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https://ift.tt/hQrUONf An on-duty police inspector was killed, and 13 others were injured when a giant Tsunami swing snapped mid-air and collapsed at the Surajkund Fair in Haryana's Faridabad on Saturday evening, police said. According to the police, approximately 15 people were riding the swing when it titled and came crashing onto the ground at around 6:15 pm. A senior official said the dead officer was identified as Inspector Jagdish Prasad of Palwal Police, who was on fair duty and was posted in the police lines, Palwal. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Prasad was set to retire in March. He tried to save people and showed great bravery, but in the process he received severe injuries to his face and head, the official said. Soon after the swing collapsed, the entire Mela ground was evacuated and District Magistrate Ayush Sinha led the rescue operations with other agencies and oversaw the shifting of the injured to hospital. A probe has...

https://ift.tt/LgwotOb A mild reprimand for arriving late for a Class 12 preliminary test triggered an outburst of anger in a student who allegedly slapped the woman invigilator, for "daring" to question his behaviour in Panchmahal district. Later, the student returned to the premises of the school with his father and a group of people, and allegedly threatened to harm the teacher who lives alone, police said. Amid an outrage after CCTV footage of the January 24 slapping incident went viral, police paraded the accused in public, an official said. Police Inspector Ankur Chaudhary, however, said the police "reconstructed" the crime to understand the sequence of events, leading to the incident which occurred on January 24 at S.J. Dave High School in Shehra town, Panchmahal district. An FIR was registered on February 3. The 18-year-old was subsequently arrested and produced in a court, which released him on bail on Friday, said Chaudhary. Police said the student, id...

https://ift.tt/BEDH9Jt A sub-contractor has been arrested after a biker fell to his death in a pool-sized pit dug by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in Janakpuri, officials said Saturday.  A probe revealed that the sub-contractor, Rajesh Prajapati, was allegedly alerted about the accident hours before police received information about it, but he failed to take any action, officials said. Twenty five-year-old Kamal Dhyani, a resident of Kailashpuri and an employee of a private bank, was returning home late Thursday night from his workplace in Rohini when he fell into the deep pit and died. His body, along with his motorcycle, was found inside the ditch the next morning. A family passing through the area the previous night had noticed that the victim had fallen into the pit. They immediately alerted a security guard deployed at the site.  The security guard informed a junior staff member the same night, stating that a person had fallen into the pit, police said. The junior staff ...

https://ift.tt/BcE92bJ European governments are stepping up military planning amid rising fears that Russia may move against NATO or European Union countries sooner than expected. Europe may not be fully prepared to respond to such a threat, a recent wargame has revealed. The Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, are considered key risk areas.  The wargame, held in December by Germany's Die Welt newspaper and the German Wargaming Center at Helmut Schmidt University, simulated a Russian incursion into Lithuania in October 2026. It involved former senior German and NATO officials, lawmakers, and security experts. Wargames are designed to identify gaps, risks, and possible outcomes without real fighting. In the simulation, Russia used a claimed humanitarian crisis in its Kaliningrad exclave to justify taking over the Lithuanian city of Marijampole, a transport hub near the borders of Poland and Belarus. The narrative created enough uncertainty for the United States to av...

https://ift.tt/k5ZdVDR A Class 12 student in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly attacked his teacher with a sharp weapon on January 26, severing both her lips, according to police. The victim's brother stated in his complaint that the student had been consistently harassing the teacher, who worked at a private school on Agra Road. Despite a previous complaint made to the student's mother during a parent-teacher meeting and subsequent assurances that the behaviour would stop, the harassment persisted. Distressed by the student's conduct, the teacher eventually resigned and moved to a different school. However, the accused allegedly tracked her to her new workplace and continued to stalk her daily. On January 26, the student intercepted the teacher on her way to work and attacked her with a sharp weapon, cutting off both of her lips before fleeing the scene. "A case has been registered based on the complaint filed by the teacher's brother," said Kotwali Stat...

https://ift.tt/g6htQxa England Test captain Ben Stokes has sustained a serious facial injury after being struck by a ball during a training session. Stokes posted a picture on Instagram of his injured face and wrote: "You should see the state of the cricket ball." The photo showed that his right eye was heavily swollen. There was a graze on his cheek and lip, while a bandage was stuffed in his nose. The 34-year-old recently led England during their 4-1 loss to Australia in the Ashes. Stokes and former England player Moeen Ali are set to join another former cricketer, Andrew Flintoff , on the England Lions coaching setup for a white-ball series against Pakistan Shaheens in Abu Dhabi in February-March. Stokes is recovering from the groin injury he suffered while bowling in the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney earlier this month. Moeen Ali, who also reversed his retirement from English domestic cricket to join Yorkshire for the T20 Blast, will join the England Lions coaching se...