Secretary (Defence Production) Radha Krishna Mathur on Thursday given the additional charge of Defence Secretary for three months after Shashikant Sharma was appointed as Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

Three Army personnel were killed on Friday in an encounter with militants in Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.

Son of a SP leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court for raping a minor girl.

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested a police constable involved in drug smuggling from mountainous Rajouri district, an officer said. Rajouri's Superintendent of Police (SP) Mubassir Latifi told reporters that the constable was caught at a special check-post in Rajouri town while he was travelling with an associate, also a policeman, in a car.

A parcel containing two kg of hashish reportedly sent from India has been seized in Germany.

China and Pakistan are expected to step up their efforts to build oil pipelines and railroads linking the two countries following, a Chinese think-tank said on Thursday.

TThe raging spot-fixing saga in the IPL turned murkier on Thursday with controversial Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf being withdrawn by the ICC from next month's Champions Trophy in UK for his alleged role in the scandal which is growing bigger by the day.

Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif on Thursday sought civil nuclear technology to overcome Pakistan's energy crisis during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

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Pakistani cricket-turned-politician Imran Khan left hospital on Wednesday after treatment for back injuries suffered in a fall in Lahore.