This attack, which was targeted, as the attackers checked if the tourists were non-Muslims, comes days after Pakistan army chief Asim Munir reignited the ‘two-nation theory’

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah held an emergency meeting on Tuesday with senior officers in the wake of a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir in which one tourist from Karnataka was killed.

The Devendra Fadnavis government of Maharashtra, days after making Hindi compulsory for primary classes, has backtracked amid strong objections from Opposition parties and Raj Thackeray’s MNS (Maharashtra NAvnirman Sena).