Scindia sought to steer clear of reports about rift among party leaders for the chief ministerial post.

The CRPF DG said that security forces are reaching out to young men, who have joined terror groups, through all possible ways to stop them from taking up arms.

The women, after their 45-day induction training and combat-stress inoculation, will be deployed in the valley to tackle stone-pelters and protestors, including women.

The report also found that those getting killed in such freak road accidents are "in the prime of their lives, about 30-40 years of age".

The taxman, said the party 'incorrectly disclosed the hawala money as voluntary donations'

This will be newest less lethal ammunition the force has introduced to tackle crowds.

Singh said the Doklam "deadlock" was resolved similarly and without any confrontation.

"Anyone can go any day and anytime to any border outpost of the BSF and ask for food"

A third team to combat chemical or radiological leakage or attack incidents has also been based at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

A grenade-dropping drone, 3D fly-on-the-wall radar to see through a 20-m-thick wall and a 'dogo robot' armed with remote pistol are some of the latest weaponry provided to the National Security Guard to undertake lethal counter-terror operations with a punch of stealth.

On a day Punjab's border district of Gurdaspur was hit by a terror strike, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said India wants to have cordial relations with Pakistan but will give a befitting reply if national pride is challenged.

Smuggling and crime are everyday instances. The 70,000 people in villages along the border make the going tough for the BSF. Neelabh Srivastava reports

Financial Intelligence Unit detects over Rs 7,800 cr blackmoney.

President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in this historic Vietnamese city on Tuesday as part of his four-day state visit to the country. The tour of the city, formerly called Saigon, is the second and the last leg of Mukherjee's visit to the Southeast Asian country which he is visiting to bolster bilateral ties especially in areas of defence, security and energy.

The agreement between the two airlines came on the second day of the four-day state visit of Mukherjee to the country.

India and Vietnam on Monday inked seven pacts, including one to enhance cooperation in the strategic oil sector, as they called for "freedom" of navigation in the South China Sea, a remark which could irk China, which has been claiming territorial sovereignty over the high seas.

The Rs 5,600-crore (Rs 56 billion) NSEL scam could have been averted had its top management and other functionaries "performed their duties and exercised due diligence" to check the dubious activities of defaulting firms which have been alleged to have cheated numerous investors, investigation by Enforcement Directorate (ED) has revealed.

More than 2,700 border pillars along India's open border with Nepal have either gone "missing" or are "damaged", setting alarm bells ringing in the internal security establishment of the country.