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The trembling hands of Abdul Ahad Muran and Mohammad Yusuf Muran are creating magic. The oldest of Kashmir's fabled wood-carving artists have been carving exquisite artefacts from dead wood.

The BJP scored a massive victory in Uttarakhand winning 56 of the 70 seats in the state to storm to power, reducing Congress to a minuscule minority in the state Assembly with a poor tally of 11 seats.

BJP President Amit Shah on Friday justified his party's move to form governments in Goa and Manipur, where the just-held assembly polls threw up fractured mandates.

"Secret Service-issued laptops contain multiple layers of security, including full disk encryption, and are not permitted to contain classified information. An investigation is ongoing and the Secret Service is withholding additional comment until the fac...

Here is Rajeev Masand's review of Vikramaditya Motwane's latest, Trapped.

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has made the recommendation in its report tabled in the Parliament today. The report is on the Demand for Grants (2017-18) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Nearly 5,000 nurses at the AIIMS went on mass casual leave on Friday, alleging the hospital administration of discrimination in the roll out of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.

For all those who swoon over Baahubali actor Prabhas, there is some bad news.

>The US on Friday said the premium processing of H-1B visas, which are popular among Indian IT firms and professionals, has been suspended temporarily to handle the huge rush of applications for the work visas in the first week of April.

Concerned over the reported killing of an Indian fisherman and arrest of many by the Sri Lankan Navy, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet the aggrieved fishermen from Tamil Nadu, Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman has said.

The food literati is in mourning with news that the magazine from New York chef David Chang of Momofuku fame and writer Peter Meehan, is folding.

Veena was granted a divorce from businessman Asad Khattak, her husband of three years, at a court in Lahore a few days back.

US President Donald Trump's administration will appeal rulings by two federal judges who blocked his second attempt to institute a travel ban, media reports said.

Apart from the BSP supremo Mayawati, Kejriwal, who is AAP's national convener and Delhi Chief Minister, has also alleged that EVMs were tampered with in recently concluded Assembly elections in five states.

"We should be working together to get that right deal for Scotland, that right deal for the UK. That's my job as prime minister and so for that reason I say to the SNP (Scottish National Party) now is not the time."

Hundreds of displaced people, whose return home would be feasible and safe, should be moved back "immediately, as a first step and sign of goodwill," the panel said.