Nine Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. The district comes under the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in the first phase of general elections on April 19.The gunfight took place at around 6 am in a forest near Lendra village under Gangaloor police station area, when a joint team of security personnel

Paris: The Indonesian Navy signed a contract to buy two "Scorpene" submarines made by French state-owned shipyard Naval Group, the company said on Tuesday on its website without disclosing the contract’s value.The two 72 m (78.74 yard) submarines will be made in Indonesia, which has recently signed other major arm supplies with French companies, Naval Group said in a statement. The Asian country

Kashmiri Pandit migrant voters can vote in special booths or through postal ballot. In the 2019 election, 86% of them polled for the BJPAround 14,000 new Kashmiri Pandit migrant voters have registered for the three Lok Sabha seats in the valley, taking the total figure to 1.13 lakh.According to the Relief and Rehabilitation Department, more than 1.13 lakh Kashmiri migrants can now vote in the

Sopore: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested three militant associates in north Kashmir’s Sopore.In a statement, the police spokesperson said that it along with Indian Army (22RR) and Central Reserve Police Force (179BN) at a joint checkpoint established at Fruit Mandi crossing noticed three suspicious persons attempting to flee from the spot, but the alert joint party apprehended them.They