The guidelines come against the backdrop of allegations of police excesses during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar last month. NEW DELHI: Fresh guidelines issued to Delhi Police by a central agency have advised personnel to remain calm during protests, avoid reacting to provocation and prevent themselves from being portrayed as “villains”…
Navghar police have registered a case under the relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Electricity Act Mumbai: A 26-year-old worker’s fatal electrocution from an exposed halogen wire at a construction site in Mulund East led to Navghar police registering a case against the contractor for alleged negligence and failure to provide safety…
AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran calls Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar on Tuesday. CHENNAI: AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran on Tuesday called on Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar and submitted a representation seeking his intervention in the alleged horse-trading of his party MLA by the ruling TVK.Dhinakaran said his efforts were…
A service road near IFFCO Chowk caved in, creating a large crater and disrupting traffic. Authorities closed the affected stretch while assessing damage to a major sewer line beneath the road. Heavy rains exacerbated existing infrastructure issues, causing waterlogging and stranding school buses. This incident follows several other road collapses and sinkholes reported across Gurgaon…
Bapi Pramanik, a long-time BJP worker, was attacked in North Tangarberia on Sunday night Kolkata: Police have arrested four BJP members in connection with the murder of party worker Bapi Pramanik in Baruipur, with investigators identifying Sujan Mondal as the alleged mastermind. Local BJP functionaries, however, claimed Mondal had already been expelled from the party.The…
Gobinda Sharma (in red t-shirt), a resident of Hiloni Nepali Khuti village in Bihubor Guwahati: A month after floods turned villages along Dikhow into ruins, homes are rising again, offering hope amid a livelihood crisis.NGOs, civil society groups and YouTubers have helped families in Hiloni Nepali Khuti and adjoining villages rebuild, constructing bamboo houses with…
Two of the defaulters used to sell water from illegal connections through tankers Jaipur: Rajasthan govt has, for the first time, invoked the Rajasthan Public Demands Recovery (RPDR) Act, 1952, to recover penalties from businessmen accused of taking illegal water connections and damaging Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) pipelines in Barmer.District collector Chinmayee Gopal issued…
FSSAI flagged 6 food companies for misleading claims on products like coconut oil, energy drinks, and baby food. NEW DELHI: Claims that promise more, sound healthier or make a product appear superior have come under the scanner of the food regulator, with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) flagging misleading claims by…
Tidewater glacier on the Antarctic coast. Image Credit: Jason Auch/Wikipedia Antarctica is releasing alarming amounts of mercury into the surrounding ocean as climate change accelerates the melting of its glaciers. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that mercury accumulation in sediments around the Antarctic Peninsula…
A small gesture at a film event has turned into an unexpected talking point in the South Indian film industry. Kannada star Shiva Rajkumar addressing Tamil actor Pradeep Ranganathan as “sir” during a recent interaction sparked debate online, with several social media users questioning why a senior, more experienced actor would use the term for…
