A female doctor in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the premises here on Friday.

She was a second-year postgraduate medical student at the hospital and was also working as a house staff with the chest medicine division.

The body was discovered by the hospital staff on the fourth floor of the emergency building of the hospital at around noon. Following the recovery of the body, tension broke out within the premises.

A total number of 1,630 cases of child abuse have been reported in Pakistan during the first six months of 2024, according to a report released by local non-governmental organisation Sahil on Friday.

Based on the cases reported in 81 daily national and regional newspapers from January to June 2024, the data showed 862 cases of child sexual abuse, 668 cases of abduction, 82 cases of missing children, and 18 cases of child marriages, news agency reported.

This year 48 cases of pornography after sexual abuse were also recorded, the report added.

Six-monthly data revealed that out of the total reported cases, 962 or 59 per cent of victims were girls and 668 or 41 per cent were boys.

In a breakthrough against trans-border narcotic smuggling networks, Punjab Police have arrested two drug smugglers, including a woman, after recovering 6.65 kg heroin and Rs 6 lakh drug money from their possession, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here on Thursday.

Those arrested have been identified as Simran Kaur, alias Indu (38) and Gurjot Singh. Both the accused have a criminal background with accused Simran facing at least 15 criminal cases pertaining to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Prisons Act, etc.

The J&K Police said on Thursday that it has arrested two persons from Punjab who were posing as police officers.

“Two residents of Punjab were arrested in Srinagar city on Wednesday for impersonating police officers. They were found roaming in the Nehru Park area of Srinagar. Police have started an investigation and a case has also been registered in this,” officials said.

More details are awaited.

It must be mentioned that last year, a person from Gujarat was arrested months after he deceived the local administration posing as a senior officer of the PMO.

Over 760 kg of ganja worth crores of rupees has been seized from a house in Nanu Khurd village in Gurugram's Pataudi block, the police said on Wednesday.

The narcotic substance was seized following the search of a locked house in the village on Wednesday.

According to the police, the Crime Branch of DLF Phase-IV received a tip-off that a large quantity of ganja was stored in a house in the Pataudi area. Acting on the tip-off, a Crime Branch team led by Inspector Sandeep Kumar reached the spot but found that the house was locked.

Two persons including the Personal Security Officer (PSO) of BJD MLA Niranjan Pujari died following bullet injuries at Chulimalgaon in Subarnapur district of Odisha on Wednesday.

Two persons have reportedly been detained at Binka police station for the investigation into the case.

Amid the ongoing crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh, the officials of the Customs Department and the Border Security Force (BSF) have been alerted of the possibilities of illegal immigration attempts through the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal using fake Indian identity documents.

The department has already been provided with names of certain Bangladeshi residents who might make such illegal immigration attempts, a list of which has also been shared with the BSF battalions deputed at the different border outposts in the state.

Sources said that the alert had been issued after a Bangladesh couple, along with their child, was nabbed while attempting to illegally enter the Indian territory on Tuesday evening and both of them were carrying fake Aadhaar and PAN cards.

The Patna Police have arrested a man from Kolkata for threatening to blow up Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office here, officials said.

The man, identified as Mohammad Zahid (51) and a native of Bhagwanpur block in Bihar's Begusarai district, was arrested Monday night.

The accused had sent an email on July 16 under the name Al-Qaeda.

The SHO of the Secretariat police station registered an FIR against unknown persons on August 2.

During the investigation, Zahid's whereabouts were traced to the Baubazar area in Kolkata, where he ran a paan shop on 40 BB Ganguly Street. Zahid confessed to sending the email to frame three individuals, and the police seized the mobile phone used to send the email.

Seven unidentified armed robbers looted Rs 21 lakh from a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch in Patna's outskirt village on Monday.

The police said that the robbers arrived on bikes in Jamui Koraiya village, under the jurisdiction of Dulhinbazar police station in the district and committed the crime.

In a daring daylight robbery, armed criminals entered a branch of Punjab National Bank, taking employees and customers hostage at gunpoint. They looted approximately Rs 21 lakh. The robbery took place just a few hours after the bank opened on Monday.

The district police are currently investigating the incident. The criminals also took away the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) of the bank's CCTV system, which will likely hinder the investigation.

Myanmar authorities have seized 2.3 tonnes of ICE (methamphetamine) in southern Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, the state-run daily reported on Saturday.

On July 22, a combined team of security personnel attempted to stop a cargo boat in a creek in Pyapon township of Ayeyarwady region, 'The Mirror' reported, citing police sources.

The team pursued the unstopped boat and eventually seized the drugs on board, news agency reported.

Five suspects on the boat were arrested. Seven others involved in the crime were also arrested in Yangon and Mandalay regions.

The estimated value of the seized drugs is about 69 billion kyats ($32.85 million), the report said.