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City police have stepped up their crackdown on illegal foreign nationals, with 31 Bangladeshi nationals identified in Electronics City division sent for deportation Sunday. The deportees, traced and detained over the past few months, were sent by train from Bengaluru to Malda Town in West Bengal, following verification and deportation orders from the FRRO. A 20-member police team escorted them. The action is part of Operation Mukta, launched last month, during which police in Electronics City and Whitefield divisions detained 105 illegal Bangladeshi nationals. Deportation proceedings against the remaining detainees are under way, police said. P 4 Source link

Hyderabad: In a freak road accident, an unidentified person died in a road accident after he was hit by two different cars at Khajaguda on Monday. Police said two more persons suffered injuries in the accident.At 4.15 am, a 35-year-old pedestrian was crossing the road at Khajaguda when an SUV hit him. The car was moving from Nanakramguda towards Khajaguda.The car driver, Zaydshah Kadri, took the injured person into his car to shift him to a hospital. Meanwhile, another car hit the SUV, leading to the death of the unknown person already in distress. Kadri suffered injuries. The car driver…

Chennai: A total of 19 cobra hatchlings were rescued from beneath the concrete flooring of a house in Egmore by the forest department on Sunday.According to officials, a resident spotted eggs in the backyard and alerted the forest department. Anti-poaching guards from the Guindy forest range reached the house and identified them as cobra eggs. On inspection, officials found 39 hatched eggs beneath the ground.Officials said the eggs had hatched a day or two earlier and suspected that the hatchlings were still in the area. A team excavated gaps beneath the concrete flooring during a four-hour search operation and rescued…

Ahmedabad: For 17 years, Sangeeta Marwadi’s family was haunted by one agonising question: who had raped and killed the seven-year-old? The clue may have been lying in the child’s clothes all along, preserved as part of the evidence from the 2009 case. It took a fresh examination of the old evidence for cops to find four strands of hair that could change the course of the investigation.Police have now zeroed in on a man from Sangeeta’s neighbourhood. A DNA test will determine whether the lead becomes a breakthrough.The hair strands were found during a re-examination of the seized evidence in…

DM along with officials on Monday carried out inspection in city Prayagraj: In view of the rising water level of twin rivers and subsequent flood like situation, District Magistrate (Prayagraj) Manish Kumar Verma on Monday inspected the Bakshi Bund STP and Nagvasuki road to check the rising water levels. He instructed officials from departments concerned to ensure all necessary flood-related arrangements should be in place on time and directed the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Sadar) to oversee the timely implementation of the measures.He said that no populated areas have been affected by the floods so far but confirmed that an alert has…

Berhampur: The family members of the UK-based Odia couple and their two children, who went missing in the devastating flash floods and landslides in Nepal on Aug 26, have been eagerly waiting for a “positive message”, as a massive search is going on.Jitendra Manmath Padhy, whose sister Surabhi, her husband Santosh Sahu (46) and two children, Spandan (18) and Syna (13), went missing, said their last news was of them completing the immigration process in the Chinese office for Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra. “There has been no further update from them since then. We believe they may be on the Chinese side,…

The construction was coming up on acquired land belonging to Jharsa village and covered nearly 250 square yards Gurgaon: Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) on Monday demolished a two-storey showroom being constructed illegally on its acquired land in Sector 39, officials said. The demolition was carried out in the presence of police personnel and no resistance was reported from the occupants or those involved in the construction.The HSVP demolition squad reached the site around noon with police personnel. The construction was coming up on acquired land belonging to Jharsa village and covered nearly 250 square yards.Officials said labourers working at…

Aizawl: A meeting of senior district officials and civil society representatives in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district on Monday decided to prohibit the renting out of houses to foreigners, including refugees within the district, from Tuesday.The meeting, chaired by district deputy commissioner Donny Lalruatsanga, agreed that the DC’s office will issue an order or notification on the matter. It was also decided to conduct physical verification of hotels and homestays.The meeting further decided to take more stringent actions regarding the movement of foreigners in and out of Lawngtlai district to prevent possible law-and-order problems.Lalruatsanga said the district administration would take concrete steps…

Kanpur: There appears to be no immediate respite from intermittent moderate to heavy showers as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast continued monsoon activity across all districts of the Kanpur division over the next 24 hours. The forecast for Aug 30-31 indicates a strong possibility of rains accompanied by thunderstorms in several areas.The sky is expected to remain cloudy across the division, with high humidity levels ranging between 75% and 85%.In Kanpur Nagar, dense clouds are likely to build up with the possibility of heavy showers accompanied by thunder and lightning during evening or night. The IMD said humidity levels…

BJP workers protest outside the Ludhiana CP office on Monday, seeking a crackdown on robbery and snatching incidentsBJP workers protest outside the Ludhiana CP office on Monday, seeking a crackdown on robbery and snatching incidentsBJP workers protest outside the Ludhiana CP office on Monday, seeking a crackdown on robbery and snatching incidentsBJP workers protest outside the Ludhiana CP office on Monday, seeking a crackdown on robbery and snatching incidentsBJP workers protest outside the Ludhiana CP office on Monday, seeking a crackdown on robbery and snatching incidents Ludhiana: Alleging a deterioration in the law and order situation in the city, BJP…