Clashes broke out between stone-pelting protesters and security forces on Friday in the old city areas of Srinagar and in Sopore town in Jammu and Kashmir.


Clashes erupt in Srinagar, Sopore


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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday said that talks can be held with Maoists if they respect the Indian Constitution and give up their weapons.


Talks with Maoists if they drop weapons: Baghel


The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said civilian vehicles will be restricted on the Jammu-Srinagar highway only on Sundays.


Highway curbs on civilian traffic in J&K only on Sundays


Church mass might resume in Sri Lanka from next Sunday depending on the country's security situation, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said on Thursday.


Sri Lanka may resume mass from Sunday


The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the plea by families of those killed along with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a LTTE suicide bomber at Tamil Nadu's Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, opposing the release of the seven remaining convicts in the case.


Rajiv Gandhi killing: SC dismisses plea against convicts' release


The death toll of a Taliban attack targeting an international aid group in the Afghan capital jumped to 14 on Thursday, with the militant group warning it would conduct more such strikes to avenge the civilian casualties of counter-insurgency military operations by Afghan and foreign forces.


14 dead in Taliban attack on aid group in Kabul


The death toll from the suicide blast outside Pakistan's oldest Sufi shrine in Lahore rose to 11 as one police official succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.


Lahore suicide blast toll rises to 11


A teenage American recruiter for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has admitted in a Texas federal court that he was guilty of a conspiracy to help the terrorist organisation, according to John C. Demers, the assistant attorney-general for national security.


American LeT recruiter admits to helping terror group


Seven trained suicide bombers identified as followers of the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) Islamist group have been arrested in Sri Lanka, the police said.


Seven 'suicide bombers' arrested in Sri Lanka


At least five Maoists, including three women, were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Odisha's Koraput district bordering Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.


Five Maoists killed in Odisha encounter


Three teams have been formed to trace a 'terror' suspect who vanished on Tuesday night from the Majestic metro station in the city centre after he was refused entry, a top police official said on Wednesday.


Bengaluru cops hunt for 'terror' suspect fleeing from metro station


Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday reviewed security in the state and expressed concern over the killings of political workers by militants.


Political killings: J&K Governor reviews security


At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded when a 15-year-old suicide bomber detonated himself near a police patrol close to Pakistan's oldest and most popular Sufi shrine in Lahore city on Wednesday.


Suicide blast near Lahore's Sufi shrine kills 10 (3rd Lead)


At least eight people were killed and 25 injured in a suicide bombing targeting a police patrol near a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Lahore city on Wednesday, police said.


Blast near Sufi shrine in Lahore kills 8 (2nd Lead)


At least five people, including three police officials and two civilians, were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion near Data Darbar here in Pakistan on Wednesday, DIG Operations Lahore Ashfaq Ahmed Khan confirmed.


Blast outside Sufi shrine in Pakistan, 5 dead


At least two policemen were killed in a blast outside Lahores Data Darbar.  The Mayo Hospital here confirmed the two deaths to the media and adding that 15 others were injured. Four to five of them are critical.


Blast near Lahore, two cops die


With peacekeeping operations trapped in a "no-man's land" of vague realities and expectations, India says there has to be a readiness to adapt to the emerging threat situations.


Peacekeeping needs to adapt to growing threat situations: India


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a major global threat from foreign fighters fleeing the defeated Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation and declared stopping them should be a high global priority.


UN chief warns of global threat from fleeing IS foreign fighters


Even as India and its security apparatus grapple with the imponderables that emerge constantly with Pakistan's proxy war in Kashmir Valley, the death by a thousand cuts asymmetrical warfare takes its toll on our forces continuously. The rapid use of the dark web and the onion router (TOR which provides annonymity) to subliminally indoctrinate the youth in the Valley with a bent towards Wahhabi Salafisim is not lost on our sleuths. However, that does not for a moment mean that our deep state can take its eyes off the ball in the rest of the country.


Terror Trail-II: How south India became terror central (IANS exclusive)


A day after a Qatar-based Keralite was named by the NIA as an accused based on information from arrested alleged Islamic State operative Riyaz Aboobacker, he was picked up by the agency from the Cochin airport on his return here on Tuesday.


NIA accused held at Cochin airport on return from Gulf


A local first-time voter belonging to Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district has written an open letter to Kashmiri separatists questioning their right to prevent people from voting in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.

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