The Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Mumbai has asked citizens to immediately do away with their handwritten passports, saying not switching to machine-readable ones will cause them problem in getting visas.
An honourary title given to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by Queen Elizabeth II was today challenged in the Lahore High Court on the grounds that it was a "mark of slavery" and against the "national interest".
Some Pakistani channels were playing "morphed" video clips showing Indian casualties in surgical strikes against terrorist launch pads across the LoC as only one soldier involved in the operation received "minor injury" during exfiltration, army sources said on Friday.
The aged grandmother of Indian soldier Chandu Babulal Chavan, who was captured by Pakistan troops, died of apparent shock on Friday on hearing of the news, a relative said.
There has been no gunfire, no alert sirens and no fighter jets dropping bombs. It is not war time yet but tens of thousands of villagers in Punjab's border belt with Pakistan are already experiencing a war-like situation.
In a rare show of unity, the AAP-dominated assembly unanimously passed a resolution hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Army for targeting the terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC)