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Srinagar, Aug 28: The father of slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, who met the Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the latter's ashram in Bengaluru, discussed the situation in the Valley with the spiritual guru. "I met Sri Sri Ravi Shankar during a personal visit to Bengaluru last week. Since Sri Sri is a man of peace, I apprised him about the ground situation," Muzaffar Wani

New Delhi, Aug 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "Ekta" (unity) and "Mamata" (love) are the basic mantras for addressing the Kashmir problem even as he slammed those pushing children to create unrest, saying they will have to give answers to those "innocent" kids some day. He emphasised that if any life is lost in Kashmir, whether of any youth or any securityman, "that loss is ours, of

New Delhi, Aug 28: The death toll in Bihar rose to 153 on Saturday with four more fatalities as floods continued to ravage the state, while higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh experienced the season’s first snowfall. In West Bengal, the flood situation in Malda worsened with two fresh deaths reported from Kaliachak III block, taking the toll to four in the district. Twelve more panchayat areas were

New Delhi, Aug 27: Scores of passengers who had just deplaned a SpiceJet flight escaped unhurt at Jabalpur airport today when the wing of a taxiing Air India plane narrowly missed hitting the coach in which they were travelling. The incident happened when the coach carrying passengers, who landed from a Delhi flight (SG-2641) was preparing to move towards the terminal building. There were no

Jaisalmer, Aug 27: Pakistani national Nand Lal Maharaj, who was arrested on charges of being an ISI agent, operated two accounts on Facebook for obtaining strategic information from people living in the border districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, police said today. The spy, also known as Nand Lal Garg, revealed during interrogation that he used the two accounts to communicate with his sources in the

New Delhi, Aug 27: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Vice President Rahul Gandhi and other leaders were asked by a Delhi court today to respond to a fresh plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking certain documents from the party and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) in the National Herald case. Besides the Gandhis, Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen also issued notices to other party leaders like

New Delhi, Aug 27: Sharpening his attack against GSTN, the company set up to create IT backbone for GST rollout, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today said he will write to party president Amit Shah and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states to oppose its structure. "I am writing to Amit Shahji and all BJP chief ministers that while ratifying the constitutional amendments for GST Bill, they should oppose

New Delhi, Aug 27: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today sought the creation of an institutional mechanism of interlocutors to talk to all stakeholders in Kashmir to carry forward former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's policy of a dialogue internally as well as with Pakistan. Mufti, who called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and discussed the situation in the Kashmir

New Delhi, Aug 26: India today asked Pakistan not to remain in a "denial" mode regarding its support to cross- border terrorism as the war of words between the two countries intensified. In his latest response to his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry's fresh invitation of August 19 for talks, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar once again emphasised on the need for earliest possible vacation

New Delhi, Aug 26: Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the "biggest crisis" in India. Delivering the first lecture of government think-tank Niti Aayog's 'Transforming India' initiative, he said the world's second-most populous country also has the "biggest gap" in talent at the top