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Securitymen asked not to harass former rebels: Manipur CM
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, who also holds the Home portfolio, on Tuesday said that police and paramilitary forces have been asked "to stop forthwith harassing former insurgents" who have joined the mainstream.
Governor inaugurates India, Bangladesh 'Friendship Gate'
Meghalaya Governor Ganga Prasad today inaugurated the "Friendship Gate" constructed with an aim to have a Wagah-like beating retreat ceremony for the Indian and Bangladesh border guards. The Friendship Gate has been constructed near Integrated Check post here, 90 km South of capital Shillong on border with Bangladesh. Speaking at the event, Ganga Prasad assured that he will take up necessary steps to promote tourism in the area. The Governor also met Border Guard of Bangladesh's Additional Director Zahid Hasan, who was present on the occasion, and distributed sweets to both the troops at the venue. BSF Meghalaya Frontier IG P K Dubey said the day is not that far when tourists from all over the country and across border will enjoy the joint retreat ceremony at ICP Dawki by troops of the BSF and the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh). Dubey also briefed the Governor on the border domination and the security situation at border and also updated him on the armoury and special ...
NDFB member involved in Assam killings arrested
The National Investigation Agency and 210 COBRA Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in a joint operation have arrested another National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) member from Guwahati city of Assam.The accused was wanted in the December 23 killings by the NDFB and the 2014 assault in Kokrajhar's Pakriguri.At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in a firing initiated by the NDFB in Pakriguri area of Kokrajhar on December 23.
Rajnath reviews security in JK; NSA Doval, Home Secy attend
For the second consecutive day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, where two terror attacks in three days left 10 people, including 6 Army men, dead, an official said. During a half an hour meeting, the home minister took stock of the prevailing situation in the troubled state, which saw an attack on an Army camp in Jammu and a gunfight between security forces and militants in Srinagar. The home minister stressed the need for immediate action to check infiltration attempts from across the border, the home ministry official said. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and chief of intelligence agencies attended the meeting. Singh was briefed about the steps taken for strengthening the perimeter security of camps and bases of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, the official said. The home minister was informed that the highest level of security had been put in place in the entire state ..
Peace process in Myanmar will benefit NE states: India
As two rebel groups signed a ceasefire pact with Myanmar government, India today said it will continue to support the peace process and that national reconciliation in the neighbouring country will also benefit the north-eastern states. Spokesperson in the external affairs ministry Raveesh Kumar said comprehensive peace and national reconciliation in Myanmar will also be conducive for peace and prosperity in India's north-eastern region. The presence of Indian representative demonstrates the country's continued support to the peace process in Myanmar, he said. "India supports the Myanmar peace process. Comprehensive peace and national reconciliation in Myanmar will also be conducive for the peace and prosperity of the north-eastern states of India," Kumar said. The two groups -- New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) -- signed the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), joining the peace process. Eight groups had joined the peace process in ...
CRPF officer conveys high regards to woman who delivered baby
Special Director General of CRPF, Jammu and Kashmir zone, S N Shrivastava, visited the Army hospital here today and met the wife of a soldier who delivered a baby after being injured in the terror attack on Sunjuwan army camp. "The officer blessed the baby and presented a bouquet to the woman, Shahzada Khan, as a token of solidarity to her on behalf of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh," a CRPF spokesman said. He appreciated the skills and efforts of the doctors and medical staff of the hospital on the way they handled the situation successfully and saved the life of the woman and also brought her daughter to this world. A group of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists stormed into the residential quarters at the sprawling army camp at Sunjuwan on Saturday and killed seven persons including six soldiers and injured 10 others including six women and children. Three terrorists were killed in the retaliatory action. The pregnant woman, wife of Rifleman Nazir Ahmed, was ...
8 militants killed in Afghanistan
At least eight militants were killed and six others got injured in operations carried out by the Afghan forces in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.The Khaama Press quoted the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North as saying that the security forces targetted militants hideouts with the artillery strikes in Jurm district.Tajikistan nationals were among those killed or wounded, the Shaheen Corps said.Meanwhile, the Afghan forces discovered and defused a barrel bomb planted on a roadside in Baharak district.Earlier this week, at least 25 terrorists belonging to the Islamic States (IS) group were killed in the airstrikes carried out by the United States in the northern Jawzjan province bordering Turkmenistan.In January, 15 terrorists hailing from Tajikistan were killed and 11 others injured in a series of airstrikes carried out in northeastern Badakhshan province.
Tributes paid to slain Army personnel in Jammu
Tributes were paid to the five Army men who lost their lives in a terror attack on Sunjuwan Military camp here. A group of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists struck the residential quarter inside the Army camp at Sunjuwan here on Saturday, killing seven people -- six soldiers, including two junior commissioned officers (JCOs) and father of one of the slain soldiers -- and injuring 10 others. Three heavily-armed JeM terrorists were killed in the retaliatory action by the Army. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today morning led the wreath-laying ceremony organised to pay tributes to four of the six soldiers who were killed in the attack. Later in the day, Army bid adieu to another soldier whose body was recovered yesterday late night from the encounter site. Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, ministers Abdul Haq Khan and Choudhary Zulfkar, state BJP president and MLA Sat Sharma, among others, were present in the ceremony. Senior Army and police officials ...
5 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that at least five insurgents have been killed in operations conducted across the country by its security forces.Tolo News quoted the MoD as saying in a statement that two other insurgents were wounded, and another was arrested.The operation was reportedly launched in Nangarhar, Paktia, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Faryab, Takhar, Nimruz and Helmand province of Afghanistan."Forces have also discovered three motorbikes during the operations," the statement said."The forces launched 11 clearing operations, 21 special operations in eight provinces while the air forces carried out 33 support operations," it added.However, the MoD didn't mention that the killed militants belonged to which insurgent group.Earlier this month, at least 25 militants, belonging to the insurgent group Taliban, were killed and 13 others injured in an operation by security forces in central Ghazni province.Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence said that at least one ..
Afghan officials and Taliban talk despite wave of violence
Afghan officials are carrying out at least two tracks of talks with the Taliban even after a month of brutal bombings and attacks by the militants that killed nearly 200 and despite President Donald Trump's angry rejection of any negotiations for now. The persistence of the back-channel contacts reflects the desire to keep a door open for reconciliation even as the Afghan government and its top ally, the United States, fumble for a strategy to end the protracted war, now entering its 17th year. Rifts within the Afghan government have grown vast, even as the Taliban gain territory and wage increasingly ruthless tactics. The United States has unleashed heavier air power against the Taliban and other militants. After the string of Taliban attacks in recent weeks, Trump angrily condemned the group. "We don't want to talk with the Taliban," he said. "There may be a time but it's going to be a long time." Still, Afghanistan's intelligence chief Masoom Stanikzai and its National Security ...
India urges for political solutions over peacekeeping response
India - one of the largest troop contributing countries in the world to UN peacekeeping missions - has said that the success of such missions should be judged on their ability to sustain peace by enabling political solutions, in the face of rising troop casualties. Systemic shortcomings relating to the lack of clarity of mandates, mismatch with resources available to peacekeepers, lack of focus on political solutions to building and sustaining peace, are all well-known through a series of reports and analyses, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin said. "We do not think the success of UN peacekeeping should be judged merely by the ability of peacekeepers to secure themselves, by arming themselves. It should be judged by the capability of missions to sustain peace by enabling political solutions through integrated responses," Akbaruddin told the UN General Assembly during an open debate on peacekeeping operations. "However, a coherent approach to jointly address ..
City airport open after World War II-era bomb removed
London's City Airport will open as usual after experts removed an unexploded World War II-era bomb from the nearby River Thames. Flights in and out the airport were canceled Monday after the 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) ordnance was found at King George V Dock in east London. The Metropolitan Police service cleared an area within 700 feet (215 meters) of the bomb, including several residential streets, as officers worked with specialists from the Royal Navy to remove the device. Robert Sinclair, the airport's chief executive, said today the evacuation zone has now been lifted and the airport will operate as normal. London City, the smallest of London's international airports, is located in east London's docklands, an area that was heavily bombed by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Turkish-led fire near hospital in Syria's Afrin, one dead: monitor
Turkish-led bombardment left at least one person dead and several others wounded near the main hospital in the Syrian town of Afrin today, a monitor and military force said. The border areas in Syria's northwest region of Afrin have been battered by air strikes, artillery and rocket fire since Ankara and allied Syrian rebels began their assault on the district three weeks ago. Strikes on the central town of Afrin are rarer, but a barrage of artillery and rockets struck it on Tuesday morning, AFP's correspondents there said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said it left at least one person dead. "At least one person was killed and four others wounded when Turkish forces and allied factions fired artillery and rockets on Afrin city, including near the entrance of the hospital," said the Observatory. The broader Afrin region is held by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which has received US backing but is considered by Ankara to be a ...
Why silence on death of Muslims in J&K attack: Owaisi
Citing the five Kashmiri Muslims, including soldiers, killed in the terror attack on a Jammu Army camp, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed those who question the patriotism of Muslims, asking why they were silent on this issue.
Two LeT terrorists killed, 32-hour Srinagar encounter ends:
A 32-hour gunbattle between security forces and two LeT terrorists, who hid in a building in Karan Nagar here after their attempts to attack a CRPF camp failed, ended today with them being killed, police said. The security operation to flush out the terrorists from the under-construction building in the heart of the city was carried out by a Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force, a police official said. The Army was not involved in the operation, he clarified. The official said two bodies - along with weapons - have been recovered from the encounter site. Ravideep Sahi, IG-CRPF, Srinagar, said the forces recovered two AK-47 assault rifles and eight magazines from the site. The gunbattle, which began yesterday morning, came two days after Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists attacked an Army camp in Jammu's Sunjuwan area, killing seven people, including six Army soldiers. Three terrorists were also killed in ...
Pak pushing terrorists out of desperation: Nirmal Singh
Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Tuesday said Pakistan out of desperation is infiltrating terrorists in India."It's Pakistan's desperation that they're pushing terrorists this side. All infiltrators are basically Pakistanis," Singh told ANI.Singh also criticised All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi and said the latter is trying to "polarise the society on the basis of the communities"."Owaisi has always polarised society on the basis of community. People like him are taking undue advantage of greatness of the democracy," said Singh here.Singh's comments came in the view of continuous terrorist taking place in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir.Earlier in the day, two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were killed in an encounter in Srinagar's Karan Nagar area.The encounter between security forces and militants is still on near the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 23 Battalion headquarters.The Pakistan-based terrorist group LeT
China dismisses Nasheeds charges as 'ridiculous fabrications'
China today sharpened its attack on former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed over his allegations of land grabbing by Beijing in his country, saying the charges are ridiculous fabrications. Nasheed had told the media in Colombo last month that China is indulging in land grabbing, threatening not just the Maldives, but the peace and the stability of the entire region. The large and emerging power is busy buying up the Maldives, he had said, referring to China. Last week, I responded similar remarks made by Nasheed. His latest ones are nothing new," Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said here today. The allegations are sheer ridiculous fabrications, he told the media. I would like to remind Nasheed that whether China and Maldives cooperation is beneficial to the two countries shall be judged in the final analysis by the two peoples and will not be undermined by any one side story," he said. Geng was responding to a question on Nasheed's allegations in which he had alleged that ...
BSP slams RSS over Mohan Bhagwat's comment on army
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday condemned a statement of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat that they were ready, before the Indian Army, to take on Pakistan if the need arises.
Pak Army chief in Kabul to attend military talks
Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday has arrived here to attend a high-level military meeting.According to The Khaama Press, the Afghan army chief, commander of the United States Central Command, and the U.S. forces and Resolute Support Commander Gen. John Nicholson will also participate in the conference.Sources in Afghanistan's ministry of defence confirmed General Bajwa's visit for participating in the conference.Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have remained frosty due to the latter's constant blame game on Pakistan's non-cooperation in tackling terrorism and insurgency and also sending terrorists to Afghanistan to conduct suicide.Pakistan has urged Afghanistan to stop the blame game and asked for its co-operation in combating terrorism.Last week, in a televised speech to the nation, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had alleged that the "centre of Taliban terrorism is in Pakistan".Afghanistan has been ravaged by a series of deadly terrorist attacks .
Two Lashkar terrorists killed in Srinagar encounter
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists have been killed in an encounter in Srinagar's Karan Nagar area.Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir S P Vaid confirmed the same on Tuesday.The encounter between security forces and militants is still on near the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 23 Battalion headquarters.Yesterday, a CRPF personnel lost his life in the exchange of fire.The Pakistan-based terrorist group LeT claimed responsibility for the attack.