Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
Arrested youths Hasan Farooq and Abdullah Basith are third year B.Tech students while Sayyed Omar is in B Sc final year The youths arrived in Nagpur from Hyderabad by road to catch a flight to Srinagar but were nabbed by the ATS Nagpur and Telangana Police The youths were directly taken to Hyderabad from Nagpur airport The IS recruiters were planning to take them to Syria via Pakistan-Afghanistan By Dheeraj Fartode THREE radicalised youths from Hyderabd aspiring to join dreaded terror outfit Islamic State (IS) were nabbed in a joint operation by Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra and Telangana Police at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, here, while trying to board a Srinagar-bound flight in the wee hours of Saturday. A team of Telangana Police took the three youths to Hyderabad to interrogate them to ascertain their links with terrorist organisations. The youths are identified as Hasan Farooq Aiaz Wasim (21), a resident of Flat No 202, Muskan Hayat A...