The government is alert to the delicate situation in Kashmir following the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and security forces have been asked to maintain a high vigil against attempts by terror groups and other anti-national elements from disturbing peace in the Valley. Government sources said that security forces have been asked to beef up security across Jammu and Kashmir.

A 27-year-old car showroom executive was held hostage at gunpoint and robbed of his Santro car and cash by three armed assailants in west Delhi’s Nangloi area on Thursday evening.

The Americans claim they were led to the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad through painstaking work by homing in on a “courier” of the late Al Qaeda chief. A Saudi Arab newspaper has suggested that Bin Laden was betrayed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, his Egyptian number two. In India, the security establishment is pursuing an entirely different approach. Well-placed sources here say the Al Qaeda leader was, in all likelihood, done in by a Pakistani “Vibhishan”.

The Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely has said the process of enrolment in schools would continue throughout the year as per provisions of the Right to Education Act.

After being caught with their pants down when Osama bin Laden was found and killed on its soil, the Pakistani authorities are trying to save further embarrassment by shipping Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, the world’s second-most wanted terrorist, out of its territories. According to sources from inside the Intelligence Bureau, Dawood was

A 34-year-old woman jumped from the second floor of Dwarka district court complex in southwest Delhi on Friday afternoon.
The police said that the victim, identified as Neelam, a housewife and a resident of Roshanpura, Najafgarh, had come for appearance as a “witness” in a case at the Dwarka courts. “The victim went to the second floor and jumped from one of the windows,” DCP (southwest), A.K. Ojha said.

With swearing in of Jarbom Gamlin as the new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, hectic lobbying has started among legislators to retain their status in the new council of ministers likely to be announced after the funeral of late chief minister Dorjee Khandu on May 11.

A city court paved the way for initiation of trial in the 2008 serial blasts case on Friday as it framed charges against 13 suspected Indian Mujahideen men for their role in the terror act which left 26 people dead and 135 injured in the city. Additional sessions judge Santosh Snehi Mann framed the charges after 11 accused, who were

Stepping up attack on the BJP, the Congress on Friday demanded Saffron leader Yashwant Sinha’s exit from the JPC for giving pre-judgment on the issue. Mr Sinha had recently held home minister P. Chidambaram “directly responsible” for the scandal as the then finance minister.

The centrality of Pakistan — which the United States has so far tacitly accepted — in any talks between the Hamid Karzai government and the Pakistan-based Taliban leadership to prepare the regional politics for a post-US Afghanistan, is a thing of the past after Abbottabad.