Army chief visits forward areas along LoC
Rajouri, Sep 2: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday visited forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri sector and reviewed operational preparedness and security situation, Army officials said. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, northern command Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi along with other senior officers received the chief of army staff (COAS) and briefed him about the operational preparedness, the officials said. “General Manoj Pande, #COAS visited and reviewed the forward areas in Rajouri Sector. #COAS was briefed by Commanders on ground about the operational preparedness and prevailing security situation,” Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADGPI) of the Indian Army posted on X, formerly Twitter. “The COAS appreciated the operational readiness & effective domination of Line of Control,” they said. “The COAS during his motivational interaction with the troops exhorted them for their continued professionalism and steadfastness in meeting the operational challenges,” they said on X. The ADGPI also shared several pictures of the Army chief’s visit to the Rajouri sector. (PTI)
Flyer held with 5 kg cocaine
Hyderabad, Sep 2: A male passenger was arrested from the international airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 50 crore into the country, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Saturday. Basing on specific intelligence, the DRI officers seized cocaine, a banned drug under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985, at the airport from the passenger on September 1, an official release said. The contraband, wrapped in brown tape, was cleverly concealed in the false bottom of a check-in suitcase and in false bottoms of four ladies’ handbags carried in the check-in baggage, it said. The passenger had travelled from Laos to Hyderabad via Singapore and was on his way to Delhi. A total of five kilograms of cocaine, valued at around Rs 50 crore in the international grey market, was seized and the passenger has been arrested and remanded in judicial custody, the release said. Further investigations are underway, the DRI added in a statement. (PTI)