Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Wednesday slammed the "cringeworthy" television advertisements hyping the much-awaited World Cup match between India and Pakistan.
Perplexed by the development, the stone pelters ended the protest early as they were caught unaware of the police strategy.
Constable Vijender Kumar was on duty as protests unfolded in Firozabad. He was in his riot gear when a bullet fired by rioters tore his jacket but stuck in the wallet that contained a few coins, four ATM cards and a picture of Lord Shiva.
Militants shot dead a former militant in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. They also carried out a grenade explosion in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday evening injuring two persons.
Within hours of the incident, police arrested the accused and said he was tasked by terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen to carry out the attack.
Terrorists killed a Central Reserve Police Force head constable at the main bus stand at Magam in Kashmir's Budgam district.Police said that the CRPF trooper was shot at from a close range. The bus stand has been surrounded and search operations are on to trace the terrorists.
Seven Central Reserve Police Force personnel were on Monday injured during a fierce gun battle with the Maoists at Bokop village in Khunti district, over 50 km from Ranchi, police said.
The CRPF told the court that if the pellet gun option was withdrawn they would have to use rifles, causing more fatalities.
Authorities imposed strict security restrictions in certain areas of Srinagar on Friday to foil a Muharram procession.
Two Central Reserve Police Force officers, who killed top Maoist leader Kishenji in West Bengal, were on Saturday honoured with the Shaurya Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee along with 12 personnel from the Army and the Indian Air Force.
In an embarrassing lapse, the portrait of the brother of Central Reserve Police Force soldier N Satish, who was killed in the militant attack in Srinagar, was taken in his funeral procession in Mandy, Karnataka on Friday with relatives and district authorities blaming each other for it.
Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two suicide attackers were among seven persons killed and nine others wounded in a fidayeen attack in the Bemina locality of the Srinagar on Wednesday morning. Those injured included seven CRPF troopers and two civilians. All the injured have been evacuated to hospital for treatment.
The country's specialised snoop department, the National Technical Research Organisation has set up its first base in a naxal hotbed in Chhattisgarh to monitor the movement of armed Maoist cadres and fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to help security forces to track them.
Group Commander (coordination) B K Jha was admitted to the Central Armed Police Forces Hospital in Greater Noida after he contracted COVID-19 and breathed his last early morning.
The 15-nation body includes China as a permanent veto-wielding member.
The annual pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir started Friday amid tight security and despite the rains along the route this morning.
The new directives will also come to the aid of those personnel from Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo Tibetan Border Patrol, Special Security Bureau, National Security Guard and Assam Rifles who have 'acquired' colour blindness after being recruited in these central forces
The Centre on Friday sent about 500 security personnel to Hyderabad to strengthen law and order situation in the wake of twin blasts in the city that claimed 16 lives.
It was not immediately clear as to how many days he will stay in Pakistan.
Import of gadgets and weapons for the security forces is "not a happy situation" as foreign manufacturers do not meet Indian requirements in an optimal fashion, the CRPF chief on Friday said.
A strict curfew blanket spread across Kashmir valley ensured a peaceful Friday and stymied the call for a march to the Eidgah ground in Srinagar to attend a rally against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail in Delhi last Saturday.
The youths were detained from Pulwama and Awantipora during the night on suspicion of links with the planning of the suicide attack.
Heavily armed Naxals on Monday ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force patrol party in the jungles along the Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra border resulting in exchange of gunfire between the two sides.
Action and war films from Hollywood are being used as a training tool by Naxals, a senior police official has said.
The CRPF which had sanitised the area three hours before the attack had failed to locate any landmines, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The Central Reserve Police Force, which recently took over the duties of guarding RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani, has raised concerns in ensuring a 'fool proof' Z category security to the business tycoon in the absence of local logistical support to its squad.
Maoists had surgically inserted an improvised explosive device inside the body of a Central Reserve Police Force jawan who was killed three days ago in an ambush in Jharkhand's Latehar district. Doctors conducting the autopsy of the CRPF trooper at a government hospital in Ranchi were shocked when they found a 1.5 kg unexploded bomb stitched inside the abdomen of 29-year-old Constable Babulal Patel, who was among those killed in the encounter with Maoists.
Raising doubts over an encounter by the Assam police, the National Human Rights Commission has recommended that the state government pay Rs 5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Rajib Basumatary, who was killed in Doimoguri in Sonitpur, Tezpur on June 23, 2010.
Seven Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed and at least nine others injured in a fierce gun battle with Maoist guerrillas in Latehar district, Jharkhand on Monday.
Troops of the country's two largest paramilitary forces -- the Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force -- are suffering from acute shortage of sleep and are highly dissatisfied as they are deprived of leave and medical care benefits, a government sponsored study by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has said
While they were cordoning-off a forested patch near Pariya village, the Naxals triggered an IED.
Pushing for partial withdrawal of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday discounted suggestions that this will benefit terrorists, saying it is time to believe in the state police and paramilitary forces
The officials said the jawan was the youngest to die among the CAPFs. All other fatalities were over 45 years, they said.
The Gadchiroli district bordering Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has been the hot-bed of Naxal activities in Maharashtra with the Maoist violence claiming 418 lives in the past three decades.
Asked about the security breach at their residence, he said it was a "very big lapse", but he would like to emphasise more on the safety of women in the country.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday said it has found out the identity of the masterminds behind the fidayeen attack in Srinagar on March 13. Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two militants were killed in the attack.
Available information indicates that the CRPF's operation in Chattisgarh last week in which 19 alleged Maoists were killed, had taken place on half-baked information, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The Jammu and Kashmir police has detained Parandeep Singh, a daily wager with the public health department who allegedly provided shelter to two fidayeens who carried out the suicide attack in Srinagar on Wednesday, killing five Central Reserve Police Force men.
Striking a different note from the government on last week's anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh that left 19 tribals killed, Congress on Tuesday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state for the "botch-up", saying it has resulted in the loss of lives of innocent tribals and minors.
The deceased CRPF personnel are assistant sub-inspectors Mahadeva P, 50, and Madan Pal Singh, 52, and head constable Saju O P, 47, officials said.
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