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Raid on militants' hideout in Bangladesh kills 2
Two bodies suspected to be of militants were found on Tuesday after Bangladeshi security forces stormed a hideout of the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in the country's Narsingdi district, the police said.
Terrorists adopting new tactics, stay alert: Rajnath to security forces
Addressing the 34th Raising Day event of National Security Guard (NSG) here on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh called upon the security forces to be on alert as "terrorists are adopting new tactics".The Home Minister said that terrorists are using social media for publicity and vehicles to run over people in crowded public places. Keeping up with the challenges, the NSG is upgrading its skills and techniques, he added.Singh further credited the armed forces for not allowing the terrorists to carry out any major attack in the nation."In the last ten years, there was no big terrorist attack in the hinterland of the country largely due to the alertness of our security forces. Barring Jammu and Kashmir, our security forces have succeeded in preventing terrorist attacks in the rest of the country," Singh said."We have seen best coordination among security forces in Jammu and Kashmir resulting in successful security operations. We have decided to deploy one unit of NSG in Jammu ..
China justifies re-education camps in Xinjiang; says it prevented terror attacks
Amid global criticism, China on Tuesday justified its controversial move to keep thousands of Uygur Muslims in "vocational training institutions" in the volatile Xinjiang region, insisting that its stringent measures have prevented terror attacks in the province in the last 21 months. Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, has been restive for the past several years over protests from Uygur Muslims, an ethnic group of over 10 million Turkik origin people, over the large scale settlements of Han Chinese from other provinces. China blamed the recurring violent attacks including in Beijing and elsewhere in the country on the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an al-Qaeda linked group, whose cadres were now stated to be fighting along with Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The UN Human Rights panel reported in August that China has detained over a million Uygur Muslims in re-education camps which are also called indoctrination camps, sparking an ...
Miscreants loot money from private finance company employee
Armed miscreants looted Rs 97,000 from a private finance company official at gunpoint in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Tuesday, police said. The manager of the private finance company was on his way to deposit money collected from small depositors at the company's branch office at Naugachhia when three bike borne miscreants stopped him near Telghi Kalbaliya Dhar and snatched the bag containing the money at gunpoint, SHO of Kharik police station, Sudin Ram said. An FIR has been lodged in this regard with Kharik police station, the SHO said adding that police have started investigation besides conducting raids to nab the culprits.
Taliban attack Afghan check posts, kill 19 troops
At least 19 members of the Afghan security forces were killed and 16 others were injured in Taliban attacks, few days ahead of parliamentary elections in the country, officials said on Tuesday.
Two Koreas, UN Command discuss border security zone disarmament
The two Koreas and the UN Command (UNC), led by the US, held their first trilateral consultations on Tuesday over disarming the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the heavily fortified border area, South Korea's Defence Ministry said.
Russia, Pakistan to hold joint military drills
Russian and Pakistani troops will hold joint military drills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from October 21 to November 4, a statement said here on Tuesday.
14 Iran security personnel seized on Pakistan border
Fourteen Iranian security personnel, including Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers, were abducted on the volatile southeastern border with Pakistan on Tuesday, state media reported. The border guards were "abducted between 4 am and 5 am in the Lulakdan area of the border by a terrorist group," the official IRNA news agency said. Lulakdan is a small village 150 kilometres southeast of Zahedan, capital of the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. The 14 were involved in "a security operation" and included two members of the elite Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit, seven Basij militiamen and five regular border guards, the Young Journalists' Club (YJC), a state-owned news website, said. The report was deleted from the YJC website shortly afterwards. The province has long been a flashpoint, with Baluchi separatists and jihadists based in Pakistan regularly attacking Iranian security posts. On September 28, the Guards said they had killed four militants who had slipped ..
Three ITBP jawans injured in IED blast in C'garh
Three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans were injured in an Improved Explosive Device (IED) blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district Tuesday, police said. The incident took place around 11 am on the hills near Rajadera and Ramgarh villages when a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Maoist operation, Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police Kamlochan Kashyap told PTI. When the patrolling team was cordoning off the hilly area, located around 75 km away here, the ultras triggered the IED blast that injured the three jawans, he said. Those injured included a head constable and two constables of the ITBP's 44th battalion, he said. Reinforcement was rushed to the spot and the injured personnel were shifted to a local hospital from where they will be airlifted to Raipur for further treatment, he said. A search operation was underway in the region, the official said. Six Assembly constituencies of Rajnandgaon district are among 18 seats of the .
Men looted rifles to kill Badal, belonged to pro-Khalistan group: Police
Three men, who were arrested for allegedly looting two police rifles, were associated with the Khalistan Liberation Front and were planning to target former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, police said. ADG Parshant Kumar told reporters in Shamli district Monday that during interrogation the accused revealed they had looted the rifles as they were planning to target Badal. Two of their two gang members were absconding, he said. Kumar said Punjab and Uttar Pradesh Police were alerted after the association of the accused with the Khalistan Liberation Front came to light. Further investigation was handed over to the ATS, the ADG said. Armed men had looted two rifles from policemen at the Kamalpur Police checkpost in Shamli district on October 2. Two policemen were injured in the attack. Later, the three accused were accused and the rifles were recovered from a gurudwara. The Uttar Pradesh Police announced an award of Rs 50,000 for the police team which arrested the accused, ...
Cologne hostage siege ends, captor severely injured by police forces
Police were successful in severely wounding the captor who had taken a girl hostage in the Breslauer Platz area here on Monday.An official press release by the Cologne Police confirmed that the hostage-taking situation occurred at a pharmacy at Cologne Central Station. Two people were injured by the captor before he took the girl hostage.The police revealed that the captor had lit a Molotov cocktail in a restaurant which wounded a 14-year-old girl. The attacker then ran out of the restaurant and went to a pharmacy in the vicinity, where he took the woman hostage, according to Sputnik.The identity of the culprit and the hostage have not been revealed. Immediate medical care was provided to the hostage as she was injured while being held. The detained captor has been resuscitated as he continues receiving intensive medical care after being 'severely wounded' in the siege.German police later added that a passport had been found at the pharmacy, which had been issued to a 55-year-old ...
2 CRPF jawans injured in militant attack in J&K
Two CRPF jawans were injured in a militant attack on a security force camp in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir Monday night, police said. "Terrorists late evening fired upon a security forces' camp at Newa in District Pulwama in south Kashmir," a police spokesman said here. The attack was repulsed by the forces, he said. "In this incident, however, two jawans sustained injuries," the spokesman said. The injured have been identified as Amit Kumar and Santosh Bharti of 183 BN CRPF, he said, adding the soldiers are being treated. Police have registered a case and investigation has been initiated in the matter, the spokesman added.
US military airstrike in Somalia kills 4 al-Shabab fighters
The US military says it has conducted an airstrike that killed four al-Shabab extremists after "partner forces came under small arms fire." The US Africa Command says Sunday's airstrike was carried out near the community of Araara in Lower Juba region in the south. The statement says no U.S. service members were on the ground during the Somali-led operation and that according to its assessment no civilians were injured or killed in the airstrike. The US military has carried out more than two dozen airstrikes, including drone strikes, this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, the deadliest Islamic extremist group in sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia on Sunday marked the first anniversary of al-Shabab's deadliest attack, a truck bombing in the capital, Mogadishu, that killed well over 500 people.
Clashes after Israel closes Palestinian school: reports
Clashes broke out in the occupied West Bank on Monday after Israeli forces ordered the closure of a Palestinian school. The Israeli army said the school had been the source of months of violence, with stones thrown at a nearby major road used by its forces and Israeli settlers, AFP correspondents reported. The school serves the Palestinian villages of As-Sawiya and Al-Lubban south of Nablus and is located on a main road through the West Bank. The Israeli army on Sunday issued an order for the school to be closed, but students tried to enter on Monday morning alongside some officials, AFP journalists said. Israeli soldiers and border police fired tear gas at protesters, including into the school premises. Four people were hit by rubber bullets, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, with a number of others affected by tear gas. AFP photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh was injured in the clashes. Samer Ewass, a village official, said they were protesting the Israeli decision. "We reject this ...
Take up Chinese PLA intrusion with President Xi: Modi told
Congress Lok Sabha member Ninong Ering on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up the recent intrusion of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops in the Upper Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Villagers once linked with Maoists surrender weapons
A group of villagers, earlier associated with the outlawed CPI (Maoist), surrendered seven firearms to police in Chhattisgarhs Narayanpur district Monday, an official said. These villagers, hailing from Ehnar in the Abhujmad region of Narayanpur district, were once active as 'jan militia' (lower-rung) members or supporters of the CPI (Maoist), but have now no link with the outfit spearheading the armed naxal movement, he said. The villagers voluntarily surrendered seven muzzle loading guns at the newly set up Sonpur police camp in the district, about 350km from state capital Raipur, Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Shukla told PTI over the phone. Of the villagers, three were active as jan militia cadres in the past, while others were supporters of Maoists, he said. On October 10, a police camp was established in Sonpur village on persistent demand of the local residents who said they were frustrated with the anti-development policies of naxals, the officer .
Chinese troops crossed LAC in Arunachal: Sources
Troops of China's People Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into India in the first week of October in the Arunachal Sector.However, the Chinese soldiers returned after the Indian Army conveyed to them that they were on the Indian side of the LAC, sources told ANI.The armies of the two Asian neighbours now resolve such matters as per a set protocol, sources added.Last month, informed sources had revealed that the PLA transgressed the LAC at least thrice s in August in the Uttarakhand state. The troops, then, had crossed over as far as four kilometres into the Indian Territory in Barahoti village in the Chamoli district of the state.Similar incidents occurred in July last year when Chinese troops ventured up to a kilometre into Indian Territory in Barahoti.Speaking on transgressions along the LAC by the PLA, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC) Northern Command, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh earlier this year said, it "took place in areas where we have different .
Jayasuriya charged with non-cooperation in ICC anti-corruption probe
Sri Lankan batting legend Sanath Jayasuriya was Monday charged on two counts for non-cooperation in an ongoing ICC anti-corruption probe and given two weeks to respond by cricket's world governing body. The ICC did not specify what exactly prompted its action against the celebrated cricketer, who is a World Cup winner and played 110 Tests and 445 ODIs. However, a source in Sri lanka Cricket told PTI that the former player is in the line of fire for "trying to block" an ICC probe which began in 2015. The investigation into Sri Lankan cricket began after Galle curator Jayananda Warnaweera was banned for three years in 2016 for failing to cooperate with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). Jayasuriya has been charged with two offences under the ICC's anti-corruption code. "Article 2.4.6 Failure or refusal, without compelling justification, to cooperate with any investigation carried out by the ACU, including failure to provide accurately and completely any information and/or documentation ...
J&K: Suspected militants snatch rifles from cops guarding ex-police officer's house
Suspected militants snatched two rifles from security personnel guarding the residence of a retired police officer in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, police said Monday. The militants barged into the residence of former police officer Sheikh Ghulam Mohammad in central Kashmir's Chadoora area late Sunday night, a police official said. They looted two carbine rifles from the policemen. Police have launched a search to trace the weapons and nab the militants, he said.
Anglo-Kuki War: Scholars rue 'forgotten tribal rebellion' against British Raj during WWI
Ruing that the Anglo-Kuki War remains a "forgotten chapter" in India's colonial history, several scholars Monday gathered here for a national seminar on the tribal uprising against the British Empire, which started during the First World War but was "brutally suppressed". The seminar -- 'India's Frontier Uprising during First World War: The Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919' -- organised by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), also marked the centenary of the revolt that spanned over 6,000 sq miles from the Naga Hills in the north to the Chin Hills in the south in the north-eastern region. Jangkhomang Guite, Assistant Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for Historical Studies, said, "It was fought for three years and the colonial powers not only brutally suppressed the uprising but also imposed penal labour for the next five years, rendering the area backward. Even during its centenary time, it remains a forgotten chapter in India's modern history." Guite, in his ...