Mumbai: Amid a crackdown on fake birth certificates allegedly issued to illegal migrants in the city, a sweeping internal probe by BMC has uncovered violations in birth and death registration system, exposing what officials described as a parallel, unauthorised data trail across all 24 wards. The probe report called for the suspension of a third…
Bengaluru: Criticising police for not registering what it termed as “real crimes,” the Karnataka high court has stayed proceedings against four members of a family in a cow theft case.“Real crimes, you don’t register … You knock on a police station 100 times to register a real crime. But two cows went missing two years…
Chennai: Madras high court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking re-polling in six villages of Pudukkottai district. None of the villages participated in the election in view of a boycott announced by them demanding annexure of the villages with Tirumayam Assembly constituency. The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul…
Kolkata: A series of nor’westers through Wednesday night gave the city its second wettest April day in around 15 years. While the Met office did not rule out a few more spells of thundershower, albeit of less intensity, in the next few days, a special IMD bulletin issued an orange alert for thunderstorm in the…
Noida: A wedding procession was attacked by a group of people at Jalpura village after a dispute over parking spiralled on Wednesday night, leaving several people injured and multiple vehicles vandalised.According to police, the wedding party arrived from Kondli village. When Yogendra Kumar, a guest from Surajpur village, parked his car near the venue, a…
Panaji: With work commencing to tarmac the six-lane elevated corridor at Porvorim, PWD minister Digambar Kamat on Thursday said that PWD hopes to complete the entire project in time for Ganesh Chaturthi. “I have requested the contractor that the inauguration of the bridge should be on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi,” said Kamat.The minister was…
Varanasi: A policeman was killed and three others were seriously injured late Wednesday when a dumper truck went out of control and rammed into a police patrol jeep near Baniyapar on Gorakhpur-Mau Highway in the Ghosi Kotwali area of Mau district. Head constable Pawan Kumar Yadav (38), a resident of Karmajeetpur, Chitaipur, Varanasi, was declared…
Ahmedabad: A nearly seven-minute video recorded before his death has put the spotlight on a man’s suicide in Ranip last month. The 43-year-old man alleged emotional turmoil and family disputes in his final message. A two-page detailed note added further allegations and named multiple individuals. Following a complaint based on the video and note, the…
Chandigarh: The Panchkula court on Thursday ordered two-day remand of Dilip Raghav, the former customer relationship manager of a private bank involved in the Rs 160 crore FD scam of Panchkula Municipal Corporation. Notably, Raghav was among the four accused in the case against whom the court issued production warrants for Thursday. All four accused…
Surat: The two-day Vibrant Gujarat Regional Exhibition (VGRE) for South Gujarat will be inaugurated on Friday at Auro University, bringing together MSMEs and global companies on a 12,000sq m platform to showcase the region’s industrial strength and boost business networking.The exhibition will be open to business visitors initially, with entry for the general public from…
