Pakistani Rangers using 81 mm and 82 mm mortars have targeted 30 Border Outposts of the Border Security Force in Hiranagar, Kathua and Ramgarh sectors of Jammu and Kashmir.
With the Maharashtra government doling out pieces of the lush green Aarey forest to various utilities, the tribals living in it for generations are feeling increasingly insecure. Hepzi Anthony reports.
The significant understandings came through after four days of discussions between the director generals of the Border Security Force and Bangladeshi Rifles in New Delhi as part of the Indo-Bangladesh Border Coordination Conference.
Two persons, including a child, died and another person was injured in a bomb blast at Mahabbatpur village near India-Bangladesh border, the police said on Wednesday.
Fed up with cold response from district administration to their demand to declare Devbhoomi Dwarka in Ahmedabad as drought-hit, farmers on Tuesday knocked at the God's door for help and submitted a memorandum to Lord Krishna seeking divine intervention to alleviate their sufferings.
On Monday, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam during a media briefing declined to answer a question relating to the kidnapping saying that she had no information on it.
The annual fair includes a cattle fair, the oldest in north India.
The death toll in Bihar floods today mounted to 64 with over 33 lakh people spread across 13 districts affected by the deluge.
The comment by the minister sparked anger with the Congress's Ghulam Nabi Azad saying it was sad that foreign media knew of it, but the minister didn't know of the incident.
No arrest has been made yet in this connection.
Whichever side you enter Gurgaon from (M G Road or NH 8), you experience deja vu: have I seen this before? Buildings with a glass facade line the road as you enter from NH 8, almost all somewhat similar.
A dwindling population of swarm buffalo has hit the dairy industry in Assam's Sorbhog and Bokakhat areas, famous for curd and milk products.
West Bengal has a 2,200 km porous border with Bangladesh over 10 districts.
India also said Bangladesh was carrying out a disinformation campaign.
Following the gruesome incident, Adityanath had announced a compensation of Rs 40 lakh for Singh's wife, Rs 10 lakh for his parents and a government job for a member of his family.
Patanjali's packet milk to be lower than competitor brands by Rs 2 a litre
The identity of the two men, who also shouted slogans of "CPI(M) murdabad" and "Hindu Sena zindabad", could not be immediately known.
Vistara has entered a country that has been sobered down to reality.
The government has approved livestock insurance scheme for implementation in 100 districts on pilot basis during 2005-06 and 2006-07 while its extension in eleventh five-year plan depends on the performance in the two years.
With a rise in the number of cyber crimes and hacking, and many putting a question mark on safety of Aadhaar data, the FM might bring proposals in this regard and allocate funds separately.
As of now, 1,77,500 people have been housed in over 351 camps, the chief minister said, adding food, and medical amenities were being provided to them by the government.
Tapas, the TMC upa-panchayat pradhan of the area, was absconding ever since his name surfaced in the first information report lodged by the family of Kaushik Purkait who was beaten to death on Monday night.
Amid reports of an increase in infiltration bids, the Centre on Tuesday directed the Border Security Force to set up a real time intelligence sharing grid and seal all vulnerable points along the Indo-Pak border.
A group of shepherds were asked to vacate the land by troops of the PLA.
'This is the first time a majority ruling government is nominating a Dalit for President.' 'So, the moral credibility definitely will go with the BJP, particularly Narendra Modi.'
'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon.
Reminding that youth take to Naxalism and pick up arms against 'injustice', the Sena asked, 'Will the youth of Marathwada for the sake of a sip of water take up arms and become terrorists?'
"I agree that the Ganga has caused loss, but there is profit in it as well," Lalu said.
A special control room at the forces' headquarter New Delhi is monitoring the situation 24X7.
More and more patients with symptoms of skin irritation, chest infection and diarrhoea are thronging health centres in flood-ravaged Srinagar, with doctors saying they are already dealing with an epidemic outbreak.
Ten people were killed in a fire which broke out in a village in eastern Nepal, official sources said Tuesday.
The ban has been implemented in more than 10 villages of Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur districts.
An army jawan and a villager were injured on Friday in the firing and shelling by Pakistani troops who continued to target civilian and forward areas along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day.
An elderly woman said since the young men have left, there is nobody to arrange for food and open water supply taps that bring water to the village.
Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended due to lurking threat of floods in the Valley, leaving hundreds of commuters stranded, officials said.
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