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Pakistan Army’s Special Service Group (SSG) commandos were seen near an Indian Army post in the Krishna Ghati sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in August end, Army sources said on Wednesday. The Pakistani troop movement along the Poonch river was picked up by Indian soldiers and some hi-tech equipment, the sources said, adding that the enemy troops were “engaged” and forced to rush back to their nearest post. When Indian troops went to the spot to “seek close contact to destroy them”, they found an action camera in which their movement was captured. “A video from the same…

Virat Kohli went past his deputy Rohit Sharma as the leading run-scorer in T20 internationals. Captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday got past his deputy Rohit Sharma as the leading run-scorer in T20 internationals after his unbeaten 72 helped India record a facile seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the second T20 international in Mohali on Wednesday. Kohli started the match on 2,369 runs in 65 innings to Rohit’s 2,422 runs in 88 innings. While opener Rohit got out LBW to Andile Phehlukwayo for just 12, Kohli went on to notch up his 22nd half-century in T20 internationals and also surpass…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Wednesday, 18 September. Addressing the media after the meeting, she said that the demand for West Bengal’s name change to Bangla was brought up. Mamata Banerjee”The meeting with the prime minister was good. We discussed changing the name of West Bengal to ‘Bangla’. He has promised to do something about the matter.” The meeting assumes significance as Banerjee has been one of the harshest critics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi, with acrimony between the two leaders reaching a…

Astrophysicists have figured out the role of ‘recycling’ in the evolution of the universe by studying the life cycle of stars. The study explains how material left by the dead celestial objects come together to form new celestial bodies. Researchers from the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the University of Kent, United Kingdom were able to determine a lot about the important stages of the universe. Their research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society described the process of death and the birth of celestial bodies within which the newer planets and stars were created from the…

The death of a giant panda in a Thai zoo has led to an outpouring of grief and anger in China, prompting Beijing’s decision to dispatch a team of experts to investigate the unexpected demise of the animal. Native to China, the life expectancy of a giant panda, a type of bear, is between 25 years to 30 years. The deceased, a male panda named Chuang Chuang, however, was 19. The cause of his death has not been made public. He died at a zoo in Chiang Mai, the largest city in northern Thailand and his death was announced by…

Paris is testing out a new form of travel: an eco-friendly bubble-shaped taxi that zips along the water up and down the Seine River. Organizers are holding test runs this week on the white, oval-shaped electric hydrofoil boats that resemble tiny space shuttles gliding past Paris monuments. They can fit four passengers, and if they get approved, they can be ordered on an app like land taxis, shared bikes or other forms of transport. Its designers hope to run the so-called Seabubbles commercially in Paris and other cities starting next year. Proponents see the vehicle as a new model for…

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez of cooperating with Colombian rebel group FARC to ease the shipment of cocaine into the United States, a Spanish court ruling published Tuesday showed. The accusation was cited in a ruling by Spain’s National Court, the country’s top criminal court, rejecting a US request to extradite Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief, General Hugo Armando Carvajal, on drug trafficking charges. The ruling includes a sworn statement from an agent from a DEA agent that was included as evidence to back the extradition request. In it, he refers to Carvajal…

It seems this love was too hot to handle. Police in Lincoln says a 19-year-old woman sparked an apartment fire Monday by burning love letters from her ex in her bedroom. Police say the woman used a butane torch to burn the letters and left some of them off the floor. She then went to another room to take a nap. Police say she awoke a short time later to find the carpet on fire. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within minutes. Officials say the fire caused an estimated $4,000 in damage to the building. No one was…

India beat South Africa by seven wickets in the second T20 International here on Wednesday. Virat Kohli’s Indian T20 team has beaten South Africa by 7 wickets in the second T20I at Mohali to take a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series. This is India’s first-ever T20I victory over South Africa on home soil and the skipper’s unbeaten 72 helped the team achieve this feat with an over to spare. Scores South Africa: 149 for 5 in 20 overs (Quinton de Kock 52, Temba Bavuma 49; Deepak Chahar 2/22). India: 151 for 3 in 19 overs (Virat Kohli 72 not…

Saudi Arabia has ramped up the pressure on Donald Trump to respond to a devastating strike on two major oil installations, by displaying drone and missile technology it insisted showed the attack was “unquestionably sponsored by Iran”. A Saudi defense spokesman at a high-profile press conference claimed that a total of 25 drones and cruise missiles were used in the attack on the Aramco facilities on Saturday, saying repeatedly they had been fired from the north, the direction of Iran. Lt Col Turki al-Maliki said Saudi Arabia was still working to identify the precise launch point of the attack but claimed the debris…