Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar continues to simmer in the aftermath of the killing of an 18-year-old student in police action here on Friday.
For the second day running on Sunday, irate crowds clashed with police and CRPF at about a dozen places across the city even as the undeclared curfew continued to be in force in vast downtown Srinagar areas falling under five police stations, leaving dozens injured.

In a move that could cause concern, the telecom department has given the mobile operators six more months to self-certify that radiation from their towers meet the prescribed limits.

The Union home ministry is now reviewing its strategy to deal with the Left-wing ultras firmly following the recent Naxal attacks in the country.
Sources in the ministry said a revised strategy to combat Maoist insurgents is being planned with the focus on precise intelligence, specialised training, modern equipment and faster mobility for the anti-Naxal forces.

A Pakistani court has restricted Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s daughter Fiza Batool from taking her child abroad on the plea of her estranged husband Khurram Khan.

The home ministry has refused to provide the number of phone-tapping authorisations given by it to different enforcement agencies in recent years in the country.
The ministry has made it clear that even generic information about the working of such units is exempted from the transparency law. Citing confidentiality clauses of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the ministry said such information reflect the functioning of the security and intelligence organisations.

Reliance Industries, which has just acquired pan-India spectrum for wireless broadband services, expects its latest bet to pay for itself within three years from operation.
A senior RIL official, Mr Manoj Modi, said this on Saturday, at a presentation for analysts in Mumbai. He pegged the total investment into the broadband venture at $5 b

Giving a clean chit to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, former Union minister Arun Nehru, who was part of Mr Gandhi’s Cabinet, on Sunday said Arjun Singh as Madhya Pradesh chief minister had taken the decision to release then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson after the Bhopal tragedy and that the Centre had no role in the episode.

The “friendship” between the Opposition MNS-Shiv Sena and the ruling Congress-NCP combine came to the fore once again.

The convenor of the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT Neelam Krishnamoorthy on Saturday said that incidents like the Uphaar fire tragedy, in which 59 people were killed in 1997, and the B

The petrol pump dealers in the capital have withdrawn their proposed indefinite strike from Monday June 14 in protest against hike in VAT on diesel that has led to a sharp drop in sales in the city.