Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh said on Saturday the Special Police Officer (SPO) who decamped with eight firearms on Friday was in touch with militants.


SPO who decamped with weapons had terror links: J&K Police chief


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India on Saturday lambasted Pakistan for extending continued support to terrorism on Indian soil and blamed Islamabad for sabotaging the talks process.


India lambasts Pakistan at UN for supporting terrorism


The US military has suffered the first crash in its hugely expensive F-35 fighter jet programme. An F-35B crashed in South Carolina, but there was no casualty.


F-35 fighter jet suffers first crash in US


The second anniversary of the 2016 surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) is being observed as "Parakram Parv", with Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday stating that the strikes were a message that India would not tolerate terrorists from across the border and that the killing of soldiers will not go unpunished.


India observes 'Parakram Parv'; Sitharaman says surgical strikes message against terrorism


BSF Director General K.K. Sharma, who will retire on Sunday, on Friday said that Pakistani military had become "more aggressive" since Imran Khan became the Prime Minister in Islamabad.


Pakistan more aggressive after Imran took charge: BSF DG


The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by 300 serving Army officers asking the bench which has been hearing alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur to recuse from hearing the case.


Manipur fake encounters: SC reserves order on recusal from hearing case


Various commemoration events were organised on Friday in the areas falling under the Indian Army's Western Command on the second anniversary of the surgical strikes across the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said here.


Army's surgical strikes commemorated in Western Sector


The surgical strikes across the Line of Control in 2016 was a message that India would not tolerate terrorists in the garb of intruders and the act of killing soldiers will not go unpunished, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Friday.


Surgical strikes a message that India will not tolerate terrorists: Sitharaman


The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere in the arrest in August of five rights activists, accused of having links with Maoists, and also declined to set up an SIT, allowing the Pune police to go ahead with its probe in the Bhima-Koregaon case.


SC declines SIT probe, says activists' arrest not for dissent


Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court ruling on the arrest of five rights activists and termed it a "victory for the Pune police and the country."


SC ruling on activists vindicates Pune police: Fadnavis


Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will arrive here on Sunday on a two-day visit, the External Affairs Ministry said on Friday.


Uzbekistan President to visit India


Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj carefully avoided any interaction with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) meeting of ministers, walking out after issuing a call to end the eco-system of terrorism.


Sushma Swaraj warns of terrorism threat at Saarc meeting, avoids Qureshi


Three rockets fired by Taliban militants hit Afghan's Ghazni city during President Ashraf Ghani's visit on Thursday but caused no loss of life, officials said.


Rockets strike Afghan's Ghazni city during Ghani's visit


Three militants, a soldier and a civilian were killed on Thursday in three separate incidents in the Kashmir Valley, officials said.


Three militants, soldier killed in Kashmir Valley


Singer-composer Kailash Kher and lyricist Prasoon Joshi have joined hands for a song on India's cross-border surgical strikes of 2016.


Kailash teams up with Prasoon for surgical strikes song


Security forces were engaged in two encounters with militants on Thursday in Badgam and Anantnag districts of Jammu and Kashmir. In the gun battle in Anantnag, one LeT commander and a soldier were killed, while the encounter in Badgam was still on, police said.


Two encounters reported in J&K


A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander and an army soldier were killed on Thursday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, Defence sources said.


LeT commander, soldier killed in J&K gunfight


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said it has busted a hawala network linked to the Pakistan-based Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) and arrested three persons from Delhi, including a Kashmir-based hawala courier.


NIA busts LeT-linked hawala module, arrests 3


Two Maoist guerrillas involved in the killing of Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjeet Balihar and five other policemen in Jharkhand in 2013 were awarded death sentence by a Dumka district court on Wednesday.


Two Maoists get death sentence for killing SP


The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that 12 civilians, including 10 minors, were killed in an airstrike in the central province of Maidan Wardak but the Afghan government dismissed the claim.


UN says 12 civilians killed in Afghan airstrike


Shouting pro-independence slogans, hundreds of mourners on Wednesday attended the funeral prayers of a militant killed by security forces in Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir.

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