Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline worth Rs 377 crore on Saturday.

PM Modi addressed the event via video conferencing and showed confidence that this pipeline will further speed up the development in Bangladesh and be an excellent example of boosting connectivity between the two countries.

During the inauguration ceremony, PM Modi also said Bangladesh has made remarkable progress under the leadership of PM Sheikh Hasina and every Indian is proud to contribute to this development journey of the country.

The India-Bangladesh friendship pipeline was initiated in September 2018 and this pipeline will provide 1 million metric tonnes of high-speed diesel to Northern West Bengal districts, PM Modi further said. The pipeline will also cut down the cost and will reduce the carbon footprint of the supply.

He further thanked Sheikh Hasina for her continuous guidance on the project.

Highlighting the rail connectivity between India and Bangladesh, PM Modi said the rail network between the two nations helped to send oxygen and other supplements during the Covid-19 pandemic.

India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline is India’s second cross-border energy pipeline with its neighbours. Reports said the Bangladesh portion of the pipeline was built at a cost of approximately Rs 285 crore and has been bankrolled by the Government of India under grant assistance. Since 2015, Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Limited supplied petroleum products to Bangladesh.

The Pipeline will carry diesel from the NRL marketing terminal at Siliguri in West Bengal to the Parbatipur depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).

Pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh was arrested by the Punjab Police on Saturday. Earlier this day, an operation was launched to track the Waris Punjab De head.

Reports said a large contingent of police has been deployed outside Amritpal’s native village Jallupur Khaira to prevent any disturbance after his arrest. Moreover, cops and paramilitary forces have sealed the village.

More than 50 police vehicles chased the Khalistani leader and his aides in an attempt to arrest them this morning after the Punjab Police traced Singh’s latest location near Shahkot.

On Saturday, mobile internet services were suspended across Punjab as the state police launched an operation to arrest Singh. The decision was taken after Amritpal Singh’s supporters were sharing videos of the cop vehicles chasing Singh’s cavalcade in the Moga district. The internet services in several areas in the state will be shut till Sunday noon.

Singh returned to India from Dubai in 2022 and has been active in Punjab for a few years. He and his supporters broke through police barricades and stormed the Ajnala Police Station in February this year.

He took charge of Waris Punjab De after its founder Deep Sindhu passed away in a car accident last year.

In February 2023, Singh remarked that Home Minister Amit Shah would witness a similar fate as the former prime minister Indira Gandhi if he launched operations to control the Khalistani movement.

A 53-year-old female professor from Anna University, Tamil Nadu was hit on her head, dragged along the road while in an unconscious state, and robbed by a drunk man.

The incident was a result of the woman refusing to lend money to the man in an inebriated state. Reports said the attack took place in Trichy and the accused has been identified as Senthil Kumar.

The hideous act was caught on camera and the video has been making rounds on social media since then. A passerby captured the video on his mobile phone and informed the police about the assault and submitted the video as proof of the FIR.

In the viral video, the accused can be seen dragging Professor Sitalakshmi on the road through her leg. The robber later also met with an accident and injured his leg while he was trying to escape on the professor’s two-wheeler.

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Reports further said the accused has been arrested by the local police from Pazhamanari, Tamil Nadu after Sitalakshmi’s complaint and is currently undergoing treatment. The incident took place on Sunday, March 12, when Sitalakshmi was taking a walk alone near a school.

Senthil Kumar first asked her to lend him some money and on being refused, he picked up a wooden plank from nearby and hit her on the head with it. He then dragged Sitalakshmi from the road to the footpath, took her vehicle keys and stole her mobile phone. He tried to flee but could not succeed.

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