Seizure made by the police Amritsar: The Amritsar commissionerate police on Tuesday claimed to have busted six illegal arms supply networks and arrested eight persons with 13 illegal pistols and 23 cartridges.Harmanbir Singh Gill, commissioner of police, Amritsar, told reporters that the preliminary investigation revealed the accused were in contact with foreign-based smugglers and were…
Pune: LIGO-India must adopt newer technologies for improved sensitivity and not rely only on ageing components supplied by the United States, said David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory, here on Tuesday.Reitze was in Pune to attend the biannual gathering of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration — comprising gravitational-wave researchers from across…
Accused Rubul Khan was taken to Sivasagar Civil Hospital for treatment Dibrugarh: An accused in a former CRPF jawan’s murder was injured in police firing during a weapon-recovery operation in Assam’s Sivasagar district.Rubul Khan, accused in the murder of businessman and former CRPF jawan Biman Baruah, was shot in the right leg in the early…
Lucknow: Contradictions in the testimony of prime witness Sana Siddiqui and inconsistencies between two medical examinations proved decisive in the acquittal of co-accused Sandeep Kumar on the charge of voluntarily causing hurt, a court observed while evaluating evidence in the Vivek Tiwari case.Sandeep Kumar, one of the two policemen accused in the 2018 shooting of…
The accused, identified as Lance Naik Bhopal Singh (32), a resident of Jhotwara in Jaipur, was traced by Sikar’s Dadiya police JAIPUR: An army soldier was arrested by the Sikar police in connection with an alleged organised crime case linked to the seizure of illegal firearms and ammunition from a flat in Sikar Monday.Four other…
GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Two Congress functionaries were injured and several vehicles damaged in Assam Monday after an alleged attack on their convoy in Samaguri where they were campaigning for the Oct 6 Nagaon assembly bypoll.AICC secretary Manoj Chouhan and Assam Mahila Congress president Mira Borthakur were injured in the incident in Nagaon district. AICC in-charge of…
Scott Bessent said that all Iranian airlines would be shut down from September 23. Iraq has ordered its civil aviation authority to suspend Iranian flights to Baghdad airport from Wednesday, Reuters reported citing sources. This comes after US threatened secondary sanctions against airports and service providers that continue to handle Iranian carriers.The suspension will begin…
Oil prices ease below $100 per barrel Oil prices slipped below the $100-a-barrel mark on Wednesday as Saudi Arabia began restoring crude supplies through a key pipeline to the Red Sea, while hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the US-Iran war added to the ease.WTI crude was trading at $90.10 a barrel, down 42 cents,…
Fans are eagerly waiting for the sequel of the mythological sci-fi, ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ directed by Nag Ashwin which was released in 2024. As the film is currently in the production stage, the filmmaker shared a major update on the second part. He confirmed that regular shooting for ‘Kalki 2898 AD: Part 2 will begin…
India survive Japan scare in five-over contest The first recorded cricket match in Japan was played 163 years ago in Yokohama, but the sport never quite caught the imagination of the Japanese. Currently, around 7,300 people are registered with the Japan Cricket Association – that’s about 0.00593% of the country’s population!The tech-savvy nation, though, is…
