The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a series of raids, including one in Mustafabad, a northeastern area of the national Capital and recovered suspicious materials.

The operation was carried out with the involvement of the Delhi Police's Special Cell and local police. According to sources, suspicious materials were recovered during the raid, and notices have been issued to certain individuals, with as many as two people being detained for questioning. The raid concluded on Saturday morning.

This action is part of the NIA's investigation under case RC-13/24/NIA/DLI, targeting the nationwide network of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). As part of this crackdown, raids are being conducted at 22 locations across five states in the country.

Two terrorists were killed on Saturday as the alert troops of the army foiled an infiltration bid at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Officials said that two unidentified terrorists were killed by the army in the Gugaldhar area of Kupwara district when an infiltration bid from across the LoC was foiled by them.

Srinagar headquartered 15 Corps of the army posted on its X: “Two terrorists have been eliminated by the security forces in the ongoing Operation GUGALDHAR. War-like stores have been recovered. Search of the area is underway and Operation is in progress.”

Anti-terrorism and anti-infiltration operations in the hinterland and along the LoC were increased to ensure the smooth conduct of the legislative Assembly elections in J&K.

A mild earthquake, measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale, was felt in the Manipur-Nagaland border area on Friday, officials said.

A Manipur disaster management official said that the quake was felt in the state's northern Ukhrul district and adjoining Nagaland. The mountainous district also shares a border with Myanmar.

According to the officials, there has been no report of any casualty of life or damage to property due to the quake.

Ukhrul was recently wracked by violence when residents of two Naga villages clashed over a boundary dispute, leaving four people dead and over two dozen injured.

According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the quake struck at a depth of 30 km from the surface. At least one state in the mountainous northeastern region experiences earthquakes every week with most of the tremors varying measuring 3 to 4 on the Richter scale. Successive earthquakes, mostly mild to moderate, in the mountainous northeastern states, especially in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur, have kept the authorities worried, forcing the public and private builders to build quake-proof structures.

Two soldiers were injured in a mine blast near the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K's Kupwara district on Friday, officials said.

The incident occurred at around 3 a.m. when the soldiers were on patrol along the LoC, and the injured soldiers were identified as a havaldar and a naik of 19 Sikh.

"The injured soldiers were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment. Doctors said both the injured soldiers are stable," an official said.

It was only on Thursday that the Srinagar-headquartered 15 Corps' outgoing commander, Lt General Rajiv Ghai told reporters that in order to sustain the prevailing peace in Kashmir, there should be no reduction in the number of troops deployed to guard the LoC and those deputed for anti-terrorism operations.

In a horrific incident, a woman was burnt to death by unidentified persons on suspicion of practising black magic in Telangana's Medak district.

According to police, the woman was beaten up and set ablaze at her residence in Katrial village of Ramayampet Mandal late on Thursday night.

The assailants poured petrol on the woman, identified as D. Muttava, and set her afire. Her son and daughter-in-law ran out of the house in panic. Hearing the cries, neighbours rushed to the house and doused the fire. She succumbed while being shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad.

Police shifted the body to Ramayampet Hospital and took up investigations.

A culvert in Bihar's Bhagalpur district collapsed on Thursday due to heavy rainfall and the rising water pressure of the Ganga River.

The culvert, located in Mustafapur Chaukhandi village within the Pirpainti block, was swept away by the strong currents of the river.

Following the incident, officials from the Water Resource Department, disaster management teams, and local police promptly arrived at the scene to assess the situation.

Nagendra Nath Gupta, the District Public Relation Officer (DPRO) of Bhagalpur, said that the Mustafapur Chaukhandi culvert, located on the Pirpainti-Bakharpur main road, was washed due to heavy rains.

In the second fatal incident of its kind in two days, a 36-year-old man was killed when two slabs of a five-storey building crashed on him in south Mumbai on Thursday.

The BMC Disaster Control said that the incident was reported around 10.15 a.m. from the United Chambers Building of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, in Grant Road east.

The second and first floor slabs of the ground-plus-five floor building suddenly came crashing down one after the other, trapping and seriously injuring one person who was present on the premises,

The man was extricated from the debris by the rescue teams comprising the Mumbai Police and Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) besides local volunteers, and rushed to the nearby Sir J.J. Hospital.

An encounter broke out between the security forces and terrorists in the Chatroo area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, police said on Thursday.

"Based on specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists, a joint search operation was launched by the security forces at Chatroo Kishtwar," police said, adding that "a contact has been established and a few rounds have been fired from both sides."

The operation started after a joint team of police and security forces got input about the presence of terrorists in that area.

More details were awaited.

There have been a series of encounters between terrorists and security forces across Jammu and Kashmir in the recent past in which many terrorists and their commanders have been eliminated. Security forces have also taken casualties.

At least three persons, including two pilots and an aircraft engineer, were feared killed after a helicopter flying over the Bavdhan area in Pune crashed in the hilly terrain, officials said here on Wednesday.

The chopper had taken from Oxford Golf Club for a flight to Juhu Airport in Mumbai and is believed to have crashed around 7.50 a.m., barely three to four minutes after it was airborne, and the region had a thick fog, said a police officer speaking from the site of the tragedy.

This is the second incident of its kind in the Pune hills after a private helicopter on a Mumbai-Hyderabad flight crashed in the region on August 24, injuring four, and before that, on May 3, a helicopter flying to pick up Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sushma Andhare had crashed near a helipad in Raigad.

Rajasthan Forest Minister Sanjay Sharma on Tuesday said that shooting orders have been issued against a man-eating leopard, who mauled a woman in Udaipur’s Gogunda town in Rajasthan.

“The place where the leopard hunted on Tuesday will be marked and the area will be cordoned off. The leopard is not only hunting people but also mutilating bodies. The wild animal has become a man-eater beast,” the minister said.

He added that after attacking, the leopard moves about three km ahead and then hunts for new prey.

“It is expected that the man-eater leopard will be killed by this evening,” the minister said.

The Forest Department said that more than a dozen teams are preparing to shoot the leopard in the forest area of the Kelvon Ka Kheda village.