A day after two Bharatiya Janata Party leaders were gunned down in Gujarat’s Bharuch city, a massive manhunt has been launched to arrest the assailants, police said on Tuesday. The police were trying to ascertain the identities of the shooters who gunned down from close quarters BJP’s former Bharuch district president Shirish Bengali and the party’s youth wing district general secretary Pragnesh Mistry late on Monday. Bengali was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants, soon…

India on Friday stressed that Nepal needs to resolve the political unrest over its new constitution as it is impeding the movement of fuel and other supplies from India. Commenting on reports of Nepal striking a deal with China for fuel imports on Thursday, Indian foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup expressed doubts about energy supplies from China aiding a long-term solution to the discontent over the Nepalese constitution. Supplies to Nepal have stopped because “sections…

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Retd) (ACP) Shamsher Pathan on Tuesday downplayed underworld don Chhota Rajan’s claim that some Mumbai cops are linked to Dawood Ibrahim and said that there might be some conspiracy behind such an assertion. “There seems to be a conspiracy in this statement by him. Maybe he doesn’t want to come to the Mumbai Police or he is being saved from the Mumbai Police,” he told ANI. Pathan said the government should…

To what degree are tolerance and freedom of expression in India endangered? Not a day passes without reports in newspapers about protests of concerned Indians who worry about the state of human rights and the secular order in the world’s biggest democracy. At the forefront of the protest movement are members of the country’s vast intellectual elite. Anxiety about a sneaking erosion of civil liberties is the unifying call of this movement, which thus far…