The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a suspected militant having links with the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

According to sources, the arrested individual has been identified as Girish Bora. He was residing with his family in Jigani Industrial Area near Anekal, on the outskirts of the capital city of Karnataka.

Acting on a tip-off about Girish Bora, allegedly linked to ULFA, an NIA team which had come from Assam conducted a raid and arrested him.

Sources said that Girish Bora had planted Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at various locations in Guwahati, and later he had left the city.

Girish Bora had shifted his family to Bengaluru and settled here.

More than 3,000 registered senders have whitelisted more than 70,000 URLs, APKs (Android package kit) or OTT (over the top) links as per the government directive to safeguard consumers from unsolicited messages containing malicious links, it was announced on Thursday.

In a major step to curb the misuse of URLs (uniform resource locators) in messages, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had issued a directive on August 20, and then extended it till September 30.

The new rule, instructing all access providers to block any traffic containing URLs, APKs, or OTT links that have not been whitelisted, is set to be implemented by 1st October 2024.

To ensure smooth flow of SMS traffic containing URLs, TRAI advises registered senders to promptly upload their whitelisted URL/APK/OTT links to the portal of the respective Access Providers.

The Border Security Force (BSF) thwarted a transnational wildlife trafficking attempt along the Indo-Bangladesh Border and recovered four golden pheasants in the North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal.

"There was an intelligence input regarding the possible smuggling of birds from across the border and troops of Amudiya Border Outpost were on an alert,” said a senior BSF official of the South Bengal Frontier, BSF.

He said that the jawans spotted two persons approaching the border fence from the Bangladesh side in a suspicious manner.

An Australian teenager has been charged over the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old in the Australian state of Victoria.

Victoria Police said on Wednesday that they had charged a 15-year-old boy with one count of murder after a 16-year-old was killed in a stabbing at a shopping centre in Melbourne's outer western suburbs on Tuesday.

Emergency services were called to the shopping centre in Melton West, about 38 km west of Melbourne's central business district, just before midday on Tuesday, where the 16-year-old was found with life-threatening injuries, news agency reported.

First responders commenced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but he died at the scene.

During a two-hour-long state-wide "surprise checking", thirty people were arrested and around 9,600 bottles of liquor of various brands were seized from different places of Nagaland, which has been a dry state for around 35 years, police said on Tuesday.

A senior police official said in Kohima that in coordinated and simultaneous raids by the District Executive Forces and different battalions of Nagaland Armed Police around 9,600 bottles of liquor of different brands were seized from 14 districts.

The official said that 28 cases were registered in various police stations and 30 persons were arrested under the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act, 1989.

An official statement of Nagaland police said that it would be the endeavour of the state Police to fully implement the NLTP Act and the actions against selling/storing illegal liquor would continue in future too.

In a gory reminder of horrendous Lahore motorway incident of 2020, a teenage girl was gang-raped allegedly by robbers in front of her family near the famous Pakpattan city of Punjab province, local media reported on Tuesday.

The incident occurred near village Malik Rahmoo in the Pakpattan district - a city known for its historic Sufi Islamic shrines, including that of Sufi Baba Fariduddin Ganj Shakar, known popularly as Baba Farid.

According to a report in leading Pakistani daily Dawn, a resident of Bahawalnagar was on a visit to family friends in Pakpattan along with his wife, a son and a minor daughter, a sister and a 17-year-old niece when the incident happened.

Returning home post midnight, their car was intercepted by four armed suspects who first robbed all passengers and then offloaded women.

The teenage girl was then taken to the roadside maize fields and gang-raped with the family held hostage.

An investigation was underway after a man was stabbed to death on a busy street in Sydney's inner west, police said on Tuesday.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services responded to reports of a man being stabbed on a main road in the inner-city suburb of Marrickville at approximately 7:40 p.m. (local time) on Monday.

Police officers located an unconscious man on the footpath and ambulance paramedics administered CPR but he could not be revived and died at the scene, news agency reported.

NSW Police said the victim was 32 years old.

News Corp Australia and Nine Entertainment newspapers reported that a scuffle broke out shortly after the man died as a group of men attempted to enter the crime scene. At least one officer drew a Taser as police tried to restrain the group while the body remained on the footpath.

Afghanistan's counter-narcotics police have arrested 27 people over drug trafficking and purchasing in the national capital, Kabul, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Monday.

The offenders were arrested during counter-narcotics operations conducted in the vicinity of Kabul, reports news agency.

Illicit drugs, including hashish and tablet K, a Western-made drug, have been discovered during the operations as well, the statement added.

At least four Bangladeshi infiltrators were pushed back by the security forces along Assam's Karimganj district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

Taking to his X handle, CM Sarma wrote, “In yet another successful pushback operation of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators, @assampolice managed to apprehend and send back to Bangladesh the following individuals through the Karimganj border 1. Sohil Hawladar 2. Shah Alam 3. Sourab Hawladar 4. Md Kawsar.”

Earlier, on Sunday, another two citizens of the neighbouring country were arrested in two separate instances in Assam’s Karimganj district and they were pushed back in a joint operation of state police and Border Security Forces (BSF).

Moroccan authorities seized 8.1 tonnes of cannabis resin during an operation in the western port city of Safi.

Local police and security authorities apprehended 199 bales of cannabis resin hidden in a Morocco-registered freight truck, which were intended for international shipment via sea, reports news agency, quoting state media MAP.

Authorities on Saturday arrested 21 individuals, aged between 24 and 48, for their suspected involvement in the drug trafficking network, on Saturday, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced on Sunday.