The Bengaluru Police arrested an auto-rickshaw driver on Friday for harassing a woman at a public place, demanding her contact number and pestering her to allow him to take a selfie with him.

The incident took place in the Pulakeshinagar police station limits. The arrested person was identified as Mani.

According to police, the woman was standing with her male friend near a shop when the accused auto-rickshaw driver approached her and asked her to share her contact number with him.

The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi has issued a public advisory cautioning passengers about possible flight delays on Friday afternoon due to shifting wind patterns in its surrounding areas.

In an update posted on X, the Delhi Airport stated, “Due to shifting wind patterns in the vicinity of the airport, certain airline operations may experience delays.”

To manage the situation, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) has implemented air traffic flow management (ATFM) measures for incoming flights from 12.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. IST, aimed at ensuring safe operations.

“These protocols are being carried out in line with international aviation standards and regulatory guidelines, with passenger safety cited as the top priority,” it said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday raided the residence of dog breeder S. Satish, who claimed to own a Rs 50 crore canine, in Bengaluru.

Sources said that the ED registered a complaint against Satish in this regard and continued the search and seizure operation.

The search operation was conducted at his residence in J. P. Nagar.

However, during the raids, it was found that Satish's claims of purchasing the rare dog breed were false. The officers are getting details of his transactions, income tax and GST details.

The ED is yet to make an official statement on the matter.

A resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district was arrested on Thursday in Samba district after three Pakistani phone numbers with incoming calls were found on his mobile phone.

Officials said, “Farooq Ahmed, a resident of Poonch district, was detained in Samba after three Pakistani phone numbers with incoming calls were found on his phone. He was spotted near the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, raising suspicions that led to his detention."

The Jammu and Kashmir Police are now investigating his connections to probe potential links to suspicious activities, the officials added.

No ISD calls are allowed from Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan for security reasons.

A massive ‘seek and destroy’ operation is going on in Kathua, Rajouri, Poonch, Kishtwar and Udhampur districts of Jammu division to trace terrorists and engage them in gunfights by the joint forces.

Interesting details have emerged regarding the arrest of the accused in the Bengaluru molestation case of two women. Police nabbed the accused, Santosh Daniel, 10 days after the incident, in Kerala, and it has emerged that his home guard girlfriend helped him hide.

After the CCTV footage of the incident went viral, it became a major challenge for the police department to crack the case quickly.

Sources reveal that the accused was in a live-in relationship with the female home guard. Daniel had sexually harassed two young women and then escaped -- later seen enjoying life in Kerala. The police have expressed shock over the home guard supporting the accused even after knowing about his act of molestation.

Sources reveal that shockingly, the molester was guided by his lover home guard on how to avoid the police after the incident.

Daniel was found having a good time at a resort in Kerala along with the female home guard at the time of arrest.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Kolkata Zonal Office, has intensified its probe into a massive cyber fraud racket involving digital arrest scams. The agency conducted search operations recently under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, across multiple locations in Kolkata, Delhi, and Bengaluru, in connection with the case involving Ms. Uma Jacinta Burney and others.

The searches led to the seizure of several incriminating documents and digital evidence tied to a sophisticated cyber fraud syndicate. The ED launched its investigation based on an FIR filed by the Kolkata Police at Cyber PS, Kolkata, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 and the Information Technology Act, 2000.

In a tragic incident near the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, a seven-year-old boy was killed in a tiger attack while returning from a visit to the Trinetra Ganesh temple with his grandmother on Wednesday.

The child, identified as Kartik Suman, son of Dwarka Mali, resident of Gohta village under Dei Kheda police station (Bundi), was attacked in the Amarai forest area.

Eyewitnesses said that the tiger suddenly emerged from the forest and snatched Kartik by the head, dragging him away in front of several people. The animal reportedly sat in the forest for a long time, keeping its paw on the child’s neck.

The shocking incident caused panic in the area. Local people rushed to inform the authorities at Ganesh Dham Chowki. Upon receiving the alert, Forest Department officials reached the spot and immediately closed all routes leading to the Trinetra Ganesh temple.

The West Bengal Police on Wednesday announced the constitution of a nine-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe the violence and riot-like situation in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district throughout almost the entire last week over protests against the Waqf Amendment Act becoming violent.

Also, the National Commission for Women (NCW), on Wednesday, announced the formation of an inquiry committee to investigate the violence.

The two announcements came on a day when a petition has already been filed at Calcutta High Court by some victim families of Murshidabad seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the violence. The hearing on the matter will be held on Thursday.

The nine-member SIT of the state police to probe the Murshidabad violence will be headed by an officer of the rank of additional superintendent of police, who will be assisted by two officers in the ranks of deputy superintendents of police and six inspector-ranking officers.

At least two workers, including a woman of MGNREGA, were killed and two more seriously injured when a big tree got uprooted and fell on them in Tripura’s mountainous Dhalai district on Wednesday, officials said.

A district administration official said that a big tree got uprooted and fell on the workers when they were digging a check dam in government land under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) at Nailafabari under Ambassa block of Dhalai district.

The check dam is a small dam built across a channel, ditch, or stream to reduce erosion and control water flow. Check dams are often used in agriculture, hilly areas, and arid regions.

The official said Robert Malsum (22) died on the spot while three other injured workers – Juhi Rani Malsum (26), Surjyasa Malsum (35) and Jagat Bhakta Malsum (5) – were immediately shifted to a government hospital, where Juhi Rani succumbed to her injuries during medical treatment.

The Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Wednesday regretted the tragic incident at the Yelahanka Kogilu Junction here in which an autorickshaw driver lost his life after a girder viaduct during transportation fell onto the three-wheeler crushing its driver to death on the spot.

A long carrier truck transporting a girder from the Wadiyarpura casting yard was involved in the accident that happened around Tuesday midnight. As the truck was taking a turn, the girder support system failed and the massive concrete structure fell onto an autorickshaw, resulting in the death of its driver -- identified as Kasim Saab.

Reacting to the incident, BMRCL, in its official statement, stated, "Whether in operations or construction, public safety is of the utmost priority to BMRCL, and all necessary measures will be taken to prevent such incidents in the future."

The accident took place while Saab, a resident of Hegde Nagar, was ferrying a passenger towards Nagawara. The passenger had a miraculous escape, police said.