PM Modi asserted that he shared the grief and outrage with the people of nation in wake of terrorist attack in J-K which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel. "I salute and pay my tributes to Sanjay Kumar Sinha and Ratan Kumar Thakur. I would like to say the fire that is raging in your bosoms, is in my heart too," Modi said.

Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady increase in IED blasts and other bombing incidents over the last five years, with 2018 witnessing a 575 jump in such incidents while two other major theatres of violence LWE-hit areas and North East saw the number of such incidents going down, a latest report has found. Explosive ordnance denotes shells and bombs of military grade.

Nearly three decades after it was established, NARI is set to drop its focus on research into the Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome (Aids) and also undergo a name change in the coming months. NARI director Dr Samiran Panda said in an interview that this was among the issues discussed during the February-8 visit by ICMR director Dr Balram Bhargava to the institute at Bhosari, Pune.