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Srinagar, Mar 12: Three unidentified terrorists were on Saturday killed in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. An anti-militancy operation was launched in Hakura area of Anantnag district late on Saturday night following information about the presence of terrorists in the area, an Army official said. He added that the three terrorists were killed in the pre

Mumbai, Mar 11: Walking with blistered feet for about 180 km in the blazing sun over the last five days, around 35,000 farmers from Maharashtra's Nashik district have entered the capital city. The three key demands of the protesting farmers are - complete loan waiver, implementation of the recommendations of the Dr MS Swaminathan committee report on fixing of MSP and implementation of the Forest

Srinagar, Mar 11: Groups of people raised pro-freedom slogans at an event of Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Srinagar. People left midway alleging that they were tricked into participating in the programme. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was speaking at Paigham-e-Mohabbat (message of love) function at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) lawns, people started to leave the

Lahore, Mar 11: A shoe was hurled at Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif by a religious extremist today during a function at an Islamic seminary in Lahore. The incident took place a day after religious extremist blackened the face of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif with ink when he was addressing his party's worker's convention in his hometown in Sialkot, some 100-km from Lahore

Beijing, Mar 11: China's Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a path to rule indefinitely as Parliament abolished presidential term limits, handing him almost total authority to pursue a vision of transforming the nation into an economic and military superpower. The move reverses the era of "collective" leadership and orderly succession that was promoted by late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping to ensure

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 11: Three undertrial prisoners, lodged in the district jail here, have been booked for clicking a selfie and uploading it on a social networking site from within the jail premises, the police said today. The smartphone used for taking the photograph and uploading it on Facebook yesterday has been seized, the district magistrate said, adding a case into this incident has been

Jhansi, Mar 11: In a shocking incident of medical negligence, a road accident victim's severed leg was allegedly used as a pillow to prop him up in the emergency ward of a government-run hospital in Jhansi. The incident is of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, where the victim claimed that the hospital staff put his amputated leg under his head in order to help him. After the case came to light

Jhansi, Mar 11: In a shocking incident of medical negligence, a road accident victim's severed leg was allegedly used as a pillow to prop him up in the emergency ward of a government-run hospital in Jhansi. The incident is of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, where the victim claimed that the hospital staff put his amputated leg under his head in order to help him. After the case came to light

Nagpur, Mar 10: RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi, who has been holding the post since 2009, was today given another three-year term. "The election of seh karyavah was today held peacefully and Shri Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi was re-elected for another term," RSS Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya told reporters. He was speaking after the triennial meeting of the Sangh. Mr Joshi will now continue in

Nagpur, Mar 10: RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi, who has been holding the post since 2009, was today given another three-year term. "The election of seh karyavah was today held peacefully and Shri Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi was re-elected for another term," RSS Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya told reporters. He was speaking after the triennial meeting of the Sangh. Mr Joshi will now continue in