The body of the victim, Kanika, was recovered from the third-floor rented room NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old man allegedly murdered his 18-year-old girlfriend at his rented accommodation in southwest Delhi’s Munirka before spending hours driving around JNU road in search of a place to dump her body.His plan failed when the friend he had asked…
The deceased, identified as Manojkumar Yadav, worked as a security guard at Abhijit Building on SV Road. (AI-generated image) MUMBAI: The body of a 35-year-old security guard, his hands tied behind his back, was found floating in a water tank on the ground floor of a residential building in Vile Parle (West) on Monday, police…
BENGALURU: Chief minister DK Shivakumar’s 33-member cabinet has set a post-2004 record for Scheduled Caste (SC) representation, with seven SC ministers in the council, matching the number of Lingayat ministers and signalling the Congress’ push to strengthen its traditional Dalit base ahead of the 2028 assembly elections.The expanded ministry reflects a carefully balanced caste, regional…
GCC unlikely to release councillor, mayor funds this FY Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is unlikely to release councillors’ ward development funds and the mayor’s special development funds, with only six months left before DMK council’s term ends.Amid protests by DMK councillors demanding that GCC release allocations under the councillor fund of ₹60 lakh each…
Hyderabad: A 17-year-old boy driving a rented car allegedly lost control, rammed into seven parked motorcycles and knocked down two people, killing a 60-year-old man and leaving another critically injured near Karmik Nagar in Yousufguda on Sunday. It was the latest in a string of fatal crashes involving underage drivers in Telangana, once again raising…
Protest against ISI Bill 2026 Kolkata: Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 was tabled in Lok Sabha on Monday by the minister of statistics and programme implementation Rao Inderjit Singh to provide for a comprehensive statutory framework to the 95-year-old institute. The bill, which Singh claimed would pave the way for the institute to become a…
A severe fire broke out at an electronic chip manufacturing facility in Noida NOIDA: Two firefighters were killed and three others injured after a wall and an iron beam collapsed while they were battling a massive fire at an electronic chip manufacturing unit in Noida late Monday night, police said on Tuesday.The incident occurred late…
Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has refused to quash an FIR registered under the state’s anti-conversion law against Asha supervisor Namrata Macwan, who is accused of propagating Christianity among her Hindu subordinates and allegedly compelling them to attend a religious programme.Macwan was booked by Khambhat Rural police under the Gujarat Freedom of…
Jalandhar: BJP has launched its biggest outreach to Ravidassia community so far by launching the ‘Kalash Yatra’, in which urns carrying soil from Guru Ravidas’s birthplace, Seer Gowardhanpur in Varanasi, are being ta-ken in processions to mark the saint’s 650th birth anniversary. A Kalash carrying the sa-cred soil from Varanasi rea-ched Jalandhar on Saturday and…
Pune: Dengue cases in Pune nearly doubled in July compared to the previous month, with doctors attributing the rise to intermittent rainfall and expanding waterlogged areas providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) data, the city recorded 323 suspected dengue cases in July, up from 175 in June. Since Jan, Pune…
