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New Delhi:  Security forces gunned down two militants and resumed cordon-and-search-operations (Caso) across the Valley a day after the Centre called off a month-long unilateral suspension of operations in the face of rising violence. Meanwhile, a Kashmiri man was killed and another was injured in violent protests in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.

Earlier in the day, the army launched Caso in Anantnag district’s Waghema and Pulwama district’s Samboora village, where clashes erupted between civilians and security forces. The army said it ring-fenced Waghema after receiving intelligence about the possible presence of militants in the morning, the first Caso in the Valley after the so-called Ramzan ‘ceasefire’ was discontinued. Army personnel and officers from the Jammu and Kashmir Police carried out house-to-house searches.

New Delhi: Pakistan appears slightly ahead of India in terms of the number of nuclear warheads, with China having double the quantity, but the Indian defence establishment believes its deterrence capability is "robust", designed to ensure "survivability" for retaliatory strikes and firmly on track for further modernisation.

Pakistan now has 140-150 nuclear warheads compared to India's 130-140, with China hovering around 280, as per the latest assessment of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), released on Monday.

The US and Russia are in a different league altogether with 6,450 and 6,850 nuclear warheads respectively, accounting for 92 per cent of the world's nuclear weapons.

New Delhi: The nodal agency for Interpol in India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) blamed the international police body for not informing it about PNB scam accused NiravModi's travels between different countries using his revoked Indian passport even though all details were incorporated in Interpol's central database on February 24 and repeated reminders were sent in April and May.

"After the passport was revoked/cancelled, we had updated this information in the diffusion notice. Information that NiravModi's passport had been revoked was provided in the Interpol central database, available to all member countries, on February 24," CBI spokesperson AbhishekDayal said. CBI had informed Interpol that Modi's passport had been renewed four times, hence he was carrying five linked passports.

New Delhi: In connection with the money laundering probe into the Saradhaponzi scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Nalini Chidambaram, wife of former finance minister P Chidambaram.

Officials said Nalini has been summoned at the Kolkata office of the central probe agency on June 20.She was last summoned by the agency for May 7 but she appealed against the summonses before the Madras High Court.

In her appeal, Nalini, a senior advocate, has challenged the April 24 order of Justice SM Subramaniam dismissing her petition against the ED’s summons asking her to appear as a witness in its money laundering probe in the Saradha chit fund scam case.