Against the backdrop of the Tamil Nadu Assembly passing a resolution demanding imposition of economic sanctions against Colombo, national security adviser Shivhankar Menon on Friday held talks with Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris on the entire gamut of bilateral ties.

After its successful summer wargames in Rajasthan and Punjab, the Indian Army will hold another such massive exercise in winter featuring one of its three potent strike corps in the desert along the western border with Pakistan.

The UP police has launched a manhunt for former BSP MLC Heera Thakur who is now on the hitlist for allegedly making some rather derogatory remarks against chief minister Mayawati at the Samajwadi Party’s national convention at Agra this week.

Giving a fillip to Indo-Canada trade relations, Toronto has announced a new visa regime that will allow Indians 10 years multiple entry visa to the country.

The Congress has virtually blamed the DMK for the drubbing in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections. It wants to have another look at the strategy in the southern state and feels the party must not lose its vote bank due to the mistakes of its coalition partners.

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Friday said India was capable of meeting any threat (including any nuclear threat from Pakistan) and added that India is aware of the fact that Pakistan is strengthening its nuclear arsenal.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah’s security was breached on Friday when a police constable breaking the security cordon tried to move towards him raising slogans as the former was about to board the state helicopter after attending a function in RS Pura in Jammu district.

The Madhya Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS), which has been involved in grilling the Indian Mujahideen-Simi activists arrested earlier June, have succeeded in recovering from them 6.20 kg of gold looted from the Manappuram gold loan finance company’s office in the state capital in August 2010.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar on Friday became the first accused in the 2G spectrum case to approach the Supreme Court for bail even as the top court is yet to give its final verdict on the monitoring of the multi-million rupees scam.

After the verdict was pronounced, Tahawwur Rana’s attorney Patrick Blegan said he would file post-trial motions that there was not enough evidence to convict him and that there was an error in the trial.