Patna: A five-member delegation of Myanmar Army visited Bihar Regimental Centre (BRC) at Danapur cantonment here on Wednesday to strengthen interaction, professional exchange and training cooperation between the two armies.During the visit, the delegation held discussions with senior military officials and met the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Jharkhand and Bihar Sub Area, Major General Jitendra…
COIMBATORE: A 64-year-old retired Indian Air Force (IAF) officer was killed after a boulder rolled down a hillside and crashed onto his car while he was travelling on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam Road near Barliyar on Wednesday morning.Police identified the deceased as Krishnamoorthi of Jagathala near Coonoor. He was travelling from Coonoor towards Mettupalayam with his wife…
Gurgaon: Police have examined around 2,000 social media accounts under “Operation Ankush”, a campaign launched on Sept 9 to curb the display of weapons and social media content promoting criminal tendencies.The police’s Social Media Cell identified 42 profiles displaying weapons and 17 profiles promoting criminal tendencies or behaviour during the scrutiny. The accounts carried reels…
Police detains CPM state secretary Suprakash Talukdar Guwahati: More than 2,000 CPM protesters were detained in Guwahati on Wednesday after police stopped the Left party’s “March to Dispur”, organised to demand immediate relief and rehabilitation for flood-hit people in upper Assam and a judicial inquiry into the causes of the floods.The action came amid an…
Deputy chief minister G Parameshwara visits drought-hit Halakundi village, Ballari taluk to interact with farmers, on Wednesday Ballari: Karnataka has sought Rs 11,000 crore in drought relief from the Centre against an estimated loss of Rs 46,000 crore, deputy chief minister G Parameshwara said during his visit to drought-hit Halakundi village in Ballari taluk on…
Kanpur: A 36-year-old man died after he was found unconscious following an alleged dispute with his wife in Gadariyan Purwa village under Kalyanpur police station limits late Tuesday.According to police, the deceased, Sushil Rajput, lived separately with his wife, Savitri Devi, and their children, Yuvraj and Prashant. On Tuesday night, he allegedly had a dispute…
Kolkata: In a first in Bengal, five underpasses, designed to accommodate large elephant herds, have been proposed along NH 327 between Bagdogra and Panitanki in Darjeeling district to facilitate safer wildlife movement.The forest department has proposed the underpasses, as part of the project to expand NH 327 to four lanes, to the Union ministry of…
An 14-year-old girl named Anshika Rai was killed in a tragic accident on Jassian Road LUDHIANA: A 14-year-old handball player and Class IX student, who was on her way to school on Monday evening for a handball practice session, was mowed down by a tractor-trolley on Jassian Road.The girl was to play in a state-level…
Chennai: Owing to the increasing number of migrant workers travelling for employment opportunities to several states across India, the Labour Resource and Migrant Workers Welfare department of Bihar is setting up Labour Service Facilitation Centres (Shram Seva Suvidha Kendra) in three districts in Tamil Nadu: Chennai, Coimbatore, and Tirupur, to address grievances, welfare and workers’…
Ahmedabad: Bomb-threat hoaxes may be used by smuggling networks to disrupt airport security responses, delay flights, conceal contraband and exploit gaps in Customs surveillance, a report mapping 104 aviation threat incidents between 2010 and 2026 has found.The Aviation Bomb Threat & Customs Interdiction Report examined 85 core cases between Oct 2024 and April 2025 and…
