August 2025

LUCKNOW: UP Police is investigating a suspected security breach involving potential “internal sabotage” at Hazratpur Ordnance Equipment Factory in Firozabad after it emerged that a South African staffer of an American aerospace and defence component manufacturer made an unauthorised visit to the facility, classified by Intelligence Bureau as a “Category C establishment”.Firozabad chief judicial magistrate…

KOLKATA: BSF troops caught a fugitive Bangladeshi former police officer when he attempted to cross into India through Hakimpur in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district Saturday evening, officials said.Mohammad Arifuzzaman, 47, had been in hiding since the Awami League govt of then prime minister Sheikh Hasina was toppled by a student-led mass movement in…

NEW DELHI: In an important judgment, the Supreme Court has linked quantum of sand mining to the river’s replenishment capacity, a ruling that would prevent degradation of riverbeds, consequently making grant of leases for extraction of a key construction raw material from riverbanks difficult.Taking the regulatory regime for sand mining a step forward, a bench…