Defence

US Ships were berthed at Chennai but pact to make logistics easier has not been operationalised yet. Manu Pubby

Indian Navy maintains the exercise in the Bay of Bengal not directed against China. Manu Pubby

The Supreme Court Friday directed the CBI to conduct a probe into encounter killings in Manipur. Here are four of the most high-profile cases in the state that would now be under the scanner.  MANU PUBBY 

With the Supreme Court directing the CBI to conduct a probe into encounter killings in Manipur, the stage might be set for similar investigations into cases of alleged Army excesses in other regions under AFSPA.  APURVA VISHWANATH 

The verdict by a lower court – now being challenged by the CBI – had put all agency cases against Abhishek Verma on a weak wicket as it had struck at the core of prosecution argument. MANU PUBBY

OFB out but BEL, ECIL likely to get in; controversy over banned foreign companies remains MANU PUBBY

While there is reason to believe that the men who went missing in Mosul after IS seized control of the city, Sushma Swaraj has maintained they are alive. As General V. K. Singh arrives in the Kurdish city of Erbil to coordinate a search mission, the families of the men remain in the lurch.  CHITLEEN K. SETHI 

As the BJP-PDP government in Kashmir comes under attack from within the Sangh Parivar and opposition parties, Ram Madhav, National General Secretary of the BJP, says security forces are winning the war against terror in the Valley. RAMA LAKSHMI

The MoD probe report commends two officers who it says were the only ones who stood up for the truth. MANU PUBBY

What the Defence ministry probe report into Adarsh scam says on role of top military officers MANU PUBBY