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Sitapur Superintendent of Police (SP), Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan, also ordered an inquiry by an Assistant Superintendent of Police rank officer.According to the FIR, SHO Ram Awadh Chauhan, Head Constable Kamlesh Yadav and woman constable Rachna Chaudhary have been booked under the charges of sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC on the complaint of Annapurna Devi.On June 18, Nirankar Sharma and Omkar had gone to Rampur Mathura police station to file a complaint related to a family dispute.When they did not return till evening, a group of women, led by Annapurna, reached the…

The two youth, Haitham Tawk and Malek Tok, were found shot dead in Qornet al-Sawda, a disputed area between Bcharre and Bkaasafrine in northern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday evening.Seven other civilians were also wounded in the conflict, the L’Orient Today news website quoted locals in Bcharre as saying.Security tension, commonly seen in this area, is often caused by conflicts between the residents over land and water dispute, according to local media.Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he was monitoring the situation, Xinhua news agency reported.”We condemn this incident and those responsible will be arrested,…

Kanaani made the remarks on Sunday in a statement published on the Ministry’s website, commenting on the ongoing protests in France sparked by a policeman’s fatal shooting of a teenager.The spokesman also cautioned Iranians living in France against making unnecessary trips to or visiting conflict-ridden areas, noting that Tehran is closely monitoring the developments in France, Xinhua news agency reported.On Tuesday last week, a French police officer opened fire and killed 17-year-old Nahel M, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, while the latter refused to comply with the order to pull over his car.The police officer who fired…

The forces of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which made the arrests, also seized the fuel, according to the report released on Sunday.According to semi-official Fars news agency, the suspects were members of eight fuel smuggling networks that remain active in southeastern Iran. They were accused of “causing disruption in fuel distribution among power plants, industrial units and fishing vessels” in Sistan and Baluchestan province and have been handed over to the judicial authorities.The report estimated the value of the seized fuel at $340 million, Xinhua news agency reported.Fuel smuggling is a…

The Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) said on Sunday in a terse statement entitled “Five days severe weather impact-based forecasts” that strong winds reaching 40 km per hour and large ocean waves reaching two metre high were expected in some areas along the coast of the Indian Ocean, Xinhua news agency reported.The statement mentioned areas to be hit by the strong winds and large ocean waves as Lindi, Mtwara, Tanga, Dar es Salaam and Coast regions, and Zanzibar’s islands of Unguja and Pemba and warned of impacts, including disruption of some marine activities.–IANSint/khz

In a statement on Sunday, Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo condemned the incidents in which terrorists hurled hand grenades and sprayed bullets at the checkposts in Zhob area of the province.He also commended efforts of the security personnel who successfully thwarted the attacks and maintained the situation in the province, Xinhua news agency reported.Zhob police told media that the attacks happened on Sunday morning when a group of militants attacked the checkposts with sophisticated weapons, and they fled after a retaliatory attack.Several personnel of paramilitary troops’ frontier corps were also injured in the attacks, and had been shifted to…

The PICSS revealed in a report on Sunday that a total of 271 militant attacks occurred during this period, resulting in the loss of 389 lives and injury of 656 individuals, Xinhua news agency reported.Comparatively, the same timeframe last year witnessed 151 attacks, causing 293 deaths and 487 injuries, the report said.Additionally, a surge in suicide attacks was also observed during the first half of 2023, with 13 such attacks resulting in 142 deaths and 309 injuries.In comparison, only five suicide attacks were reported during the corresponding period of the previous year, causing 77 deaths and 225 injuries, according to…

The statement, posted on its Facebook page, said on Sunday that Tunisia’s maritime guard thwarted these illegal immigration attempts between June 27 and June 29, and rescued 2,068 illegal immigrants from sinking boats during these operations.Forty-seven of the illegal immigration attempts were foiled by National Guard units off the eastern coastal province of Mahdia and the southeastern province of Sfax, while the other 18 were foiled off the country’s northeast coast.Located in the central Mediterranean, Tunisia is one of the most popular transit points for illegal immigration to Europe, Xinhua news agency reported.Although Tunisian authorities have adopted rigorous measures to…

The state Minister made the remarks on Sunday when talking to journalists about the next steps to be taken by the government after the parliament approved the domestic debt restructuring plan on Saturday evening.He said the central bank will publish the decisions reached on Saturday through media and the government will hold discussions with heads of pension funds that are affected by domestic debt restructuring, Xinhua news agency reported.Siyambalapitiya added there is space for further revisions in the domestic debt restructuring strategy following these discussions.Sri Lanka’s total debt is around $83.6 billion, according to official data. Foreign debt amounts to…

The accidents occurred in the province’s different areas due to reckless driving, killing the two people on the spot and injuring 168 others, some of them in critical condition, the state-run Bakhtar news agency said.All the injured travellers were taken to hospitals for medical treatment, it added as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.Although there is no official statistics of casualties from road accidents taking place during the four-day Eid Al-Adha holiday nationwide, more than a dozen had been killed with more than 300 others injured in traffic mishaps across Afghanistan, according to Afghan locals.Dilapidated roads, reckless driving and lack…