The Rajasthan Education Department has suspended four teachers for gross negligence in handling answer sheets of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE), citing serious lapses in confidentiality and evaluation protocol.

The suspensions were ordered late Monday by Ashish Modi, Director of the Education Directorate, Bikaner, following reports of mismanagement during the ongoing evaluation process.

Two of the suspended teachers are from Alwar district, while the other two are from the Didwana-Kuchaman area in Nagaur district of the state.

In Alwar, Omprakash Gai Saini, a senior mathematics teacher at Government Higher Secondary School, Railway Station, reportedly left RBSE Secondary Examination answer sheets unattended in front of interns during evaluation.

Four illegal Bangladeshi migrants, including a minor, were apprehended in Delhi, police said on Tuesday.

The illegal migrants were identified as Mohd. Asad Ali, 44, Nasima Begum, 40, Naim Khan, 18 and Asha Moni, 13, all hailing from Farooq Bazar Ajwatari P.O., Gongarhat, Phulbari Kurigram, Bangladesh.

In a crackdown against illegal migrants residing in India under the Union Home Ministry's campaign to deport illegal migrants, the team of Anti-Auto Theft Squad (AATS) of Delhi's South West district gathered the intelligence and apprehended the illegal migrants, Deputy Commissioner of Police South West District, New Delhi, said in a statement.

In a swift and coordinated response, the Greater Chennai Police thwarted an attempted ATM break-in during the early hours of Monday and arrested three suspects, all migrant workers, at the scene.

According to officials, the incident took place at a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM located on Thiruvalluvar Salai.

The trio allegedly tried to tamper with the ATM’s advanced security system by using a black cardboard sheet to obstruct its artificial intelligence-based surveillance camera.

The technique, police believe, was aimed at disabling or confusing the system to gain access to the cash chest undetected. However, the ATM’s built-in AI surveillance mechanism triggered an automated alert when it detected the suspicious activity.

The team of Cyber Police Station of Delhi Police have arrested three notorious cheats/fraudsters for digitally arresting elderly people and defrauding them of their money.

The three have been identified as Rahul Verma, a resident of Raipur, Chhattisgarh; Shantanu Richoriya, R/o Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and Arjun Singh, R/o Village Saharanpur, UP. All three are aged around 25 years.

With their arrest, three smartphones, four SIM cards, Debit Cards, four passbooks and three cheque books of different banks were recovered from their possession.

The police officials in a press release on Monday said that a complaint of Mahender Jain, a resident of Raj Nagar, Palam Colony, was received through NCRP regarding digital arrest and duping of Rs 25 lakh by unknown fraudsters.

In a significant development amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, a man from Gujarat has been arrested for sharing sensitive information related to the Indian Navy and the Border Security Force (BSF) with a Pakistani agent, Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials confirmed on Saturday.

The accused, Sahdev Singh Gohil, a 28-year-old health worker and resident of Kachchh district, came under the scanner of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for his suspicious activities.

According to senior ATS officer K. Siddharth, Gohil came into contact with a Pakistani agent who identified herself as Aditi Bharadwaj through WhatsApp in 2023.

During an initial inquiry, it was discovered that Gohil had been sending photographs and videos of sensitive Indian Navy and BSF installations -- some completed and others under construction -- to the alleged agent.

Security forces in Manipur arrested two drug peddlers, including a woman in Churachandpur district and recovered drugs worth over Rs 2.84 crore and cash amount of Rs 37.5 lakh from their possession, officials said on Saturday.

A police official said that the security forces arrested a drug smuggler, identified as Doukholet Hanghal (52), from his residence at Mongkot Khopi village under Churachandpur district on Friday night.

The security personnel, after a thorough search of his residence, recovered 870 grams of brown sugar valued at Rs 1.74 crore, 20 soap cases containing heroin weighing 260 grams valued at Rs 52 lakh. Rs 29.5 lakh, acquired by the individual from drug deals, two radio sets and a mobile phone were also recovered from the possessions of the detainee.

Two Maoists, including a top operative carrying a bounty of Rs 10 lakh, were killed in an encounter with police in the Ichwar forest area of Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday morning, officials said.

One of the deceased has been identified as Pappu Lohara, a wanted Maoist with multiple cases against him across several police stations in the state.

The second has been identified as Prabhat Lohara. Both were associated with the banned outfit Jharkhand Sangharsh Mukti Morcha (JSMM).

Following specific intelligence inputs regarding the movement of Maoists in the region, a joint team of police and security forces, led by Superintendent of Police (SP) Kumar Gaurav, launched a search operation early Saturday.

Around 8 a.m., the team came face to face with a group of armed Maoists in the Ichwar forest, leading to a fierce exchange of fire.

Three individuals were gunned down and two others critically injured in a violent clash that broke out between two groups in Bihar’s Buxar district on Saturday morning.

The incident occurred at Ahiyapur village under Rajpur police station in Buxar district.

The incident stemmed from a long-standing property dispute that escalated after a heated argument the day prior.

The deceased have been identified as Sunil Singh (40), son of Daya Shankar Singh, and Vinod Singh (50), son of Baban Singh, lost their lives on the spot due to gunshot injuries while Virendra Singh (35), son of Kashinath Singh succumbed due to the injuries in the hospital.

In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boy was brutally murdered by having his throat slit in Jugidaru village under the Mufassil police station area of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, officials said on Friday.

The accused, identified as Chandra Mohan Ban Singh, a neighbour of the victim, Arjun Ban Singh, has been arrested.

According to the police, the incident took place late Thursday evening, when Arjun’s parents, Sinkur Ban Singh and his wife, had gone to the local market.

Odisha Police personnel have arrested a "suave NRI conman" for duping highly qualified professionals of lakhs on the pretext of facilitating them get well-paid jobs abroad, Vinaytosh Mishra, DGP, Odisha Crime Branch, said on Friday.

The accused Bishnu Prasad Pattnaik alias Biranchi Narayan hails from Begunia police station area of Khordha district.

"The accused cheated a qualified aeronautical engineer, who passed out from a college in Coimbatore, to the tune of Rs 90 lakh on the pretext of providing a job in British Airways and then Lufthansa airways,” said Mishra.

The accused even created fake offer and appointment letters to deceive the victim aeronautical engineer from Gunupur.