Nikita Venkatesh A CRPF jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself inside his camp in Shopian district of Kashmir, police said on friday.
Constable Surender Kumar of 14 Battalion of CRPF shot himself with his service rifle last night inside the camp at Imam Sahib in Shopian town, the police said.
Police is trying to ascertain why the CRPF jawan took such an extreme step.
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A sports doctor told Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial that the double amputee has been greatly affected by his disability.
Defence witness Wayne Derman told the court that Pistorius suffered significant stress and anxiety.
According to the BBC, Pistorius claims that he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year after mistaking her for an intruder in their house.
The prosecution argues that the athlete killed her deliberately after a row.
A CRPF officer was today killed during an anti-Naxal operation in Jharkhand’s Giridih district.
The incident happened early today when a joint squad of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police was out for an operation in Lakheri area of Giridih district.
Officials said a heavy exchange of fire took place between the two sides and CRPF’s second-in-command H K Jha was seriously injured in the encounter.
“The officer later succumbed to his injuries.No other injuries have been inflicted on the forces side,” a senior officer said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off the inaugural Katra-Udhampur train today on his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after assuming office.
The Prime Minister flagged off a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) which will serve as special train to the Hindu holy shrine of Vaishno Devi.
Katra – Udhampur rail line is around 25 kilometers long and consists of the 9.4 kilometers long Udhampur – Chak Rakhwal and 15.5 kilometers long Chak Rakhwal- Mata Vaishno Devi Katra sections.
Three youths were killed and another injured when two motorcycles collided with each other in Udhaiti area here, police said today.
Dev Singh (26), Anekpal (28) and Motiram (20) were killed when their motorcycles collided with each other on Bisauli-Islamnagar road yesterday, Additional Superintendent of Police O P Yadav said.
The injured youth has been admitted to the district hospital.
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Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have created stronger, tougher materials that can be customised for a wide variety of applications – from body armour to automobile parts.
A metal, in general, is composed of millions of closely-packed grains. The size and disposition of those grains affects the metal’s physical characteristics.
The 46 nurses from Kerala, who were shifted from Iraq’s Tikrit city to Mosul by Sunni insurgents, have been put up in a building and have been given food, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday.
The women nurses reached Mosul close to midnight, said Chandy, who is in Delhi and closely monitoring the situation alongwith the External Affairs Ministry.
Chandy told a news agency over phone that the nurses have been given food and they have been put up in a building.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is due to be sentenced after being found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones.
Coulson, who went on to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron, will be sentenced with three other former News of the World journalists, reports the BBC.
Forty-six-year-old Coulson will be sentenced alongside former news editor Greg Miskiw, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and ex-reporter James Weatherup, all of whom admitted conspiring to hack phones.
Several Indian diaspora organisations representing people from four corners of India are marking the July 4 American independence day with a celebration of their own culture, language and cuisine across the US.
Two Telugu community organisations – the American Telugu Association (ATA) and the North American Telugu Association (NATA) – are both hosting three-day conventions, opening on Friday in Philadelphia and Atlanta respectively.
Ukraine’s president has appointed new officials to top defense posts as he pledged to stamp out the corruption that has left the country’s armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency.
A statement published online late yesterday announced the appointments of Col Gen Valery Heletey as defense minister and Lt Gen Viktor Muzhenko as chief of the military’s General Staff.
Bodies of three youths having bullet injuries were found Wednesday at a village in Patna district.
People of Ramnagar Diara village in the district noticed the dead bodies and alerted the nearby police post. All the youths seem to be in the age group of 20 to 30 years, police said.
“Seeing the place of occurrence it seems the youths were killed somewhere else and their bodies were thrown at Ramnagar Diara village,” said Traffic SP Rajeev Mishra, who is currently holding the additional charge of Patna Rural SP.
The Uttar Pradesh government Wednesday transferred 35 IAS officers, including divisional commissioners and district magistrates, an official spokesman said here.
Principal Secretary, Homeguard and Civil Defence Sanjiv Dubey has been relieved from the additional charge of Institutional Finance Department.
Principal Secretary, Finance Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar has been given additional charge of Institutional Finance Department.
A survey has revealed that 66 percent of Pakistanis are concerned about religious extremism while 59 percent do not sympathize with the Taliban militants.
The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center which interviewed about 14,200 people in 14 countries. It revealed that support for extremist groups and the fear of extremism has been waning fast in the Muslim-dominated countries of Middle East and South Asia.
The survey also showed that amidst the fledgling war in Syria and the rise in attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria, concerns over extremism have risen over the past 12 months.
At least 142 Pakistanis arrested in police sweeps in Sri Lanka in June 2014 are being detained and are at risk of deportation, Human Rights Watch said today.
It further said that the Sri Lankan controller general of immigration should not deport members of Pakistani minority groups until the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has had full access to them and determined their need for international protection.
A 45-year-old woman was injured and two were suspected to be trapped under the debris when three houses, including one where crackers were being made illegally, damaged following a blast on Thursday police said.
The blast brought the roof of the house down and damaged two neighbouring houses.
A new study has revealed that kangaroos use their tail as a “fifth leg” and plant their tails on the ground in combination with their front and hind legs.
According to the study by researchers at Simon Fraser University showed that the animals move with a “pentapedal” gait, which provides new insight into the diversity of biological movement, and specific insight into why humans walk the way they do.
Farmers in Gujarat await rains after slow start to Monsoon as they fear drought like situation in the coming days.
Farmers of Rajkot region have been experiencing difficult times and have yet to begin planting because there is no scope of rainfall.
In the current situation, farmers are upset due to scanty rains.
Millions of Indian farmers are hoping rains will strengthen in the next two weeks so they can grow rice, soybean, cotton, pulses and some vegetables – summer crops that account for 7.5 percent of the country’s economy.
The Indian Railways on Thursday held a trial run of a semi-high speed train between New Delhi to Agra.
“The maximum speed of the train is 160 km/h. There are 10 coaches altogether and it is a trial run today. The speed of the train is more than the Shatabdi that runs from New Delhi to Agra. It will start running from November,” said DRM of Delhi Division, Anurag Sachaan.
“The fare will be decided by railway department. After this, a similar train for New Delhi to Chandigarh and New Delhi to Kanpur will be put into effect,” he added
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has claimed that Lionel Messi is under too much pressure to turn their homeland squad into World Cup winners and fears that the striker could crack.
Messi helped Argentina secure a quarterfinal tie with Belgium on Tuesday as he rescued a subdued and frustrated display against Switzerland with the last-gasp run and pass for Angel Di Maria’s winner.
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2009.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Lukmanul Haq also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict Jony after holding him guilty Wednesday.
The girl, who belongs to a tribal community, was raped by her neighbour Jony when she was going to give lunch to her father who was working in the fields.
The convict, who also belongs to a tribal community, is already serving a jail term in another rape case.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that police cannot automatically arrest an accused in a dowry case before judicially examining it.
A bench headed by Justice CK Prasad directed all the state governments to instruct its police officers not to automatically arrest an accused in such cases.
The apex court expressed concerns over misuse of the anti dowry law.
Section 498-A of the IPC was introduced with object to combat the menace of harassment to a woman at the hands of her husband and his relatives.
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Former President retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s legal team drew up a list of eight meetings that the former President of Pakistan held with political and military leaders prior to imposing emergency and the sacking of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the then chief justice of Pakistan in 2007.
The list challenged the claims made by the prosecution earlier in which it said that it could not obtain the details of meetings that Musharraf held before Nov 3.
A new study has revealed that 25 minutes of focused meditation for three consecutive days affects people’s ability to be resilient under stress.
J. David Creswell, associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, said that many people reported that they practiced meditation for stress reduction but they knew very little about how much people need to do for stress reduction and health benefits.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday ordered a probe into the collapse of an 11-storey under-construction residential building here.
Jayalalithaa has set up a one-man commission to inquire into the incident. The panel will not only probe the reasons for collapse but also suggest corrective course of action.
The death toll in the incident has, meanwhile, risen to 53.
“The death toll stands at 53 as of now. Rescue work is continuing in full swing”, a senior Tamil Nadu government revenue official said on Thursday.
Twenty-seven people have been pulled out alive.
Odisha, one of India’s top vegetable producers, Thursday said it has deregulated fruit and vegetables from local market fees so that these can be available at lower prices to consumers.
“The government has exempted fruits and vegetable from the purview of the regulated market committees (RMCs) because these commodities are perishable and need to flow smoothly throughout the state,” Bishnupada Sethi, cooperation department secretary, told IANS.