India, Pak talk over hotline to calm border tempers
DGMOs agree to hold regular flag meetings to defuse tension
New Delhi, August 26
After days of cross-border firing, India and Pakistan today took the first step to reduce tension. The Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) on both sides spoke over the phone and agreed to conduct regular flag meetings at the local level along the 749-km Line of Control (LoC) and the 198-km-long international border in Jammu and Kashmir.
BSF DG DK Pathak comes out of a bunker at a village along the Zero Line in RS Pura sector. Inderjeet Singh

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BJP picks its veterans as Governors in four states
New Delhi, August 26
The Narendra Modi government today appointed former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh as the Governor of Rajasthan. The Centre also named three more BJP leaders for the Raj Bhavans in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa on a day when Kerala Governor Sheila Dikshit announced her resignation.

Advani, Joshi dropped from BJP Parliamentary Board New Delhi, August 26 Generational shift in the BJP that began with the projection of Narendra Modi as the party’s prime ministerial candidate ahead of the General Election is complete. BJP’s new president Amit Shah today re-constituted the party’s top decision-making body, Parliamentary Board, and dropped its founder-members and veterans Atal Behari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi.

Himachal to regularise illegal structures soon
Shimla, August 26
The state government will issue an Ordinance shortly to pave the way for regularization of over 25,000 unauthorised structures in the state so that the ball can be set rolling for inviting applications from the owners of these building made in violation of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Act.

Pak PM meets Army Chief amid political stalemate
Islamabad, August 26
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Army Chief today agreed on the need to “expeditiously” end political deadlock that has raised fears of instability, as the government stepped up backchannel efforts to reach out to protesters.