Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading an all-party US delegation, stressed no dialogue with Pakistan is possible amid terror threats.

For the first time in years, chiefs of the armed forces and veterans are making pointed public statements about the need for homegrown critical technologies.

A man who lost his son in the stampede in Bengaluru yesterday appeared inconsolable, pleading with the authorities to return his body without an autopsy. “At least give his body. Don’t do a postmortem. Don’t cut his body into pieces,” he urged.