The Chief of Army Staff Gen Bipin Rawat visited the frontier area in North Kashmir and interacted with commanders and troops deployed along the Line of control(LOC) ....

The central government on Tuesday defended linking the Aadhaar number with permanent account number (PAN) and making it mandatory for filing income tax returns, telling the Supreme Court that it was meant to curb individuals possessing multiple PAN cards by putting in place a robust identification system. ....

Condemning as "barbaric" the killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers, Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday wondered if Union Minister Smriti Irani would now "gift bangles" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as she had wanted to send to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a similar killing in 2013. ....

NDA ally Shiv Sena on Tuesday urged the central government to convene an all-party meeting to discuss, what it said was, the "worsening situation" in Jammu and Kashmir. ....

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra met Home Minister Rajnath Singh here on Tuesday to discuss the worsening security and law and order situation in the state. ....

Two gunmen on Tuesday looted Rs 65,000 from a bank in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said. ....

Instead of raking up the triple talaq issue, the government should focus more on education and other basic facilities to India's "under-privileged" communities, including Muslims, a woman leader of the Jamaat-e-Islamic Hind (JeIH) said on Tuesday. ....

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju here on Tuesday paid his last respects to BSF Head Constable Prem Sagar, who was killed by Pakistan Army near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. ....

The BJP victory in Delhi's municipal elections in New Delhi has laid the ground to also win assembly polls in the capital, party President Amit Shah said on Tuesday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday meet the Finance Ministry to discuss and review the recent financial status. ....

A day after accusing senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas of conspiring to break the party, Delhi legislator Amanatullah Khan on Monday night resigned from the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC). ....

India on Monday gave a strong message to Pakistan by killing its seven soldiers and destroying two enemy bunkers after they killed two Indian soldiers and mutilated their bodies. ....

The Election Commission has cancelled the May 25 Anantnag Lok Sabha by-poll in view of the worsening law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre's inability to provide required number of paramilitary forces. ....

It is not mere power which can kill terrorism as one needs to fight off poverty and inequality to eradicate it, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday at the Jamia Millia Islamia where he was conferred an honorary doctorate. ....

Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday ordered an inspection of all petrol pumps in Uttar Pradesh and random checks on others across the rest of the country following the case of petrol pumps in the state cheating customers using chips. ....

Militants attacked a cash van and shot dead five policemen and two bank employees in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district on Monday, police said. ....

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to keep the communal pot boiling in the country through its remarks on triple talaq. ....

“Gujarat's farmers and women started the Amul milk movement. Gujarat's progress is due to hard work of crores of women and farmers and ideology of the Congress party". Rubbishing the claim of BJP's Gujarat progress Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said "today's Gujarat is being ruled by some 10-15 people and you know their names." ....

The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh on a company official for filing frivolous public interest cases and casting aspersions on some of the judges of the Rajasthan High Court. ....

AIADMK leader T.T.V. Dinakaran, accused of attempting to bribe poll officials to obtain the party's "two leaves" symbol, was on Monday sent to 14-day judicial custody by a court here. ....