PARAMILITARY TROOPER DIES IN ACCIDENTAL FIRING

SRINAGAR: A paramilitary trooper was killed on Sunday in accidental firing in Shopian district of Kashmir region, police said. Shyam Yadav, a trooper of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), died in an accidental firing incident inside the district police lines, a senior police officer said.”He was shifted to hospital but doctors could not save his life,” the police officer said. Goa government lines up free internet, talk time for youth PANAJI: In line with the central government’s Digital India initiative, the Goa government on Monday will launch an ambitious scheme, under which it intends to provide limited free talk time and internet data to the youth in the state. “Goa Yuva Sanchar Yojana will be unveiled on Monday. It will be launched across the state and will provide 100 minutes talk time and 3 GB internet data free with a SIM card (every month) for youths aged between 16-30 years,” chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said. 42-foot whale carcass washes ashore in Odisha BHUBANESWAR: Carcass of a 42-foot-long and 28-foot-wide whale was found at Baidhara Pentha beach in Puri district of Odisha, said an official on Sunday. The forest officials recovered the dead marine species on getting information from the local people. “It’s a rare whale shark mostly seen in the Pacific Ocean. Cause of death can be ascertained after the post-mortem examination,” said Satapada Forest Ranger Achyutananda Das. Sri Sarada Math’s 89-yr-old vice-president passes away KOLKATA: Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission’s vice-president Pravrajika Viswaprana passed away due to agerelated illness. She was 89-yearold and had held the post since 2013, the Mission said on Sunday. She breathed her last at her quarter in Baghbazar Math on Saturday. Hundreds of followers gathered at the Sarada Math on Sunday to pay tributes to Viswaprana after which her body was cremated, the Mission said. CID detains one more in Tagore’s Nobel medal theft KOLKATA: The CID has started combing operation at Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal in connection with its probe into the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medal in 2004. After interrogation of baul singer Pradip Bauri, arrested for his alleged involvement in the theft of the medal, the CID has detained Bolpur-resident Sanjay Hazra, a senior officer said. India, Russia to ink pact for two Kudankulam units NEW DELHI: India and Russia are likely to sign the General Framework Agreement (GFA) on Kudankulam units 5 and 6 by this month. “Leaders of the two countries (Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin) had set a deadline to sign the agreement for units 5 and 6 by the end of this month,” a top official of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) said.