All efforts are on to secure the return of Chandu Babulal Chauhan, a soldier who was captured by Pakistan Army after he ¡°inadvertently crossed over to the other side of the Line of Control," Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said.
¡°The government has taken note of the media reports that say our soldier is in Pakistan captivity. India will take up the matter with Pakistan,¡± Singh said. Chauhan who is serving with the 37 Rashtriya Rifles, was captured by Pakistani Army on Thursday at Jhandroot, west of Mankote. Read more
As the security establishment watches out for Islamabad's response to the surgical strikes, border vigil has been tightened and surveillance stepped up to track terrorists who have already crossed over into Jammu and Kashmir with plans to escalate violence in the coming days.
The surgical strikes clearly caught Pakistani agencies unawares.
"They never apprehended that India would revise its strategy against infiltration and cross the LoC to hit terror bases and launch pads in PoK," claimed an intelligence officer. Read more?
People are being evacuated from nearly 1,000 villages in the six border districts of Punjab, after the Indian armed forces carried out surgical strikes across the Line of Control.
The affected villages are within 10 km of the India-Pakistan border in the districts of Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Fazilka and Ferozepur. The authorities are making alternative arrangements for about 15 lakh people likely to be displaced in the six districts. Read more
Naik Rajkisore Singh, who was injured during the terror attack on the army headquarters in Uri earlier this month, has succumbed to injuries.
35-year-old Singh, who had suffered gunshot injuries, was undergoing treatment at Army's Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi. ?He was a resident of Arrah in Bihar. He is survived by his wife and two children. Read more
Afraid of being "caught and separated," a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy from Sangli, both in their teens, committed suicide by jumping before a train in Agra, where they had eloped.
The boy, Zakir Dilawar (17), and the girl, Ayodhya Patil (16) were both from Haroli village in Sangli and knew each other for five years. They were students of Class XII. Ayodhya's father Dinkar Patil is believed to be a Shiv Sena leader of Kavathe-Mahankal taluka, Sangli. Read more
A day after the US Senate and the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation that will allow the families of those killed in the 2001 attacks on the United States to seek damages from the Saudi government, Riyadh has condemned the move, calling it a matter of "great concern".
The foreign ministry expressed hope that the US Congress would correct the legislation, "To avoid the serious unintended consequences that may ensue," without elaborating on what the consequences might be. Read more
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has expressed concerns over the possibility of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of jihadists, which she said was "A threatening scenario".
"Pakistan is running full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India," the former secretary of state told a closed door fundraiser in Virginia in February, The New York Times reported, citing 50-minute audio audio being hacked from the Democratic Party's computers. Read more