Security forces on Saturday killed Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Sabzar Ahmad, who was said to be the slain separatist Burhan Wani’s successor. Ahmad, alias Abu Zarar, was killed in an encounter in Tral in Pulwama, after he was trapped inside a house in a cordon created by security forces. Two other terrorists, one of them a Pakistani, were trapped with him. ...

In three of the National Democratic Alliance government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the top followed leader on Facebook globally. According to data shared exclusively by the social networking giant with ET, Modi’s Facebook Page has more followers than Donald Trump and his official page — PMO India – ranks third followed by Modi page’s personal page and the ...

The CBSE will declare results of the Class XII board exams on Sunday, May 28, in the forenoon. Public Relations Officer Rama Sharma said the CBSE would host results on the Net and students can access their results at www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in. The result, Sharma said, will not be available in the Board and the public is advised not ...

Pithoragarh: One person was killed and two others injured, including an Army man, purportedly after a welding gas cylinder went off in Bharkatia Cantt, 7 km from here, on Wednesday. A bomb disposal squad and police forensic team have been investigating the matter. Pithoragarh superintendent of police Ajay Joshi said, “Nirmal Kumar, 45, and his helper Vishal, 22, both residents ...

An Indian and three Pakistani nationals were arrested in Bengaluru, for allegedly staying in India under fake identities. They were living in South Bengaluru’s Kumaraswamy Layout for the past nine months. Besides their Pakistani passports, the trio was found to be in possession of Indian voter identity and Aadhar cards. Following the arrest, central intelligence agencies are in Bengaluru, assisting ...

Sachin: A Billion Dreams, based on the life of cricket’s living legend Sachin Tendulkar, released on Friday, 26 May across 2,800 screens. “We are releasing the film across 2,800 screens out of which 2,450 are in India. It’s a first of its kind film being made in India — a docu-drama feature film, that too on a celebrated personality like ...

Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met Union minister Nitin Gadkari in Delhi on Thursday evening. The Rs 13,000 crore all weather road construction was discussed in the meeting. Gadkari assured the CM that the project would be completed on time. Rawat assured the union minister that the all weather road project would be monitored from the CM office. After the ...

The Uttarakhand government on Thursday launched a week-long campaign ‘Digital Mussoorie,’ in association with the State Bank of India (SBI) to make the queen of the hills what government sources termed ‘the first cashless hill station of the country.’ Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat unveiled the project in the presence of senior SBI officials at his camp office on Cantt ...

A scrap dealer was killed and his mother, wife, sister and sister-in-law raped by a group of armed men who waylaid their car and also looted the family, near Jewar on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh early on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred some 60 km from here on Jewar at around 1.30 a.m. Eight members, including four ...

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro tablet with longer battery life and faster processors. The new, fifth-generation device – simply called Surface Pro – won’t look or feel drastically different from its predecessor. But Microsoft is hoping its under-the-hood improvements will help it compete with newer laptop-tablet hybrids from Samsung and others. Not to mention Apple’s iPad Pro. The Redmond, ...