Keeping continuity with the Fit India Cycling Drive launched earlier this week, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Mansukh Mandaviya flagged off the ‘Fit India Sundays on Cycle’ initiative on Sunday morning at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here.
Massive crackdown in four districts of Jammu division has resulted in the arrest of 10 overground workers (OGWs) of various terror groups, Jammu and Kashmir police said on Thursday.
The security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district eliminated 10 Maoist insurgents in a fierce gunfight in the dense forests of Bheji village located in Konta taluka of Dakshin Bastar Dantewada .
Identified as Tarkeshwar T (22), the jawan died on the spot while four of his colleagues sustained grievous injuries.
Preliminary investigations reveal that Bhuyan went to the camp's bathroom around 6 am and shot himself. Fellow personnel rushed to the scene and found him critically injured. Bhuyan was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Troops of the Army, CRPF and J&K police eliminated the five terrorists (3 in Reban Bandpawa area of Shopian and 2 in Semthan village of Bijbehara in Anantnag district) in the two encounters.
The message has been delivered three days after the deadly attack on security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district in which 22 personnel were killed and more than 30 wounded.
After examining the Home Ministry’s budget for 2020-21, the standing committee had observed: “The committee is of the view that the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) can’t substitute State Police Force as their deployment is to meet the emergency situation/ crisis in states for maintaining law and order.”
The gunbattle that took place on Saturday is said to be the biggest Maoist attack this year.
It is suspected by the CRPF officials on the ground that the personnel may have been killed by the Maoists during the Saturday encounter.
