A Pakistani national was allegedly shot dead by Border Security Force officials while another managed to escape after an encounter at the India-Pakistan border in Amritsar. The encounter took place at Khemkaran village, nearly 45 km away from Amritsar, when a BSF night patrolling party observed some suspicious movements at the Indo-Pak border late on Wednesday.On being watched closely, it was found that two Pakistani nationals had entered into Indian territory.
The UK government has condemned violence in Bangladesh and called for peaceful elections after reports of killings of Hindus and other religious minorities. Concerns were raised in the House of Commons, with calls for UK intervention to protect minorities.
An activist of the ruling National Conference was shot dead by unidentified militants in the uptown Batmallo locality of Srinagar on Saturday morning.
39-year-old Majhi, a prominent tribal leader, who represented Umerkote assembly constituency, had gone to Gona village to distribute land pattas when the incident took place, Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj said.
Rohit Arya, who held 17 children and two adults hostage in Mumbai, had installed motion sensors and misdirected CCTVs to protect himself, according to police.
Senior Pakistan People's Party leader Syed Talib Husain Shah was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Gujrat district of Punjab province, police officials said on Wednesday.
A female suicide bomber of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) blew herself up at the entrance of the headquarters of a paramilitary force in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, triggering a prolonged gunfight in which six militants were killed, security officials said on Tuesday.
Fifty five-year-old Surinder Kumar, who worked as a clerk at the 7-Eleven store in California's Vallejo city, was shot during a robbery on Friday, police said.
Harpinder alias Middu, a resident of Naushehra Pannuan in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, was injured in an exchange of fire in Lalru and later succumbed to injuries in hospital, the police said.
An Indian-American pharmacy owner in Trenton, New Jersey, was shot dead allegedly by a teenager after he refused to give a medicine to the boy without a valid prescription. Arjun Reddy Dyapa, 52, owner of Brunswick Avenue Pharmacy in Broad Street, was shot in the chest and brought dead.Eye witnesses said a teenage African-American with dreadlocks showed up at the counter and demanded a medicine without producing a valid prescription issued by a physician.
A young woman producer of a news channel was shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday at a posh area of south-west Delhi while she was on her way back from work.
A Taliban commander in Pakistan's volatile tribal belt has broken away from the militant outfit to form his own group, as he is opposed to suicide attacks on mosques and civilians.
Shahrukh Pathan, a gangster with a history of crimes including murder and jail break, was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in Muzaffarnagar. He was wanted in multiple cases and was a close aide of slain mafia Sanjeev Jiva.
Telangana Police investigate the connection between Sajid Akram, the suspect in the recent Australia mass shooting, and his multiple visits to Hyderabad after migrating abroad.
A 22-year-old Indian hailing from Andhra Pradesh was shot dead early on Christmas morning during a robbery at a convenience store where he was working part time as a clerk.
A mentally-challenged boy was shot dead by security personnel after he allegedly tried to intrude into a J&K army camp in the wee hours on Friday.
The Telangana police on December 16 stated that Sajid Akram, one of the accused in the Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, was originally from Hyderabad, contrary to earlier reports that had identified the attackers as being of Pakistani origin.
In a gruesome incident a sub inspector attached to the Chokkode police station in Malappuram district was shot dead by an accused. The deceased was identified as Vijaykrishnan, while the accused Mujeeb Alangadan is at large.
In a shocking development, the advocate for underworld gunman Rashid Malabari, was shot dead at Mangalore on Thursday evening.
A police officer in-charge was among the two persons who were shot dead by a former sarpanch over a property dispute at the Juravanpur police station in Bihar's Vaishali district, a police officer said on Wednesday.
A witness in the July 2023 train shooting incident, where an RPF constable allegedly killed four people, testified in a Mumbai court, describing the events.
A man accused of fatally shooting a 24-year-old at a cafe in northeast Delhi confessed to the crime in a social media video, citing a grudge over a past altercation. Police are investigating the incident and the claims made in the video.
The widow of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, who was murdered last year, has petitioned the Bombay High Court for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the case, alleging police have failed to apprehend the real culprits.
Tamba was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants at his residence in Sanant Nagar, a thickly populated area of old Lahore in the afternoon.
The minister's son, Vikas Kishore, who lives in the house, was in Delhi at the time, when his friend Vinay Srivastava was shot in the head by his other friends.
Rajni Bala, a government school teacher who was killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, was cremated in Samba on Wednesday, amid an outpouring of grief and anger.
This is the third attack on non-local labourers in less than 24 hours.
According to unconfirmed reports, the jawan was in an inebriated state and shot at the BSF officer following an altercation. The incident occurred on the Line of Control in J&K.
An Indian man, who was working as a clerk at a convenience store in the US state of Florida, has been shot dead by a teenager in an apparent robbery attempt, the second such incident in just over a month.
Police said Sharma had come to Delhi some time ago and was staying in the house of one Satish Sharma in Pandav Nagar area.
The head of Bangladesh Rifles Major General Shakil Ahmed was shot dead by mutinuous members of the paramilitary force, an senior army officer who survived the violence said on Thursday night.
A police official was shot dead by unidentified terrorists in south Kashmir Pulwama town on Friday afternoon.
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning by unknown assailants.
An assistant sub-inspector of Punjab Police was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Jalandhar-Phagwara Highway late on Sunday night.
The incident was reported from Rajinder Nagar at around 2:45 am and the victim has been identified as Sanjeev Dhawan, who worked with the Ganga Ram Hospital, Devesh Srivastava, Additional Commissioner of Police (Central), said.
The incident took place at Tumchi Nowpora of Pulwama district in South Kashmir when the labourer, Mukesh Kumar, was in the market to buy some vegetables.
In a brazen act, a young attendant at a toll plaza in Gurgaon was shot dead by passengers in a car a little past midnight when he asked for the toll fee of Rs 27 from them, police said on Friday.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was on Monday shot dead by Sri Lankan special forces as he tried to stage a dramatic breakout from the army encirclement, a military spokesman said.
An elderly Sikh man was shot in Milwaukee on Wednesday night while he was locking the doors of his grocery store. Incidentally, the victim was also a member of the gurudwara in Oak Creek where a white supremacist had shot dead six people on August 5. According to media reports, Dalbir Singh, 56, was fatally shot around 9 pm during what appears to be an attempted armed robbery. Singh was a member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
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