Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said the delimitation bill would have amended the Constitution for political means of the ruling regime to increase the seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories. Aaditya said this bill has been defeated in Parliament. Aaditya…
Bengaluru: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here Saturday reserved order on the sentencing of Mohammed Shariq, prime accused in the 2022 Mangaluru cooker bomb blast case, to April 25.Shariq is currently in judicial custody in Bengaluru central prison. “In April 2024, he claimed innocence before the agency and the court. However, in Dec…
Chennai: Applications for admissions under the Right to Education (RTE) Act for 2026-27 will begin on Monday and education department has instructed schools to open the online application window.Parents can apply online at rte.tnschools.gov.in between April 20 and May 18. Parents unable to apply online may visit the respective schools or education offices, where internet,…
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,…
