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22 Dec

India successfully tested the ‘Pralay’ missile in the Odisha coast

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India on Wednesday successfully tested short-range, surface to surface-guided ballistic missile ‘Pralay' off the Odisha coast, known from the DRDO sources. The missile is developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation which is based on Prithvi Defence Vehicle from the Indian ballistic missile programme. The missile, launched from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island at around 10:30 am, met all the mission objectives, the sources said. A battery of tracking instruments monitored its trajectory along the coastline. 'Pralay' is a 350-500 km short-range, surface-to-surface missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg. 'Pralay' is a quasi ballistic surface to surface missile.…

18 Dec

India successfully tested ‘Agni P’ off Odisha coast

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India o successfully tested the nuclear-capable strategic Agni Prime missile off the coast of Odisha from Balasore on Saturday. The test was carried out by DRDO at 11:06 AM. DRDO said telemetry, radar, electro-optical stations and downrange ships positioned along the eastern coast tracked and monitored missile trajectory and parameters. Missile followed textbook trajectory, meeting all mission objectives with the high level of accuracy. "Agni P is a two-stage solid-propellant ballistic missile with dual redundant navigation and guidance system. The second flight test has proven the reliable performance of all the advanced technologies integrated into the system," DRDO said in…

18 Dec

Labourer engaged in preparations for Modi’s visit in Varanasi commited suicide

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A labourer aged 36 years who was engaged in preparations for the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi on December 23 allegedly committed suicide, on Friday Night. Vikram, a resident of Afzalpur in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, was depressed due to an illness. He committed suicide by hanging himself on Friday night, officials said. He was working at the proposed site of the prime minister’s rally at Pindra Karkhianv under Phulpur police station area and used a rope to hang himself from a pole on the other side of the venue. The body has been sent for…

17 Dec

Terror group targets India continues to operate from Pakistan

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Terrorist groups targeting India continues to operate from Pakistan and Islamabad did not take action against other known terrorists, including JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar and the 2008 Mumbai attack “project manager” Sajid Mir, who remain free in that country, which is collected from the latest report on terrorism by the US State Department. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the 2020 Country Reports on Terrorism issued, which was on Thursday, said that, terrorist groups continued to operate from Pakistan. “Groups targeting Afghanistan — including the Afghan Taliban and affiliated Haqqani network, groups targeting India, including…

16 Dec

Ghazipur border in Delhi border reopens for traffic

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Ghazipur border was reopened for traffic today after remaining closed for more than a year due to the farmers’ stir. According to some officials, one of the carriageways at the border has been reopened for now and those coming from Vaishali, Ghaziabad can pass through the border to enter Delhi. Wednesday, the Delhi Police had allowed traffic movement and opened two carriageways at Singhu border after it dismantled all the barricades that were erected to prevent the protesting farmers from moving towards the national capital. “It has been decided that Singhu border be opened from Delhi side also. It has…

11 Dec

Delhi records the lowest temperature for the season

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The national capital recorded its lowest temperature of the season at 8.3 degrees Celsius on Saturday, one notch below the average. The air quality remained (AQI) in the city at 8 am stood at 302, which falls in the very poor category. Neighbouring Faridabad stood 266, Ghaziabad stood 262, Greater Noida stood 224 , Gurgaon stood 288 and Noida stood 254 also recorded air quality in the poor category. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.…

08 Dec

Pakistan: 4 women stripped, thrashed on allegations of shoplifting

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A group of people in Pakistan stripped four women, including a teenager, dragged and beat them up after accusing them of “shoplifting” in the country’s Punjab. The incident took place in Faisalabad, some 180 km from the place, on Monday. The four women, including a teenager, were seen in a viral video pleading to the people surrounding them to let them have a piece of cloth to cover themselves after being stripped but they were beaten with sticks. The women were seen crying and requesting the people to let them go. They were paraded naked in the streets for an…

07 Dec

Will urge Centre for opening of trade with Pak via land route: Punjab CM Channi

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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has demanded from the centre to start trade with their neighbor Pakistan. He said that he will soon write to the Centre to press for the opening of trade through the Attari border “to boost the state’s economy”. Punjab is one of the four states to share border with Pakistan. Punjab shares 425 km long border with Pakistan's Punjab province. "If trade can be carried by sea route with Pakistan, then why is it not permitted through land route as it would propel enormous opportunities of economic prosperity," Channi said during the 15th edition of the Punjab…

04 Dec

31 people killed by terrorists attack on bus in Mali

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31 people were killed and eight others were injured after terrorists' attack on a bus in Mali, a source told news agency Sputnik. The incident took place not much far from the eastern Malian town of Bandiagara, the Mopti region. Mali's situation was destabilized in 2012 when the Tuareg militants seized vast territories in the northern part of the country. The conflict got serious even more over the activities of Islamists, forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as well as French interference.

04 Dec

75 trains cancelled due to Cyclone named Jawad

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With the cyclonic storm, Jawad, expected to make landfall, Indian Railways has cancelled around 36 trains that were scheduled to depart on December 4. These mostly include trains that were scheduled to depart from Visakhapatnam, Howrah and Puri. Further, 38 trains scheduled to depart on December 5 and one on December 6 have also been cancelled as a precautionary measure. New Tinsukia-Bangalore Express from New Tinsukia on December 3 will run on a diverted route via Kharagpur-Jharsuguda-Ballaharsa instead of the Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam route. AK Satpathy, Divisional Railway Manager of East Coast Railway, which handle major parts of Odisha and…