Kolkata: A Kolkata Police constable was placed under suspension following allegations of influencing voters during the ongoing election process.According to an official order issued by the joint commissioner of police (headquarters) on Saturday, Constable Sk Masud Karim of the Reserve Force was suspended with immediate effect from April 18, pending an inquiry into his conduct.This…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has directed a fresh inspection by the town and country planning (TCP) department of a low-lying tenanted paddy field at Gandaulim to ascertain the depth of land-filling here.The order comes months after the official concerned in the TCP department failed to inspect the depth of the filling at the site.The…
Amritsar: Prerna Devi, a 75-year-old woman who was allegedly kept in shackles by her relatives and forced to live outside her home, was finally rescued and shifted to an old-age home on Friday night, bringing some relief after days of neglect and public outrage.Amritsar deputy commissioner Dalwinderjit Singh said on Saturday that officials moved her…
Pune: NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Saturday said the FIR registered by the Karnataka police in his uncle Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash had been transferred to the Maharashtra CID but it still did not act on it, while the CID officers told TOI that it had been made a part of…
Aizawl: Donny Lalruatsanga, deputy commissioner of south Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district, visited Hruitezawl village on Saturday and highlighted the high risk of illegal entry from across the border, as the village serves as a point of cross-border trade with Myanmar.C Lalsawmzuala, the chief executive member (CEM) of the Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC), also visited Hruitezawl…
Following a fire that reduced homes to ashes in the Vikas Nagar slum, families take shelter amid the rubble under makeshift tarpaulin sheets, in Lucknow on Friday Lucknow: A day after an inferno gutted over 280 shanties in Vikasnagar and rendered more than 1,000 people homeless, scenes of grief unfolded as displaced families returned to…
SRINAGAR: A large crowd gathered outside the district jail in Leh on Saturday to welcome the release of former Congress councillor Smanla Dorje Nurboo (36) and former Congress J&K MLA Deldan Namgail (47) after the Jammu and Kashmir high court granted them bail.Police had arrested Namgail on Sept 26, 2025, and Nurboo a day later,…
A Florida man has been arrested in Arizona after allegedly travelling to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold from an elderly woman caught up in a so-called “phantom hacker” fraud scheme.59-year-old Gary Christopher from Port Saint Lucie, Florida, was taken into custody on April 10 when he reportedly arrived at a Phoenix-area home…
The National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Projects Development Company of Rajasthan Limited (PDCOR) to strengthen advisory services for state and city-level infrastructure projects.The agreement will also allow both institutions to jointly explore financing and transaction advisory opportunities, including transaction structuring, commercial and technical due diligence,…
A single-word comment from Yuzvendra Chahal—“Algorithm”—has added a humorous twist to the buzz around Virat Kohli’s recent Instagram activity, turning it into a full-blown social media moment. The latest chatter began after Kohli briefly liked a January post by LizLaz, a German-South African influencer and avid Royal Challengers Bengaluru supporter. Opening up about the unexpected…
