Search Results for: counter-terror operations

Turkey slams Twitter for removing thousands of accounts

Twitter has purged 7,340 accounts in Turkey, saying these were employing coordinated inauthentic activity primarily targeted at domestic audiences within the country.

Jun 14, 2020

NASA selects new head of human spaceflight mission

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency's next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate.

Jun 13, 2020

NIA takes woman LeT handler Tania Praveen into custody, to bust female spy ring

Highly radicalised Praveen was also been in touch with Sayeed, also the chief of banned terror outfit Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD).

Jun 13, 2020

4 terrorists neutralised in 2 separate encounters in J&K's Kulgam and Anantnag

The Kulgam encounter began after a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army's 19RR and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), on a specific input, launched a cordon and search operation in the Nipora area of south Kashmir.

Jun 13, 2020

Twitter cracks down on China's fake news campaign; removes 175,000 accounts

While 23,750 accounts comprise the core of the network - the highly engaged core network - approximately 150,000 accounts were designed to boost this content called the amplifier network.

Jun 12, 2020

Assam oil well fire: OIL loses 467 MT crude oil due to blockades by local bodies

The state-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) lost 467 MT of crude oil production from 59 producing wells due to blockades by the local people and various students' organisations in two districts of Assam, an OIL release said on Thursday.

Jun 12, 2020

Travel & health advisory in mind as medical specialists prepare BCCI's SOP

BCCI is in the process of drafting an SOP for COVID-19, medical specialists to depend on the travel and health advisories issued by the government.

Jun 12, 2020

Two Kashmir-based LeT militants arrested by Punjab Police in Pathankot

In a major move, the Pathankot police foils bid to smuggle weapons into the valley for carrying out terror attacks.

Jun 11, 2020

Sobhita Dhulipala gorges on some 'homemade puchkas'

Avoiding street-food amid the COVID-19 outbreak, actress Sobhita Dhulipala treated herself to homemade puchkas.

Jun 11, 2020

Assam oil well fire update: 7,000 shifted, 35 houses destroyed, firefighting operations on

Around 7,000 people have been evacuated while the inferno completely and partially burnt more than 35 houses as the fire fighters, NDRF, and engineers intensified their efforts to douse the oil well fire in Assam for the third day on Thursday, June 11.

Jun 11, 2020