ISI gave Rs 5 lakh to man who beheaded Indian soldier

NEW DELHI: The terrorist who beheaded Indian soldier Lance Naik Hemraj Singh on January 8 was rewarded with Rs 5 lakh by Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, which executed the attack on Indian troops with the assistance of terrorists, according to a detailed report of Military Intelligence (MI) on the brutality which almost pushed peace talks with Pakistan off track.

According to the MI report, the beheading was done by one Anwar Khan, a local guide who runs a shop in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and he was

Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley, was today sentenced to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a US court for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to strike a Danish newspaper. 

52-year-old Pakistani-Canadian Rana was sentenced by the Chicago federal court despite his defence attorneys seeking a

Pak suspends cross-LoC bus service

JAMMU: Pakistani authorities on Friday suspended cross-LoC bus service between J&K's Poonch and Rawlakote in PoK amid heightened tensions over the killing of soldiers along the de-facto India-Pakistan border. 

It comes a day after they had disallowed 60 trucks involved in trade along the LoC from crossing over to their side at Chakkan-da-Bagh in Poonch, where two Indian

Medical experts doubt Pinki Pramanik can rape

KOLKATA: Medical experts on Tuesday questioned the police move to slap rape charges on Pinki Pramanik after the former Asian Games gold medallist was declared a male on the basis of a DNA test report.

Pinki's medical report, they pointed out, says that the athlete suffers from Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD). A DSD patient, say experts, cannot be termed a male - despite an XY chromosome combination, as Pinki's DNA report has confirmed-because such

MP's arrest: Violence hits bus services to Belgaum district

BELGAUM: The arrest of Swabhiman Shetkari Sanghatan (SSS) leader Raju Shetty, MP, in Maharashtra on Monday has had a rippling effect in Belgaum district.

All bus services from Maharashtra to Karnataka have been suspended, while a few state buses are plying to Maharashtra.

Five KSRTC buses were stoned in Maharashtra, while a tempo was set afire near Borgaon.

Shetty was arrested when the agitation by sugarcane farmers there for higher prices for their crop turned violent on Monday.

Since Shetty has several supporters in Belgaum district, especially in border taluks of Chikkodi, Athani and Raibag, thousands of farmers gathered at Bedkihal Circle on