Sanjeeb Panda, Additional Director General (ADG) of Police, Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO), said that the encounter took place in the Karada forest area within the jurisdiction of Raikia police station in Kandhamal district.
"More than 100 of our firemen and over 30 of our fire units are present at the spot... We are making every effort... So far, there is no information on any casualties. The fire will be brought under control very soon...," Deputy Chief Fire Officer said.
At the Nepal Police Academy in Kathmandu, over three thousand police personnel boarded buses as they started off for assigned districts to maintain security for the March 5 election.
Actor-turned-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) will hold an administrators' meeting at Agaramcheri village in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district on Monday ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
Three people died in a road accident near Kunjarwalasai, next to Uchipuli, Ramanathapuram district, at around 7 pm on Sunday. The deceased were two women and a man, who died in a car and scooty. The accident happened due to a van collision.
In a major anti-drug operation, Shimla district police have detained 18 habitual and organised drug peddlers under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, 1988 over the past 25 days, sending them to jail for three months as part of a
Security forces on Sunday neutralised another terrorist during a joint operation in the rugged terrains of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district under Operation Trashi-I, the Indian Army's Jammu-based White Knight Corps said.
Immediately after receiving the information, several fire tenders reached the spot and are currently engaged in dousing the fire. Further details on the fire are awaited as the relief work continues.
According to The Express Tribune, at least 13 vehicles, most belonging to shopkeepers, were allegedly targeted during the operation. Eyewitnesses claimed that district officials, accompanied by local police, punctured and severely damaged the tyres of cars parked outside shops.
A funding disparity favouring Peshawar hospitals has left district MTIs without essential medicines and equipment. This financial crisis is forcing rural patients to seek care in the provincial capital, where hospitals are now operating at 150% capacity, severely overwhelming the region's ce
Telangana Drugs Control Administration (DCA) raided a clinic operated by an unqualified practitioner at Shayampet village in Hanumakonda district and seized medicines illegally stocked for sale.