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New Delhi:Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said the 'surgical strikes' conducted by the Army across the Line of Control last year sent a strong message to Pakistan. 

Speaking in Mumbai on the Modi government's completion of three years in office, he said, when BJP came to power in May 2014, the party invited heads of all neighbouring countries (to the swearing-in ceremony) as they wanted to give a message of peace. 

New Delhi:At least three terrorists were killed in a gunfight along the Line of Control in Nowgam sector of Handwara area in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday. One soldier was also martyred in the operation. Security sources said, the terrorists were killed after troops foiled an infiltration bid.
At least two major infiltration bids were foiled by the forces in the past two days in two sectors in Kupwara which has witnessed a large number of infiltration bids recently besides Bandipora and Baramulla districts. The sources said, the counter infiltration grid remains alert and fully equipped to foil such bids from across Line of Control.

New Delhi:United States is looking forward to host Prime Minister NarendraModi in Washington later this month. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday  that US look forward to having the Indian Prime Minister in Washington later this month. 

Modi is expected to travel to Washington at the invitation of US President Donald Trump for a meeting at the White House later this month. Actual dates of the meeting have not been announced yet.

New Delhi:Myanmar on Thursday said, it has found the wreckage of a plane in the Andaman Sea that went missing with around 120 people on board. Several bodies have also been recovered. The country's Commander in Chief said in a Facebook post that the wreckage had been found off the coast of Launglon, in southern Myanmar, by a navy search team on Thursday morning. Nine navy ships and three air force planes had been dispatched to search for the aircraft, which disappeared yesterday as it flew from the southern city of Myeik to Yangon.