Jammu, Feb 15: Pakistani troops fired at Indian posts on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district late Thursday, an army spokesperson said Friday.
"There has been a ceasefire violation by Pakistan troops on the LoC in the Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch without any provocation from Indian side Thursday night," an army spokesperson said.

LONDON: India's flagship cultural centre in London - the Nehru Centre, is facing a severe cash crunch.

Budgetary allocation to the centre - the cultural arm of the Indian High Commission, with the responsibility of portraying India's cultural heritage has been steadily dipping over the past three years. In 2011, allocation by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) was nearly Rs 5 crores which dipped to Rs 3.6 crores the following year.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama vetoed the idea of a Seal 6 team tasked with killing Osama bin Laden surrendering if surrounded by Pakistani troops. Instead, he planned to "rain hell" on the Pakistani military in such an eventuality, stirring new insights into the Abbottabad invasion that nailed the world's No.1 terrorist has revealed.

NEW DELHI: Indian intelligence agencies have rejected JKLF leader Yasin Malik's defence that his appearance in the same frame as 26/11 mastermind and Hafiz Saeed was incidental and believe that the Kashmiri leader deliberately shared the stage with the LeT chief to do a one-up on moderate Hurriyat leaders, who had secretly met Saeed last December.

CHENNAI: President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the road to the gallows for four associates of slain forest brigand Veerappan by rejecting their mercy petitions. The four were sentenced to death for killing 22 people, including policemen, in a landmine blast in 1993. Union home ministry sources confirmed Belgaum jail, where the convicts are lodged, has been told.

MUMBAI: Wasim Akram doesn't hesitate in conceding that he gets "as much love" in India as he does in Pakistan, and has even more friends here.

He has closely followed the Indian team's progress since his retirement and he will be back to give his expert views on the India-Australia series starting on February 22. For now, he believes India have the edge. Excerpts from an exclusive interview.

CHENNAI: Ambati Rayudu followed up his century in the Irani Trophy with a composed 87 against the Australians in the first warm-up match on Wednesday.

"I'm really happy that I batted well today. Just want to keep doing well in whatever games I get to play," Rayudu said, talking about his innings on Wednesday, where he played the likes of Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and Jackson Bird with distinction.

SHIMLA: Even as the state government has started a probe into alleged violations in leasing out 28 acre prime land in HP to PatanjaliYogapeeth by the previous BJP government, the Yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is all set to inaugurate the first phase of the project on the land under question.

LAUSANNE: Pakistan could soon join neighbours India as Olympic outcasts with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday considering suspending the country over what it said was government interference.

"We might soon consider a suspension as a protective measure," IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters.

CHENNAI: If their first outing is anything to go by, the Australian batsmen have some work to do if they are going to survive the onslaught of spin that they will face over the course of their upcoming four-Test series. Jammu & Kashmir off-spinner Parvez Rassol took 7-45 as the Australians were bowled out for 241 in 88.3 overs on the first day of their two-day warm-up match against the Board President's XI.