PTI; Colombo, Jul 11 : The Sri Lankan Cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, a senior minister has said.
Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, Minister of the Buddhist Order said that President Maithripala Sirisena had recently stated that he was under pressure to re-introduce capital punishment as a deterrent to serious crimes.
PTI; Kolkata, July 9 : The West Bengal CID has identified some linkmen in different metro cities, who helped the five Chinese nationals arrested with drugs here last week, a senior official said today.
The Chinese nationals were arrested outside Kolkata railway station on June 30, after the GRP seized 197 kg of 'party drug' amphetamine, worth Rs 40 crore. Mobile phones, a laptop, Chinese currency and train tickets were also seized from them.
PTI; Kolkata, Jul 9 : The West Bengal CID has arrested four alleged members of a new "terrorist outfit" from Naxalbari area in north Bengal for "plotting" to conduct serial blasts in several government buildings and on railway tracks on August 28, a senior police officer said today.
The four arrested persons have been identified as chief Nirmal Roy and members Kandarpa Das, Ratan Adhikary and Dipi Prasad Roy of the newly formed terror outfit Greater Coochbehar Liberation Organisation (GCLO), he said.
PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : The issue of growing menace of drug abuse among children has come up again before the Supreme Court which asked the Centre to apprise it of steps taken to comply with its 2016 verdict that had directed measures including formulation of a national action plan to combat it.
PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : India has conveyed to Russia its unwillingness to go ahead with the joint development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) primarily due to high cost involved in the project, official sources said.
PTI; Srinagar, Jul 7; Three civilians were killed allegedly in firing by security forces during clashes with stone-pelting protesters in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Clashes broke out between protestors and security forces in Hawoora Mishipora village in Qoimoh area of Kulgam in south Kashmir, a police official said here. He said they used force to disperse the protestors and three people were killed, the official said.He said further details are awaited.
Ganashakti, Ranchi, July 5 : At the call of Opposition Parties & Social Organizations against anti-people Amendment in Land Acquisition Act and subversion of peace and amity in the state by the ruling party BJP,Jharkhand Bandh was unprecedented, spontaneous and complete.
Islamabad, Pakistan; The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison on corruption charges.
PTI; Muzaffarnagar, July 5 : A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped for three days by six youths after being abducted by them last month from Kotwali police station area here, police said today.
A case has been registered yesterday against the six accused, five of them being minor, aged between 14 and 16 years, SHO Anil Kapervan said, adding that the sixth accused is still not identified.
The girl has been sent for medical examination, he said. All the accused are absconding.
ISLAMABAD, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A militant commander was reportedly killed and his guard injured in an alleged U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal district North Waziristan, local media reported Wednesday.
The commander and his bodyguard were on foot in Tor Tangai area of the district located along Pakistan-Afghanistan border, when they were attacked by the pilotless aircraft, ARY News reported.
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