Ten Indian fishermen from Nagapattinam were on Thursday arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy when they were allegedly fishing near Neduntheevu in the island nation waters, a Fisheries Department official said. The fishermen from Akkarapettai in Nagaptattinam district were held on charges of poaching fish near Neduntheevu, Assistant Director of Fisheries Department, Gangadharan said. They were taken to Kankesanthurai in […]
» Read moreAn Assam Rifles jawan and two militants were killed in an encounter at Sajik Tampak in Chandel district of Manipur on Wednesday morning, the police said. Three other militants and two jawans also sustained injuries in the gun battle. Police and Assam Rifles teams have recovered one AK 47 rifle and 3 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from the spot. The […]
» Read moreNationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Thomas Chandy on Wednesday resigned as Transport Minister from the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Cabinet in Kerala. Mr. Chandy, who has been under fire for the past few months for alleged violation of various land-related laws and encroachment of the backwaters for his resort in Alappuzha district, handed over his resignation letter to party […]
» Read moreWest Bengal today won its two-year-long ‘rossogolla war’ against Odisha. Both states claimed to have invented the dessert, but it was West Bengal that obtained the ‘Geographical Indications of Goods Registration’ (GI) tag for it. That officially makes the rossogollaa Bengali invention. The GI tag ensures that only registered and authorised users make use of a product name. The ‘rossogolla […]
» Read moreTwo militants, who attacked a police party, were killed in exchange of fire in north kashmir’s Handwara area on Monday evening. A police official said the two militants were “killed in a brief shootout” at Rajwar, Handwara. The militants fired upon a joint party of police and the army near Galganzer. “The attack was repulsed and both the militants were […]
» Read moreAn RSS activist was hacked to death at Guruvayur on Sunday noon. The deceased has been identified as Nenmini Anand (28), who was the second accused in the murder of DYFI activist Faizal in November 2013. The BJP has called a hartal on Monday in Guruvayur and Manaloor assembly segments to protest against the murder. According to preliminary reports, Anand […]
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