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Nephew of JeM chief among 2 outfit terrorists killed in South Kashmir
Two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists, including Usman Haider, the nephew of the terror outfit's chief Maulana Masood Azhar, were killed Tuesday after a fierce encounter at Tral in South Kashmir, police said. A M-4 Carbine, used for carrying out sniper attacks on security forces, was also seized from the encounter site, officials said. Two bodies were recovered after a day-long encounter that broke in Chaanketaar village of Tral in Pulwama district, they said. The body of one more terrorist was expected to be retrieved from the rubble, they said. The intelligence inputs as well as the material seized from the encounter site showed that the terrorists belonged to JeM, they added. The police had not officially identified the bodies, but officers speaking on the condition of anonymity said Haider was among those killed in the encounter. A statement and video purportedly shared by Jaish-e-Mohammed on social media identified one of the killed terrorists as Haider. It also claimed that he .
Chhattisgarh Police 'will foil Maoist threats during polls'
Hours after Maoists killed two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraman, Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday said it would not allow the rebels to disrupt the coming Assembly elections.
Delhi Police reaches out to other states to curb smuggling
Aiming to prevent smuggling of firearms, liquor and drug trafficking, top officials of the Delhi Police on Tuesday interacted with their counterparts from states such as Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.
Cops of 8 states meet to tackle traffic not destined for Delhi
Top Delhi Police officers and their counterparts from neighbouring states discussed ways to divert non-Delhi destined goods traffic from the national capital and to check old petrol and diesel vehicles in an inter-state coordination meeting held here on Tuesday. It was decided that effective diversion of non-destined goods traffic would be undertaken by the respective states of Haryana and UP within their borders so that they do not enter Delhi, a Delhi Police statement said. Diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years are not permitted to ply in Delhi as per the directions of the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal. The officers also agreed to sharing database of registered vehicles in Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar, Sonipat, among other places neighbouring Delhi, and information regarding stolen vehicles. Joint action against interstate criminals by sharing information to curb smuggling of drugs and illegal firearms, and ..
JeM says Masood Azhar's nephew among slain militants in Tral
Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit said on Tuesday that Pakistan-based Masood Azhar's nephew was one among the two militants killed by security forces in Tral area today.
One militant killed in Tral gunfight
One militant was killed on Tuesday in a gunfight with security forces in Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
NATO chief: Both sides expected to behave despite drills
NATO's secretary-general said Tuesday he is confident that both the Western military alliance and Russia "will act in a respectable way" as the two sides hold drills in the same area in waters off Norway's coast. Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday as he attended the Trident Juncture war games in his native Norway that "this is not a Cold War situation," stressing it is "purely to prevent, not to provoke." Russia has been briefed by NATO on the exercises and invited to monitor them, but the move has still angered the Russians. Moscow has warned it could be forced to respond to increased NATO military activities and said its navy plans to test missiles in international waters, close to where the alliance is conducting its largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War. The Russian missile tests will take place November 1-3 off western Norway. The NATO drill, scheduled to end November 7, takes place in central and eastern Norway, the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. The maneuvers ..
Northern Army Commander reviews security situation on LoC
Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh Tuesday reviewed the prevailing security situation on the Line of Control (LoC), on the second day of his visit to Kashmir. He also reviewed the operational preparedness of the force in the Valley. Singh was accompanied by Commander of Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, Lt Gen A K Bhatt, and visited the forward areas in north Kashmir, an Army official said. Lt Gen Singh also visited the High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) at Gulmarg and interacted with troops undergoing specialised training there, he said. The official said the Army commander commended the high standards of training provided by the HAWS in snow-craft and winter warfare.
Rajnath calls for fast-tracking paramilitary forces' recruitment
Union Home Minster Rajnath Singh on Tuesday reviewed the vacancy position and recruitment procedure in various paramilitary forces and called for fast-tracking the recruitment.
Bangladesh armyman-turned-militant key suspect in publisher's killing
A renegade Bangladeshi army major who later became a militant leader has emerged as the key accused in the murder of a noted progressive publisher three years ago even as police today said they had finished their investigation in the case. "Sacked and fugitive major Syed Ziaul Haq appeared to be the mastermind of the killing of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan in our investigation," a spokesman of police's detective branch said. He said seven other operatives of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) were also named in the charge sheet but Zia and another assailant were still on the run while others were in jail to face trial in the case. The spokesman said the case was filed under the anti-terrorism law which requires police to obtain home ministry approval. The militants had murdered 43-year-old Dipan in his office in central Dhaka's Shahbagh area in 2015, months after they killed atheist blogger Avijit Roy, the first victim in a wave of violence against secular writers, religious ...
Over 55,000 vacant posts in paramilitary forces, Rajnath orders immediate recruitment
Taking note of the over 55,000 vacancies in the country's six paramilitary forces, Home Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday ordered that the recruitment process to fill the posts be expedited, officials said. Of the total vacancies, 21,000 posts are lying vacant in the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF while there are 16,000 vacant posts in the border guarding force BSF. Taking stock of the vacancies and recruitment procedure for the paramilitary forces and the Delhi Police during a high-level meeting, the home minister directed initiation of special mechanisms for reducing the delays and fast-tracking the recruitment activities in a time-bound manner, a ministry official said. Nearly 1.35 lakh youths have been recruited in the paramilitary forces in the last two years. Among the vacancies, 233 posts are of DSPs and 140 of commandants and DIGs. The vacancies in the paramilitary forces arise due to retirement, resignation, death, creation of new posts or raising of new battalions, ..
Chhattisgarh Police will foil Maoist threats during elections
Hours after Maoists killed two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraman, Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday said it won't allow the rebels to disrupt the coming Assembly elections.
Five persons arrested for grenade attack in CRPF vehicle
Five persons including a woman were arrested in Manipur by police in connection with the October 20 grenade attack on a central paramilitary force vehicle in which one CRPF personnel was killed and another injured, a senior police officer said Tuesday. Superintendent of Police, Imphal West, Jugesh Chandra Singh told a press conference that the five persons were arrested from different places in the state on Monday in connection with the grenade attack on the CRPF vehicle. The SP said police recovered three pistols and ammunition from the house of a president of one civil society organisation located at Oinam village in Bishnupur district Monday. One CRPF personnel was killed and another injured when a grenade was thrown at their vehicle by suspected militants at Nagampal area of Imphal town on October 20. The vehicle was transporting a small contingent of CRPF personnel from Kangpokpi district to their camp at Lamphel in Imphal West district.
Taliban appoints 5 former Guantanamo prisoners to Qatar office
The Taliban said on Tuesday that it has deployed five members freed in 2015 from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to its political office in Qatar.
Cotton factory employee robbed of Rs 19 lakh in Raj
An accountant of a cotton factory was allegedly looted of Rs 19 lakh by three masked men in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said Tuesday. Anil Kumar was on his way to deposit the cash in a bank when the motorcycle-borne men stopped him and looted the bag with cash on Monday, Station House Officer at Sangaria police station Arun Chaudhary said. A search was on to nab the accused, the officer added. In a similar incident, two unidentified men on Monday had looted a petrol pump accountant of Rs 13.90 lakh in Nagaur district by throwing chilli powder in his eyes.
Tunisia woman suicide bomber was jobless graduate: prosecution
A woman who blew herself up on a busy street of the Tunisian capital this week has been identified as an unemployed graduate, the prosecution said Tuesday. Mna Guebla detonated a bomb Monday near a gathering of police cars in Tunis' upmarket Avenue Habib Bourguiba, wounding 15 officers and two teenagers in the first such attack in the city since 2015. The bomber, from the eastern region of Mahdia, was aged 30 and had a degree in business English, said prosecution spokesman Sofiene Sliti, who also represents the country's anti-terrorism unit. Guebla did not have a job related to her studies, but sometimes worked as a shepherdess to help her family, according to Tunisian media. Eight years since a revolution that toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's economy is stagnant and around a third of young graduates are unemployed. Authorities had not previously identified Guebla as a potential extremist, Sliti told AFP. The prosecution spokesman said there had not yet ...
Prez hails sacrifice of soldiers from Himachal at HPU convocation
President Ram Nath Kovind Tuesday hailed the sacrifice made by soldiers from Himachal Pradesh, saying the state sends a bigger percentage of its youth to the armed forces compared to other states. Kovind made the remarks while addressing the 24th convocation ceremony of the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU). He said the youths of the state have made a special identity in the armed forces with their supreme sacrifices and it is evident from the fact that four Paramvir Chakras have so far been awarded to soldiers of the state for their exemplary bravery. He conferred gold medals to 11 meritorious students, including 10 girls, of the HPU. "Girls are performing well in studies without any quota and if it continues like this, the day will come when man will need reservation," he said. The president asked the students to play their respective roles in growth of the country. He congratulated them on birth anniversary of nuclear physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha and hoped they will take ...
Three dead as Shiites clash with Nigerian security forces
At least three people were killed when supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric clashed with security forces during a protest march in Abuja, the Nigerian Army said. The military said troops and police "repelled the attack" by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), who also "fired weapons", threw stones and Molotov cocktails. "Unfortunately during the encounter three members of the sect were killed while four soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries," the army said in a statement on Monday night. The deaths bring to six the number of IMN supporters who have been killed in demonstrations since Saturday and heighten concerns about further crackdowns on the group. On Saturday, three IMN members were also killed during protests in Abuja. The army claimed the protesters attacked a military convoy and tried to steal weapons and ammunition. Monday's clashes happened at a checkpoint as security services stopped the protesters coming into the city. AFP photographs of the ...
Gunfight in Pulwama
A gunfight broke out on Tuesday between security forces and militants in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Encounter breaks out in J-K's Pulwama
An encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Chaanketaar village of Tral in south Kashmir district this afternoon following specific inputs about the presence of militants in the area, a police official said. He said as the forces were undertaking searches in the area, the militants fired upon them. The security forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter, the official said. The gunfight was going on, he said, adding that further details were awaited.