dislodge an elected government, elected with the mandate of people in Uttarakhand.


"Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah will be well advised to now tender an unconditional apology to the nation and also to people of Uttarakhand for trampling upon democracy, murdering constitution norms and subjugating the will of people to their blind quest to dislodge Congress governments. We welcome the verdict," Surjewala said.


He said that it proves the full majority which Congress enjoys and the "sinister conspiracies' which are being hatched from Arunanchal Pradesh to Uttarakhand and many other states to dislodge elected governments by "foul means, use of money and muscle power' should now at least come to an end.


"Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah should learn a lesson from this decisive and resounding verdict," he said. Putting up a brave front, BJP claimed the Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand is in minority and that this will be proved on April 29. 

In the second drought fatality in a span of two days, an 11-year-old boy died while fetching water from a well in drought-hit Beed district of Marathwada on Thursday.


Sachin Gopinath Kedar of Veeda village in Kej teshil was fetching water from a well, half-a-kilometre from his home, when he slipped and fell to his death, a police official said.


On Tuesday, a 12-year-old girl died due to heat stroke in Beed district, while fetching water from an almost dry handpump. Yogita Ashok Desai, a resident of Sabalkhed village in Beed, was dehydrated after she made five attempts to fill water from a hand pump when the day's temperature was 44 degrees Celsius.

Vijay Mallya, wanted in India for unpaid loans worth nearly a billion dollars, has said that banks have no right to details of the assets owned by either his family or him.     


Armed with a non-bailable arrest warrant against him, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the external affairs ministry seeking initiation of deportation proceedings against businessman Vijay Mallya in connection with its money laundering probe against him in the Rs 900 crore IDBI alleged loan fraud case.


The agency has written to MEA and will also soon write to the CBI to get an Interpol red corner notice (RCN) issued against the Rajya Sabha MP to get him arrested, based on the NBW directed by a Mumbai court.


Mallya flew to London early in March just as a group of banks, most of them state-run, ramped up efforts to recover the money given to his Kingfisher Airlines, which became defunct in 2013.  


The 60-year-old has told the Supreme Court today that the vast loans were not given to his airline on the basis of his properties or assets.


Though he will share these with the top court, the entrepreneur asked that the information not be passed on to the banks.

BJP biggies Meeting Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah go into a huddle the party president's residence in New Delhi over the Uttarakhand verdict. 

Zee Media Corporation today said its Group CEO - News Cluster Bhaskar Das has quit following his transfer to another Essel Group entity.


"Since Bhaskar Das, Group CEO - News Cluster of the company has been transferred to another entity forming part of Essel Group," Zee Media Corporation said in a BSE filing.


He resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the company with effect from April 20, 2016, it added. Das, who was president of media group Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), had joined Subhash Chandra-led Essel Group as chief executive officer (CEO) in 2012.


He was given the responsibility of driving the group's news business, including the digital properties. Zee Media Corporation is one of the largest news networks in the country with 10 news channels in six different languages, Mumbai edition of DNA newspaper and digital properties like zeenews.com and dnaindia.com.

Just in: Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam charged over Brussels shootout, reports AFP.


Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in November's Paris attacks, will be extradited to France from Belgium in a few weeks to allow for additional questioning by Belgian investigators, his lawyer said on Thursday.


Abdeslam, who returned from Paris hours after the Islamic State attacks in which his brother blew himself up, hid from police for four months until he was captured in a raid on a house in the Brussels district of Molenbeek on March 18.

His fingerprints were found three days earlier in an apartment in the southern Brussels borough of Forest after a gunbattle during which an Islamist gunman was shot dead and four police officers were injured.


Prosecutors want to question him about that incident, his lawyer said. "There is a hearing, which will take place regarding the attempted murder of several police officers during the home search in Forest," Sven Mary said.


The shooting and bombing rampage by Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13.

The Queen prepared for her birthday extravaganza this week with an overnight trip to Downton Abbey.


She spent last weekend at Highclere Castle, the Jacobean-style stately home in Hampshire which stands in for Downton in the TV series.


The Queen was the guest of her godson George Herbert, 59, the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and his wife Fiona.Rather than the imposing castle where the Earl of Grantham is the fictional master, I understand the Queen stayed with Lord and Lady Carnarvon in the couple's dower house.

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Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur, who had earlier stirred a hornet's nest after describing rape as a social crime, courted controversy yet again on Thursday after he was caught on camera allegedly touching a woman inappropriately as she was climbing on to a bus during an event in Bhopal.

Gaur, who flagged off the 'low floor' buses in an event, was seen allegedly touching the woman as she climbed on to a bus. However, there seemed to be no immediate reaction to the incident as no one, including the woman, made any objections.


This is not the first time Gaur has courted controversy, as in 2013, the senior minister was seen enjoying a dance performance by skimpily clad women on a ferry in Goa.


Besides such incidents, Gaur has also made headlines through several sexist and controversial comments. In January 2013, Gaur raised a furore over his statement that the 'foreign culture' of women wearing jeans and T-shirts, drinking liquor and dancing with other men was not good for India.

The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report.


The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be sex slaves in Iraq's second largest city of Mosul.


ISIS began selecting women of Mosul and forced them into marrying its militants, calling it temporary marriage since it has taken control over Mosul, and the women who refused to submit to this practice would be executed, said Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman Said Mamuzini.


"At least 250 girls have so far been executed by IS for refusing to accept the practice of sexual jihad, and sometimes the families of the girls were also executed for rejecting to submit to IS's request," Mamuzini told London-based Kurdish news agency 'AhlulBayt'.

Amid the US' push to expand cooperation with India in the space sector, the country's nascent private space industry has expressed its opposition to the large scale use of low cost ISRO launch vehicles for putting American satellites into orbits.


Such a move, corporate leaders and officials of the fast- emerging American private space industry told lawmakers this week, would be detrimental to the future health of the private sector US space companies.


They feel it would be tough for them to compete against low-cost Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launch vehicles, which they alleged are subsidised by the Indian government.


"I think the concern about using Indian boosters is not so much the transfer of sensitive technology to a nation that is a fellow democracy, but rather whether the Indian launches are subsidised by the government to a degree that other market actors would be priced out of the market," Elliot Holokauahi Pulham, CEO of Space Foundation, said.


Testifying before a Congressional committee, Pulham said there has been some discussion about allowing US built satellites to fly on boosters such as the Indian PSLV.

Well, it seems the BJP isn't too happy about the Uttarakhand High court's decision. Following the quashing of President's Rule and asking for a floor test on April 29, the BJP said, "The Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand is in minority and this will be proved on April 29."

Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Thursday sacked 12 officers, including two generals, on charges of corruption. The unprecedented sackings came two days after Sharif called for "across-the-board accountability" to root out corruption from the country. 

President's rule has been set aside in Uttarakhand with the high court allowing former Chief Minister Harish Rawat's plea challenging the imposition of President's rule.  

Presidential nominations for the eight vacancies in the Rajya Sabha are likely to be released in the next 24 hours.   

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tweets his delight: "Delighted to meet Bharat Ratna @sachin_rt . He & @PepsiCo putting together a plan for drought relief in Marathwada."

Just six days ago, former cricketer Vinod Kambli took a dig at Sachin Tendulkar about his silence over the Maharashtra drought. He wrote on Twitter: "Regarding the water crisis in Maharashtra n IPL matches to be shifted.I feel the best person to answer will be Bharat Ratna #srt"

Rezzak Mollah, a TMC MP has apologised to the BJP's Roopa Ganguly for the misogynistic remarks he made at her this week on local television.

"I am really sorry for making personal remarks against Roopa Ganguly, I apologise," Mollah said. The TMC leader had said, "I know the length of the cigarettes she smokes" and "She really is Draupadi" which caused outrage even among his party members.


TMC MP Moon Moon Sen, who is contesting the election from Howrah North near Kolkata has accused Mollah, once a minister in the Left government, of targeting her to gain easy publicity.


Mollah had also attacked Moon Moon Sen and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the past saying the CM had a penchant for selecting celebrity candidates.

"If there's infighting in the party, they look to give a ticket to some glamorous person - like Moon Moon Sen. What work will Moon Moon Sen do?" he challenged.

Moon Moon Sen's response included sticking out her tongue on camera to dismiss Mollah.

What award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey thinks about the role of journalists in an unjust world would violate the basic tenet of the American media: reporters must not get too deep into a story, lest their emotions cloud their judgement.

This is what he had to say. Read

"The tiger is the epitome of evolution."
"'Every tiger has a stripe pattern that is unique. Each tiger is unique."

Dr Yadvendra Jhala wanted to be a zookeeper as a child. Today he's one of India's prominent field biologists and wildlife experts and says a career in wildlife is a romance with nature for a lifetime.

He speaks to Archana Masih/Rediff.com on tigers and tiger conservation. Read

A group of investors questions whether Nikesh Arora has conflicts of interest due to his existing role as a senior adviser to the PE firm Silver Lake.
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When the Government Girls Higher Secondary School opened in Handwara on Wednesday after eight days of massive protests and curfew, only 20 students out of the 1,150 enrolled were present.


The 20 had formed groups to discuss the tumultuous events that have taken place since April 12, when protests erupted against the molestation of a minor girl, allegedly by an Armyman.The teachers had also formed groups. There was no class work today. Read more

The man who massacred 77 people in Norway's deadliest ever terror attack has won part of a lawsuit against the government for "inhuman treatment".


A court in Oslo ruled in Anders Breivik's favour on one of two claims for alleged human rights violations and rejected the other on Wednesday afternoon.


The right-wing extremist was convicted of terrorism and mass murder for 2011 bomb and gun attacks in Norway that killed 77 people. 


A summary of the ruling released by an Oslo district court said judges found his detention violated article three of the European Convention of Human Rights, which relates to "inhuman or degrading' punishment.The verdict said: "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society. This applies no matter what - also in the treatment of terrorists and killers."


Breivik's claim that authorities also violated article eight of the convention, which protects the respect for private and family life, including correspondence, was rejected.The court also ruled that the state will have to pay the prisoner's legal fees, totalling 331,000 Norwegian krone. 

'Hindu daughters' need protection and the only way to ensure that is to enforce a two-child policy for all religions, Union minister Giriraj Singh was reported speaking to the The Indian Express.


"Daughters will not be safe and might have to be kept under the veil, like in Pakistan," said the Bharatiya Janata Party leader, according to the report.


The minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises was speaking at a cultural yatra in Bagaha, West Champaran, and, according to the report, various Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers were present in the audience.


The threat, in Singh's mind, emanates from one particular community. In his speech, Singh referred to seven districts in Bihar where "our" (Hindu) population has ostensibly "gone down" and the Muslim population grown. He tried to emphasise his point by warning that if the situation continued unabated, then Hindus would have to keep their daughters under the veil like in Pakistan. 

West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle shows his softer side with an announcement on Instagram: We would like to welcome the arrival of our beautiful daughter Blush to this world 2 hours ago. Thank God,

The killing of a CPI(M) polling agent in Murshidabad district today kicked off a blame game between CPI(M) and TMC, with the Left party alleging that TMC had unleashed a "reign of terror" while EC was only acting as a "mute spectator".

The TMC denied the allegations and said the killing was a fallout of differences between CPI(M) and Congress.


The 35-year-old CPI(M) polling agent, Tahidul Islam, was today killed and his body was found lying outside a polling booth at Shibapara area under Domkal Assembly seat in Murshidabad district where third phase polling is on. An earlier report had identified Tahidul Islam to be a CPI(M) supporter.

Chinese dissidents from around the world will assemble in India next week to hold an international conference seeking transition to democracy in the communist country.


New Delhi not only gave its go-ahead to the organisers to hold the conference in India, but also granted visas to Chinese dissidents, including the World Uyghur Congress leader, Dolkun Isa, who has been dubbed as a "terrorist' by Beijing.


The conference will be held from April 28 to May 1 at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh -- the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. Dalai Lama, who has been leading Tibetans' struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet, will receive the delegates and address them.


New Delhi's move, which is likely to raise hackles in Beijing, comes at a time, when India is upset over China's decision to block the proposal to impose United Nations' sanctions on Pakistan-based terrorist leader Moulana Masood Azhar.Isa, the chairman of the executive committee of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), told DH from Munich that he had already been granted visa by the Indian government to attend the conference in Dharamsala.


However, he would take a final call only after assessing his security in India, as China got a Red Corner Notice issued against him by Interpol, he said.

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice to the state government, Board of Cricket for Control in India (BCCI), Water Resources Department, Sports and Youth department and Rajasthan Cricket Association asking about their decision to host IPL matches in Jaipur.


The High Court on Thursday has asked for a reply over the decision to shift the matches played after April 30 from drought-hit Maharashtra to Rajasthan, which is also facing water shortage.


The state government is expected to file the reply by April 27 when the matter comes up for hearing again.


The notice was issued after the Bombay High court verdict to shift the on-going matches out of the drought-hit Maharashtra to Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur. 

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar has been discharged from Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. Dilip Kumar was admitted on Saturday morning complaining of respiratory problems and was treated for pneumonia.


He was in the care of eminent physician Dr Jalil Parkar who had also treated Bal Thackeray.

India will organise an exhibition at the United Nations displaying stories of displaced Polish children, mostly orphans, finding refuge in India during World War II, offering a message of "humanism" as the world faces the biggest refugee crisis in recent history.


The exhibition 'Passage to India - The Wartime Odyssey of Polish Children and the Good Maharaja' that will start tomorrow has been jointly organised by the Permanent Missions of India and Poland to the UN.


The exhibition depicts the "touching story" from the times of the great war when more than 1000 Polish children, mostly orphans, deported from occupied Poland to Siberia and got a new home in India due to the generosity of Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji of Nawangar.


"When allowed to leave camps in 1941/1942, they travelled all the way to India where the Maharaja created a new home for them," at a "difficult time when the world was at war" and India itself was struggling for its independence, a statement on the Indian mission's website said.


The Polish camps flourished in India until the end of the second world war and the last of the Polish families left the country in 1948. "This beautiful account of compassion is surprisingly meaningful nowadays, when the world faces crises and large numbers of refugees and migrants seek their new homes. It shows that humanism and friendship between nations can go a long way in addressing crises," it read.


In February, the Indian mission under the aegis of Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin along with Department of Public Information's Remember Slavery Programme had organised the exhibition 'Africans in India:  From Slaves to Generals and Rulers' at the world body's headquarters.


The exhibition told the history of enslaved East Africans in India, known as Sidis and Habshis, who rose to positions of military and political authority. Through colourful photographs and texts, the exhibition had conveyed that success of the enslaved East Africans in India was a "testimony to the open-mindedness" of Indian society, in which they were a small religious and ethnic minority.


The exhibition, which shed light on the slave trade in the Indian Ocean and the history of Africa and its diaspora in India, was part of the observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, commemorated every year on March 25.

Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal: Pachauri out, good riddance but maybe the @guardian will give him a consultancy, they do so feel he is aggrieved.

The Governing Council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has decided to end TERI's association with R K Pachauri with immediate effect. In a meeting held on Monday, the Governing Council, headed by new Chairman Ashok Chawla ex finance Secretary, has decided to pay a lump sum to Pachauri whose contract with TERI ends in July 2017.

As a consequence, he will cease to be Executive Vice-Chairman, a post the Council had created for him in February this year.

Pachauri went on indefinite leave in February following an uproar over what was seen as his promotion amidst the sexual harassment controversy.

The governing body, which includes industry stalwarts such as Naina Lal Kidwai and Deepak Parekh, received criticism for not taking action against Pachauri.

The complainant had quit the organisation, saying it did not take adequate action against him.

TERI's internal complaints' committee had found Pachauri guilty of sexual harassment, although the verdict has since been stayed by an industrial tribunal.

The most recent issue of the Organiser, the English journal of the RSS, has a picture of B.R. Ambedkar on its cover, hailing him as the Ultimate Unifier. The issue (dated April 17, 2016) features several articles on the great man, one saying he provided the glue for nation building, a second arguing that his visions and actions resembled that of Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Arya Samaj, etc, a third praising his interest in workers rights, a fourth calling him a timeless leader who apparently was not against Brahmins but against [the] Brahmanical order.

All the essays, and the issue as a whole, are entirely celebratory. But what did the RSS and its mouthpiece think of Ambedkar and his work while he was alive? In seeking an answer, I focused on the years 1949-50, when, as law minister in the government of India, Ambedkar was both finalising the Indian Constitution as well as advocating the reform of Hindu personal laws so as to give greater rights to women.

Notably, the RSS disapproved of both efforts.

Read Ramchandra Guha's essay on the RSS' views on Ambedkar.

They say they take inspiration from the Afghan Taliban's "victory' over American troops. They are educated, some from well-off families, some hold regular jobs, some in the government. They freely declare their anger against what they call the "Indian state and the Army'. They all want azadi. But what's most striking about the young people in the capital of Kashmir's new wave of militancy is that they aren't exactly secretive.  Read more

A third terrorist has also been killed in an encounter with Army jawans in Kupwara. Earlier today, two other unidentified militants were killed in the same encounter with security forces in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, the army said.


Acting on specific information about the presence of militants in Putshai area of Lolab in the district, security forces cordoned off the area and began a search operation on Thursday, an army official said. He said as the search operation was ongoing, militants who were hiding there fired upon the forces resulting in a gun battle.

Signalling a major social change, women this morning were permitted entry to the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik, one of the 12 'Jyotirlingas' in the country.

The latest expose contradicts Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan's statement, whose name figured in the Panama Paper leaks as allegedly having links with offshore entities in two tax havens. He had earlier denied any connection with those companies, saying his name may have been "misused". 

The ordeal is not over for the 16-year-old girl, whose allegation of being molested by an army man sparked violent clashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara, leading to the death of four protesters, and imposition of an eight-day curfew. 

Minutes after the 50-wagon Jaldoot Express pulled into Latur railway station carrying 25 lakh litres of drinking water '" enough to take care of the city's daily needs '" Kavita Kamble and her family became the first ones to receive a 200 litre barrel at their doorstep. 

A terrorists has been killed after an encounter between a group of militants and security forces begin early this morning in the northern Kupwara district in Jammu Kashmir.