Shillong, Aug 10 (IANS) Security forces arrested the fifth Bangladeshi national on Sunday, allegedly involved in the armed attack in a Meghalaya village along the India-Bangladesh border in the state’s South West Khasi Hills district, police said. A police official said that the fifth suspect identified as Mubarak Hussain was arrested during a search operation jointly conducted by the Meghalaya Police and the BSF in the Chibak forest area. Hussain was part of a gang of eight to nine armed Bangla…

New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) In a move laden with both symbolism and consequence, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has stepped down as chairman of the party’s Foreign Affairs Department, ending a decade-long stewardship that helped shape the party’s global engagements. His resignation, formally submitted to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was framed as a gesture to facilitate generational renewal within the department. Yet, the timing and context suggest deeper tremors within the party…

Bhopal, Aug 10 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh has registered its highest-ever export value of Rs 66,218 crore in the financial year 2024–25, marking a 6 per cent year-on-year growth and propelling the state’s national export ranking from 15th to 11th, according to the latest report by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO). A statement released by state government quoting the report said, the surge has been driven primarily by robust performance in pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, an…

Guwahati, Aug 10 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) continues to record consistent growth in freight unloading activities, officials said on Sunday. NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, said that during the month of July 2025, a total of 1,081 freight-carrying rakes were unloaded, marking a 2.37 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.He said that a significant portion of this freight traffic supports the seven northeastern states.In July…

New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF), on Sunday, mourned the passing of Group Captain Dilip Kamalkar Parulkar (Retd), a recipient of Vayu Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal as well as a decorated 1971 War hero, remembered for his exceptional courage, ingenuity, and unwavering pride in the IAF. All Air Warriors expressed heartfelt condolences on the demise of the veteran, who led one of the most daring escape attempts from captivity in Pakistan. Commissioned into the IAF in March 1…

Shimla, Aug 10 (IANS) Three minor students of one of the oldest premier boys’ boarding schools for boys in Asia, the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, founded in 1859, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances while on a weekly day out in the Himachal Pradesh capital, the police said on Sunday. However, after 24 hours of the disappearance they were traced by the police from Kotkahai, state’s prominent apple belt in upper Shimla, on Sunday. One of the students, who belongs to Mohali, is …

Chennai, Aug 10 (IANS) An Air India flight travelling from Thiruvananthapuram towards Delhi, carrying several senior political leaders, was forced to make an emergency landing at Chennai airport late on Sunday, following a suspected radar malfunction. Flight AI 2455, which took off from Thiruvananthapuram, had among its passengers, four MPs from Kerala — Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, UDF Convenor Adoor Prakash, senior Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh, and K. Radhakrishnan — along…

Ahmedabad, Aug 10 (IANS) Western Railway’s Ahmedabad Division has achieved another milestone in freight transportation, dispatching its first-ever rake of industrial salt from Sanosara Goods Shed (Gandhidham region) to Dahej, as per an official Gujarat government statement.The 58 BOXNHL wagon rake, loaded with 3,851.2 tonnes of industrial salt from Chowgule Salt Works Pvt. Ltd., covered a distance of 673.57 km, generating Rs 31.69 lakh in freight revenue. Ahmedabad Division is the Western Rail…

Surat, Aug 10 (IANS) Gujarat’s Minister in charge of Tapi district, Mukesh Patel, visited Surat Airport on Sunday to bid farewell to 28 tribal students embarking on their first flight to Sriharikota as part of the ‘Tapi ke Taare’ project. The students, from the science stream of 15 government schools in the district, will undertake an educational tour of ISRO’s satellite launch centre from August 10 to 13.At the airport, Patel interacted with the students about their first air travel exp…

Raipur, Aug 10 (IANS) In a tale that reads like fiction but occurred in rural reality, a young man from the village of Madagaon in Gariaband district found himself momentarily at the centre of India’s cricketing universe—all because of a reactivated SIM card. Twenty-one-year-old Manish Bisi, son of a local farmer, had purchased a new SIM card from a mobile shop in Deobhog on June 28, unaware that the number once belonged to Rajat Patidar, captain of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and one of the…