Two seats in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be up for grabs when Vijaypur and Budhni go for byelections on November 13 with the last-minute tensions in Vijaypur after a firing incident in a village allegedly over the voter slips on Monday (November 11, 2024). The byelections, first since the Lok Sabha elections, have … Read more
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on February 3 ordered a high-level inquiry into the Ulhasnagar firing incident involving a BJP MLA and a local Shiv Sena leader, calling it “serious”. “Kalyan MLA Ganpat Gaikwad of the BJP opened fire on Mahesh Gaikwad, the Shiv … Read more
Image for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters A local leader of the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena was injured in firing on the premises of a police station in Thane district late Friday night, police sources said. A rival political leader was involved in the incident that took place at Hill … Read more
Three youths nabbed by police while purportedly en route to join the banned ULFA (I) were injured when they attempted to escape from custody in Assam’s Tinsukia district, a police officer said on December 24. The incident happened late on Saturday night when the trio was being brought to Sadiya, which is a police district … Read more
“The wife of a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary was killed and a man injured when some persons allegedly fired at them in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district,” police said on July 24. “The incident took place in Rajura tehsil on July 23 evening and two persons have been arrested in this connection,” an official from … Read more
Indian Army soldiers patrol in Manipur, India, June 7, 2023. An Army soldier sustained gunshot wounds in his left leg after miscreants resorted to unprovoked firing in Manipur’s Imphal West district around 11.45 p.m. on Sunday. | Photo Credit: REUTERS An Army soldier sustained gunshot wounds in his left leg after miscreants resorted to unprovoked … Read more
An Indian Army mortar shell killed people in Bihar in a training misfire. Image for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI Three villagers were killed in the Gaya district of Bihar when an Army mortar shell fell and exploded well outside the firing range in the early hours of March 8, a senior police … Read more
TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma will lose his seat as the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) will draw a blank in the Garo Hills, claimed senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee. Addressing an election rally in South Tura on February 15, he dredged up the … Read more
A man was killed in firing after a dispute over allotment of ration shops in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia. The victim was killed after a man opened fire at him. (Photo: PTI) A 46-year-old man was killed in firing on Thursday over a dispute at a meeting for selection of ration shops in Durjanpur village in … Read more