The kin of the deceased as well as injured devotees flocked to the hospital in search of the pilgrims who had booked rooms in the hotel Kolkata: Madhavi Modak from Shibabari village in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, undergoing treatment at Rampurhat Hospital, did not know that the Tarapith hotel fire took away her entire pilgrimage…
Noida: A 52-year-old woman died by suicide after jumping from the seventh floor of a high-rise residential society in Sector 78 on Monday morning. The woman, a resident of Vikas Nagar in Delhi, had come to stay with her sister around three days before the incident.Around 8am, the woman told her family she was going…
Rajya Sabha MP Sadanand Shet Tanavade (left) takes over as GOA president from Shripad Naik, who led the body from 2012 Panaji: Rajya Sabha MP, Sadanand Shet Tanavade, along with the entire Goa Olympic Association (GOA) executive committee has been elected unopposed, as evident from the list of valid nominations declared by the returning officer…
Varanasi: Ghazipur police on Saturday solved the murder case of Rohit Yadav, whose body was found near a canal in Karimulapur (Vasdeiya) under the Shadiabad police station area of Ghazipur.According to police, the murder was planned over to an old rivalry. Three juveniles have been taken into police custody. A country-made pistol, cartridges, mobille phone…
Suicide in Ahmedabad’s industrial hubs Ahmedabad: An analysis of 731 suicide and accidental-death cases, recorded by city police between Jan 2025 and Aug 2026, shows that Ahmedabad’s eastern belt and industrial hubs account for the heaviest concentration of cases.Odhav topped the list across all police station jurisdictions with 59 cases, followed by Narol with 55,…
Chandigarh: Members of AAP’s student wing, ASAP, Monday staged a protest outside the Dean Students Welfare (DSW) office at PU, alleging poor maintenance of drinking water facilities in hostels and departments.The group claimed inspections at various hostels and departments revealed unhygienic water tanks, algae buildup and inadequate upkeep, forcing students to use contaminated water.Following the…
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in the two-day meet of the party’s district functionaries in Mumbai last weekend Pune: The senior NCP (SP) leadership, according to its district functionaries, has clarified that the party will remain in the opposition, after they sought clarity on speculations over the outfit joining NDA.NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar addressed…
Guwahati: Former Tripura CM and West Tripura MP Biplab Kumar Deb was on Monday elevated to the post of BJP’s national general secretary in the new organisational team announced by party president Nitin Nabin on Monday.Deb is among eight national general secretaries named by BJP. His elevation comes after he served as Tripura CM from…
Lucknow: A 36-year-old woman who had been admitted to a govt hospital in Hardoi after an alleged assault by her husband was later taken away on the pretext of better treatment and strangled to death, police said. The victim, Komal, a resident of Lucknow’s Naka area, had been married for about 17 years to Satyapal…
District election officer Sandesh Nayak conducts lottery for JMC election at Collectorate in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 17 August 2026 Jaipur: With women set to occupy a third of the councillor seats in the now-merged Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC), the new reservation arithmetic has unsettled party camps and sharpened the battle for tickets. Fifty of the…
