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MoS Defence visits DRDO’s Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad. Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth visited DRDO’s Dr J Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad and reviewed the missiles and weapon systems programme being pursued by its various laboratories, officials on Friday said. He visited the complex on July 16 and 17, the Defence Ministry said. Seth commended the DRDO scientists for playing a crucial role in building Aatmanirbhar Bharat through realisation of state-of-the-art weapon systems. He exhorted the scientific community to continue strengthening the armed forces to face any challenges in the current scenario. Seth…

Desire to settle abroad turns into nightmare for 7 Punjab bachelors duped on pretext of marriage. A mother-daughter duo from Punjab’s Ludhiana district found a novel way to dupe prospective bachelor emigrants to Canada by exploiting their eagerness to settle abroad. For seven aspiring bachelor ’emigrants’, it was a double delight of getting married and settling in Canada. But it did not turn out to be so. They neither got the bride nor the emigration to Canada but instead ended up losing lakhs of rupees, police investigation has revealed. Sukhdarshan Kaur, who was arrested recently along with two others, would…

People from as far as Manipur coming to encroach land in Assam: Himanta. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday claimed that people from as far as Manipur are coming to encroach land in the state, and affirmed his government’s commitment to clear all areas under illegal possession, including forest land. He also maintained that there is a ‘design’ in these encroachments, where a handful of people first migrate to an area, start cultivation and soon bring others to start a major illegal settlement. “In Lakhimpur, where we recently conducted an eviction drive, we found people from Manipur. Today,…

What really caused the accident is not yet clear, however, the police said that it might have happened due to over-speeding. Five people died in Hyderabad during the early hours of Friday after the car they were travelling in hit the rear of a lorry on the city’s Outer Ring Road. Three people died on the spot after the accident, the report added, while the other two were rushed to a hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. What really caused the accident is not yet clear, however, the police said that it might have happened due to over-speeding. More…

Grand Mufti Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musaliyar said he had reached out to scholars in Yemen, urging them to consider the release of 38-year-old Nimisha Priya. The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that efforts to secure a pardon for Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, should be undertaken solely by her family, saying the involvement of external organisations is unlikely to yield results. The nurse, a native of Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni citizen in July 2017. In 2020, a Yemeni court sentenced her to death, and her…

Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded the highest number of arrests with 1,983 criminals caught and 1,180 injured. Since 2017, the Uttar Pradesh Police has recorded nearly 15,000 encounters, in which more than 30,000 criminals were arrested, while over 9,000 suffered gunshot injuries in the leg, and 238 were killed during operations targeting fugitives and repeat offenders, officials said on Thursday. Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Krishna said acting on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s directives, the department has maintained an aggressive crackdown on crime. “Over the last eight years, 14,973 operations have been carried out, resulting in the arrest of 30,694…

HP govt not in favour of felling apple-laden trees on encroached forest land: CM. Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday said that the state government is not in favour of felling apple-laden trees from encroached forest land and that it should be given time to auction the produce. The forest department has begun an eviction drive following a high court order last week, which expressed concern over the re-emergence of encroachments in forest land where encroachers were removed from earlier. The high court had directed the forest department to remove apple trees and orchards from the…

The court also fined the father ₹3 lakh and directed that if the amount is recovered from him, it be given to his daughter. A Kerala court on Thursday sentenced a man to three life terms, till his death, for repeatedly sexually assaulting his minor daughter for three years, from the time she was five years old till she turned eight, at their rented accommodation near Karimanoor here. Idukki Fast Track Special Court judge Manju V sentenced the man to life in jail till his death for various offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), Special Public…

Railway unions flag ‘graft’ in allotment of newly-built staff quarters, deplorable status of old ones. Railway employees’ unions have flagged concerns over staff housing facilities, including alleged corruption in the allotment of newly-constructed quarters and poor condition of old flats, and requested the ministry to intervene in the matter. The Indian Railway Signal and Telecom Maintainers Union wrote to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on July 13, saying the functioning of the housing committees where residential facilities are provided to the staff is “very opaque and unfair”. Indian Railway Employees Federation’s National President, Akhilesh Pandey, highlighted severe anomalies in the allotment…

In the CCTV video clip, the men are seen casually walking through corridor as they pull out pistols and enter Room 209, where Chandan Mishra was admitted. Chilling footage of several armed men entering a room to shoot gangster Chandan Mishra has emerged from Patna’s Paras Hospital. In the hospital CCTV camera footage as seen on Thursday, five men are seen casually walking through a corridor as they pull out their pistols from under their shirts and enter Room 209, where Chandan Mishra (alias Chandan Singh) was apparently admitted while out on medical parole. Cocking their guns, they enter and…