Panaji: Deepak Surlakar, the father of Mandar Surlakar—who was kidnapped and murdered in 2006—has approached the high court opposing the state sentence review board’s premature release recommendation to the fourth life convict, Nafiyaz Sheikh. Sheikh had filed a petition challenging the state’s decision rejecting the board’s recommendation for premature release after the high court on…
Varanasi: Azamgarh Kotwali police on Saturday arrested inter-district criminal Raju Patharkat, who carried a reward of Rs 50,000 and had been absconding for over six years. Police recovered an illegal .315 bore country-made pistol and two cartridges from his possession.Raju was wanted in connection with the Rs 6.31 lakh robbery at a Flipkart office in…
Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: In a unique twist of restorative justice, two forest guards accused of turning a blind eye to illegal logging will now have to grow the very forest they were charged with failing to protect. Gujarat High Court on Monday granted bail to Kalpesh Dabhi and Karshan Gohil, ordering the duo…
Punjab transport minister Harpal Singh Cheema Chandigarh: To expand public transportation accessibility in rural areas, the Punjab govt will add 100 world-class ‘PRTC Junior’ buses to the PEPSU Road Transport Corporation fleet by mid-September, transport minister Harpal Singh Cheema announced on Monday after a review meeting with officials from the Punjab transport department to evaluate…
Proposed HCMTR roads will run below the Metro tracks where these infra projects will intersect Pune: The Metro viaduct would be on top and the elevated HCMTR road would run below it wherever these intersect each other or run in tandem.The decision was taken last week in a joint meeting of top PMC (Pune Municipal…
Guwahati: Twice homeless, twice in danger, and twice in fear — the flood-hit families are now forced to live between the roar of trains and the disturbing memory of rising waters.For nearly a month, the railway track has become both refuge and peril for around two dozen flood-hit Adivasi and indigenous families in Sivasagar’s Betbari…
Lucknow: Police in Rae Bareli have arrested a physical education teacher of an inter college in the Sareni area after a 17-year-old Class X student alleged that he attempted to sexually assault her on the school premises, officials said.The accused has been identified as Binda Prasad. Police said he was taken into custody on Monday…
Jaipur: The BJP’s central leadership took the reins of the party’s preparations for upcoming Panchayat Raj and urban local body polls in the state Monday, with senior leaders from Delhi coming down to play a direct role in poll management. Party insiders said this is the first time that a central team has been dispatched…
NEW DELHI: In another expression of solidarity with Afghanistan, India participated in the fifth anniversary of the Taliban Victory Day that marks the return of Taliban to Kabul in August 2021, following the return of US-led forces.MEA joint secretary Anand Prakash – who handles the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran (PAI) division of the Ministry of…
In 2017, Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded an 18-second YouTube video that appeared to show nothing more than a small sand cat sheltering beneath a desert shrub in Libya. The clip would later become the first documented evidence of the species in the country, prompting an eight-year effort to establish where the elusive animals were living. Almuntasir…
