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Bikaner SP orders to increase vigilance, security amidst probability of terrorist attack
Bikaner Superintendent of Police has ordered all police stations in the city to increase vigilance and security amidst inputs from secret agencies regarding the probability of a terrorist attack in Punjab and Rajasthan between May 17 and May 19.Punjab will go for polls in the seventh and the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday.In his letter to various police station officials, the Superintendent of Police has stated that there are probabilities of a terrorist attack at Army cantonments, religious places and railway stations in Punjab and Rajasthan, especially in Bikaner.Lok Sabha elections were held in Rajasthan on April 29 and May 6.The result will be announced on May 23.
Sri Lanka marks a decade of the end of civil war
Sri Lanka, still reeling under the scars of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, Saturday marked 10 years of the end of the nearly brutal civil war between the government and the LTTE even as it came under criticism for failing to ensure justice for the victims. The Sri Lankan government on May 18, 2009 killed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran in the coastal village of in Mullaittivu, bringing to an end the bloody armed conflict fought mainly in the north and east of the island nation. At least 100,000 people were killed in the over three-decade-long conflict. Thousands of people, including security personnel, are still reported to be missing after the war. Hundreds of people gathered in parts of Northern Sri Lanka to remember the victims of the war, the Colombo Gazette reported. The government will commemorate the war heroes during the Victory Day celebrations on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. It asked the public to light a "Lamp of
Maoist killed in Bihar encounter
A Maoist was killed during a gunfight in Gaya district of Bihar, police said.
1 terrorist killed in J-K's Sopore
One terrorist was killed in an encounter in Hathlangoo area in Sopore district on Saturday, police said."On a credible input, a search operation was launched by police and security forces in Hathlangoo area of Sopore. During the search operation, terrorists hiding at a nearby place fired on the security forces," police said in a statement.Following this, an exchange of fire between the two sides took place. In the encounter, a terrorist was killed and the body was retrieved from the site.Police said that the identity and affiliation of the terrorist were being ascertained.Furthermore, incriminating materials including arms and ammunition were recovered from the site of the encounter."With the efforts of police and security forces, it was a clean operation and no collateral damage took place during the exchange of fire," police said.A search operation is being carried out in the area. Police have requested the locals not to venture around the area till it is completely sanitized.This ..
Lankans observe Vesak festival amid tight security
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday granted an amnesty to 762 convicts to mark Vesak, also known as 'Buddha Jayanti', being celebrated by the Buddhist majority nation amid tight security arrangements in the wake of Easter Sunday bombings. The Sri Lankan government has restricted the five-day national Vesak festival celebrations to just two days citing the prevailing security situation in the country following the massive Easter Sunday bombings on April 21 which claimed nearly 260 lives and injured 500 others. Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago when the Buddha was born, attained enlightenment and in his eightieth year passed away. President Sirisena released the 762 prisoners, including 26 women, under a Presidential pardon to mark Vesak. The president, however, made no reference to monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara, whose release was ..
Venezuela's collapse worst outside of war in decades: Economists
Venezuelas fall due to poor governance, corruption and the misguided policies of President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in 45 years, outpacing Zimbabwes crumbling under Robert Mugabe, Cubas disastrous unravelling in the 1990s and the fall of the Soviet Union, economists say.
3 Hizbul men among 4 militants killed in J&K (3rd Lead)
Four militants, including three Hizbul men were killed on Saturday in two separate gunfights in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama and Baramulla districts.
SIT constituted to probe Bhaderwah killing, curfew continues for third day
A five-member special investigation team (SIT) was constituted Saturday to probe the death of a person in firing here which triggered violent protests, forcing authorities to impose an indefinite curfew in the communally-sensitive town, officials said. The Doda district administration had refuted reports that "cow vigilantism" was the reason behind the killing of Nayeem Shah and said some people were trying to give communal colour to the incident to flare up the situation. "A five-member SIT headed by Superintendent of Police, Bhaderwah, Raj Singh Gouria has been constituted to probe the killing of Shah," Senior superintendent of Police, Doda, Shabir Ahmad Malik told PTI. Gouria, along with other members of the SIT, and a team of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) visited the scene of the incident at Kachi Nalthi village and collected fresh evidence. "We are at the scene as part of the investigation after the setting up of the SIT although the probe of the case has already started ...
Terrorist who killed army jawan Aurangzeb eliminated with 2 Hizbul colleagues: Police
Three Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants, including the one involved in the killing last year of Army jawan Aurangzeb, were Saturday killed in a pre-dawn operation by security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Based on a credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched by police and security forces in the early hours in the Panzgam area of Awantipora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, a police spokesman said. During the search operation, the hiding militants fired on the search party, which retaliated, he said. In the ensuing encounter, three militants were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter, the spokesman said. He said the slain militants have been identified as Showkat Dar of Panzgam in Awantipora, Irfan War of Wadoora Payeen in Sopore and Muzaffar Sheikh of Tahab in Pulwama. The spokesman said that according to police records the three were affiliated to proscribed Hizbul Mujahideen and were wanted for their ...
J-K encounter: 3 HM terrorists killed in Pulwama
Three terrorists affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday, Jammu and Kashmir police said."On a credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched today by police and security forces at Pangam area in Awantipora," state police said in a statement."In the ensuing encounter, three terrorists were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter. The killed terrorists have been identified as Showkat Dar of Panzgam Awantipora, Irfan War of Wadoora Payeen Sopore and Muzaffar Sheikh of Tahab Pulwama," police added.All the three killed terrorists, according to the police records, were affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. They were wanted by law for their complicity in a series of terror crimes including attack on security establishments and civilian atrocities. Several terror crime cases were registered against them.Incriminating materials including ..
Libyan officials: Militants kill 3 troops at LNA checkpoint
Libyan officials say Islamic State militants have killed at least three troops in an attack on a checkpoint in a desert town. A statement by the self-styled Libyan National Army said the militants captured four soldiers in the attack at the town of Zallah Saturday, but troops were able to free three of them. The Islamic State group claimed the attack. The extremist group expanded its reach in Libya after the country was plunged into chaos following the 2011 uprising that ousted and killed Moammar Gadhafi. Zallah is about 750 kilometers (466 miles) southeast of the capital, Tripoli, where Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter's LNA forces are currently fighting to take control of the city from militias affiliated with a weak U.N.-supported government.
4 killed in Afghanistan bombing
At least four civilians were killed and 14 people, including a district chief, were wounded in a bomb attack in Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday, officials said.
Kashmiri Hizbul man among 3 militants killed in Pulwama (2nd Lead)
A Kashmiri militant was among three militants who were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.
3 militants killed in encounter with security forces in J-K's Pulwama
Three militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday, the army said. Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Panzgam area of Awantipora early Saturday morning following specific information about the presence of militants there, an army official said. He said as the forces were conducting searches in the area in south Kashmir, the militants fired at them. The forces retaliated and in the ensuing encounter, three militants were killed, the official said. Their bodies have been recovered and weapons and war-like stores were seized from the site of the encounter, he said. The identity and group affiliation of the slain militants are being ascertained, he said. The operation is over, the official said.
Bihar: Security forces gun down Naxal near Gaya-Aurangabad border
Security forces in a joint operation neutralised a Naxal here in early hours of Saturday.Joint team of 205 COBRA troops and Bihar Police gunned down the naxal during a search operation in Gaya's Lutua.Arun Singh, Superintendent of Police Gaya said that CoBRA troops recovered the Naxal's body and an AK-47 rifle during a post-encounter search. AK 47 ammunitions were also recovered.The forces also seized 2 Kilograms of an improvised explosive device (IED) which was destroyed on the spot."One Naxal was shot down in an encounter with the Cobra troops. Weapons were also recovered from the body of the Naxal who was killed. We are trying to identify him at the earliest," he said.Search operation in the Gaya-Aurangabad border area is underway. Additional troops have been deployed.
Official: Bomb blast in western Afghanistan kills 2
An Afghan official says that a bomb blast in the western province of Herat has killed at least two people, including a child. Gelani Farhad, a spokesman for the province's governor, says that 14 people were wounded in Saturday morning's attack in the Obe area, including the district administrative chief. Farhad said that a remotely controlled bomb went off when the district chief's vehicle was passing by the area's main market. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban insurgents are active in the province and regularly target Afghan officials and security forces.
Child among two killed in Afghanistan blast
At least two people, including a child, were killed and 14 others sustained injuries in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday morning.The incident occurred in the Oba district of the province, reported Tolo News.There is no information yet about the nature of the blast.No group, including the Taliban, has claimed the responsibility for the attack yet.According to figures released by the United Nations, nearly 1700 civilians have been killed and over 3,430 others injured in conflict-related incidents so far this year in the war-torn country, reported Xinhua.In a separate development, the Afghan security forces rescued five doctors from the kidnappers in the same province.One kidnapper was killed and another was wounded during the rescue operation, provincial police chief General Aminullah Amarkhail said on Saturday.
US, Lanka to work together for peace, security in Indo-Pacific region
The US and Sri Lanka have resolved to work together to ensure a safe maritime domain in the Indian and Pacific oceans through a rules-based order that ensures respect for international laws and norms, amid the increasing Chinese influence over the strategically important region. The US and Sri Lanka's joint statement came a day after US Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana held third US-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue in the American capital. "The United States and Sri Lanka resolved to work together to foster peace and security and ensure a safe maritime domain in the Indian and Pacific Oceans through a rules-based order that ensures respect for international laws and norms," the joint statement said. In this context, the US strategy towards a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region, which ensures freedom of navigation, overflight, and unimpeded commerce was acknowledged as an important initiative, ..
Four men rob jewellery shop in Muzaffarnagar
Four armed men looted cash and ornaments worth Rs 5 lakh from a jewellery shop here, police said Saturday. The incident took place at Khatoli town on Friday. They looted jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh and Rs 6,000 cash, Station House Officer Harsharan Sharma said. The robbers came on two motorcycles. A search has been launched to nab the perpetrators, the officer said.
Man arrested in Assam's Nagaon for his involvement in Guwahati blast
A man has been arrested on Friday for his alleged involvement in the grenade blast near the Guwahati Central shopping mall on May 15, the police said."One Indra Mohan Bora has been picked up by Nagaon police on Friday in relation with grenade lobbing incident in Guwahati. It has been found that he visited the spot and did a recee. He also confessed to being in touch with some ULFA leaders through social media," said Shankar Brata Raimedhi, Superintendent of Police, Nagaon."He was also in charge of certain recruitment activities in Nagaon. His interrogation is going on. We are in touch with Guwahati Police and we are looking at all aspects regarding this investigation," he added.On May 16, the police arrested ULFA leader Pranamoy Rajguru and a TV actress Jahnabi Saikia and recovered explosive materials in huge quantity from their possession in connection with the grenade blast in which 12 people, including two SSB personnel, were injured.In the grenade blast that took place at 8 pm on .