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The Punjab government in Pakistan demolished a centuries-old Jain temple in Lahore on Wednesday, triggering an uproar with leader of the opposition in Punjab assembly Mian Mehmood-ur-Rashid demanding an inquiry into the incident.

The Punjab government in Pakistan demolished a centuries-old Jain temple in Lahore on Wednesday, triggering an uproar with leader of the opposition in Punjab assembly Mian Mehmood-ur-Rashid demanding an inquiry into the incident.

National Security Guard (NSG) chief RC Tayal on Thursday said there were six fidayeen behind the Pathankot attack as two terrorists, armed with weapons and explosives, could be heard conversing through a wall radar placed outside the airmen’s barrack, after four others had been neutralised.

The family of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged encounter in Gujarat, on Thursday raised questions over David Coleman Headley’s testimony that she was an LeT operative, saying this was for the “political benefit of some big people” whose names have been “besmirched.”

Among the reasons delaying government formation in Jammu & Kashmir is differences between PDP and BJP over the massive hike in bounty for killing terrorists as well as local militants, according to administrative sources in the state.

Terrorist David Coleman Headley on Thursday said ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service, gave him funds on different occasions for the reconnaissance he carried out here between 2006 and 2008 for the 26/11 attacks, reiterating the role played by Pakistan’s “state actors” in spreading terror in India.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday tabled the Samajwadi Party government's second supplementary budget this year, worth Rs 27,758.98 crore, amid sharp criticism and a walkout staged by legislators of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress. The demand for funds has come under three key heads-for the revenue department for drought mitigation and crop loss compensation; the cooperative sector and for providing bank guarantee for the Centrally-funded Uday scheme to reorganise defunct power discoms.

All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) on Thursday asked chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to sack close relatives of Aashiana gang rape accused from his party.

Chief secretary has constituted a committee to boost tourism facilities in Old City .

The nation celebrates Basant Panchami for one day, but a Sufi shrine in this town near Lucknow celebrates the spirit of Basant and sings its songs throughout the year.

Moving in groups, preparing props and discussing strategies to do better, students from several colleges in the city gave tough competition to each other on the first day of Dastak Youth Festival at Sangeet Natak Academy on Thursday.

American e-commerce giant Amazon has acquired a 26% stake in leading publishing house Westland from Tata Group company Trent for Rs 9.5 crore, upping its presence in Asia's third largest economy.

Two labourers died and another sustained severe head injuries when two iron-rods they were cutting for construction work pierced through their bodies at the secretariat building under Hazaratganj police station on Thursday, police said.

BJP on Thursday accused Congress of “politicising” the Ishrat Jahan encounter as part of its “hate politics” against PM Narendra Modi, who was Gujarat CM then.

Shamli police on Thursday arrested the main accused and his aide in celebratory firing case in which an eight-old boy was died on Sunday.

Hours after David Headley told a Mumbai court that Ishrat Jahan, killed in a 2004 police encounter in Ahmedabad, was an LeT terrorist, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) special director Rajendra Kumarformer Intelligence Bureau (IB) special director Rajendra Kumar, probed by the CBI for his role in the encounter, lashed out at “certain greedy officers of the CBI who framed me at the behest of most powerful people in the country” at the time, “in the hope of landing a post-retirement job”.

Responding to Headley’s claim that Ishrat Jahan was an LeT operative, Vrinda Grover, lawyer for Ishrat’s mother Shamima Kauser, told TOI, “Headley was asked if there are female suicide bombers in LeT.

David Headley’s testimony that Ishrat Jahan was part of an LeT module may not absolve IB and Gujarat police officers of the “fake encounter” taint but it may clear them of the perception that they had killed an “innocent” girl in cold blood.

Wipro is buying US-based insurance technology platform HealthPlan Services for $460 million (over Rs 3,000 crore), its fourth acquisition in less than six months and its biggest since the $600-million buyout of US data centre provider Infocrossing in 2007.

Congress accused BJP of obfuscation over David Headley’s statement about Ishrat Jahan being an LeT operative, saying it was trying to confuse her fake encounter with her allegedly being a terrorist.

Senior minister in Akhilesh cabinet Shiv Pal Yadav on Thursday said strict action will be initiated against those involved in violence and arson outside the court premises in Lucknow on Wednesday.

For patients in need of valve replacement but medically not fit for surgery, there's hope at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.

Lucknow University on Thursday lodged an FIR against a second-year MSW student who was caught with a country-made pistol at Habibullah Hostel late on Wednesday.

When chief minister Akhilesh Yadav presents the annual Budget for the year 2016-17, the last of his present five-year term, he would be aiming to ride the development wave by opening up the treasury to fund infrastructure, agriculture and social welfare sectors with focus on mainly farmers and youth to embark on the daunting task of retaining power after the 2017 assembly elections.

Probably for the first time, BJP has included Dalit icon BR Ambedkar among its favourite poster boys, including Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, on election posters during its campaign for the bypolls to three Assembly seats and one municipal corporation next week in Uttar Pradesh.