A Delhi court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to ex-Army officer S J Choudhary for killing businessman Krishan Sikand in a parcel bomb explosion 26 years ago. Choudhary, 70, was on April 28 found guilty by the court for the murder of Krishan Sikand, who had died in an explosion caused by the parcel bomb delivered at his Sunder Nagar residence here on October 2, 1982.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Choudhary.
"This Diwali, we thought of his comrades in arms, who suffer harsh climes and the enemy from across the border, as well as some within. We thought this would be a nice gesture for soldiers, who spend Diwali away from their families," said one of Santosh Mahadik's friends.
The sources said the ultras targeted the officer's vehicle, which also suffered damages in the explosion triggering panic in the north Kashmir township.
Of these various Taliban factions, only the Neo-Taliban, which was created by the ISI in 1994 when Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister, still owes its loyalty to the ISI and the Pakistan government. The others don't.
His body will be taken to his native village in Kerala's Palakkad district later in the day for cremation.
A MIG-27 fighter aircraft on a routine sortie crashed in a village in Jodhpur district on Friday, injuring seven persons on the ground. The pilot ejected safely after the crash took place at approximately 8.30 am in Konkani village in Luni, 42 kms from Jodhpur, Defence Public Relation Officer Lieutenant Colonel N N Joshi said. According to Superintendent of Police (Rural) Jodhpur, Sharad Kaviraj, seven persons on the ground were injured in the mishap, one of them seriously.
'While National War Memorial is great, the memories of Amar Jawan Jyoti are indelible'
60 Minutes anchor Dan Rather said their source had lied about documents indicating Bush was favoured during the Vietnam war due to his political connections.
The judicial custody of Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit, accused of being involved in the Malegaon blast, was on Monday extended till January 17 by a local court in a case relating to procuring arms license on fake documents.The army officer was produced before Judge V V Joshi after the end of his judicial custody today.The court sent Purohit in judicial remand for another 12 days, his counsel Avinash Bhide told PTI.
In a major New year bonanza for the armed forces, the Prime Minister's Office has informed the defence ministry that the armed forces personnel would henceforth have a separate pay commission, which is delinked from the civilian pay panel.
An armyman, who had served with Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit in Military Intelligence, is likely to be made a prosecution witness in the Malegaon blast case as the Anti Terrorism Squad inquiring into the matter has recorded his statement.
Shocked by the involvement of a serving lieutenant colonel in a terror plot in Malegaon, the government is determined to get to the root of it
Officials said security forces used light weapons to demolish the boundary walls of the complex and clear other hurdles to observe the movement of militants. "Calculated shots were fired at the obstacles," an official source said.
Chairman of selectors MSK Prasad disclosed that the young Rishabh Pant is definitely going to feature for India in all the three formats.
The UAE government has revoked the ban that people who left their jobs or cancelled their resident visas faced.
Lashkar spokesman Abu Huzaifa said the charge by Indian security agencies is 'fabricated and baseless'.
Lieutenant Colonel S P K Singh of the Northern Command Headquarters said intelligence intercepts reveal that terrorists have been talking about the use of poisonous gas.
Police said that acting on a tip-off, a joint operation was launched by troops belonging to the 22 Rashtriya Rifles and the CRPF, and the state police in Sopore town on Sunday morning. Having surrounded the house in which the terrorists were holed, the security forces challenged them to surrender. But the cornered terrorists resorted to opening fire on the troops. Till reports last came in, a Central Reserve Police Force trooper and a policeman were reported to be injured.
Five people were killed and several wounded in the shootout Monday.
The latest fighting is the bloodiest since late last summer when hundreds of people, mostly Taliban fighters, were killed in Afghan and US-led offensives against militants.
The witness deposed before the special National Investigation Agency court on Tuesday.
Thapa led the Param Vir Chakra winners' contingent at the Republic Day parade each year.
Army has now 85 such specialised units, with each unit comprising 24 dogs. Of these as many as 35 are deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, 15 in North-East and some in Western and Southern Army Commands.
The 2-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, killing everyone on board.
From helping a Lt Colonel posted in Leh in cremating his father-in-law who died of COVID-19 to supporting people in performing funerals of deceased family members, the Delhi Police says it is going an extra mile to help citizens in distress.
Gen Sharma served as the Army chief from 1988-1990 and was a colonel when he took part in the 1971 war.
A US jet has bombed a mosque in Fallujah, killing at least 40 inside.
Despite documentary evidence supplied by the BSF, the BDR refused to accept that the stranded immigrants were Bangladeshis.
The gangster, though arrested for criminal offences, does not have any terrorism or political link cases against him in UAE, the officer said.
The ace Indian shooter lost his costly gun while travelling from Cairo to Delhi.
The security operation in the forest area of Gadole, Kokernag in Kashmir's Anantnag district, ended after seven days on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, with the killing of two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists.
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