ISLAMABAD, Oct 18 (APP): Normal life continues to remain affected for the 75th straight day, today, in the Kashmir Valley and Muslim majority areas of Jammu region due to the Indian military lockdown and suspension of internet and prepaid cellular services in Indian occupied Kashmir.
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday wore a black armband inscribed with #IamKashmir to express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren who suffered
75th consecutive day of lockdown in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
He tied the band on his right arm as a gesture of solidarity with eight million Kashmiris, who were being denied basic human rights including access to food, medical and communication facilities.
Mahrajganj (UP), Oct 17 (PTI) Four masked men allegedly robbed over Rs 13 lakh from HDFC Bank in Anand Nagar area here on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The robbers entered the bank in the morning when six employees and eight customers were present, police said.
They took away over Rs 13 lakh from the cash counter, they said, adding that no security personal was present at the time of the incident.
The robbers, who were having pistols, fled on two bikes, police said quoting a witnesses.
Police are probing the matter. No arrest has been made so far.
Mumbai, Oct 17 (PTI) Six persons have been detained by a team of police and Election commission officials for allegedly carrying Rs 2.19 crore in cash at Zaveri Bazaar in South Mumbai, the police said on Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, additional commissioner of police's special squad and a team from the Election Commission laid a trap near Khaugali at Zaveri Bazaar on Wednesday evening, and nabbed the men, an official said.
On searching them, the police found cash to the tune of Rs 2.19 crore, he added.
Bengaluru, Oct 17 (PTI) Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said the detention centre for foreign nationals coming up on the city's outskirts, will be operationalised soon.
The minister also said the Bengaluru-specific anti-terrorist squad (ATS) probably will be operational in November first week.
"There is a detention centre ready near Nelamagala, it needs to operationalised, we have discussed it andthere will be no further delay in operationalising it," Bommai said.
Muzaffarnagar, Oct 18 (PTI) A 16-year-old girl was allegedly molested by two men when she was on her way home from an intermediate college here, police said on Friday.
The incident took place on Barla-Baseda road on Thursday, they said.
The two men accosted the girl and tried to forcibly take her to nearby sugarcane fields. They fled the spot after she raised an alarm, police said.
The girl's family lodged a police complaint against the accused, they said.
Pune, Oct 18 (PTI) Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as Left-leaning.
Patel made the remarks at a media briefing here.
"I congratulate Abhijit Banerjee for winning the Nobel prize. You all know that his thinking is totally Left-leaning," Goyal said.
New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct 18 (PTI) The BSF on Friday said the Bangladeshi action of killing their trooper and injuring another along the border in West Bengal was unprovoked and that its troops did not fire "a single bullet" when a flag meeting took place between the two sides.
A senior official rejected the claim made by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) that its patrol team "had to open fire in self-defence amid gunfire by BSF men".
New Delhi, Oct 18 (PTI) Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Friday sent a letter to the Centre recommending Justice S A Bobde, who is next in seniority, as his successor.
Official Sources told PTI that Justice Gogoi wrote a letter to the Ministry of Law and Justice recommending Justice Bobde to be the next chief justice.
Justice Gogoi, who was sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India on October 3, 2018, will demit office on November 17.
Kanpur: Despite tough traffic rules the road accidents are not going downwards. Deaths and injury cases are increasing day by day. If we look at the figures of deaths from the year 2015 to 2019 it gives us a clear rising trend. The number of deaths was 468 in the year 2015 which increased to 531 in the year 2019.
Various reasons were given for deaths occurring on the roads. Potholes, stunts and negligence towards the traffic rules are normally defined for death cases on the road.
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