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In a stern message, Lt General Anbu said that the LoC was an imaginary line. “The surgical strikes were a message that the line of control was imaginary and can be crossed whenever required,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was addressing the Indian diaspora in Yangon on Wednesday, said his government could take tough decisions such as demonetisation and surgical strikes because it considers the country above politics.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made the announcement during his joint press statement with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi after the two leaders held wide-ranging talks in Nay Pyi Taw.

The Supreme Court has asked states to appoint senior policemen as nodal officers in the task force.

Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was on Tuesday shot dead at her residence in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar.

The move could spell trouble for the Karnataka Congress as Ganapathy had blamed state minister KJ George in his suicide note.

The impact of the transformed Chinese stance on terrorism on the China-Pakistan bilateral remains to be seen.

Last Friday, Kamleshi Devi (60), a resident of Sriwas Nagar, was trying to pull the calf off a lactating cow but the rope around its neck tightened, resulting in its death.

The development came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met along the BRICS Summit.

Pratima was born in Chandan Nagar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. But her family hailed from Gaila in the Barishal district. That’s where all her elder siblings were born. And that’s where Pratima went every Durga Puja till she was 10 years old.

Landfills, the cut-paste solution for typical European cities, were conceived around the idea of having a core and outskirt city system. Unfortunately, these “outskirts” have become market and transport hubs (e.g. Ghazipur) in present megacities.

At the time of Partition, Daljit’s husband was away, serving the British army in India. When the rioters came down to burn her village it was she, who gathered her two sons, aged four and two and walked out leaving behind everything else-cattle, friends,...

The incident took place on Sunday outside an office of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), in Telangana, when the two Dalit men were asked to pay a bribe of Rs 20,000.

After Venkaiah Naidu, the party's face in the south, moved to the Vice-President's office, Sitaraman is seen as the one drafting BJP’s long-term strategy in the southern states.

If the reshuffle was intended to ease the burden of ministers holding multiple portfolios, it did not live up to that expectation.

The incident took place near Dhalli Tunnel, which is around seven kilometres away from Shimla. There are no reports of casualties so far, said officials.