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Politics

Haryana: Police rescues BJP MLA Kamal Gupta held hostage by protesters demanding release of BKU leader Gurnam Singh Charuni

Jinit Jain - 4 October, 2021

OpIndia spoke to BJP state secretary Dr Pawan Saini who confirmed MLA Kamal Gupta was held captive by farmers.

World

Hostage situation in Afghanistan? Taliban refuses to allow multiple planes with Americans and Afghan refugees to leave

OpIndia Staff - 6 September, 2021

At least six planes carrying Americans and Afghan refugees are believed to be held in a hostage-like situation at Mazar-e-Sharif airport in Afghanistan.

News Reports

The narrow escape: How a group of 46 Indian nurses was rescued from ISIS captivity in strife-torn Iraq in 2014

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2021

Seven years ago, 46 Indian nurses who were held in captivity by the ISIS were rescued to safety and flown back to India

News Reports

China holds closed-door trials for Canadian ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig, denies diplomatic access

OpIndia Staff - 22 March, 2021

Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig has been held in China since 2018 under espionage charges.

News Reports

Punjab police books Shiromani Akali Dal leader and 6 others for keeping a girl confined for 8 months, raping and selling her

OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021

One woman had lured the victim to the house of brother of an Akali Dal leader, where she was drugged and gangraped

News Reports

Mewat: Bajrang Dal activists rescue Raju, a minor boy from WB who was held hostage and tortured for the last five years by one...

Jhankar Mohta - 18 August, 2020

When Raju was able to tell a shopkeeper that he has been forcefully held by Muslim family in Mewat, Bajrang Dal rescued him

Crime

Ukraine: Armed man seizes a bus, takes 20 people hostage claiming fight against ‘system’

OpIndia Staff - 21 July, 2020

Media reports say that the man has claimed to have seized another bus. It is yet to be confirmed whether the gunshots have injured any hostages.

News Reports

Coronavirus: Medical team held hostage, rescue team attacked in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 12 April, 2020

The J&K police official said that a person from the village was to be taken for screening but his family members refused and kept the medical team hostage inside their house.

News Reports

Jharkhand: Police raid Madarsa in Ranchi, rescue more than 600 girls kept hostage violating lockdown orders

OpIndia Staff - 26 March, 2020

The madarsa had locked the girls inside and continued its classes violating nationwide lockdown imposed by the government

News Reports

The operation that took out ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named after Kayla Mueller who was abducted, raped and killed in ISIS custody

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2019

Twenty-six year old Kayla Mueller, an American humanitarian worker, was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS and was tortured and raped by Baghdadi himself.

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