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The Calcutta High Court today gave MP Soumitra Khan, who had recently joined the BJP after quitting Trinamool Congress, interim protection from arrest for four weeks in connection with cases of allegedly taking money on the promise of giving jobs.

Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan over the Pulwama terror attack, members of the Indian delegation at the hearing of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice snubbed their Pakistani counterparts by refusing to shake hands with them.

Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Monday released a joint appeal, saying it was the terrorists that attacked the soldiers, not "Muslims" of the state.

As the entire nation unites in grief and anger over the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir Pulwama's on Thursday, that left 40 CRPF soldiers dead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that the time for talks with Pakistan is over. In Bihar, yesterday, PM Modi expressed his anguish over the attack and said "a fire is raging in my heart."

The last rites of Major Chitresh Bisht were still underway in Haridwar today, when the army said that Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal had died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.

Demanding a strong action against Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the security forces must kill double the number to send a strong message to the terrorists' organisation and Pakistan.

A 10-year-old girl was raped multiple times allegedly by her neighbour, police said today.

A woman was allegedly raped at her birthday party organised at a friend's house in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said today.

Masood Azhar, the chief of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, was an "easy man" to handle in custody and he got shaken up on the first "slap" from an Army officer, prompting him to blurt out details of his movements, said a former police officer who interrogated him after his arrest in 1994.

A Border Security Force (BSF) constable drowned in river Padma while chasing cow smugglers near the Indo-Bangla border in West Bengal's Murshidabd district, an official said.

Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, lacerated over his comment after the Pulwama terror attack that an "entire nation can't be held responsible" was defiant today as he said he was firm on his stand, that the country's fight is against terrorism and perpetrators of terror.

The commonly used anti-theft remote alarms or keys used in motorcycles and vehicles are being increasingly used by terrorists to trigger improvised explosive devices (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir,

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - known for his many battles with Lieutenant Governors of Delhi, today met his Puducherry counter V Narayansamy, currently on protest against Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi. The meeting, Mr Kejriwal underscored, was not a political one, it was rather to discuss the "fight for complete statehood" that Delhi and Puducherry must have.

A man's nose was chopped off allegedly by the family of his lover in Gujarat's Amreli district, leading to the arrest of five persons, police said Monday.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh on Monday said Pakistan has been isolated internationally after the Pulwama terror attack.