Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said that while the armed forces deserve "100 percent credit", the government "must be cheered for the decision it took boldly"; A gun-battle with two terrorists who barged into a government building in Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore ended after nearly 60 hours. Both terrorists were killed; Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and BJP President Amit Shah visited Apollo Hospital in Chennai where Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is admitted; A BJP activist was hacked to death in Kerala's Kannur, in what is suspected to be revenge killing two days after a worker of the ruling CPM was murdered in the same district.
