Prohibitory orders were imposed in Nagappa's home district after angry crowds, which poured onto the streets, put up road blocks, crippling traffic at several places.
After being alerted by Odisha, its Andhra Pradesh counterpart intercepted a vehicle with Delhi registration number and nabbed the five persons, including two women.
Commissioner of Police R P Sharma said they had come to stay in the hotel at about 9 pm on Monday but fled when they were asked to produce identity proof before being given rooms.
Forty suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by the suicide bombers, have been arrested in connection with the attacks which shook Sri Lanka.
Ukraine's state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting. The Ukrainian border guard service reported on Saturday that the unnamed 25-year-old had been arrested with an arsenal of weapons and explosives including rocket launchers and Kalashnikov assault rifles in his vehicle. SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak said the man had made contact with armed groups in Ukraine with the aim of buying weapons and explosives. In Paris, a French police source said a raid on the suspect's home in France had uncovered ingredients for homemade explosives. His intended targets included Jewish and Muslim places of worship and buildings involved with the soccer tournament, Hrytsak said. French government administration buildings, including those dealing with tax collection, were also a target "The Frenchman spoke negatively about his government's actions, mass immigration, the spread of Islam and globalisation, and also talked about plans to carry out several terrorist attacks," Hrytsak told journalists.
At least 10 people, including five soldiers, were killed on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack at a market close to Pakistan's military headquarters in Rawalpindi, a day after one of the deadliest attacks on security forces killed 20 troops.
'I will get justice at last,' says the feared RJD leader.
Our team is so charged with the responsibility that they immediately go about executing whatever decision we take.
Protesters also burnt effigies of Banerjee and vowed to continue their fight for Gorkhaland.
Security personnel in large numbers were deployed in the hill district of West Bengal after widespread clashes between GJM activists and the police were witnessed on Saturday.
Intelligence reports said a six-member suicide squad has sneaked into the capital to carry out a strike around Christmas or on New YearÂ’s Eve.
Amid apprehensions that Sikh hardliners might object to the customary address by the Akal Takht jathedar at the Golden Temple, Amritsar city was turned into a fortress with about 5,000 security personnel comprising seven companies of paramilitary forces being deployed to maintain law and order.
Non-compliance of standard operating procedure by prison guards was a major reason that allowed undertrial prisoners including seven naxalites to escape from Chaibasa divisional jail in West Singhbhum district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Lahore on Friday for a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in a surprise visit to this country -- the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian premier in more than 10 years.
The IAF and the army will also set up observation posts at airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Chennai, sources said.
Six terrorists were killed by authorities after they targetted the popular seaside town of Grand-Bassam, a weekend retreat for residents of Abidjan, about 25 miles (40km) away.
The incident occurred at Lippitiputta village under Dambriguda mandal when Araku (ST) MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao and former MLA Siveri Soma went to take part in a 'grama darsini' (village visit) programme.
The bank remains on high alert to intervene if markets freeze.
'This proved that whatever was growing in the mosquito's gut was a parasite -- it was almost certainly the malarial parasite.'
The 25-year-old attacker called on other Muslims to attack 'police, journalists, public figures, prison guards and rappers,' listing around a dozen well-known figures by name.
However, the woman told police that she was not keen to visit the shrine and admitted that she had come to Pamba following pressure from her husband.
Two terrorists and an army jawan were killed in the latest gunbattle along the Line of Control in Kupwara, taking the number of militants killed in the six-day-long counter-infiltration operations in the north Kashmir district to 13.
According to the SRC, the evacuation of eight lakh people is the largest-ever evacuation operation in the country.
'The rivers that caused the maximum problem were the ones that had dams built on them.'
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The arrests were made during raids in central Brussels, Jette and the Schaerbeek neighbourhood -- where police found a large stash of explosives and other bomb-making material.
Celebration of Holi at Mathura, Vrindavan and Barsana in Uttar Pradesh is world famous and it attracts tourists from across the globe.
High alert has been sounded across India that five members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who had fled from a Madhya Pradesh jail in 2013, are planning to carry out terror strikes on instructions of Pakistan's spy agency Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.
Kashmir continued to be under a state of curfew and security forces continued to be on a state of high alert for the second consecutive day across the Valley.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday expressed apprehension that Pakistan and its sympathisers might try to disrupt the upcoming annual Amarnath Yatra that starts from July 2.
The IAF is also in the process of finalising a Rs 8,000-crore comprehensive security proposal for its 54 main flying bases in the country.
Private weather agency Skymet said Mumbai is at 'serious risk of flooding' between July 3 and 5.
The situation in the state was 'extremely grave', said Vijayan, who spoke to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Home minister, Rajnath Singh, this morning seeking more central assistance for relief operations.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh said that the 'possibility of involvement of ISI-backed Khalistani/Kashmiri terror groups can't be ruled out'.
The police said that they needed the custody of the dreaded terrorist to know about the role of "insiders and outsiders" who assisted him and five others in fleeing from Nabha jail in Patiala.
Authorities in J&K have imposed strict restrictions in parts of summer capital Srinagar which is already under a thick security blanket ahead of Independence Day.
It is no secret that Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the most coveted target of terror outfits operating within India.
It is not known whether the BSF personnel was killed by the terrorists or had fallen victim to 'friendly fire'.
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