Just a day ahead of polling here, Maoists on Wednesday carried out an attack on a CRPF contingent being deployed for election duty, injuring a Sub-Inspector, a CRPF official said.


CRPF officer hurt in Maoist ambush in Maharashtra


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A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sub-Inspector was injured on Wednesday in an IED blast triggered by the Maoists in Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra, where a team of the paramilitary force was sent for deployment in election related duties, an official said.


CRPF trooper hurt in Maoist ambush in Maharashtra


The Taliban on Wednesday rejected the Afghan government's invitation for the April 29 Loya Jirga on peace, calling it a "conspiracy by the government of President Ashraf Ghani to prolong its stay in power".


Taliban reject invitation to Afghan peace assembly


An angry mob on Wednesday ransacked the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Jammu and Kashmir's curfew bound Kishtwar town.


Mob ransacks SSP office in J&K


A Delhi court on Wednesday sent Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik to National Investigation Agency's (NIA) custody till April 22 in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in the state.


NIA gets Yasin Malik's custody till April 22


Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked people to defy ban on highway in Jammu and Kashmir and also warned India of a Palestine-like situation in Kashmir.


Mehbooba asks people to defy highway ban in J&K


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for a third consecutive day on Wednesday in connection with a terror funding case, an official said.


NIA questions Hurriyat's Mirwaiz for 3rd day


The Australian man charged with the supremacist massacre in New Zealand was accused in 2016 for issuing a death threat on Facebook and the police advised the then victim to block him on the social network, the media reported on Wednesday.


Christchurch gunman accused of death threat in 2016


Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, was on Tuesday shifted from Jammu's Kot Balwal jail to the Tihar Jail in Delhi, official sources said.


Yasin Malik shifted from Jammu to Delhi's Tihar Jail


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned Jammu and Kashmir legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir in connection with the robbery of eight weapons from his residence in Srinagar by his special police officer (SPO) last year, sources said on Tuesday.


Arms robbery case: NIA summons PDP legislator


BJP's lone legislator from Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Bastar region, Bhima Mandavi, was killed along with four policemen on Tuesday evening as Maoists carried out a deadly attack on his convoy in a forested patch in Dantewada district.


BJP MLA, 4 others killed in Maoist blast in Chhattisgarh (Roundup)


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it had on Tuesday arrested Islamic State sympathizer Shaibu Nihar from Kerala, upon his arrival here from Qatar, for facilitating travel of some of his associates to Syria to join the terror outfit.


NIA arrests Qatar-based IS sympathizer in Kerala


A BJP MLA and four others were killed in a major Maoist attack in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, two days ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in the constituency, officials said.


BJP MLA, 4 others killed in Maoist attack (Third Lead)


BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday condemned the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh in which a party MLA and four others were killed and asserted that "such act of cowardice" will not deter them from fighting the ultra-Left insurgents.


Shah condemns Maoist attack killing Chhattisgarh MLA


Maoists exploded an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday evening, killing BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi, his driver and three personal security officers in a forested part of Dantewada district, officials said.


Maoists kill BJP MLA, 4 more in Chhattisgarh


Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday reiterated that those who sought evidence of the Indian Air Force's Balakot air strikes were anti-national and pro-Pakistan, including even the kin and family members of the Pulwama terror attack victims.


Anyone doubting 'Sena' is Pakistani: Gujarat CM


Saudi Arabia welcomed on Tuesday the US decision to blacklist the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist group", state media reported.


Saudi 'welcomes' US blacklisting of Iran's Guards


A militant on Tuesday shot dead a RSS leader and his personal security officer in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the authorities to call out the Army in Kishtwar town, officials said.


Militant kills RSS leader, guard in J&K town (4th Lead)


Far-right Australian Senator Fraser Anning acted in self-defence when he physically retaliated against a teenager who had smashed an egg on the lawmaker's head for blaming the New Zealand mosque attacks on Muslim migration, the police said.


Australian senator cleared over 'egg boy' clash


The Army was called out in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town on Tuesday after a suspected militant shot and seriously wounded RSS leader Chandrakant Singh and killed his personal security officer, police said.


RSS leader shot, Army out in J&K town (3rd Lead)


Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has filed an appeal seeking cancellation of the bail of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

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