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We've brought northeast India closer to Delhi: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said efforts made by his government have brought the people of northeast India closer to Delhi and the region was witnessing multi-faceted development.
Afghan officials: Taliban attack in north kills 30 troops
A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said Wednesday, as life gradually returned to normal in parts of the eastern city of Ghazni after a massive insurgent attack last week, with sporadic gunbattles still underway in some neighborhoods. Mohammad Safdar Mohseni, the head of the provincial council in the northern Baghlan province, said the insurgents set fire to the checkpoints after the attack late last night in the Baghlan-I Markazi district. Dilawar Aymaq, a parliamentarian from Baghlan, confirmed the attack, which targeted a military checkpoint and another manned by the so-called local police, militias recruited and paid by the Interior Ministry. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, Afghans emerged from their homes and some shops reopened in Ghazni, where the Taliban launched a coordinated offensive last Friday, overwhelming the city's defenses and ...
Venezuelan general, colonel arrested over 'attack' on Maduro
Venezuela has arrested a general and a colonel as part of a probe into an alleged attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, the Supreme Court said today. The arrests increased suspicions about possible divisions within the military, considered a bedrock of support for the widely unpopular president as Venezuela's economy unravels and people grow more and more desperate and angry. Major General Alejandro Perez Gamez of the National Guard appeared before a judge on Monday along with opposition politician Juan Requesens and another military officer, Colonel Pedro Javier Zambrano, Attorney General Tarek William Saab told a press conference. Around midnight, the Supreme Court issued a statement saying it had ordered the detention of those men and five others "for attempted aggravated homicide against the president." To date, 14 people have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking part in the August 4 incident in which Maduro was seen reacting on live television to an ...
Tamil Nadu leads in attracting investments: Palaniswami
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Wednesday said the state leads in attracting industrial investments.
Karnataka CM unfurls tricolour in Bengaluru
Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday unfurled the tricolour here to mark the 72nd Independence Day celebrations.
Modi pays tribute to freedom fighters, armed forces
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to freedom fighters and the armed forces for protecting the national flag.
Security tightened in national capital for I-Day
In the wake of terror alerts, a cordon of tight security, including NSG snipers, elite SWAT commandos, kite catchers, has been thrown around the Red Fort, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on the 72nd Independence Day. A senior officer said they had also received inputs about the possibility of three men from Jaish-e-Mohammad being present in the national capital to carry out terror attacks. Police are also on high alert in the wake of an attack on JNU student leader Umar Khalid in the Lutyens' Delhi area on August 13 and a terror attack in the UK yesterday, where a man drove a car at high speed and ploughed into several pedestrians, injuring three people, a senior police officer said. On August 13, police were informed by a person that a man, wearing a uniform of an Indian Air Force officer, was suspiciously roaming near the Rajiv Chowk Metro station, and when he tried to call him, the man in uniform just fled from there. While nearly 70,000 Delhi Police ...
Trump urges toughness against terrorist guilty of London attack
US President Donald Trump urged that tough action be taken against the person responsible for the alleged terrorist attack on Tuesday morning in front of the UK Parliament in London.
72nd Independence Day: President Kovind to confer 131 Gallantry Awards
On the occasion of 72nd Independence Day, President Ram Nath Kovind has approved 131 Gallantry Awards to members of Armed Forces Personnel and Paramilitary Forces.The Defence Ministry, in a statement, said that one Kirti Chakra, three Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), three Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry), 11 Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry), 20 Shaurya Chakras and 93 Sena Medals (Gallantry) will be awarded.Braveheart hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, Sepoy Vrahma Pal Singh has been shortlisted for the Kirti Chakra award posthumously. In November 2017, Singh was killed in an anti-terror encounter in South Kashmir's Algar village where he was deployed in inner cordon as part of Combat Action Team under Captain Kaninder Paul Singh.Along with Singh, Major Aditya Kumar's name has been mentioned on the list of 20 armed forces personnel for the Shaurya Chakra award. He was dragged in a controversy after his unit open fired on stone-pelters in South Kashmir's Shopian in January that led to the death of .
Tight security, extra vigil for I-Day celebrations in Bengaluru
Security has been stepped and vigil heightened in Bengaluru in view of celebration of the country's 72nd Independence Day, police said on Tuesday.
Rs 14.50 lakh looted from finance company staff in Motihari
Miscreants today looted Rs 14.50 lakh from the staff of a finance company in Bihar's East Champaran district, police said. Three staff of a Bharat Finance Company Pvt Ltd were going to deposit money in a bank when the bike borne miscreants looted Rs 14.50 lakh at gunpoint from them near Chandmari chowk, Sadar Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Murli Manohar Manjhi said. The SDPO said that the staff of the finance company has claimed that Rs 14.50 lakh was looted from them at gunpoint. The police have started investigation, he added.
List of defence personnel who have been conferred gallantry awards
On the eve of Independence Day, President Ram Nath Kovind, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, has approved 131 Gallantry Awards to armed forces personnel and members of paramilitary forces, which include one Kirti Chakra and 20 Shaurya Chakras, the Defence Ministry said today. He also approved three Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), 93 Sena Medals (Gallantry). Below is the list of the awardees.
There will be no shortcoming in efforts to provide soldiers all dues, facilities: Sitharaman
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today assured the armed forces that there will be no shortcoming in efforts to provide them all dues and facilities. In a first-ever exercise after independence, the Ministry of Defence, in consultation with the Army, has decided to reform the Indian Army in a planned manner, she said. The first phase of the reforms involves redeployment and restructuring of approximately 57,000 posts of officers, Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs), ORs (Other Ranks) and civilians, the defence minister said. Sitharaman said a contract for procurement of nearly 2 lakh bullet-proof jackets with best of the class specifications is underway, while in order to ensure faster decision-making, be it for the day to day requirements of the troops or the ammunitions, greater powers have been delegated to the force headquarters and other lower functionaries. All available funds are being put to optimum utilisation so that there is no shortage of essential items, she said. In ..
Mumbai police on high alert for Independence Day: Official
Police have been put on high alert for Independence Day across the metropolis with maximum number of personnel deployed for patrolling and vehicles coming into the city being frisked at all entry points, a senior official said today. He said that the security at sensitive locations as well as vital installations had been tightened in view of the red letter day. "Police are on high alert and have tightened security across Mumbai. We are taking all security measures to maintain law and order in the city," the official said.
Chinese troops intruded 300m into Demchok in Eastern Ladakh last month: Sources
A group of Chinese Army personnel intruded around 300 metres into the Demchok area in eastern Ladakh and pitched four tents in the area last month, official sources said today. They said the Chinese troops came to the Indian side of the border in the garb of nomads and pitched the tents. The sources said transgression took place in the first week of July and days later, four out of the five tents were removed by the Chinese troops after the Indian side officially took up the matter with their local commander. The sources said such transgressions are not unusual and that all such incidents are taken up at the appropriate level with the Chinese authorities. India and China share a nearly 4,000-km-long border. The number of transgressions by the Chinese Army into the Indian territory rose to 426 in 2017 from the 273 in 2016, according to official figures. The latest incident of intrusion came nearly a year after Indian and Chinese troops were locked in a 73-day standoff in Doklam. The ...
Rajasthan CM offers tributes to soldiers
On the eve of Independence Day, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Tuesday participated in the state-sponsored 700-km-long human chain in Jaisalmer under 'Shahadat Ko Naman' programme.
Sri Lanka arrests intel officer over killings
Sri Lankan police today arrested a navy intelligence officer in connection with atrocities committed during the island's bloody civil war, including the assassination of a prominent Tamil politician. Lieutenant commander Sampath Hettiarachchi was wanted in connection with the abduction and illegal detention of 11 young men between 2008 and 2009, police said, the final phase of the war between government forces and ethnic Tamil separatists. The 11 men are believed to have been killed while being illegally held by the navy. Their bodies were never found. The then-navy spokesman D K P Dissanayake is also a suspect in the case. He was arrested last year and is currently on bail. "We have now arrested one of the most wanted men and we are very close to concluding the investigation," a police source said, adding that Hettiarachchi was also wanted in connection with the 2006 slaying of Tamil lawmaker Nadarajah Raviraj. There have been persistent allegations that senior military personnel and
SC to hear plea of Army personnel challenging prosecution in AFSPA areas
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on August 20 a plea filed by over 300 Army personnel challenging registration of FIRs against them for operations in disturbed areas such as Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir where the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is in force. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar considered the submissions of lawyer Aishwarya Bhati that the Army personnel are being "persecuted" and proceeded against for performing duties in such disturbed areas. The petition was filed by the army officers, including Col Amit Kumar. They range from the level of Section Commanders to Commanding Officers of the Section, Platoon, Company and Battalion, leading 10 to 1000 men each. The filing of the plea by serving Army officers assumed significance as the CBI's SIT has recently filed charge sheets in two separate encounter cases in Manipur against armed forces in which murder charges have been slapped. The SIT was constituted by the apex ...
Kovind watches documentary on 'President's Bodyguard'
President Ram Nath Kovind watched a documentary on the President's Bodyguard (PBG) at a special screening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today, according to an official statement. The documentary produced by National Geographic has been directed by Robin Roy, with narration by Amitabh Bachchan. It will premiere on National Geographic channel at 2100 hrs tomorrow, the statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. The documentary tells the story of the President's Bodyguard, the oldest surviving mounted unit and one of the senior most regiments of the Indian Army. The regiment, with a 245-year legacy, is made up of almost 200 soldiers and represents supreme and selfless service. "The President's Bodyguard displays the best traditions of discipline and skills of our Armed Forces. Their flawless turnout and impressive bearing speak for the heritage of our country, and our Armed Forces. "But behind their skills, while standing erect or on horse-back, is years of hard work and the relentless .
Egypt arrests 13 on anniversary of 2013 crackdown
Egyptian police have arrested 13 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members accused of inciting protests on the fifth anniversary of the violent dispersal of two mass sit-ins. The Interior Ministry said today that six were arrested in a Cairo suburb, including three who had been sentenced in absentia to 10-15 years on terror charges. They will now face a retrial. The other seven were detained northwest of the capital. On August 14, 2013, police dispersed two mass sit-ins by supporters of President Mohammed Morsi, who had been overthrown by the military earlier that summer amid mass protests against his rule. Security forces killed more than 600 people. Morsi was a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now outlawed as a terror group. Egypt has detained thousands of Islamists since 2013.