
Apr 5, 2025 06:30 IST
First revealed on: Apr 5, 2025 at 06:30 IST
Iraqi missiles killed 39 individuals and injured 43 within the Iranian cities of Bakhtaran, Hamadan and Bostan, and Iran retaliated by attacking Iraqi cities with artillery hearth and air raids, the Iranian authorities reported. Iran additionally threatened to assault Baghdad. The Iraqi assaults, utilizing ground-to-ground missiles, fired over distances as much as 225 km inside Iran, constituted an extra escalation of the month-old marketing campaign of raids on civilian targets.
Gujarat Bans Strikes
THE GUJARAT GOVERNMENT banned strikes in all departments, together with the meeting secretariat and that of the Excessive Court docket, underneath the Gujarat Important Providers Upkeep Act, 1972, in keeping with an official announcement. The scenario in Ahmedabad, which was peaceable for the previous 11 days, took a violent flip when the police burst teargas shells and resorted to lathi-charge to disperse a bunch of anti-reservationists.
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Border Tensions
ALL BSF OUTPOSTS within the 4 km Amjadnagar-Belonia stretch alongside Tripura’s worldwide boundary with Bangladesh have been placed on most alert, following reviews of a “huge” build-up by the Bangladesh Rifles and armed forces items within the space, officers mentioned. A PTI correspondent, who toured the realm in Tripura’s South district, discovered development work on the controversial Muhuri River mission in full swing underneath the protecting cowl of armed BDR detachments.
PM Slams US
PRIME MINISTER RAJIV Gandhi has accused the US of “wanting the opposite method” whereas Pakistan is making an atom bomb and has expressed the worry that “we will probably be landed with a bomb within the subcontinent”. Gandhi mentioned Pakistan was very shut to creating a nuclear bomb if it had not already obtained one, and nothing was being performed to cease it.