Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met the Indian Army's senior-most generals before he addressed the Army Commanders' Conference at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
In the wake of threats from various organisations about disrupting Valentine's Day celebrations, the state government has decided to deploy teams of police personnel to monitor the situation.At Bengaluru, 90 platoons have been pressed into service on Saturday to ensure that miscreants do not go on a rampage, said chief of state police force Ajai Kumar Singh.Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa also assured the people that they would be safe.
Bodies of 104 victims of the Air India Express plane crash have been identified and handed over to relatives, a top official said on Sunday. "A total of 104 bodies have been identified and handed over to relatives. Fifty four bodies are yet to be identified," Karnataka Director General of Police Ajai Kumar Singh said at the crash site. Earlier, Deputy Inspector General of Mangalore Police Gopal B Hosur had said 115 bodies had been identified so far.
A team from Gujarat, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh is in Bangalore to join the probe by the city police into the recent blasts outside the Chinnaswamy stadium even as police chief Ajai Kumar Singh on Tuesday hinted at the involvement of both terror elements and the betting lobby.
The eight-page report filed in the high court was in response to a case in which family members of a girl alleged that she had been forcibly converted by a Muslim youth.
Sallahudin, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba militant and a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, was arrested along with Imran and Farooq while they were trying to leave Lucknow. The UP police also picked up three other militants - Suhail, Arshad and Fayheem - in Rampur while they were heading towards Mumbai.
Earlier, the university and the district authorities filed a compliance report in the court, stating therein that its directions for getting the hostels vacated by December 17 had been implemented.
An unidentified ULFA militant died while the bomb he was carrying in his bicycle exploded on the road. No one else was injured in the incident.
The Bangalore police have dismissed any such reports as being rumours.
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