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The Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed was the biggest failure of the Narendra Modi government, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in Mumbai on Saturday.

One-way traffic will be allowed on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Sunday with vehicles moving only from Jammu to Srinagar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning tweeted a teaser on his Mann Ki Baat radio programme that will begin at 11 am, saying this episode is"special".

Two children who were kidnapped from a school bus in Madhya Pradesh's Chitrakoot on February 12 were found dead in a river in Uttar Pradesh's Banda, the police said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation today, in the 53rd episode of his monthly radio-broadcast Mann Ki Baat.

A policeman in Madhya Pradesh went beyond his call of duty to save the life of a man who was seriously injured after falling off a train. For about a kilometer and a half, the cop carried the man on his shoulder to a railway station in Hoshangabad.

Last year in July, 55-year-old Malti Devi , a resident of Bahadurpur village in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli, was told by doctors in neighbouring Varanasi she had cancer. It was a shock that would have been too much to bear, but her son, 33-year-old Awadhesh Yadav, a soldier with the CRPF, told her not to lose hope. He promised to help her recover and get her the best possible treatment.

Six of the seven minor girls, who escaped from a government-run shelter home in Bihar's Mokama town have been found, police said. Five of them were witnesses in the Muzaffarpur sexual assault case

With the click of a mouse that will initiate millions of cash transfers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the government's ambitious income-transfer scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), at a farmers' rally in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. It is the cash-transfer scheme for small and marginal farmers. It is a major populist step by the Modi government to offset a challenging spell of rural crisis brought on by unprofitable sales of farm commodities.

Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi met jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday to discuss seat sharing ahead of Lok Sabha elections. Lalu Yadav has asked alliance partners of the proposed "mahagathbandhan" to sit and discuss seat adjustments.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Rs 75,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur today by transferring the first instalment of Rs 2,000 each to over one crore farmers, news agency PTI quoted a senior agriculture ministry official as saying. Another one crore farmers are expected to be covered in the next two to three days.

The side windows and the main driver's screen of the Vande Bharat were damaged near Uttar Pradesh's Achalda on Saturday after the train was hit by flying ballast during a journey.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that the number of fighter jets required by the Air Force changes from time to time, and the situation was different in 2001 when India decided to purchase 126 aircraft. One of the questions raised by the Congress about the Rafale deal is why the Narendra Modi government decided to buy only 36 aircraft instead of 126 as planned originally.

Women pilots flew high in the skies above the Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru on Saturday, at the ongoing Aero India air show. All-women crews flew the advanced jet trainer Hawk-i, single-engine turbine-driven chopper Chetak, Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH Dhruv) as part of the Sarang aerobatic team and the twin-turboprop utility aircraft Dornier-228 as part of the air display.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday accused the Congress of indulging in cheap election gimmicks by raising Ram temple issue and asked its party president Rahul Gandhi to clear his stand on the matter.