Border Villagers

Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, reducing many of them to clusters of grey craters, according to satellite imagery provided to Reuters by Planet Labs Inc.

Lebanese state media said the Israeli army dynamited houses in Lebanese border villages on Saturday, as Israel said it used 400 tonnes of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel, more than a month into an all-out war.

"Life has stopped since October 2023," said Milad al-Alam, Mayor of village Rmeish, saying most commercial activity had come to a halt since Hezbollah started launching rockets across the border into Israel.

Israeli forces today began "ground raids" in southern Lebanese villages, targeting Hezbollah strongholds. As the Israeli invasion begins, the ghost of past incursions into the Levantine nation is still fresh in the minds of its citizens.

For residents of Haryana's Bandhwari village on the Gurugram-Faridabad border, home to one of the largest landfill sites in the country, elections mean politicians visiting the garbage hill for "photo-ops" and making "mountains of promises".

A 36-year-old man from Jammu and Kashmir was detained by police after he arrived in Khavda village in Gujarat's Kutch district, intending to cross the border into Pakistan to meet a woman he connected with online, officials said on Wednesday.

For a second time, Thangjam Basant, 34, had to flee his village, Koutruk, in Manipur's Imphal West district bordering the Kuki tribes-dominated Kangpokpi district.

Women tied Rakhi to Indian army personnel in Soni Village along Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

Aug 10 The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday recovered a drone and a packet containing 3 kg of heroin, worth around Rs 15 crore, near a village along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan's Anupgarh district, police said.

Three people were killed in a gunfight between a Kuki insurgent group and armed people who were reportedly guarding their village in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, bordering Myanmar, sources said.

After an arduous trek spanning several days through the treacherous hilly terrains of Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh, a team from the district administration reached a village near the China border with crucial relief supplies.

Prompt action by the Border Security Force (BSF) has saved the life of a young homemaker at a border village in West Bengal's Nadia district.

An influential students' body of the Maring tribe in Manipur's border district Tengnoupal has alleged Myanmar nationals living in six Maring Naga villages have outnumbered the locals.

Five people including a seven-month-old child were killed in a massive fire in a house in the Behta Hajipur village of the Loni border area in the Ghaziabad district last night, police said.

A suspected Pakistani terrorist was killed by security forces after the ultras attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian, police said.

Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, reducing many of them to clusters of grey craters, according to satellite imagery provided to Reuters by Planet Labs Inc.

Lebanese state media said the Israeli army dynamited houses in Lebanese border villages on Saturday, as Israel said it used 400 tonnes of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel, more than a month into an all-out war.

"Life has stopped since October 2023," said Milad al-Alam, Mayor of village Rmeish, saying most commercial activity had come to a halt since Hezbollah started launching rockets across the border into Israel.

Israeli forces today began "ground raids" in southern Lebanese villages, targeting Hezbollah strongholds. As the Israeli invasion begins, the ghost of past incursions into the Levantine nation is still fresh in the minds of its citizens.

For residents of Haryana's Bandhwari village on the Gurugram-Faridabad border, home to one of the largest landfill sites in the country, elections mean politicians visiting the garbage hill for "photo-ops" and making "mountains of promises".

A 36-year-old man from Jammu and Kashmir was detained by police after he arrived in Khavda village in Gujarat's Kutch district, intending to cross the border into Pakistan to meet a woman he connected with online, officials said on Wednesday.

For a second time, Thangjam Basant, 34, had to flee his village, Koutruk, in Manipur's Imphal West district bordering the Kuki tribes-dominated Kangpokpi district.

Women tied Rakhi to Indian army personnel in Soni Village along Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

Aug 10 The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday recovered a drone and a packet containing 3 kg of heroin, worth around Rs 15 crore, near a village along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan's Anupgarh district, police said.

Three people were killed in a gunfight between a Kuki insurgent group and armed people who were reportedly guarding their village in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, bordering Myanmar, sources said.

After an arduous trek spanning several days through the treacherous hilly terrains of Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh, a team from the district administration reached a village near the China border with crucial relief supplies.

Prompt action by the Border Security Force (BSF) has saved the life of a young homemaker at a border village in West Bengal's Nadia district.

An influential students' body of the Maring tribe in Manipur's border district Tengnoupal has alleged Myanmar nationals living in six Maring Naga villages have outnumbered the locals.

Five people including a seven-month-old child were killed in a massive fire in a house in the Behta Hajipur village of the Loni border area in the Ghaziabad district last night, police said.

A suspected Pakistani terrorist was killed by security forces after the ultras attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian, police said.