Jet Airways, JetLite and Jet Airways Konnect on Monday announced closure of all check-in counters 45 minutes prior to departure in the six metros of Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kolkata from August 4 instead of the earlier 30 minutes.

The Defence Research Development Organisation is developing the use of laser broadbeam weapons that can help security forces in controlling violent mobs in states such as Jammu and Kashmir. DRDO officials said on Monday that the emission of a broadbeam can dazzle violent stone-pelting mobs which will be temporarily blinded by the flash of light. The lasers are being developed by the New Delhi-based Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC).

The return of turmoil to the Kashmir Valley found the Lok Sabha not only expressing concern on Monday morning and the government forced to admit that in recent weeks, the “problem has taken a serious turn” after July 30.

As the anger against the police and other security forces has increased with the unrelenting bloodshed in the Kashmir Valley, reports pouring in here from different parts of the restive region suggest that at least local policemen operating from area police stations and posts are trying to buy peace with the home populations.

In spite of the Kashmir Valley being on the boil, the annual Amarnath pilgrimage goes on without interruption. However, the devotees who had travelled to the cave-temple, situated at an altitude of 12,729 feet, in the past few days, returned disappointed as the ice stalagmite that forms a natural Shivalingam has melted almost completely.

In a bizarre act, policemen deployed at a Srinagar hospital to watch over Syed Ali Shah Geelani have walked out on the separatist leader who was earlier informed by a senior police officer that he was a free man now.

Amid allegations of rampant corruption on the part of the Organising Committee for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, the government is understood to have turned down the Indian Olympic Association’s attempt to bid for the 2019 Asian Games.

The Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Bill, which seeks to make registration of all clinical establishments mandatory, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

The Opposition plans to demand a joint parliamentary committee inve-stigation into allegations of corruption in ongoing work for the Commonwealth Games, with Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, Games organisi

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a member of the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) for his alleged involvement in the sabotage of the Gyaneswari Expre