Three terrorists were killed in an encounter which took place 10 kilometres away from the site of the Pulwama terror attack, with a Jaish commmander, a close aide of Masood Azhar, also killed; In the Pulwama encounter, five soldiers, Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, Hawaldar Sheo Ram, Sepoy Hari Singh, Sepoy Ajay Kumar, Head Constable Abdul Rasheed, also lost their lives; Akali Dal said Congress should sack Navjot Singh Sidhu for asking whether an entire nation can be blamed for a handful of people while Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said, for 41 lives, we will take 82; The Shiv Sena and BJP announced a tie-up for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with the Shiv Sena contesting 23 seats and the BJP, 25 seats from Maharashtra; India fought for the life of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian held in Pakistan on allegations of spying, at the International Court of Justice with India's lawyer Harish Salve saying the death sentence given by Pakistan is a farce