The Biggest Stories of October 12, 2016

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.