Shiv Sena activists on Tuesday held demonstrations outside theatres in eastern suburbs against Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film 'My Name is Khan', prompting the police to arrest 46 troublemakers.

Expressing confidence of reclaiming areas dominated by Maoists, Union Home minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday that inter-state operations against them had been launched in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

A policeman was killed when ultras attacked Sopore police station in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Tuesday.

Under mounting pressure over attacks on Indians, Australia acknowledged on Tuesday that some of the recent violence against them had clearly been "racially motivated" and vowed to "punish the culprits with the full force of law".

Supporting a joint operation against Maoists, CPI (M) said on Tuesday that the ultras should also be defeated politically to demolish their support base among the tribal population.

The CPI today sought the Prime Minister's intervention to restrain Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh from announcing any decision favouring Bt Brinjal tomorrow.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Jharkhand counterpart Sibu Soren today failed to turn up for a key meeting here of chief ministers of four Naxal- affected states to fine tune the proposed offensives against Maoists.

A Republican Senator has asked Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to resign after revelations of alleged ongoing scientific fraud under him.

Two securitymen and a civilian were killed and 10 others injured as snowfall and rains triggered fresh avalanches and landslides in Kashmir valley on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 20 in two days.

Professor parents of the 29-year-old youth arrested for attacking former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore today said their son was under treatment for depression for the last six months.

A fresh avalanche hit Kashmir Valley today, killing an army jawan in Kupwara district, a day after 17 armymen met a similar fate during a winter warfare training exercise.

Maoists today blew up railway tracks at two places in Jharkhand, disrupting train services besides bombing a school on the third day of their 72-hour shutdown in five naxal-hit states.

In a fresh salvo against Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena today flayed the 'Congress yuvraj' for calling Mumbai as Bombay during his recent visit to the city.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren will not attend the meeting of four Maoist-affected states in Kolkata today due to illness, Deputy Chief Minister Raghuvar Das said.

United States along with other European countries are ignoring India's role in Afghanistan in their effort to appease Pakistan, a prominent American foreign policy magazine has said.

In a bid to help states to coordinate their campaign against Naxals, the Centre has convened a crucial meeting of four Maoist-affected states - West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand - in Kolkata tomorrow.

Sharad Pawar today came under continued needling from Congress which virtually held him responsible for spiralling food prices.

Karnataka Horticulture Minister Umesh Katti today said that the state government would enforce ban on the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal in the state.

Nooriya Haveliwala, arrested for mowing down two persons including a traffic policeman and injuring four constables, today approached the sessions court seeking bail.

On a day when the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down job reservation for Muslims, the West Bengal government today announced 10 per cent quota in employment for the community under the OBC category.

In the worst-ever snowslide in recent years in Kashmir, 17 soldiers were killed and an equal number injured when an avalanche slammed into them during their winter warfare training on steep slopes of a ski resort, 70-km from here, today.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi, popularly called as "CEO of Gujarat", has attempted an image makeover for being "pro-poor", by organising 'Garib Kalyan Melas' across the state even as the Opposition dubbed it as a facade and "tamasha".

Former DGP S P S Rathore was today attacked by a youth with a knife and repeatedly punched in the face outside the district court here hearing his appeal in the Ruchika molestation case.

A Constitution bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court today set aside an act legislated by the state Assembly and a subsequent 2007 government order providing 4 per cent reservation to 15 groups belonging to the Muslim community.

Prominent criminal lawyer R K Naseem, who was allegedly attacked by his brother-in-law and former BJP MLA Vinod Sharma, died at a hospital here this morning, his family said.