Jaipur, May 13 (IANS) Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital received a bomb threat on Wednesday, triggering panic among patients, staff, and visitors. Acting swiftly, police teams, bomb disposal squads, dog squads, and Civil Defence personnel rushed to the site and launched an extensive search operation across the hospital campus. Officials said that panic gripped SMS Hospital after the hospital received a bomb threat message demanding Rs 40 crore.The threatening message was reportedly recei…
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Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) The death toll from an attack on police personnel at a checkpoint in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has climbed to 15, local media reported on Monday.A militant outfit identified as Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan (IMP) claimed responsibility for the bombing through social media channels.Reports suggest that between Saturday and Sunday night, the armed group rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the Fateh Khel police checkpoint in Bannu, re…
Islamabad, May 10 (IANS) At least 12 police personnel were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police installation in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, official sources said on Sunday. The attack targeted the installation in Bannu district of the province at 8:55 p.m. local time on Saturday, causing massive destruction to the facility, the sources told Xinhua news agency on condition of anonymity.”The assault involv…
Guwahati, May 8 (IANS) Assam Minister Jayanta Mallabaruah on Friday said the state had witnessed one of the sharpest declines in crime rates in the country, citing the latest “Crime in India 2024” report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).Sharing details in a post on X, the minister said Assam registered 49,552 criminal cases in 2024, a significant decline from 64,959 cases recorded in 2023 and 68,937 cases in 2022.According to the data highlighted by the minister, the stat…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Calling the allegations emerging from the Nashik branch of Tata Consultancy Services ‘gravely concerning and anguishing,’ Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Monday said the matter is being treated with utmost seriousness and a thorough investigation is underway.In a statement, Chandrasekaran said action has already been initiated against the accused employees and the company is extending full cooperation to the ongoing probe.He reiterated that the Tata Group follows a str…
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Looking to check cyber frauds and financial crimes, the Union Home Ministry’s Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) to enhance information sharing and coordination, an official said on Thursday.The MoU aims to enable both agencies to establish robust feedback mechanisms for enhancing fraud detection protocols at the national level, the official s…
Srinagar, April 2 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district said on Thursday that it has attached a vehicle purchased from drug proceeds during its continuing anti-drug operation.A police statement said on Thursday, “Baramulla Police today attached a vehicle linked to a drug trafficking case as part of its ongoing action against narcotics-related offences in the district.”The vehicle, an Maruti Alto-800 bearing registration number JK05K-7701, was seized in connection with cas…
Islamabad, March 31 (IANS) A recent raid in Sheikham near Sarai Mughal in Kasur district of Pakistan’s Punjab province uncovered a clinic that allegedly handled deliveries of vulnerable women and sold babies for profit. Arrests were made and clinic was shut, however, it was only a small part of a vast network which thrives due to gaps in oversight as social stigma leaves women unprotected, local media has stated. Three critical vulnerabilities are often targetted in Pakistan. First, women who fa…
Islamabad, March 24 (IANS) The recent suicide bombing inside a mosque in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which killed at least 31 worshippers and injured over 160 others, was not an aberration but part of a grim continuum for Shia community in the country. The attack on Khadija Tul Kubra mosque in Islamabad signalled not only a local lapse but a systemic failure of deterrence. Shia mosques, processions, buses, hospitals, and shrines have faced attacks in Pakistan for the past 20 years. “From Peshawar and …
London, March 19 (IANS) A deeply concerning claim circulating on social media alleges that Pakistani “grooming gangs” operating in the United Kingdom are targetting Sikh girls, luring them into their networks and encouraging religion conversion through financial incentives or emotional coercion. According to a report in Khalsa Vox, if substantiated, these allegations would extend beyond a single community and raise serious concerns about broader public safety and the rule of law.“The Unite…