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Punjab Police foil major terror plot backed by Pakistan’s ISI

Chandigarh, July 9 (UNI) In a significant breakthrough, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police has successfully thwarted a major terror conspiracy linked to Harwinder Rinda, a key Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative currently based in Pakistan and reportedly backed by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav wrote: “Acting swiftly on human intelligence, AGTF teams traced and recovered a large cache of terrorist hardware, including two AK-47 rifles with 16 live cartridges, two magazines, and two P-86 hand grenades from a forest area in #Gurdaspur, before it could reach Harwinder @ Rinda’s associates.”
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11 Apr 2026 | 8:25 PM

Jaipur/Lucknow, Apr 11 (UNI) Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that the Election Commission is not impartial and accused it of working at the behest of the BJP.
"The BJP conspired to rig the SIR, and in UP they used Form 7 forged signatures to cancel the votes of Samajwadi Party voters. They filled out large numbers of fake forms and Samajwadi Party workers and PDA officials uncovered the BJP's fraud," he alleged.

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Rs 22 lakh recovered in three months in cyber fraud cases: Crime Branch Kashmir

11 Apr 2026 | 8:21 PM

Srinagar, Apr 11 (UNI) The Crime Branch Kashmir’s Cyber Crime Investigation Centre for Excellence (CICE), has recovered more than Rs 22 lakh in cyber fraud cases over the past three months.

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BJP Punjab forms senior leadership teams to assess crop damage across rain-hit districts

11 Apr 2026 | 8:20 PM

Chandigarh, April 11 (UNI) In a proactive move to address the grievances of the farming community following recent inclement weather, the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has constituted high-level teams to evaluate crop losses.

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Varanasi: GAIL to begin PNG supply to Annapurna Kitchen

11 Apr 2026 | 8:15 PM

Varanasi, Apr 11 (UNI) Taking a significant step forward, GAIL (India) Limited, the nation's leading gas company, on Saturday signed an agreement to begin supplying piped natural gas (PNG) to the Annapurna Kitchen of the Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust.

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India can face any challenges including the West Asia crisis: Rajnath Singh

11 Apr 2026 | 8:13 PM

Lucknow, Apr 11 (UNI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today said that regardless of the formal talks of a ceasefire between Iran and the US, considering the ground situation, it would not be appropriate to assume that the West Asia crisis has completely ended.

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