Two soldiers killed in Pakistan sniper fire
Srinagar, July 12 (IANS): Sniper fire from Pakistan killed two Indian soldiers on Wednesday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Defence Ministry sources said the soldiers from the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles were killed in Furkiya area of Chowkibal sector. Furkiya area has been a known route used by militants infiltrating into the Kashmir Valley from Pakistan.
Woman alleges rape after husband loses her in gambling
Indore, July 12 (PTI): A 38-year-old woman has claimed that she was raped by two men after her husband “lost her” to them in a game of gambling in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, police said today. The woman registered a complaint during a weekly public hearing organised by police here yesterday. However, a case is yet to be registered. The woman said she separated from her husband after the incident but he and the two men were constantly harassing her, the officer said.
TN student gets Rs 10 lakh purse for developing KalamSat
Chennai, July 12 (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today presented a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to Rifath Sharook and his team who had developed ‘KalamSat,’ a 64 gram micro satellite that was launched by NASA last month. ‘KalamSat,’ launched on June 22 by NASA, won the first prize from among 80,000 models in a competition held by the American space agency. It is a 3.8 cm cube satellite of ‘Femto category’ and its structure is fully 3D printed with reinforced carbon fiber polymer. Replete with a temperature and humidity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, the tiny and “world’s lightest,” satellite also has a “Nano Geiger Muller counter”, to measure the radiation in outer space.
Medicos in paramilitary forces now to retire at 65
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, gave its approval to raise the retirement age of medical officers working with paramilitary forces under the Union Home Ministry. The age limit for the general duty and specialist medical officers of the paramilitary forces has been increased from 60 to 65 years, a Home Ministry statement said. “It would help in retention of officers in specialist and general duty medical cadre and thereby help in better patient care, proper academic activities in medical colleges and also in effective implementation of national health programmes for delivery of health care services,” the statement said. The paramilitary forces are Assam Rifles (AR), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Security Guard (NSG) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
Goa BJP Vice President booked for dowry harassment, assault
Panaji, July 12 (IANS): The Goa Police on Wednesday booked state BJP Vice President Anil Hoble, his wife and son for dowry-related harassment and assaulting his daughter in-law. Hoble and the others were booked after an FIR was filed at the women’s police station here by the victim’s mother Suchitra Shirodkar, who is based in Mumbai. Citing the complaint, a senior woman police officer told IANS that the victim’s mother received a call from Hoble at round 2 a.m. on Tuesday, asking her to pick up her daughter from his home near Panaji. “When we arrived there, my daughter had injury marks. Hoble also threatened to shoot us and chop us up with a knife,” Shirodkar alleged in the complaint.
