The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to head a new coalition government in Jharkhand, bringing to an end the lingering political crisis in the state, a party spokesman said Saturday.

Asserting that terrorism poses the main threat to the Indo-Pak ties, the Obama Administration said Pakistan needs to expand its counter-terrorism operations from the Afghan border to Punjab, where most of anti-India terror groups like LeT are based.

Judge M.L. Tahaliyani, who sentenced Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab to death, has been promoted as the Principal Sessions Judge of the City civil and sessions Court in Mumbai.

U.S. has warned Pakistan it will face “very severe consequences” if a terror plot like the botched Times Square bombing was traced to that country.

In a midnight attack, armed Maoists dragged out a local CPI(M) leader from his house and gunned him down at Lodhasoli in West Midnapore’s Jhargram area, police said today.