An encounter is underway between security forces and militants in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Acting on specific information about the presence of militants in Kawoosa area of the Central Kashmir district, security forces launched a cordon and search operation, a police official said. He said the operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired upon the search party. The exchange of fire is going on and further details are awaited, the official said.
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A leader of the BJP women’s wing was shot at by unidentified miscreants in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Monday, police said. Radharani Naskar, Vice-President of a unit of the Bharatiya Janata Mahila Morcha in Bisnupur area of the district, was seriously injured after gunmen fired at her near her house at Raghudebpur village, police said. She was admitted to state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata after being turned away by a local medical establishment, a BJP leader said. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee alleged that the Trinamool Congress is behind the incident as the ruling party wants to…
Actress Rhea Chakraborty, who is accused of abetting the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has filed a complaint with Mumbai Police, accusing Rajput’s sister Priyanka Singh and a Delhi-based doctor of forgery and preparing a “fake” prescription of medicines for anxiety. In her complaint sent to the Bandra police here on Sunday, Chakraborty sought that Priyanka Singh and Dr Tarun Kumar, working with Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, be booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code for forgery, the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines. The 28-year-old actress in her…
Asserting that proper nutrition is significant to create a prosperous nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday involved undertaking efforts to succeed in bent people across the country to spread awareness on eradicating malnutrition. With the ‘Psohan Maah’ (nutrition month) 2020 ranging from Monday, Modi said in tweets that this exercise will help India’s youth and ladies force. He noted that India is home to numerous healthy dishes and asked people to share them on @mygovIndia, the citizen engagement platform of the Union government. “Let’s be #Local4Poshan! Our nation is home to dozens of healthy dishes, which have high nutrition…
The clamour around Tamil superstar Rajinikanth to take the political plunge has been growing within the Rajini Makkal Mandram, a forum founded by the actor to facilitate his political entry. To force the actor to take the formal plunge into the politics, the Rajini Makkal Mandram workers in Vellore have put up posters that read, ‘Opportunity is now or never’. In March, Rajinikanth had given a clarion call for a rebellion against the political arena. He had then said that “closer to the assembly elections, there will come a Tsunami”. But then came the novel coronavirus. After the coronavirus outbreak,…
Sanjay Raut has been accused by BJP of “defaming” Gujarat by calling Ahmedabad a “mini Pakistan” and demanded that he apologise to the people of Gujarat and Ahmedabad. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai earlier in the day, Raut asked whether actress Kangana Ranaut had the courage to compare Ahmedabad to ‘mini Pakistan’ the way she equated Mumbai with Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). Raut and Ranaut have been locked in a bitter war of words since the actress termed Mumbai unsafe after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. “If that girl apologises to Mumbai and Maharashtra forcalling Mumbai a ‘mini…
Sushant Singh Rajput’s house manager, Samuel Miranda, and househelp, Dipesh Sawant, made big revelations in their statements to the Narcotics Control Bureau. Both of them have been arrested by the agency along with Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty in drugs conspiracy. Miranda and Dipesh have given information of parties that used to be held at Sushant Singh Rajput’s farm house. They also revealed the name of the people, including Bollywood celebrities, who attended these parties, and who used to bring drugs to the parties. During their questioning, Samuel Miranda and Dipesh Sawant suggested that Rhea Chakraborty was behind the purchase…
The Delhi Metro resumed services with curtailed operation of the Yellow Line on Monday after being closed for over five months due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Yellow Line connects Samaypur Badli in Delhi to the HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon. The Home Ministry had recently issued guidelines allowing metro services in the country to resume operations in a graded manner, following which the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said it would be done in three stages from September 7-12. Under stage one, Yellow Line or Line 2 and Rapid Metro were made operational with restricted service hours, a…
Himachal Pradesh government will provide full security to Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut , Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said here this evening . “ I have received a call from Kangana’s sister .She requested for providing security to the actress due to the threats she is facing to her life . Her father had also given in writing to the police in this regard”. “ Kangana is the daughter of Himachal Pradesh and a celebrity too. It’s our duty to give her security. I have told the Director General of police Sanjay Kundu to take steps accordingly “ he said…
https://twitter.com/gauravstvnews/status/1301870655059537920?s=20 A Hindu family in Delhi has been targeted frequently by their Muslim neighbours. The accused pick up fights deliberately and has been harassing and molesting the daughters of the Hindu family. Birju Das and his family got severely injured in the incident. The other group claimed they were injured as well. The police described it as a clash over a petty parking issue, but Das claims it is just an excuse to cover old enmity. Das broke his leg in the clash and is currently admitted to AIIMS for treatment. He may need an operation on Monday if there…