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09 Aug

Biopic can wait, want to focus on the game for now: Neeraj Chopra

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Neeraj Chopra, who made history on Saturday by winning India’s first-ever gold medal in athletics at the Olympics, is now setting sight on next year’s Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and the World Championships. Excerpts from an interview with the star Indian athlete: Q: What does it feel like to be India’s first-ever track & field medallist?Ans: Feeling great to win the first medal in track and field for India, that too gold. It has been a very fantastic start. Can’t express it in words. It was a very proud moment when our country’s national anthem was playing and I was…

09 Aug

BJP leader, wife shot dead by terrorists in Anantnag

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Kulgam district president of BJP Kisan Morcha, Ghulam Rasool Dar, and his wife Jawahira Bano were on Monday afternoon shot dead by terrorists in the busy Lal Chowk area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag. The critically injured couple was taken to the hospital where they succumbed. Security forces have cordoned the area and launched a search for the terrorists. Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the incident and said that the perpetrators of violence will be brought to justice very soon. He tweeted; “I strongly condemn brutal terrorist attack on the Sarpanch GH Rasool Dar and his wife Jawhara Banoo of Redwani…

05 Aug

Pegasus row: SC pulls up lawyer, says no notice for Modi, Shah

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The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up advocate M.L. Sharma for making Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah as respondents in his petition seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Pegasus snooping issue. A bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Surya Kant said: “You have included certain individuals (Prime Minister and Home Minister as respondents in the petition). We can’t issue notice like this. Don’t try to take advantage of things, you have a defective memo of parties”. Sharma had argued that the government is fabricating material in the computer through this software.

05 Aug

NIA raids 5 places in J&K, Karnataka, arrests 4 for raising funds for IS

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at five locations in Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka in the ISIS Kerala module case and arrested four persons, involved in raising funds and radicalising and motivating more people to join the banned terror organisation. An NIA spokesperson here said that agency personnel, along with state police units, conducted simultaneous searches at five locations — three in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Mangaluru and Bengaluru in Karnataka. The official said that searches were conducted at the premises of the accused, who were continuously in touch with arrested accused…

27 Jul

Odisha police busts newborn trafficking racket, 7 arrested

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Five women are among seven people arrested from Odisha’s steel city Rourkela as police cracked a newborn babies trafficking racket flourishing across interstate borders, officials said on Tuesday. The officials of Plant Site police station in Sundergarh district cracked the racket, following a complaint filed by one Seema Khuntia who alleged that her one and a half year-old granddaughter was abducted. Rourkela Additional SP, Bikram Keshari Bhoi said, “Eight out of seven involved in the crime have been arrested and their mobile phones have been seized. We found a lot of pictures of new born babies in their mobile phones,…

26 Jul

West Bengal: Health worker was arrested for organizing fake COVID-19 vaccination camp

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Staff Reporter: A health worker from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was arrested on Saturday on suspicions of running illegal Covid-19 vaccination camps in the state, according to a police officer. The arrest came a month after a person was arrested for allegedly faking an IAS officer and organising a vaccination camp in Kolkata's Kasba area, where actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty also had her vaccination. Ms Chakraborty, who was invited to the camp, said she became suspicious about the vaccination process after not getting the standard SMS issued to everyone after they are given a shot,…

24 Jul

West Bengal: In Nadia, a fake SSKM doctor is caught by police

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On Friday afternoon, a fake doctor was arrested from a private chamber near Kalyani station in Nadia for allegedly posing as a professor at SSKM Hospital. Albert Russell Faruki, a resident of Kalyani, has worked as consultant gastroenterology there for the past ten years. “Following information from the West Bengal Doctors' Forum, we have arrested the accused who was allegedly practicing medicine without an MBBS degree,” a police officer said. He didn't have a doctor's registration number. The fraudulent doctor and his collaborators will face legal consequences.” According to sources, Faruki's prescription raised concerns among some physicians, who wrote a…

23 Jul

Former CBI Chief Alok Verma added to Pegasus list after being sacked

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The Pegasus leaked list contains numbers of former CBI Director Alok Verma and his family, and of Rakesh Asthana, against whom the CBI had filed a case, The Wire reported. Eight of those phones were forensically confirmed by Amnesty International’s tech lab to have been successfully compromised by the military-grade spyware that its Israeli vendor, NSO Group, says it sells only to “vetted governments”. Two other phones showed signs of targeting. Along with Verma, the personal telephone numbers of his wife, daughter and son-in-law would eventually get placed on the list too, making it a total of 8 numbers from…

23 Jul

2 terrorists killed in Sopore encounter

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Two terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter between terrorists and security at Warpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said on Friday. “One more terrorist killed (Total 2) in Sopore encounter. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on,” police said. Earlier the firefight between terrorists and security forces took place on Thursday evening after a joint team of the police and the army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation on the basis of specific information about presence of terrorists. As the security forces zeroed in on the spot where…

21 Jul

Leopard skin, arms seized in Odisha: One arrested

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In the latest interception of wildlife offence, the Special Task Force (STF) wing of Odisha police on Wednesday arrested a poacher and seized leopard skin, arm and ammunition from his possession in Manmunda police station jurisdiction of Boudh district. The arrested person identified as Hara Rana was nabbed while he was planning to strike a deal to sell the leopard skin. Besides the leopard skin, a country made SBML gun, 12 ammunitions, besides gun powder and other incriminating materials were seized from his possession, STF officials said. The poaching of these protected animals has shot up in Odisha with the…