Search operation launched near International Border in Jammu
Jammu (PTI): Security forces on Sunday launched a massive search operation after intelligence agencies picked up a satellite phone communication in Kanachak area near the International Border here, officials said.
The communication by suspected terrorists was traced to a Thuraya Satellite device, prompting a joint search operation by the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force and the Army, the officials said.
Kanachak, located on the outskirts of Jammu, is just one kilometre from the International Border, and has earlier been used by terrorists as an infiltration route from across the border.
The whole area has been cordoned off and a massive search operation is underway, the officials said.
Security forces have also intensified search and cordon operations across Jammu, including the high altitude areas, to track down and neutralise nearly three dozen terrorists who are believed to be operating in the region, they said.
Officials said the intensified operations are part of the steps taken by the security agencies to ensure peaceful celebrations during the upcoming Republic Day.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
