The encounter between terrorists and security forces at the Pathankot air force base has been going on for more than 50 hours. Intermittent firing continued in the air base today, with fresh enforcements being rushed in. The gunbattle started at 3:30 am on Saturday and in a statement, the Air Force has revealed that a […]
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Amritsar: A car was snatched in Pathankot late on Tuesday evening setting alarm bells ringing across the border district. Security forces putt up barricades on all entry and exit points. The episode came as a grim reminder of the terror attack at the Panthonkot airbase in January, as well as, another strike by militants in
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Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said the needs to “pull up” its socks and learn from the terror attack at the Pathankot airbase in January this year. “Even the recent Pathankot incident… despite having precise intelligence inputs, still the incident took place. There are certain things, we do agree, where
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पठानकोट: खुफिया सूचनाएं मिलने के बाद पठानकोट के वायुसेना स्टेशन पर सुरक्षा बढ़ा दी गई है और देखते ही गोली मारने के आदेश जारी किए गए हैं। वरिष्ठ पुलिस अधीक्षक राकेश कौशल ने कहा कि इसी बीच सेना, सीमा सुरक्षा बल (बीएसएफ) और पंजाब पुलिस ने लोगों में विश्वास की भावना भरने के लिए सीमांत
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SOURCE: gl/2vDwuC After the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)-led Pathankot air force station attack in January 2016, dna visited Punjab in order to explore, among other things, the drug angle to the attack. dna spoke to a number residents in villages notorious for drug abuse. On one such visit, the tour guide, himself a drug peddler, intended to
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In the Daman Jain suicide case, the police have been conducting raids at the suspected hideouts of the accused in Pathankot and Himachal Pradesh. SHO, New Baradri police station, Balwinder Singh, said police teams were on the manhunt and the accused would be nabbed soon. The victim’s family members, meanwhile, said that the police had
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An army man serving in Mamun Cantonment here committed suicide by shooting himself with his service Insaas rifle on Sunday morning. Tension gripped the high-security area following the incident as rumours have spread like wildfire since the January 2 Pathankot Air Force station attack. Today also there were rumours that some terrorists were spotted in
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The detailed order is awaited but, on Wednesday, the high court was dissatisfied with the police inquiry of seven years. (HT Photo) The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to look into the 2009 case in which a Pathankot youth (21) had died under mysterious circumstances. The high
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He said Pakistan and India had agreed to start the dialogue in December 2015 when Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Pakistan Pakistan today accused India of using the Pathankot terror attack as an “excuse” to derail the bilateral dialogue process and said that talks are the best way forward to resolve outstanding issues, including
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Elections may be more than eight months away in Punjab but the Congress party has already begun its pre-election campaign. Party chief Captain Amarinder Singh – hoping to return as Chief Minister – has kicked-off a series of meetings titled ‘Coffee with Captain’ – perhaps taking off from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popular ‘chai pe
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India bury dead Pathankot militants as Pakistan disowns them. Pakistan is once again in the state of denial. This time, the provincial government has refused to accept the dead bodies of 4 JeM linked militants who were killed by Indian security forces during gunbattle at the frontier Pathankot IAF base. According a report in Times
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Despite ban, burning of stubble goes unchecked in and around Pathankot. The thick black smoke and black fields left after stubble burning is a common sight in this district. A drive from Sarna village in Pathankot to Gurdaspur shows blackened fields after stubble burning. Instead of using scientific techniques, farmers still prefer to set the
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Amritsar: Dry spell and soaring temperatures have posed a grave risk of wildfire in nearly 15,000 hectares of forest area in Pathankot district bordering Himachal Pradesh even as a few minor cases of fire have already been reported. With temperature going above 40°C coupled with common practice of burning stubble after harvesting wheat by many
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NEW DELHI: An Indian parliamentary committee investigating the Pathankot Airbase terrorist attack has admitted that there was something wrong with their counter-terror security establishment and suggested that the Pathankot Airbase’s security cover was not robust and had a poorly guarded perimeter wall. The Indian Express reported on its webpage that it was surprised that armed
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After facing two major terror strikes in less than a year, the Punjab Police have now permanently stationed an SP-rank official in Pathankot district to coordinate with other security agencies operational at the frontier. The aim is to strengthen the intelligence network and ensure proper coordination to keep the suicide squads, originating from Pakistani soil,
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The government on Friday rebutted allegations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had struck a deal with Italy on AgustaWestland case and said the Central issue was corruption and any other effort to divert from it was “misleading”. It also termed attempts to link NSA Ajit Doval and Principal Secretary to PM Nripendra Mishra to one
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The Narendra Modi government’s U-turn on issuing a visa to Uyghur dissident Dolkun Isa to attend a China-focused conference on democracy in Dharamsala, also seat of the Tibetan government in exile, and later refusing visas to two other Chinese dissidents, has brought it national and international embarrassment. It has been widely speculated, and is yet
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Raging forest fires in Uttarakhand have prompted Governor KK Paul to seek deployment of three NDRF companies to douse the flame and conduct rescue operations. Since early February, 922 cases of forest fire incidents in the state have occurred killing five people, including three women and a child in separate incidents, and injuring seven, Principal
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There were many Bollywood personalities who faced criticism in the past for endorsing different brands, but actress Malaika Arora ensures that she always picks the right endorsement deal. She says she will never promote alcohol, cigarettes or skin lightening brands as she doesn’t believe in such products. She was here to launch lingerie brand amante’s
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When Shah Rukh Khan took on the roles of a superstar (Aryan) and his obsessed fan (Gaurav) in Maneesh Sharma’s Fan, it was a risk. For a while now, Shah Rukh has played it safe in a sense — films like Dilwale, Happy New Year, Chennai Express, Jab Tak Hai Jaan that played to his
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While the video showcasing Akshay Kumar’s bodyguard slapping a rather curious fan is doing the rounds, Akki quickly took to Twitter to apologies to the concerned person. It so happened that a curious fan got too close for comfort with Akshay Kumar and desired to click a selfie with the star. Unaware of the fact
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Actor Manoj Bajpayee, who will be seen as a traffic constable in the forthcoming thriller ‘Traffic’, believes that the Green corridor is an initiative which is the need of the hour. The Green Corridor initiative is created for fast-pace movement of ambulances carrying harvested organs from one hospital to the other. Referring to the case
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Syrian government aircraft pounded rebel areas of Syria’s second city Aleppo on Friday, damaging a clinic just days after a strike on another hospital killed two doctors and sparked international outcry. More than 200 civilians have been killed in Aleppo over the past week, as rebels fire rockets into government-held neighbourhoods and regime air strikes
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A South African court has ruled that a decision to drop 738 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma should be reviewed, adding to the leader’s legal troubles. Judge Aubrey Ledwaba’s ruling Friday allows prosecutors to re-open charges against Zuma which are linked to a multi-billion dollar arms deal in 1999. Zuma has denied the corruption
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A helicopter carrying Statoil workers from an offshore rig in the North Sea crashed on Friday on an island off western Norway, killing all 13 people on board, rescuers said. The Airbus EC-225 helicopter shattered into pieces as it slammed just after noon into the rocky shoreline of Turoey, a tiny island outside Bergen, Norway’s
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Ahead of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, members of Parliament have recommended a hike of 100% for themselves, saying they deserve it for their ‘good conduct’. A joint committee on salaries and allowances of Members of Parliament (MPs) under BJP MP Yogi Aditya Nath has recommended doubling of MPs salaries and perks. According
A flurry of activity marked the last day of filing nominations for Assembly polls in Kerala with a total of 1,647 candidates completing the formality in the 140 constituencies across the state on Friday. Of this, 734 nominations were received on the last day alone. Scrutiny will take place today. Candidates can withdraw nominations until
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A day after the Central government on Friday declassified 25 more files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, it has emerged that a key file had been destroyed by the Centre decades back as part of a ‘routine’ exercise. The file in question is – File No 12 (226)56-PM – as per The Times of
After wooing the viewers with his last year’s comic caper ‘Sardaar Ji,’ Punjabi film superstar Diljit Dosanjh will now be back with ‘Sardaar Ji 2.’ The teaser of the film has released and it unabashedly shows off Diljit’s chiseled body. It is probably the first time when the superstar has gone all topless for a
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The legendary Viv Richards has lashed out at ICC for its official reprimand of the World T20 champions West Indies, stating that it has one rule for the Darren Sammy-led outfit and another for Indian cricket team. Top cricketers like T20 captain Darren Sammy, all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, Marlon Samuels had come down heavily on West
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