A fierce encounter is on between the Special Operation Group of the Orissa police and the Maoists in a dense forest in the state's Rayagada district since Sunday evening, the police said.
A senior officer of the elite counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles was killed and a member of the special operations group critically wounded in two continuing north Kashmir encounters on Friday.
The capability of operating fighter aircraft from this area would strengthen the air force's ability to tackle any misadventures by the adversary in a faster way.
'His (the Pakistani terrorist's) aim was to enter the mosque, engage with the security forces, stir religious sentiments of the people and create a law and order problem. But we will not let them to succeed in that.'
The Centre on Monday extended the ceasefire agreements with three insurgent groups of Nagaland for one more year till April next year.
The camp is located in Gagran village at Shopian in Pulwama district.
He was colourful. He was dramatic. He was The Master of His Craft. There never will be an editor as versatile as Pritish Nandy, notes Nikhil Lakshman.
Investigations into the Jaipur blasts ensured that security agencies from across the country have started working together. The IB says that sharing of information and working in tandem has improved considerably as the investigating agencies realise that all the blasts are interlinked.
4 militants and a paramilitary central reserve police force (CRPF) trooper were killed on Sunday in two encounters across the valley.
One of the slain militants were identified as Wasim, a Pakistani national and self-styled district commander of JeM.
Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
The grenade was aimed at a Special Operations Group patrol near the Lal Chowk bus stand, but fell short of the target and exploded on the road.\n\n
Abu Tallah was killed by a team of local police and Special Operation Group in Billawar area in an encounter.
Chattrapal, the main accused in the kidnapping of former Adobe executive Naresh Gupta's son, who escaped from a court premises in February, has been arrested, police said.Chattrapal had escaped from judicial custody on February 4 after giving a slip to two constables. The constables were taking him from the jail to the Gautam Buddha Nagar court in Noida. The Special Task Force had arrested Chattrapal from a hideout in Noida, six days after the kidnapping of Anant.
DNA test results have established that the two persons killed as foreign militants and buried in north Kashmir, Ganderbal police district, were actually local civilians.
Four of the injured are personnel of UP police, two of them with gunshot wounds, the police said.
The two were arrested in January in connection with the north Kashmir fake encounters where five civilians had been framed as foreign militants and killed in stage-managed shootouts.
The gun battle broke out when militants ambushed a joint search party of Special Operations Group of local police and the Central Reserve Police Force at Telbal on Harwan-Hazratbal road on the outskirts of Srinagar, official sources said. They said three police personnel and a CRPF jawan were killed and two others, including a sub-inspector, were injured in the militant firing.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday searched the Chandigarh residence of Moninder Singh Pandher, who along with his servant, allegedly sexually abused children and murdered them in Noida.
Army personnel on Sunday recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a militant hideout in a forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla District.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Babu Ram and Constable Altaf Hussain Bhat of Jammu and Kashmir Police were on Saturday posthumously conferred with the Ashoka Chakra and the Kirti Chakra awards respectively on the eve of the 75th Independence Day. While the Ashoka Chakra is India's highest peacetime gallantry honour, Kirti Chakra is the second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards.
Three troopers and a militant were killed in a north Kashmir gunfight that has been continuing for over 24 hours.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has alleged that the BJP was conspiring to poach the MLAs in order to destabilise his government, a charge denied by the saffron party.
'The race is now on for Indian IT firms to develop their AI prowess and focus on a software-first approach to services as the people element becomes more complicated with Trump's expected new regulations.'
The blast took place at MV-126 under Kalimela police station area, about 50 km from Malkangiri, when jawans of Orissa's Special Operation Group and police were travelling in a van to MPV-41, Director General of Police Gopal Chandra Nanda said.
'The odds were stacked against us.' 'Through it all, we were determined to overcome and prevail we did!' Wing Commander Shailesh Singh on the high-risk flying mission for which he was awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former Indian Police Service officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, a senior official said on Sunday.
A BSP functionary said it was a "planned murder" and claimed there was an "intelligence failure." Therefore, the central agency should probe the case.
Statements of five 'Angadiya' firm operators have also been recorded by the ED to establish the "money trail" of this alleged Rs 45 crore bribe amount.
The exhumations have shocked the people who are repeatedly venting their anger at the sites.
The central government's Great Nicobar development project, proposed around an unprecedented transhipment port, will be executed to keep environmental impact minimal, and is essential as it is of national importance, the government has said amid calls to abort the controversial project due to ecological concerns, the Centre said in an official statement.
Three Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter with security forces in a forest area of Odisha's Rayagada district, police said on Friday.
Around 2,500 personnel from police and paramilitary have been deployed in the district this year a day before the yatra, police said.
Marak, a former militant leader, had gone absconding following a police raid -- which started Friday night and ran till Saturday morning -- at the farmhouse at Tura in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district.
The ACB had issued notices to MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, who have been suspended from the party for alleged involvement in a conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot-led government, to appear for investigation, but they failed to do so.
The Indian Coast Guard has seized 1,500 kg of heroin.
One paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force trooper was killed and another wounded in a militant attack in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Monday evening.
One of the main tasks of the SOG is to keep a watch on the movement of foreign nationals in Gujarat.
