An IAF personnel died and four others were wounded Saturday evening following a gunfight that ensued when terrorists ambushed their trucks traversing a mountain road amid dense forest cover in Poonch district of J&K. The five men were evacuated to the nearest military hospital, where one of them died of his wounds. The attack prompted army and police to launch a coordinated cordon and search in the area.

It was not a minor coincidence that the day Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra entered Rae Bareli on Feb 20 was also the day Sonia Gandhi was elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan, marking her transition in Parliament and creating a vacancy that was at the root of the tortuous brainstorming which ended with Rahul’s nomination from Rae Bareli on Friday.

Aaj Ka Panchang, 5 May, 2024: The Varuthini Ekadashi Vrat will be marked on this day and it is important to know the auspicious timings to break the fasting observed today.