Police have uncovered 43 kg of illicit drugs in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province and detained an individual on the charge of involvement in drug trafficking from the area, provincial police spokesman Tahir Ehrar said on Tuesday.

The contraband, including 43 kg hashish and a piece of AK-47, was discovered outside the provincial capital, Khost city, on Sunday, the official said, adding police have arrested one drug smuggler.

Police won't allow anyone to produce or smuggle hashish, poppy or the objects used in manufacturing heroin in the province, the official said, news agency reported.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Bengaluru, police said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred around 7.30 p.m. on Monday when the victim's parents were out for construction work and she was alone at home in the Rammurthynagar police station area.

The accused, identified as 25-year-old man Abhisheik Kumar from Bihar, has been arrested.

When the accused, who also worked as a mason, found the victim alone, he lured her outside.

He took her to an isolated place and raped her.

However, the sources said that the girl died during the sexual assault.

In a shocking incident, a minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by three men while she was on her way to attend a birthday party in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh, police said on Saturday.

Police said the girl was going to her cousin's house to attend the birthday party, when one of the accused known to her, allegedly accosted her and forced her into a car with his two associates.

They drove the car for around two km at an isolated place near a pond and took turns to rape her.

After executing the crime, the trio fled from the spot leaving the victim who was unconscious near the pond, police said.

After regaining consciousness, the 11-year-old girl walked down to her home late Thursday night and narrated the incident to her parents. She was immediately rushed to Damoh District Hospital, where she was admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward.

A special POCSO court in Visakhapatnam sentenced Telugu YouTuber and TikTok fame Chippada Bhargav to imprisonment for 20 years for the rape of a minor girl.

The court also directed the accused to pay Rs 4 lakh compensation to the 14-year-old victim, who had become pregnant.

Bhargav, also known as Funbucket Bhargav, was arrested in April 2021 on the allegations of sexually assaulting a girl.

He was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with other sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Bihar's Motihari has arrested three individuals, including a minor, in connection with an attempt to derail a train in the state's East Champaran district, an official said on Friday.

The incident took place on January 8 on the Muzaffarpur-Narkatiyaganj railway line, where a major accident was narrowly averted due to the alertness of the loco pilot of the Champaran Satyagraha Express.

The arrested individuals have been identified as Mumtaz Ansari, Jumman Mian, and a minor.

A fourth individual, believed to be involved, is still at large. Raids are underway to apprehend him.

A Class 12 student, who sent bomb threat emails to 23 schools, has been detained from Delhi.

The minor's detention comes after a police probe into bomb threats found his role in the crime.

Preliminary investigations revealed that he did not want to appear for examinations.

The boy sent bomb threat emails to many schools, barring his educational institution.

In a shocking incident, some bike-borne miscreants hacked a man to death near the busy Rasulgarh square area under Mancheswar Police limits in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. The police have detained three suspects and are searching for two main accused.

This daylight murder has rocked Bhubaneswar as the city is under a heavy security blanket for the three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention from January 8-10.

The deceased was identified as Sahadev Nayak of Kedarpalli slum under the Capital Police station area in the state capital. He was an employee of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and a social worker. Sources said the deceased was also the president of the BMC Safai Karmachari Association.

Two criminals were gunned down and one police sub-inspector sustained injuries during an encounter in Patna’s Hinduni locality on Tuesday.

As per the officials, a gang of around eight to 10 criminals, assembled at Hinduni locality under the jurisdiction of Phulwarisharif police station to execute a big incident. Patna Police learnt about their movement and, accordingly, constituted a team to raid the place.

The incident occurred around 2 a.m.

According to the City Superintendent of Police (SP) Sharat S., the police acted on a tip-off about the gang's activities.

Myanmar authorities have seized 91 kg of heroin blocks in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a vehicle in Kengtung township in Shan state on January 1, and seized the narcotics, the report said.

The confiscated narcotics are worth 1.365 billion kyats (about $650,000), and two suspects were arrested for the case, it said.

According to the investigation, the drugs were being transported from Kunhing township to Tachileik township in Shan state.

The suspects were charged under the country's law, and further investigations are ongoing, news agency reported.

A former cop has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the fake passport racket in West Bengal.

The former cop has been identified as Abdul Hai (61) who retired as a Sub-Inspector just a year ago.

Sources in the state police said that during the last few years of service, he was mainly assigned the task of "police verification" for the new passport applicants.

He was arrested from his residence at Habra under Ashoknagar Police Station in North 24 Parganas district. With this, the total number of arrests made in this connection has increased to nine.