Hyderabad: A 26-year-old murder case accused was sentenced to life by a local court in LB Nagar on Thursday. The accused, Y Sandeep Kumar (26), from Kolluru in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested in a murder and attempt to murder case booked at Miyapur PS in 2022.On December 13, 2022, police received a…
ISI students and professors are against the bill, which they fear may lead to the institute headquarters to shift out of Kolkata Kolkata: The Centre circulated the Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026, aimed at bringing a comprehensive statutory framework for the institute, among MPs on Wednesday.The bill has raised suspicion among institute students and faculty…
Noida: A special Pocso court has sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a cumulative fine of Rs 80,000 for aggravated penetrative sexual assault of his minor niece and nephew. The court convicted him under multiple provisions of IPC and the Pocso Act, awarding sentences on three counts, with the maximum term…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Thursday stayed the final land acquisition declaration for the proposed Borim bridge and its approach roads on NH-566, and scheduled the matter for final hearing on Oct 12.Occupants and agricultural tenants of lands at Loutolim and Borim approached the high court challenging the proposed alignment, alleging it passes through…
Varanasi: With the holy month of Shrawan beginning on Thursday and continuing till Aug 28, lakhs of devotees and kanwariyas from India and abroad are expected to visit Kashi for darshan and jalabhishek of Baba Shri Kashi Vishwanath. To manage the massive influx, the local administration has put in place extensive security, traffic, crowd-management and…
Heavy rain alert shuts schools, colleges across Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: In view of the heavy rainfall forecast and red alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), all schools and colleges in Ahmedabad city and district will remain closed on July 31. The decision was taken on the instructions of the Ahmedabad collector, with student safety…
Ludhiana: The heavy downpour on Thursday morning came as a welcome respite from the intense humidity of the past few days, but it came at a high cost.While waterlogging is not new for the city, this time, there was garbage floating in the rainwater. Even if the water drained away, there was no hope of…
Bathinda/Amritsar: The Punjab bandh called by sanitation workers on Thursday over the alleged police lathicharge on protesters in Barnala received a mixed response across the state, with complete shutdown in Barnala and partial closure of markets in several other towns. The workers, who have been on strike since Jul 8, reiterated their demands for regularisation…
The suspects spray-painted the CCTV cameras inside the kiosk to hide their tracks, but they were unaware that cameras installed within the dispensing machines had captured clear images of their faces Pune: A gang of four men used a gas cutter to break open two ATMs at Pandare village in Baramati taluka, decamping with Rs14.19…
Guwahati: Education minister Ranoj Pegu on Thursday flagged off seven trucks carrying 1.61 lakh textbooks from the Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Corporation Ltd (ASTPPC) warehouse at Bonda in Guwahati for flood-affected students of Sivasagar, Charaideo and Jorhat districts.More than 1.5 lakh students live across the three districts, of whom around 1.12 lakh have…
