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2 suspected JeM workers held for Kathua attack, 100 questioned | India News – Times of India

JAMMU: J&K police arrested Thursday two suspected “overground workers” associated with Pakistan-backed group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) for their alleged involvement in aiding the terrorists responsible for the July 8 ambush on two military patrol trucks near Badnota village in Kathua district that resulted in the deaths of five soldiers.The arrested men, identified as Layaqat Ali and Mool Raj from Kathua district, are accused of supporting terror-related activities and withholding crucial information from authorities.“The duo’s failure to disclose vital information hindered efforts to prevent terrorist actions,” a police spokesperson said.An FIR has been filed against the two, and the investigation is ongoing. As part of the security crackdown, more than 100 people have been questioned...
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‘One of six conducted crime’: Police confirm cynaide found in blood of tourists killed in Bangkok hotel – Times of India

After the bodies of 6 Vietnamese tourists was discovered in a hotel room in Bangkok, local police have said that one of the deceased was behind the incident. The blood tests of the dead revealed the presence of cyanide in the blood, said deputy Commander Noppasil Poonsawas from the Metropolitan Police Bureau's investigations unit.Lt Gen Trairong Piwpan, head of the forensic division of the Thai police, reported that cyanide was detected in the cups and thermoses discovered in the room. "We would like to confirm that one of the six dead caused this incident using cyanide," Poonsawas said adding, "We are confident one of the six conducted the crime." According to Lt. Gen. Thiti Sangsawang, the chief of police in Bangkok, the deceased individuals were identified as two Vietnamese Americans...
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Eight female bodies recovered from Nairobi dump: Police – Times of India

NAIROBI: A total of eight bodies, all of them female, have been recovered so far from a dumpsite in a Nairobi slum, Kenya's acting police chief said on Sunday."They were severely dismembered in different states of decomposition and left in sacks," Douglas Kanja told a press conference, adding that investigations into the gruesome find are ongoing.Kanja said the first six corpses were found on Friday and body parts of another two women were found on Saturday."I would like to assure the public that we are committed to conducting transparent, thorough and swift investigations," he added.Kanja also called for public cooperation in the investigation "so that we bring the perpetrators of these heinous acts to book".Kanja took up his post only this week after the resignation of national police...
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Punjab: BSF recover 570 grams of heroin from Kilche village in Ferozepur – Times of India

FEROZEPUR: The Border Security Force (BSF) recovered around 570 grams of heroin from a farming field in Kilche village in the Ferozepur district.According to an official release from the BSF, "On July 11, 2024, based on information by the BSF intelligence wing regarding the presence of narcotics consignments in the border area of district Ferozepur, BSF troops promptly launched an extensive search operation in the suspected area.""During the search at about 6.15 am in the early hours, the troops successfully recovered 1 packet (gross weight: 570 grams) of suspected heroin from a farming field in village Kilche of district Ferozepur," it said.As per the release, the narcotics were wrapped with yellow adhesive tape and a metal ring and a small torch were found attached to the packet."Reli...
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Delhi HC directs Police to audit cycle allowance aspect, dispose of PIL | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has decided to dispose of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking an inquiry into the cycle allowance paid to the officials of the Delhi Police and directed the Delhi Police to place the petition with its auditor, who shall examine the said aspect while auditing the accounts of the Delhi Police.The bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, in an order passed on July 9, stated that this court is of the view that it would not be proper to entertain a public interest litigation on the issue raised by the petitioner.Consequently, this court disposes of the present writ petition with a direction to the Delhi police to place the petition filed in this court with its auditor, who shall examine the said aspect while auditing the accounts of the ...
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3 dead, 4 injured as building collapses near Deoghar shrine | India News – Times of India

Three persons died and four others, including two children, sustained injuries when an old three-storey residential building collapsed near Baba Baidhyanathdham temple in Jharkhand's Deoghar around 5 am on Sunday.The injured are undergoing treatment. Of them, three are said to be critical, officials said. Teams from NDRF, local police, fire department among others were rushed for rescue operation. The deceased were identified as Manikant Dwari (53), Sunil Kumar (38) and his wife Soni Devi (30).Godda BJP MP Nishikant Dubey announced that Rs 1 lakh compensation would be provided to the dependents of the deceased persons. var _mfq = window._mfq || []; _mfq.push(["setVariable", "toi_titan", window.location.href]); !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActi...
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Girls trap Chhattisgarh shelter home wardens & flee, caught in Nagpur | India News – Times of India

NAGPUR: Three juvenile girls, including two facing murder charges, made a daring escape from a govt shelter home in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon on Friday and rode 250km on a stolen scooter before being intercepted by police in Maharashtra's Nagpur on Saturday. They escaped from the shelter home after triggering a false fire alarm and trapping the wardens in a bathroom where they had smeared oil on the floor to ensure they would slip.After locking the wardens in the bathroom, they fled with a scooter, a purse, and two mobile phones. One of them went to her boyfriend's house and took some cash and a cellphone from him.Riding on the stolen scooter without a number plate, the minors crossed the state border after an overnight trip. Addicted to alcohol, they stopped at a roadside dhaba to dri...
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Court raps UP DGP as cops fail to present ex-MP despite 53 NBWs, several letters – Times of India

A special MP/MLA court in Bulandshahr demanded an explanation from the UP DGP by June 29 on the police's failure to present a wanted former MP in court, reported. Despite 53 non-bailable warrants (NBWs), the former MP has evaded capture. Apart from the NBWs, multiple letters to various authorities, including one to UP's home secretary, four to the DGP, six to the Bulandshahr SSP, and four to the SHO of Bulandshahr Dehat (rural) police station, cops have not presented former Ghosi MP Hari Narayan Rajbhar in court.MP/MLA court special judge Vinay Kumar Singh issued a letter to the DGP after police repeatedly failed to produce former Rajbhar. The court highlighted multiple raids "claimed by police" but no progress in locating Rajbhar. The court has also written to the Lok Sabha Speaker and...
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Chemical substance thrown at women in Ambala | India News – Times of India

AMBALA: A woman has been allegedly attacked with some chemical substance in Ambala City. The woman has been identified as Manju Bala.The police have registered a case against an unknown person under Section 326-A (causing grievous hurt by use of acid, etc.) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Ambala City police station on Tuesday.In his complaint Sanjiv Kumar of Jogiwara, Ambala, said that on June 22, he along with his wife, sister-in-law and two kids of neighbours were returning home from Gurdwara Manji Sahib in Ambala City. “At about 11 pm, on our way home, suddenly a bike-borne person came and threw some chemical substance on us. The chemical got poured on the face of my wife Manju Bala and she started shouting. I tried to stop the bike-borne person, but he fled away”, said Sanjiv.The ...
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Three terrorists killed in joint operation in J&K’s Doda district | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Three terrorists on Wednesday were neutralized by the J&K police in an ongoing joint operation in the Gandoh, Bhaderwah sector of district Doda. ADGP Jammu confirmed that arms and ammunition in their possession have been recovered. The police earlier informed that they had neutralized one terrorist. However in a later statement issued by the ADGP Jammu, it was confirmed that a total of three terrorists were killed during the ongoing operation.(This is a developing story ) var _mfq = window._mfq || []; _mfq.push(["setVariable", "toi_titan", window.location.href]); !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; } (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; ...
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Deaf-mute wife helps nab man for rape bid, chilling murder | Indore News – Times of India

INDORE: GRP officers on Sunday said they had solved the murder of the woman whose dismembered body parts were found on two trains in Indore and Rishikesh. The killer? A 60-year-old man, who lured her to his Ujjain home by offering her shelter for the night, but drugged her and tried to rape her.Police identified the accused as Kamlesh Patel, a history-sheeter with several theft cases, who lived in the trackside slums at Dewas Gate, close to Ujjain station.He has admitted to the murder, said GRP inspector Sanjay Shukla.It was Patel's speech-and-hearing-impaired wife Aarti, who testified against him, narrating through gestures how she woke up to find him trying to rape the woman, bludgeon her when she resisted, and then strangle her with a length of rope, Shukla said.Patel then spent 4.5 ...
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Over 50 detained, 2 injured: What led to communal clashes in Jodhpur? | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Two police men sustained injuries while two vehicles were damaged after a communal violence erupted in Jodhpur over the construction of a gate in the backside of an eidgah on Friday night.According to the Jodhpur police, the clash began after the residents of the locality opposed the construction of the gate on the backside of the eidgah saying that it would increase the movement of people in that area.The construction began on Friday evening. The subsequent confrontation turned violent later with stone-pelting, arson and vandalism. Meanwhile, section 144 has been imposed in five police station areas Pratap Nagar, Pratap Nagar Sadar, Devnagar, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar and Soorsagar in Jodhpur after stones were pelted by the mob and DCP West issued the order"We have imposed section ...
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Night watchman found dead in Paris hotel after robbery bid – Times of India

PARIS: The body of a night watchman was found bound and battered in a Paris hotel after an attempt to steal a safe filled with cash, a police source said Saturday.Officers were called at around 11:30 pm (2130 GMT) on Friday to a street in the city's 11th district, where the police source said a safe was found abandoned.Inside a nearby hotel, they found the body of the night watchman "lying on his bed, tied up and with multiple bruises," the source added.A witness reported seeing four men wearing balaclavas trying to load the safe into a van at around 9:30 pm, before giving up and fleeing in the vehicle.The safe "contained the hotel's whole month of revenue," the police source said.The watchman had reported being assaulted around 10 days before by several people "claiming to be delivery ...
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Shooting in Philadelphia wounds 7 people, police say – Times of India

PHILADELPHIA: Seven people were wounded Wednesday evening in a shooting in Philadelphia, police said.The shooting happened just before 6:30 p.m. in North Philadelphia.The victims include a 19-year-old man who was shot in the leg, a 31-year-old woman shot in the hand, a 23-year-old man shot in the buttock, and two women — ages 47 and 29 — who were shot in the thigh, according to police.A 16-year-old girl was being treated for two graze wounds, police said. An 18-year-old female victim was also wounded in the shooting, according to authorities.All of the victims were in stable condition, police said.Investigators were still working to gather additional details. Police said no weapons were recovered at the scene and no arrests have been made.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function...
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Maoist couple surrenders in Karimnagar

A Maoist couple identified as Thikka Sushmitha, 27, and Madakam Dula, 30, each carrying a reward of ₹4 lakh on their heads, surrendered before the police in Karimnagar on Friday.The two Maoists turned themselves in before the Karimnagar Police Commissioner Abhishek Mohanty, who is the in-charge Police Commissioner of Warangal, here on Friday afternoon.Sushmitha is a native of Sudhampalli village in Hanamkonda district and Madakam Dula hails from Sukma district in Chhattisgarh. She studied up to Intermediate.In 2016, she joined the CPI (Maoist) outfit in the presence of Maoist leader Bade Chokka Rao alias Damodar in Komatpalli forest area in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.Sushmitha and Madakam Dula got married while working underground in the banned outfit in Chhattisgarh in March, 2020...
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Asked to pay toll, drunk bulldozer driver razes booth | India News – Times of India

Asked to pay toll, drunk bulldozer driver razes booth (ANS photo) MEERUT: A bulldozer driver — allegedly in an inebriated state — brought down a part of the Chhajarsi toll plaza on the Delhi-Lucknow highway in Hapur on Tuesday after he was asked to pay toll fee, reports Rahul Singh. Police said that after vandalising two toll booths, Dheeraj Kumar, the driver, 25, tried to knock down the toll staff as well.Chhajarsi toll plaza manager, Ajeet Chaudhary, said: “Around 8am, a bulldozer arrived at the toll plaza and the attendant asked him to pay the fee to cross over.The man, at first, argued that bulldozers were exempted at the toll. Then all of a sudden, he went berserk and rammed into two booths.” “Police personnel arrested the driver, who belongs to Budaun, after chasing him for a few...
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T’gana booze cos, owed 4,700cr, eye price hike | India News – Times of India

Already nursing a Rs 4,700-crore hangover in terms of overdue outstanding payments from Telangana govt, the liquor industry is now demanding a hike in producer prices (ex-distillery or ex-brewery prices), reports Swati Bharadwaj. Liquor producers are pushing for a Rs 100-275 per case price hike for various products. This includes a Rs 100-200 per case hike by brewers to Rs 175-250 per case rise by Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) players.Industry bodies cite an across-the-board escalation in input as well as logistics costs.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; } (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function() { n.callMethod ? n...
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Denied loan, help kills employer’s son | India News – Times of India

UP police arrested two sisters for allegedly abducting and strangling a 6-year-old boy in Dhampur village of Meerut on Sunday. One of the sisters used to work at the house of the boy’s mother and was upset after the latter refused her a loan of Rs 10,000, police said.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; } (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function() { n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments); }; if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n; n.push = n; n.loaded = !0; n.version = '2.0'; n.queue = []; t = b.createElement(e); t.async = !0; t.defer = !0...
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Manipur: Situation ‘tense’ but ‘under control’ in violence-hit Jiribam | India News – Times of India

IMPHAL: The situation in Manipur's Jiribam district remained "tense" but "under control" on Sunday, after suspected militants torched two police outposts and at least 70 houses in a fresh bout of violence in the state, police said. Additional security forces have been deployed in the affected areas following the incident on Saturday, they said."The situation is tense but under control in the wake of violent disturbances that broke out in Jiribam district in which miscreants torched two police pickets, a forest beat office...and several houses belonging to both Meitei and Kuki communities," the Manipur Police said in a statement.More than 70 houses were set on fire in Lamtai Khunou, Dibong Khunou, Nunkhal and Begra villages, a senior police officer said."Police is also actively monitorin...
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Andhra police seal SIT, Fibernet offices | India News – Times of India

VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh police on Thursday sealed the office of AP CID’s special investigation team (SIT) at Tadepalli and office of AP Fibernet in Vijayawada to protect documents, hard disks and a few other objects following the instruction of top officials.Ahead of formation of new govt (TDP-BJP-JSP alliance) in Andhra, activities at SIT of AP CID were suspended.The decision comes in the wake of complaints of irregularities at the two offices during outgoing CM YS Jagan Mohan’s regime.CID held TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in Sept 2023 in alleged fraud involving Rs 371 crore in AP Skill Development Corporation during 2014-19 when TDP was in office. Additional DG of CID, N Sanjay had then alleged that the offence had occurred with the knowledge of Naidu.It was alleged that CID pu...
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Pune Porsche crash: Juvenile Justice Board extends observation home remand of accused minor | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday extended the remand of the juvenile accused at the observation home. The minor will remain under custody until June 12. Moreover, a court remanded the father and mother of the minor accused in the Pune car crash case to police custody until June 10 today. The court also extended the custody of Dr Srihari Halnor, Dr Ajay Taware, and Atul Ghatkamble until June 7.The five individuals were arrested in connection with the manipulation of blood samples belonging to the minor accused.A forensic laboratory report confirmed that the blood samples of the minor's mother were used to replace those of the 17-year-old driver involved in the fatal Porsche crash. The police informed the court about this development on Wednesday, leading to the extensio...
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West Bengal | A storm in Sandeshkhali
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West Bengal | A storm in Sandeshkhali

Sandeshkhali, in South Bengal, has always been in the eye of a storm. The riverine area, resting cheek-by-jowl with the Sunderbans and the sea, has long been pummelled by cyclones. But the continual tempest of tyranny that villagers, especially women, allege has been lashing them for over a decade has only just ceased. By all accounts, it’s a tale of subverting justice and the wheels of administration for personal gain and influence. The undisputed villain of the piece, they say, is local Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his followers. The most damaging charge levelled against him: persistent sexual assault and abuse of women. As news of Shahjahan’s arrest broke, it was women who burst into celebration, splashing colours and distributing sweets. And as india toda...
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