With one more militant taken into custody, the number of arrests in connection with Saturday's killing of two migrant workers from Bihar has risen to eight, officials said on Tuesday.

A police official said that a hardcore cadre of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s War Group) (KCP-PWG) outfit, identified as Irengbam Rameshwar Singh, 48, was arrested from Kakching Lamkhai area under Kakching district on Monday night.

The official said that a police team, acting on secret information, had earlier on Monday arrested seven militants of the KCP-PWG group from a hideout located at the Kakching Mamang Ching Laipham Loknung area in Kakching.

The arrested extremists were identified as Elangabm Herojit Singh, 40, Heikrujam Prem, 28, Okram Arundatta, 30, Senjam Rebingson, 27, Okram Amarjit, 31, Aribam Ghanendrajit Sharma, 25, and Chongtham Rajkumar, 26.

A teacher and a teenage student were killed and six students were injured in a shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, said the police who previously reported a higher death toll but later revised the information.

The suspect, a teenage student at the school, is also dead, police said. The suspect used a handgun, news agency reported.

A motive is not clear, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a news conference, adding that of the six injured students, two are in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, and the other four suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Officials are working to reunite students with their parents. About 390 students from kindergarten through 12th grade attend the school, according to News.

Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) in a joint operation with Mohali Police, arrested four operatives of Canada-based terrorist Arsh Dalla and another foreign based-handler and recovered three .32 calibre pistols along with 16 cartridges from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP), Gaurav Yadav, here on Monday.

Those arrested have been identified as Gagandeep Singh and Navjot Singh, both residents of Amloh in Fatehgarh Sahib, Lakhwinder Singh, a resident of Bhadson in Patiala and Vipanpreet Singh, a resident of Faridkot.

Besides recovering arms and ammunition from them, the police have also impounded their white Swift car, in which they were travelling.

DGP Yadav said the accused confessed to have fired at a car accessories showroom in Phase 11, Mohali on the intervening night of December 1 and 2 with an intention to intimidate the shop owner and extort money from him as directed by their foreign-based handler, Daljit Singh, alias Ninda.

Two individuals were arrested and a significant quantity of drugs was seized during a vehicle inspection drive conducted by Mufassil police in Bihar's Purnea district on Thursday, police said.

The incident occurred around 2.15 a.m. on the NH-31 flyover at Balouri village when a grey Swift car approaching from the Maranga side slowed down upon seeing the police and attempted to flee.

One occupant exited the vehicle and tried to escape on foot but was apprehended with the assistance of the police team.

Upon questioning, the suspects identified themselves as Raunak Kumar near the Khushki Bagh police station area at Sadar, Purnea, and Ricky Singh of Neva Lal Chowk police station area at Maranga, Purnea.

In a significant operation conducted jointly by the East Champaran Police and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), five individuals were arrested on Thursday for carrying highly refined heroin and a chemical in Bihar’s East Champaran district.

The raid took place in a village under Chhatauni police station, where two kilograms of a contraband substance and a chemical used in the refining of brown sugar production were seized. The international market value of the seized items is estimated to be ₹7 crore.

“This operation was carried out in collaboration with the NCB. Five individuals have been arrested, and the contraband, along with a chemical, was recovered. The arrested individuals have been placed in judicial custody,” said East Champaran Superintendent of Police Swarn Prabhat.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) seized gold bars worth Rs 3.4 crore and Rs 46 lakh during searches at 19 locations in Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon as part of an ongoing probe in Summaya-Dentsu case involving embezzlement of Rs 137 crore, an official said on Thursday.

During the course of search operations by the Mumbai Zonal Office on Tuesday, movable assets including Rs 46 Lakh, foreign currency equivalent to Rs 4 Lakh and gold bars amounting to Rs 3.4 crore have been seized.

Other incriminating documents related to immovable property transactions, and digital devices have been found and seized during the search proceedings, the official said.

Two Australian teenagers were arrested on Thursday after police believe they are linked to a crash, car fire and shooting in western Sydney.

Police in Australia's state of New South Wales said in a statement on Thursday that officers responded to reports of gunshots fired at a barbershop in Mount Druitt, about 40 kilometres west of central Sydney, at about 2:20 a.m. local time on Thursday, reports news agency.

Upon arrival, police found several bullet holes in the shop's window.

The shooting was reported shortly after officers arrested two 17-year-old teens at the site of a crashed vehicle in a neighbouring suburb.

Three drug peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.

A police statement said, “Continuing efforts to combat the menace of drugs in society, Baramulla Police have arrested three drug peddlers and recovered contraband substances from their possession."

The officials said that a team from Police Station Pattan, led by SHO intercepted a vehicle (Ertiga, registration number JK05M-8404) at a checkpoint near the Railway Crossing Pattan.

The property of a drug peddler worth Rs 50 lakh was attached on Tuesday by police in J&K’s Anantnag district, officials said.

“In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking, Anantnag Police has attached a residential property worth Rs 50 lakh belonging to a notorious drug peddler, Gh Hassan Bandro alias Qasim, son of Wali Mohammad, a resident of Sotkipora. This action was carried out by Police Station Srigufwara as part of the ongoing intensified efforts to combat the drug menace,” an official statement said.

“The accused, a habitual offender, has a history of involvement in drug trafficking and is implicated in multiple cases under the NDPS Act, at Police Station Srigufwara. These cases highlight his repeated attempts to undermine societal well-being through illegal activities. The attachment of the property sends a strong message to those engaged in the illegal drug trade that such activities will not be tolerated,” the police said.

Kolkata Police have busted a major call centre racket in the state capital after arresting 19 people, said officials on Tuesday.

The arrests were made late Monday night.

Sources from the city police said the racket involved luring the potential first targets and giving them an offer to download and install an anti-malware app on their respective devices.

Once the target had fallen into that trap, the entire data on the device where that particular app was downloaded was compromised and through that many of the victims lost huge amounts of money from their banks.

City police sources said that on the basis of a specific complaint from one such victim, the detectives of the city police started an investigation into the matter. Finally, they tracked that the entire fraud was operating from a residential flat based out of Ballygunge in South Kolkata.

A day after Jharkhand police chief Anurag Gupta held a meeting with officials to ramp up law and order, two horrific incidents of child murders within 24 hours rocked the state, with relatives accused in both cases, police officials said on Monday.

In the first incident, eight-year-old Prem Kumar was strangled to death in Saltua village under Chainpur police station limit of Palamu district. The accused, Sunita Devi, reportedly murdered her husband’s cousin’s son out of superstition.

According to Chainpur police station in-charge Shriram Sharma, Sunita’s six-month-old son had died on November 28. “Believing that her child’s death was caused by witchcraft performed by her cousin, she lured Prem to a farm field on Sunday. When the boy did not return home, villagers reported seeing him last with Sunita. Upon interrogation, she confessed to the crime, and the child’s body was recovered from a pigeon pea field on Monday. Sunita Devi has since been arrested,” Sharma said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday claimed to have arrested a gold smuggler and two carriers with 1.67 kg gold close to the Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB) in the Nadia district of West Bengal.

N K Pandey, DIG and spokesperson, South Bengal Frontier, BSF said that the estimated value of the gold is Rs 1.28 crore.

"Troops of the Puttikhali Border Outpost received intelligence inputs regarding an attempt to transport gold, smuggled from Bangladesh, along a road close to the IBB. A special ambush was laid accordingly. The jawans soon intercepted a motorcycle with two suspicious-looking persons,” DIG Pandey said.

He added that during questioning, they confessed that they were carriers of smuggled gold and were to collect a consignment from a smuggler travelling on a scooterette from Gede.

“The troops spotted this person soon on the Majharia-Gajna Road and stopped him. A search led to the discovery of three packets wrapped in black duct tape. The packets contained 12 gold biscuits and two gold bars. All three were arrested and taken to the Puttikhali BOP,” he said.

Over 100 people have been charged and arrested in a major police operation targeting Sydney drug dealers, police in Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Monday.

Among the 108 people who were arrested and have been charged following the operation across Sydney over three weekends, 64 have been charged with supply of a prohibited drug and 44 with drug possession offences. One person was also charged with a domestic violence-related offence, reports news agency.

Anyone convicted of supplying a prohibited drug in NSW faces a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment.

During the arrests, police officers from Strike Force Northrop seized cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, ketamine and methamphetamine with an estimated street value of 210,000 Australian dollars ($134,332).

The arrests included a 22-year-old Korean national who was allegedly found in possession of 21 bags of cocaine and 60 doses of MDMA. He was charged with three counts of supply of a prohibited drug and one count of dealing with the proceeds of crime.

Two students were wounded and the suspected gunman was dead after a shooting at a school in Northern California, authorities said.

Deputies were "on the scene of an active incident involving a shooting at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo," the Butte County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday in a statement.

Students were being taken to a nearby church and parents were asked to respond to the church to be reunified with their children, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The office received multiple 911 calls at around 1 p.m. local time regarding an adult male firing shots at students, KRCR-TV, a local TV station, reported, citing the Sheriff's Office as reported by news agency.

A fake call centre cheating US nationals on the pretext of providing technical support was busted in Sector-39 in Gurugram on Wednesday.

According to the police, acting on a tip-off, a team led by ACP (cybercrime) Priyanshu Diwan, raided the call centre in plot number 684, Durga Colony.

During the raid, the police arrested three accused, including the call centre operator, and seized a mobile phone, two laptops and other electronic gadgets.

The arrested accused have been identified as Amandeep Singh alias Prince (34), Palvender Singh (25) and Eishav Ghai (25), all residents of New Delhi.

A youth was arrested after a narcotics consignment valued at Rs 2 crore was seized from him at Ghutiari Sharif in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday.

The arrested youth has been identified as Abdul Molla.

Sources from the district police said that they received information about a narcotics consignment that had been delivered recently to someone at Ghutiari Sharif.

Accordingly, a team of cops led by a DSP conducted a raid at the residence of Molla early Wednesday.

A couple died by suicide by jumping from the third floor of an apartment building in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

The incident occurred in Akkireddy Palem in the Gajuwaka area early morning. The deceased were identified as Pilli Durga Rao (32) and Sai Sushmita (27), an employee in a pharma company in Hyderabad.

A police officer said they received the call about 5.50 a.m. about a couple jumping from an apartment building in Sheela Nagar in Venkateshwara Colony

Police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies for autopsy.

Quoting the neighbours, the police officer said the couple had been living together in a flat in the same building for the last three months and had an argument before the incident.

However, the investigations were on how and why the couple died.

A police manhunt is underway on Monday after two people were killed in a shooting in Australia, police said.

Police in the state of Victoria said in a statement that a man and woman were found with gunshot wounds at a home in Rye, a beachside town 65 km south of Melbourne, shortly after 4 a.m. local time on Monday, news agency reported.

Emergency services were unable to revive the pair, and they were declared dead at the scene.

Victoria Police said that detectives believe a second man fled the scene.

"At this early stage in the investigation, it's believed the parties were known to each other," a spokesperson said.

A Sub-Inspector of Police shot himself dead with his service revolver in Telangana’s Mulugu district on Monday.

Rudrarapu Harish, who was serving as the SI at Wajdeu Police Station, killed himself at a resort near Mullakatta village in Eturanagaram mandal on Monday morning.

The SI had checked into Harita Resort on Sunday and was said to be with a woman when he resorted to the extreme step. Police found the body of the cop in a pool of blood.

The reasons for the SI’s suicide are yet to be ascertained. Police suspect that personal problems might have driven him to end his life.

The police officer’s body was shifted to a government-run hospital for autopsy. The police have registered a case and took up an investigation.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) Border Police thwarted an attempt to smuggle six foreign nationals from Serbia into BiH, according to an official statement released.

The incident occurred on Wednesday in the Zvornik area, where officers intercepted five Indian nationals and one Nepalese national during a border surveillance operation. The individual operating the boat, suspected of facilitating the smuggling, fled toward Serbia upon noticing the police, news agency reported.

The Border Police Station in Mali Zvornik, under Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, has been informed to locate the suspect. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor's Office of BiH has directed the confiscation of the boat and related evidence, the statement released on Friday read.

Fake currency notes having a face value of Rs three lakh were recovered from a bus depot in Kolkata on Thursday and one person was arrested in this connection.

The accused was identified as Manwar Sheikh, a resident of Kaliachak in Malda district.

According to the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police, the seized Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) were in Rs 500 denomination.

The investigating officials suspect that the seized consignment came to Malda from Bangladesh and Sheikh brought it to Kolkata either for distribution in the city or to hand it over to another person.

The cops of STF are interrogating him to get details of others involved in the racket.

A man has been arrested by the police in connection with the rape and murder of a woman in Gujarat's Valsad district, a police official said.

The accused was identified through CCTV footage accessed by the police.

The accused has been identified as Rahul Singh Jat alias Bholu, who hails from Haryana and is currently in police custody, said Valsad Superintendent of Police (SP), Karanraj Vaghela.

According to the police, the accused is a serial killer as he first raped the 12th-class student in the Motiwada area in Valsad, and then killed her.

The Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended a Bangladeshi national with four gold biscuits, valued at Rs 36.56 lakh, during routine frisking at ICP Petrapole in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district on Tuesday.

In another operation in the same district, the BSF claims to have seized eight Air rifles and an air pistol that were allegedly being smuggled to Bangladesh. A large number of pellets and the barrel of an air rifle were also seized.

N K Pandey, DIG and spokesperson, South Bengal Frontier, BSF said that the troops of the 145 Bn BSF were on duty at ICP Petrapole.

A devotee of the world-famous Hindu temple at Tirumala near Tirupati town in Andhra Pradesh has been caught stealing money from 'Hundi' or the donation box.

The incident occurred on November 23 but came to light on Tuesday after the temple authorities lodged a complaint with the police.

The accused, identified as Venu Lingam, a resident of Tamil Nadu, has been arrested. The police recovered Rs15,000 from him.

The theft, which took place around 2 p.m. on November 23, was captured on CCTV camera and the security staff lodged a complaint after detecting theft while scanning the CCTV footage.

Four Serbian state officials, including former Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic, were arrested over allegations of involvement in a "serious offense against public safety" following a deadly roof collapse at the Novi Sad railway station.

According to a press release published by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, they will face charges of "causing general danger," news agency reported.

Seven other people, including engineers and designers, were also arrested for carrying out "improper and unlawful construction work," the office added.

A total of 15 people lost their lives and two others were critically injured after a roof collapsed at the Novi Sad railway station on November 1.

Myanmar authorities have seized large amounts of narcotic drugs in the regions of Mandalay and Sagaing, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) reported.

The confiscated narcotics included over 150 kg heroin, over 5 million stimulant tablets, 412 kg ICE (methamphetamine) and 3 tonnes of caffeine, news agency reported.

On November 5, authorities seized 51.03 kg heroin, 3 tonnes of caffeine, 5.51 million stimulant tablets and 412 kg ICE in Kale township of Sagaing region.

On November 6, another 13.2 kg heroin was seized in Kale township and 89.8 kg heroin was seized in Chanmyathazi township of Mandalay region, the CCDAC said.

Maoists have hacked to death two persons on suspicion of them being police informers in Telangana's Mulugu district.

The incident occurred late on Thursday night.

The Maoists, belonging to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), resorted to the action in Penugolu Colony in Wajedu mandal headquarters.

The victims were identified as Uika Ramesh and a local resident Uika Arjun. Ramesh was the secretary of Peruru Gram Panchayat in the same mandal.

A group of Maoists attacked the duo with sharp-edged weapons, resulting in their death on the spot.

Six Bangladeshi nationals living illegally in India were arrested in the Chitradurga district, and fake documents, including a passport and Aadhaar cards, were seized from them, police said on Tuesday.

The arrested were identified as Sheikh Saifur Rohaman, Mohammed Suman Husen, Majharul, Sonawar Hossain, Muhammad Sakib Sikdar and Azizul Shaik.

The accused were arrested when they were moving suspiciously on the night of November 18. The police were conducting night patrolling near Arvind Garments and White Washan Garments on Holalkere Road

The police questioned the accused and confiscated the documents they were carrying with them. After verification, the police came to know that all the accused were from Bangladesh. They illegally trespassed into India many years ago to permanently settle down here.

Seven police personnel, including the in-charge of the Anti-Liquor Task Force (ALTF), Home Guard jawans, and a driver, were arrested in Bihar's Vaishali district for their involvement in a liquor-related case following directives from Vaishali Superintendent of Police (SP) Har Kishor Rai.

The arrested officers, who were part of the Anti-Liquor Task Force (ALTF), are now facing legal proceedings, as a case has been registered against them.

The arrests were made after a joint raid led by Mahua SDPO Saurabh Suman and Mahua police, acting on SP Rai's instructions.

During the raid, authorities recovered a substantial quantity of alcohol from the residences of the ALTF officials. The seizure included 32 litres of country-made liquor and one bottle of Indian-made foreign liquor.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams, who had been conducting marathon raid and search operations at multiple locations in and around Kolkata since Thursday morning in connection with a multi-crore alleged financial fraud and money laundering through lottery tickets, have been able to track huge unaccounted cash from the residence of a businessman at Lake Market in south Kolkata.

Sources said that the ED officials, on Friday morning, brought a currency counting machine from a nearby bank branch in order to count the cash recovered.

As per the last information available, currency notes amounting to Rs 3 crore have been counted and the process of counting is still on.

Sources aware of the development said that there is a possibility that cash might be hidden at another location where simultaneous raid and search operations have been on since Thursday.

In a suspected case of consumption of illicit alcohol, three persons lost their lives within hours of being hospitalised in Bihar’s Siwan district, police said on Friday.

Ajit Kumar Singh, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Lakri Nabiganj police station, said that no conclusions can be drawn on the cause of death till postmortem reports are available.

The victims, all residents of Lakri Nabiganj village, were admitted to Sadar Hospital in Siwan on Thursday evening.

“We received information about the incident on Friday morning and dispatched a team to the hospital to gather further information,” SHO Singh said.

The unusual nature of the deaths has alarmed the police even as sources suggested that the victims might have consumed spurious alcohol.

Punjab Police on Thursday claimed to have dismantled two criminal gangs, including a UK-based extortion syndicate and arrested 10 hardcore criminals after recovering seven pistols along with 18 cartridges and 10 magazines from their possession, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here on Thursday.

He said preliminary investigations revealed the syndicate's complex cross-border operations, with key figures in the UK, Greece and Manila directing extortion and shootings in Punjab. Additionally, Jalandhar Rural Police have also uncovered a weapon procurement network operating from Madhya Pradesh.

“With busting of two modules, Punjab Police has successfully traced at least 14 cases of extortion and shootings, significantly disrupting foreign-backed crime in the state,” he said in a statement.

The officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), since Thursday morning, are conducting raids and search operations in and around Kolkata in connection with a multi-crore alleged financial fraud and money laundering through lottery tickets.

As per the last information available, three teams of the Central agency officials are carrying out simultaneous raid and search operations in at least three locations in Kolkata, one at Michael Nagar in Madhyamgram area in North 24 Parganas district in the northern outskirts of Kolkata, and the other two being at a state capital.

Sources aware of the development said that the place at Michael Nagar where the raid and search are on is a lottery ticket printing factory. The other two places where simultaneous raids and search operations are going on are Lake Market and Lake Gardens, both in South Kolkata.

Tunisian security units have arrested six illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa for manufacturing steel boats used in illegal immigration at a house in the northern province of Ariana, private radio station Mosaique FM reported on Monday.

According to the report, authorities received information about a boat hidden in a house in the Raoued region, intended for illegal crossings to Italy.

Upon conducting a search, officers from the Ariana North judicial police brigade discovered that the house had been converted into a workshop for building steel boats.

A modified car engine, designed to be installed on one of the boats, along with a quantity of fuel, was also seized during the operation, news agency reported.

Police have arrested a gang of criminals in northern Afghanistan's Balkh province, said a statement of the provincial police office on Monday.

The arrested criminals were allegedly involved in theft and robbery in the provincial capital, Mazar-i-Sharif city, reports news agency, citing the statement.

To ensure law and order, police units have intensified patrol, mostly with motorcycles elsewhere in the province, the statement further said.