SIA chargesheets terror operatives threatening Kashmiri pandit employees

SIA chargesheets terror operatives threatening Kashmiri pandit employees

Tuesday, 24 December 2024 | PNS | Jammu

The State Investigation Agency (SIA), Jammu, Monday filed a chargesheet against key operatives behind the notorious “Kashmir Fight”, a social media handle used to issue chilling online threats to migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees, aiming to spread fear and unrest.   The platform, operated by The Resistance Front (TRF)—a proscribed terrorist organization in...

CPI(M) slams rule change blocking access to election footage

Monday, 23 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The CPI(M) on Sunday demanded the immediate withdrawal of an election rule amendment preventing public inspection of certain electronic documents such as CCTV camera and webcasting footage. In a statement, the CPI(M) Politburo expressed its strong objection to the amendment, restricting the access of political parties and candidates to electronic records,...

PM Narendra Modi receives Kuwait's highest honour

Monday, 23 December 2024 | PTI | Kuwait City

Kuwait on Sunday conferred its highest honour - 'The Order of Mubarak Al-Kabeer' - on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his role in strengthening the good relations between the two countries. Prime Minister Modi received the honour from Kuwait's Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah at the Bayan Palace here. "I...

Centre reveals West Bengal and Bihar as worst-hit by arsenic contamination of groundwater

Monday, 23 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Patna/Kolkatta/New Delhi

Centre has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that West Bengal and Bihar are impacted the most by arsenic contamination of groundwater. The tribunal is hearing the issue of rice being susceptible to arsenic contamination because it absorbs more of the toxic semi-metallic element from water and soil. Earlier, it...

Police nab murder and drug accused from Nagpur multiplex during “Pushpa 2” screening

Monday, 23 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Nagpur

Moviegoers watching a late-night show of “Pushpa 2” at a multiplex in Maharashtra’s Nagpur witnessed a real-life action scene as police stormed the cinema hall and arrested a man wanted in murder and drug cases. The dramatic arrest of Vishal Meshram shortly after midnight on Thursday left the packed audience stunned,...

International drug syndicate busted: NCB Ahmedabad seizes two kilogram ketamine

Monday, 23 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | AHMEDABAD

The Narcotics Control Bureau Ahmedabad has busted an international drug syndicate with the seizure of two kg ketamine and arrested four persons, including three Nigerian nationals, the NCB said on Sunday. The accused conspired to traffic ketamine from India to foreign countries through courier parcels, the NCB said in a release,...

Tigress on the move: Zeenat’s journey from Odisha to West Bengal

Monday, 23 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Kolkata/Bhubaneswar

Forest personnel are monitoring the movement of a tigress which strayed from Odisha’s Similipal Reserve Forest and is currently in West Bengal’s Purulia district.            West Bengal’s Chief Wildlife Warden Debal Roy informed the three-year-old tigress brought from Maharashtra to Similipal Reserve Forest is fitted with a radio collar and is currently...

BJP secures third consecutive term in Arunachal Pradesh, wins 46 Assembly seats

Monday, 23 December 2024 | PTI | Itanagar

Arunachal Pradesh’s political landscape underwent a major shift in 2024 as the BJP secured a third consecutive term, winning 46 out of 60 assembly seats in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and state elections. In addition to political developments, the state faced a dark chapter with disturbing revelations of widespread sex...

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