With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the politics surrounding the Bargari sacrilege episode of 2015 is gaining traction in Punjab with the ruling Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal getting ready to corner each other on the politically sensitive issue.

Jawans of the CRPF and other paramilitary forces deployed in the Kashmir Valley will now be able to take a commercial flight to join duty or while going on leave as the government Thursday issued authorisation orders, in the wake of the killing of 40 jawans in a deadly attack on their convoy in Pulwama.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said India would block India's share of water that flowed into Pakistan from three Indus rivers.

NEW DELHI: The NIA conducted searches at 10 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal on Thursday in connection with a terror funding case involving the banned People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI).

New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has set up a task force on national security to prepare a vision paper for the country in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed by a Jaish-e-Mohammed member.

Former Northern Army commander, Lieutenant General (Retd) D.S. Hooda, considered the chief architect of the 2016 surgical strikes in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, will head the Congress’ task force on national security.

Rajamahendravaram/New Delhi: Slamming the Congress for targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Pulwama attack, the BJP Thursday dubbed its allegations "shameful" and said they have exposed its "true colours" after it kept a "facade" of standing with security forces and the government following the terror strike.

JAMMU: The BJP's Jammu and Kashmir unit on Thursday welcomed the state administration's decision to withdraw security cover of separatist leaders in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, and said it is a step towards "nailing anti-national elements" in the state.

Lt General DS Hooda -- who oversaw the cross-border surgical strikes in September 2016 as the former Northern Command chief of the Army -- has been roped in by the Congress to chair a task force on national security and prepare a vision document for the party in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, news agency IANS reported.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on February 22 a petition seeking protection for Kashmiris, especially students, from public harassment and attacks in the aftermath of the Pulwama suicide bombing on February 14, which killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel.