The Indian women’s hockey team’s hope of making it to the Paris Olympics depends on their finishing among top three in the Olympic Qualifiers , scheduled in Ranchi, from January 13 to 19.
Kakching police in Manipur recovered arms and ammunition during search operations conducted in the Wangoo Laipham area, the officials said on Wednesday.
Those arrested have been identified as Uzair Ul Haq and Raj Mohammad from Jammu and Kashmir.
Following the search operation in the vulnerable and fringe areas in the violence-hit Manipur, arms and ammunition were recovered from the Imphal East district in the last 24 hours, police said on Tuesday.
A Srinagar based defence spokesman said that nine AK series rifles, three pistols, four grenades, two hundred eighty-eight AK and pistol rounds, fifty-five narco packets and other huge quantities of war like stores were recovered.
The infiltration bid in Krishna Ghati Sector was made on the night of June 14-15, confirmed the defence spokesman Lt Colonel Devender Anand.
According to the police, incriminating materials, arms & ammunition including 1 pistol, 1 pistol magazine, 4 pistol rounds, 1 silencer, 1 IED, 1 remote control, 2 batteries, and 1 empty magazine of an AK 47 rifle were recovered on their disclosure.
The FIR was lodged by the anti-terror agency earlier this month against 10 arrested accused belonging to Pakistan's Balochistan region
The Army said on Sunday that a huge consignment of arms and ammunition was recovered during multiple searches in J&K's Baramulla district.
The Pentagon's Defence Security Cooperation Agency on Friday announced the package, the largest in almost two years, which includes radar systems and missiles.
