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New Delhi: India and Pakistan held Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) level talks on Monday. The request for the unscheduled Hot Line interaction between the DGMOs of the two armies came from the Pakistani side. 

Indian DGMO Lieutenant General A K Bhatt conveyed to his Pakistani counterpart that the support to terrorism by Pak Army is unacceptable. 

He said Indian Army will continue to take all retaliatory measures as well as retain the right to punitively respond to such provocation acts of aggression from Pak side in future too. 

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has sought to turn the tables on critics questioning the sudden surge in his popularity on Twitter with a sarcastic tweet "confessing" that his pet dog was behind the posts. He also put out a video of the pet.

"People (have) been asking who tweets for this guy... I'm coming clean, it's me... Pidi. I'm way cooler than him. Look what I can do with a tweet... oops... treat!" Rahul tweeted.

The post immediately attracted considerable comment and saw former Congress functionary and now BJP minister in Assam HimantaBiswaSarma responding that he recognised the pet that Rahul kept feeding when Sarma sought to discuss political issues before the assembly polls in 2016.

New Delhi:Opposition National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has asserted that Kashmir is incomplete without Pandits and his party wants them to return but opposed the idea of creating a separate homeland for them in the Valley.

Addressing a delegates' session of the NC at the Sher-e- Kashmir Cricket Stadium in Srinagar after a gap of over 15 years, he said Kashmiri Pandits were part of the state and his party will strive to bring them back to the Valley.

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister ArunJaitley has taken a dig at senior Congress leader P Chidambaram over his remarks of greater autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to reporters in Shimla yesterday, MrJaitley in Shimla said that the former Home Minister's comments had come at a very "inopportune" time, when the government was dealing with terrorism with a heavy hand and terrorists were on the run. 

He asked what more rights Mr Chidambaram wanted when all the rights and powers except defence, external affairs, telecommunication and currency were with Jammu and Kashmir. Asserting that the Kashmir issue was Pakistan's "unfinished agenda post partition", MrJaitley said the neighbouring country had been indulging in war and terrorism to create trouble.