NEW DELHI: Prospects of resumption of India-Pakistan talks any time soon slid drastically on Tuesday with Pakistani high commissioner Abdul Basit disregarding India's latest red line and going ahead with his scheduled meetings with Hurriyat leaders.

WASHINGTON: The US, through its embassies in New Delhi and Islamabad, is engaging with the Indian and Pakistani governments on bilateral talks, which the Narendra Modi government called off while objecting to Pakistan consulting Kashmiri separatists ahead of the meeting.

 MUMBAI: The political crisis in Bangkok seems to have brought down the popularity of this city among Indian tourists as the destination now holds the third spot after Dubai and Singapore.

GUWAHATI: Five NDFB-Songbijit militants were killed in an encounter with a joint police and army team in lower Assam's Chirang district early on Wednesday morning, said a top police official.

TOKYO: At least 18 people were killed and another 13 were still missing after a huge landslide engulfed homes in western Japan, reports said on Wednesday.

MONROVIA, Liberia: Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital.

CHENNAI: In a blow to AIADMK's high profile parliamentarian V Maitreyan, he has been dropped from key parliamentary posts after the party took contradictory positions in the two houses during voting on the judicial appointments commission bill last week.

NEW DELHI: Any agency collecting toll on behalf of NHAI would end up facing Rs 10 lakh fine, if it fails to give the exact change to commuters or offers something as substitute of change currency.

CHANDIGARH: Defence minister Arun Jaitley on Monday visited the forward posts around Dera Baba Nanak area along the International Border (IB) with Pakistan in Amritsar district.

 SRINAGAR: Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Monday described India's move to call off talks with Pakistan unfortunate and said it vindicates his stand that New Delhi has a "confrontationist'' policy on Kashmir.