Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was killed in a fire at the camp of the force’s 77th Battalion at Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district on Thursday, officials said.The deceased was identified as ASI Jyotiram Singh.The ASI had entered the fuel storage room of the camp on Thursday morning when the fire broke out and spread so quickly that he could not escape and was badly burnt. Other BSF personnel and locals tried to rescue him, but could not.According to the p…
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Srinagar, April 16 (IANS) Two drug peddlers have been arrested from the Awantipora area in J&K’s Pulwama district, and contraband recovered from them, police said on Thursday”Under the ongoing Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyaan, Awantipora Police apprehended two drug peddlers during naka checking at Arch Kanal,” a police statement said.A party of police post Toll Plaza headed by IC PP Toll Plaza, Sub-Inspector, Ishfaq Ahmad, under the supervision of station house officer (SHO) Police St…
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Indian agencies have reported a sharp rise in counterfeit currency seizures, pointing to a renewed push by organised networks to expand operations.Investigators say the syndicate linked to Dawood Ibrahim, operating from Pakistan, is increasingly directing operatives in India to print fake notes locally instead of relying on cross-border smuggling routes through Pakistan and Bangladesh.The trend points to a deliberate attempt to scale up production, with signs of a coor…
Jammu, April 13 (IANS) GOCs of the Army’s White Knight Corps and Cross Swords Division on Monday visited the Akhnoor sector of the Line of Control in J&K’s Jammu district to review operational preparedness and the prevailing security situation. Nagrota-headquartered White Knight Corps said on X, “GOC White Knight Corps, along with GOC Crossed Swords Division, visited the general area of Akhnoor to review the operational preparedness and prevailing security grid.The visit focused …
Agartala, April 11 (IANS) After more than a month-long high-voltage campaign marked by intense political activity and sporadic clashes among party workers, the politically significant Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) is set to go to polls on Sunday, officials said on Saturday. The 30-member TTAADC, comprising 28 elected representatives and two members nominated by the state government, administers nearly 70 per cent of Tripura’s 10,491 square km geographical area.This ma…
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday promised that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would come to power in West Bengal After the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this month, the all-out effort of the new state government is to ensure that the state re-emerges as the hub for heavy industries. “The youths of West Bengal have to migrate to other states in search of their livelihoods. More than 7,000 factories have shut their shops in West Bengal durin…
Guwahati, April 11 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint before a special PMLA court in Guwahati against former National Project Construction Corporation (NPCC) officials and private contractors in connection with an alleged bribery and money laundering case linked to border infrastructure contracts worth around Rs 60.30 crore, officials said on Saturday.According to an official statement, the complaint names Rakesh Mohan Kotwal, retired Zonal Manager (Nort…
Jammu, April 11 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday said they carried out a major crackdown on drug peddlers, arresting five persons and seizing heroin during naka checking operations.A police statement said that in the first operation, action was taken against drug trafficking by the Nowshera Police on Friday.During routine checking, a Scorpio vehicle bearing Registration No. JK11H-8838 was intercepted at Thalka Naka. On search, one person, namely Wajid Khan, son…
Imphal, April 10 (IANS) A Border Security Force constable was martyred on Friday in suspected militant firing while on patrolling duty in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, officials said. Police reported that Constable Mithun Mandal, a resident of Bhagjan Tola village in West Bengal, was critically injured due to unprovoked firing from suspected militants in the Litan area of Ukhrul district. He was rushed to a hospital in Imphal but succumbed to his injuries later in the evening.Security forces have…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of maintaining a deliberate silence at his election campaign rally in Cooch Behar district on Sunday regarding the threat issued by Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who said that Pakistan would retaliate with a strike on Kolkata if India tried to stage any false-flag operation against Pakistan in the future.“How could a Pakistani minister speak about targeting Kolkata? Why…