The attack on the Indian border outpost in Poonch along the Line of Control was a “well-planned and executed operation” by Pakistan Army regulars and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed militants.

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the government’s sanction should not be necessary before a probe can be initiated against its officers, particularly when the probe is being monitored by a court.

While speculation of the BJP’s election campaign committee chief Narendra Modi contesting the Lok Sabha elections is refusing to die down in the political circles, the Congress officials are predicting that he may not fight.

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his ministers on Tuesday vented their ire on the media in the Durga Shakti Nagpal case.

UP minister Ahmad Hasan has said that suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal should apologise even as embarrassment for the Akhilesh Yadav government over her suspension intensified on Tuesday after it was found that the report of the local intelligence unit sent to the state government has categorically stated that the wall of the mosque in Greater Noida was demolished on July 27 in the presence of circle officer and SDM, Jewar.

The BJP has said that the Akhilesh Yadav government first made a wrong decision in suspending IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal and has now turned it into a prestige issue.

Noting that the current session of Parliament is too short to transact much business, the CPI(M) on Tuesday said that the UPA government’s legislative agenda was targeted at the upcoming general elections.

The Assam government on Tuesday started exercise to defuse the growing tension over the demand of separate states by various ethnic groups by calling All-Bodo Students’ Union and Karbi leaders for talks.

The Congress high command will be setting up a three-member committee to look into the grievances of Seemandhra at a time when the issue of Hyderabad to be made a UT is gaining ground.

Vidarbha MPs in the Lok Sabha have yet to take up the issue of a separate state. However, they are active outside Parliament in raising this demand.