The militants took away their weapons and set fire to the house of Tufel, who is a deputy headman in the area.
India's Acting High Commissioner T C A Raghavan, who was summoned by the Pakistan Foreign Office for lodging a strong protest over the premeditated and cowardly act, said the alleged incident would be investigated.
There was "no verifiable information" about the fate of a priest from Kerala who was allegedly abducted by terror group Islamic State in Yemen earlier this month, government sources said on Monday.
A 16-year-old boy was abducted and murdered allegedly by three of his friends, including two minors, who had demanded a ransom of Rs 50,000 after being inspired by a crime-based TV serial.
The bodies of four police officials, who were abducted on Monday by Naxals, were found in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Wednesday.
About 40 armed MCC cadres stormed the camps early in the morning and took away at least 23 men with them, Sambalpur Superintendent of Police Susant Kumar Nath said.
Meanwhile, Israel has expressed its "deep disappointment" with China's response to the war.
Employed with a private construction company, they were engaged in laying a railway track in Dhalai district.
Two of the arrested members of the terror group Indian Mujahideen from Pune have told their interrogators that they were planning to abduct a builder and jeweller to generate funds, a police official said. "The duo had decided to conduct the kidnappings to generate funds for their other terror activities," a senior crime branch official said.
In remarks that angered Israel, Guterres had told the Security Council ministerial meeting on Tuesday on the Israel-Hamas conflict that it is "important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."
A Ganesh Nadar meets the stunned father of Alexis Prem Kumar, the Indian Jesuit priest, who was abducted by armed gunmen in the Herat province of Afghanistan.
Both Israel and Hamas claimed that gunfights were ongoing at numerous locations within Israeli territory.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case.
The Kuki Liberation Army have demanded Rs 30 lakh in exchange for Deputy General Manager J Lumkim's release.
Awais Sheikh, the Pakistani lawyer of slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, and his son were abducted and briefly held by unidentified men in an area near the border with India.
Negotiations for release of the hostages are progressing well, the officials told PTI, adding they could be free in a day or two. The abduction is suspected to have been carried out by some dissatisfied locals, who are unhappy at the benefits of oil resources not reaching them.
Amid escalating tensions in its ongoing war with Hamas, Israel is making strategic preparations for an imminent ground invasion as part of its mission to eliminate the persistent threat posed by the Hamas terrorist organisation.
A 23-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car after she was abducted by unidentified youths from the posh Raj Guru Nagar locality in Punjab's Ludhiana, police said on Saturday.
The United States has deployed surveillance aircraft over a remote area of Nigeria as part of a mounting international effort to find over 200 school girls abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamist militants nearly a month ago.
The abductors have demanded a ransom of Rs30 lakh for the release of J Lumkim, an official said.
Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who has been remanded to police custody in an abduction case, on Wednesday challenged his detention on charges of kidnapping in a Pakistani court.
Using rocket launchers and submachine guns, suspected Somali pirates abducted 17 Indian and five Italian sailors after hijacking a large Italian-flagged oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.
The government has asked Twitter and other social media platforms to take down a video of two Manipur women paraded naked, since the matter is being probed.
A 40-year-old Sikh man, abducted over a month ago by a terrorist group in Pakistan's restive tribal region for allegedly spying for a rival outfit, has been found beheaded.
Five men in a car abducted Bharat Singh, a noted orthopaedic surgeon, on Wednesday night from Srikrishna Nagar in Patna.
The police found out the truth after looking into the complaint and talking to the boy's parents.
Heavily armed Maoists on Thursday attacked a police station and a forest office setting them on fire and abducted a policeman in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
A special court in Jammu on Tuesday issued a bailable warrant against Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, after she did not appear for cross-examination in a case related to her abduction by the JKLF in 1989.
According to reports, Bansri Lal Arendeh was kidnapped at gunpoint on Tuesday in the Afghan capital city.
A pall of gloom descended on the Harmain area of Shopian as people bid final adieu to Lieutenant Umer Fayaz, the army soldier who found killed on Wednesday. Fayaz was abducted by five to six terrorists from his relative's house in south Kashmir's Shopian on Tuesday night. His bullet riddled body was found on Wednesday morning, a police official said. The officer, who was commissioned in the army in December last year, had come to Kulgam district on leave for attending a wedding in his family.
While many of them were engaged by Israeli forces, some managed to sneak back into Gaza with more than 200 civilian hostages.
Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated even as one of the 40 abducted Indians has fled from the captors in Mosul town which is under the control of the militants.
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the alleged abduction of a Bihari youth by the Indian police in Saudi Arabia has turned into a diplomatic issue with Riyadh "not saying anything."
Maoists for the first time claimed responsibility for the gruesome killing of Jharkhand police officer Francis Induwar.
The Rajasthan police has got concrete evidence against eight accused named in the FIR registered after the abduction and murder of two Muslim men whose charred bodies were found in Haryana's Bhiwani, officials said on Wednesday.
Days after an attack on a hospital in Gaza triggered global outrage, India on Thursday called for strict observance of international humanitarian law.
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