A group of 30 to 40 armed Maoists looted approximately four tonnes of explosives from a truck in Odisha's Sundargarh district.
As the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh remains undecided on a date for holding elections in the country, which was its mandate, pressure is mounting on him to announce elections and hand over the reins to am elected government.
A massive political rally commenced in Dhaka this afternoon by three affiliated organisations of the BNP, Muhammad Yunus embarked on a Japan visit.
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang said the recent ascent of Kanchenjunga from the Nepal side has hurt the state's indigenous communities.
In a swift and decisive operation this morning, the Border Security Force or BSF successfully thwarted an infiltration attempt by a group of Bangladeshi nationals along the Indo-Bangladesh Border in Assam's South Salmara Mankachar district.
Odisha is engaged in an ongoing dispute with West Bengal over the naming of a new temple as "Jagannath Dham".
Images of roads, railway tracks, and even recently inaugurated underground metro stations facing floods due to heavy rain in Mumbai are all over social media once again.
Sourav Ganguly's sister-in-law, Arpita Ganguly, alleged that the boat was light due to a lesser capacity of passengers, leading to its overturning.
A flurry of meetings continued in Dhaka on Sunday amid pressure on Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, to call for elections. Critics of the Nobel Laureate have accused him wanting to hang onto power without electio
Muhammad Yunus, who heads the interim government in Bangladesh, is now aiming for a five-year term as the military pushes for elections in the Southeast Asian country where a deadly protest had led the government to collapse last year.
There is no Indian Economic Zone in Bangladesh's Mirsarai Economic Zone and the idea of having one exists only on "pen and paper", Bangladesh Industrial Development Authority (BIDA) Chairman Ashik Chowdhury has said.
Speculation of a rift between the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh and the military deepened on Wednesday after Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said elections in the country should be held by December.
Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party has proposed the creation of an independent Rohingya state in the Rohingya-majority region during a meeting with representatives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Dhaka.
A round of meetings in Bangladesh has once again led major differences between Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman and Chief Adviser of the interim government Muhammad Yunus, per reports.
Several states have begun the process of identifying Bangladeshis staying illegally in various parts, as a part of an exercise to deport the immigrants.
The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, a religious pilgrimage undertaken by the Hindus to Mount Kailash and Mansarovar Lake in the Tibetan autonomous region of China, will resume through the Nathu La Pass in Sikkim.
Nusrat Faria was arrested on Sunday at Dhaka's Shahjahanlal International Airport in an alleged attempted murder case.
The Joint Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) will report to the Commissioner of Police and will be responsible for overseeing intelligence gathering, including keeping track of sleeper cells.
Himanta Sarma said the Centre has deported illegal immigrants, including Rohingyas, from different parts of the country.
In the wake of the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, the Paradip Port in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha has been put on high alert. The security has been ramped up, with additional forces stationed at major locations.
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has announced measures to tackle any problem arising because of the prevailing situation along the Pakistan border in India's north and west.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Friday chaired a key meeting on internal security amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following a deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam last month.
Former Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka, on a special aircraft provided by Emir of Qatar, from the United Kingdom after undergoing treatment for her illness.
Servitors of the Puri Jagannath temple are protesting the use of 'dham in the name of a newly-inaugurated Jagannath temple in West Bengal's Digha.
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