SRINAGAR: An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district in Kashmir, police said on Monday.

BAREILLY: Stung by the reverses suffered by the Samajwadi Party (SP) in his home turf and unable to bear the humiliating loss of party candidates in the Lok Sabha polls in his strongholds, Rampur and Sambhal, state urban development minister Azam Khan has sacked many of his close confidants.

In the last 20 years, barring their premier spinner in Daniel Vettori, New Zealand have tried out seven specialist slow bowlers but none has been able to match the success of Vettori or hold down their places for long.

Sydney: Australia will play four Tests against India and one-day and Twenty20 series against South Africa, England and India ahead of hosting next year's World Cup.

WASHINGTON: The US house of representatives has defeated an amendment to the Defence Appropriations Bill to stop American funding to Pakistan.

 WASHINGTON: The House of Representatives late on Thursday voted to bar the National Security Agency from looking for Americans' communications without a warrant within a database of emails and phone calls it gathers while targeting foreigners, a technique critics have labeled a "backdoor search loophole."

SANAA: Clashes in Yemen between Shiite rebels and Islamist tribesmen supported by national army units have killed at least 85 people in one week, military officials and tribal leaders said.

The 40 Indians are suspected to have been kept in captivity by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants at two different locations near Mosul. Sources within the security establishment said contact channels are being established with Saudis to get more information on state of the abductees, to establish the abductors are from ISIS and not some other outfit, the intention of the abductors and eventually putting pressure on them through Riyadh to release the Indians.

JAIPUR: Union minister for food and civil supplies Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday claimed that opposition parties were creating an unnecessary hype in the name of concern over inflation and said the country was facing no shortage of food.

PATNA: A day after the RJD MLAs voted in favour of the two JD(U) candidates in the by-election to two Rajya Sabha seats ensuring the latter's victory, former CM Nitish Kumar on Friday said no RJD legislator would be inducted in the Jitan Ram Manjhi cabinet as a quid pro quo.