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ITBP border unit in Arunachal casts first service votes
A total of 80 ITBP personnel cast their ballot under the service voter category from a border location in Arunachal Pradesh, a senior official said Saturday. The troops voted for their respective constituencies in Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh among few others, from the Animal Training School of the frontier guarding force in Lohitpur on Friday, he said. This is the first case of service voters exercising their franchise in this north eastern border state in 2019. These postal ballots will now be sent to their respective constituencies for counting on May 23. "The first service vote in Arunachal Pradesh was cast by Deputy Inspector General Sudhakar Natarajan. A total of 80 personnel voted. "Other units of the force in the state and other far-flung areas are undertaking the same process," an Indo-Tibetan Border Police force spokesperson said. Personnel of the armed forces, armed police forces and state police personnel deployed outside their .
Terrorists barge into army jawan's home, shoot him dead
An army jawan was Saturday shot dead inside his home in the Sopore area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists, police said. The terrorists barged into the residence of Mohammad Rafi Yatoo, an army jawan, and fired at him indiscriminately, a police official said. He said Yatoo was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to injuries.
M.Tech among two militants killed in J&K gunfight
An M. Tech student was among the two Hizbul Mujahideen militants killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday, police said.
NIA arrests JeM operative for 2017 terror attack on CRPF camp
The NIA on Saturday arrested an operative of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed in connection with the 2017 terror attack on a CRPF camp in South Kashmir, officials here said. Syed Hilal Andrabi, 35, of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, was produced before a court which sent him to five days' police custody, they said. He was arrested from Jammu by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the attack on the CRPF camp at Lethpora in South Kashmir on December 30 night in 2017, in which five personnel were killed. Three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were killed during the 36-hour-long gunfight. The UN-proscribed JeM had sent two suicide attackers to the camp, including the 16-year-old son of a policeman who had joined the outfit a few months before the attack. An active over ground worker of the JeM, Andrabi is a key conspirator who provided logistic support in the form of sheltering the terrorists and conducting reconnaissance of the CRPF group centre before
NIA arrests another accused in J&K CRPF camp attack
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Saturday arrested another accused in a militant attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in December 2017 in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 7 police, 3 civilians
Multiple Taliban attacks have killed at least seven policemen and three civilians across Afghanistan Saturday, as insurgents continue with near daily assaults on government and civilian targets. Taliban killed at least four policemen when they stormed a security check point in northern Sari Pul province, a provincial official said. Mohammad Noor Rahmani, head of the provincial council, said five others were wounded in Saturday's attack on the outskirts of the province's capital city. In a separate report form eastern Ghazni province, Taliban launched attacks on security checkpoints on Saturday, killing three personnel and wounding seven others. A spokesman for the provincial police chief, Ahmad Khan Serat, said police killed seven insurgents during the gun battle. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in Ghazni, but made no statement on Sari Pul. Meanwhile twin bomb blasts killed at least three civilians in eastern Nangarhar province, according to local officials. Attahullah ..
25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers
Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbour with a machete. The 43-year-old Hutu and a few other men from his Rwandan village chopped the Tutsi man to pieces one horrific slaying during a 100-day genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and the Hutus who tried to protect them. Nkundiye was convicted of the killing and other crimes and spent eight years in prison. Today he lives nearby the widow of the man he killed. And somehow they are friends their children and grandchildren play and share lunch together, their cows graze in the same field. "I am very grateful to her," Nkundiye, now 68, said of the widow, 58-year-old Laurencia Mukalemera. "Ever since I apologized to her after prison life, confessing to my crimes and asking her for forgiveness, she has accepted me. I even leave my children with her when I am away." A quarter century after the 1994 genocide that killed 75 per cent of the country's ethnic Tutsis, Rwanda has six "reconciliation ...
ITBP soldiers cast first vote of Lok Sabha 2019 in Arunachal Pradesh
The soldiers of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were the first to cast their vote for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday as Service Voters.The first round of service voting by secret postal ballot began at 10 am on Friday at ITBP's Animal Training School (ATS) located at Lohitpur in Arunachal Pradesh. The first vote of the country was cast by DIG Sudhakar Natarajan, head of ATS ITBP.Apart from the ATS unit of nearly 30 soldiers, other ITBP units deployed in the state also cast their votes through postal ballot. Nearly 5,000 personnel from the security forces voted, out of which close to 1,000 were from ITBP alone.Ballot papers have been despatched to Uttrakhand, Gujarat, Bengaluru, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and many other places for the service personnel to vote.This year, the Election Commission has taken several steps to add more service voters in the election process. Awareness campaigns through electronic, social, print and other media ...
Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 7 policemen
An Afghan official says Taliban have killed at least four policemen when they stormed a security checkpoint in northern Sari Pul province. Mohammad Noor Rahmani, head of the provincial council, said five others were wounded in Saturday's attack on the outskirts of the province's capital city. Police in eastern Ghazni province say Taliban also launched attacks on security checkpoints there on Saturday, killing three personnel and wounding seven others. A spokesman for the provincial police chief, Ahmad Khan Serat, said police killed seven insurgents during the gun battle. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in Ghazni, but made no statement on Sari Pul.
1 hostage escapes, another drowns and 3rd shot
An Indonesian hostage held by Muslim militants in the southern Philippines swam his way to freedom but another drowned while a Malaysian was shot in the back while escaping, officials said Saturday. The two Indonesians and the Malaysian separately escaped while Philippine marines were attempting to rescue them on Simusa island in southern Sulu province in the last two days, regional military spokesman Lt. Col. Gerry Besana said. The dramatic escapes leave at least three more hostages in the custody of the Abu Sayyaf, which is blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a terrorist organization due to its brutal history of bombings, ransom kidnappings, extortion and beheadings. The remaining captives include a Dutch bird watcher, Elwold Horn, who was kidnapped by the militants in 2012, and two Filipinos. One of the Indonesians, Heri Ardiansyah, was plucked from the waters by marines on board a gunboat while they recovered the body of his companion, Hariadin, who ...
My father was waiting for my board result: Son of slain BSF Jawan
Tanmay Bora, son of BSF Jawan Bipul Bora, who was among the four BSF personnel killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, said that his father was keenly waiting for his board results."My father was keenly waiting for my result. I have just given board exams. He used to love my sister more than me. She is eight years old," Tanmay, 15, told ANI here.On Thursday, the domination patrol of 114 Battalion of BSF deployed in Pakhanjur, Kanker, was targeted by Naxals with IEDs and fire, the BSF said in a statement.Bipul Bora's nephew Bhargav Jyoti Bora told ANI, "If the government would have killed all the Naxals in the country then my uncle would have been with us today. However, the government is doing a lot from their end."In the attack, two other BSF jawans sustained injuries."Four jawans of the 114 Battalion of BSF died while 2 others sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out between the security forces and Naxals," DIGP Anti Naxal Operation P Sundarraj
US revokes entry visa of ICC chief over Afghan war crimes probe
The United States on Thursday revoked the entry visa for the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, over a possible investigation into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan."It is our understanding that should not have an impact on the Prosecutor's travel to the US to meet her obligations to the UN, including regular briefings before the UN Security Council," CNN quoted the ICC as saying in a statement."The Office of the Prosecutor has an independent and impartial mandate under the Rome Statute of the ICC. The Prosecutor and her Office will continue to undertake that statutory duty with utmost commitment and professionalism, without fear or favour," it said.Last month, US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo had warned that the US would revoke or deny visas to ICC personnel who led an investigation into the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by US troops in Afghanistan.Pompeo had said that the restrictions apply to ...
Inter-state police meeting held in Delhi ahead of LS elections
An inter-state police cooperation meeting aimed at strengthening coordination amongst police forces in the National Capital Region (NCR) was held here on Friday.The main objective of the meeting was to share terror-related inputs and increase synergy among various state police forces in the wake of General elections. The meeting, held at Delhi Police headquarters was chaired by Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik."Intensive patrolling at vulnerable points was emphasised upon to check the movement of illegal liquor, firearms, cash and musclemen across the border towards Delhi. Police officials were impressed upon to focus on tenant verification, guest house checking and sensitisation of cyber-cafe owners," said Public Relations Officer (PRO), Delhi Police.Preventive action against anti-social elements to ensure smooth functioning of the impending election exercise was also laid stress on, he added.Senior police officers from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya ...
Delhi Police hold meeting with forces of other states to boost cooperation
With less than a week left for the Lok Sabha election to begin, Delhi Police Friday held a meeting with police forces of other states here to strengthen the cooperation and coordination in order to address various issues related to policing in National Capital Region, officials said. The meeting held by Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik at Police Headquarters aimed to improve coordination for smoothly conducting the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and to share terror-related intelligence and inputs about various extremist outfits and their designs in the prevailing circumstances, they said. Senior officers of Delhi Police and their counterparts from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh attended the meeting. The meeting also stressed upon increasing an intensive and coordinated checking and patrolling at vulnerable points to check movement of illicit liquor, firearms, cash and musclemen, a senior police ...
Pak to release 360 Indian prisoners this month as 'goodwill gesture'
Pakistan on Friday announced that it will release 360 Indian prisoners, mostly fishermen, this month in four phases, as a "goodwill gesture" amidst tensions between the two countries after the Pulwama terror attack. Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said the process of releasing the Indian fishermen will start on April 8 when 100 prisoners will be released. In the second phase on April 5, another 100 will be released. In the third phase on April 22, another 100 will be released and in the fourth and last phase on April 29, the remaining 60 prisoners will be released. We are doing it as goodwill gesture and hope that India will reciprocate it, Faisal said while addressing his weekly briefing to the media in Islamabad. The spokesperson said currently there are 347 Pakistani prisoners in India and 537 Indian prisoners in Pakistan. "Pakistan will release 360 Indian prisoners, of which 355 are fishermen and 5 are civilians," he said. The fishermen will be taken from Karachi to ...
US splecial forces-NSG drill ends in Hyderabad
The joint military training exercises of the United States Special Operations Forces with the National Security Guard (NSG) concluded here, preparing the soldiers for a wide range of challenges.
Pak won't tolerate violation of its territorial integrity; reserves right to self-defence: Alvi
Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Friday said his country would not tolerate any violation of its territorial integrity and reserves the right to self-defence. Addressing the under training Pakistani Army officers at the Command and Staff College, Quetta, he said Pakistan was a peaceful and soverign country and sought good relations with all its neighbours, including India. Alvi alleged that India was using the Pulwama attack as a pretext to escalate tensions. He said Pakistan would not tolerate any violation of its territorial integrity and reserves the right to self-defence. Pakistan armed forces are well prepared to give befitting response to any misadventure by India, he told the officers. Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14 this year. India launched a counter-terror operation against a JeM training camp in Balakot. The next day, Pakistan Air ...
Tripura to display criminals' names ahead of polls
With an aim to ensure a violence-free Lok Sabha elections, the Tripura Police would publicly display the names and antecedents of criminals against whom arrest warrants were pending, the state police chief said here on Friday.
Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'
The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes". Ethnic and religious tensions divide western Rakhine state, where the army forced out some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims in 2017 in a brutal crackdown. UN investigators have called for the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity. Now the military is waging war against the Arakan Army (AA), which claims to represent ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and has killed 22 members of the army and police since early January. The conflict has spread across the state, displacing more than 20,000 civilians of various ethnicities, according to UN figures. The latest skirmish on Wednesday was in Buthidaung township, according to a report from the army chief's website. "While combatting AA terrorist insurgents ... six Bengali who were together with insurgents ... were ...
Cong first family tops in corruption: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Congress and corruption were "inseparable partners" and Christian Michel had hinted at the involvement of the grand old party's first "family" in the Agusta Westland chopper scam. Addressing a rally in Dehradun, Modi pointed out that Michel, the alleged middleman arrested in the VVIP helicopter case, had disclosed two names to his interrogators. "One was 'AP' and the other was 'FAM'. AP stands for Ahmed Patel and FAM stands for family. Have you heard of Ahmed Patel? Which family is he close to?" Modi asked the audience. When he heard the crowd's response, Modi said: "You understood automatically. The family cannot tolerate the stern attitude of the 'chowkidar' (watchman)." The Enforcement Directorate had filed a supplementary charge sheet against Michel in a Delhi court on Thursday. According to the ED, Michel have identified the initials "AP" as Ahmed Patel, the senior Congress leader considered close to the Gandhi family. Michel, ...