New Delhi: For Darab Singh (34), it was supposed to be another routine bike-taxi ride. On Monday morning, he picked up 22-year-old DU graduate Hrishita Lahon from Sheikh Sarai to take her to Noida. But as they reached southeast Delhi’s Ashram flyover, the commute turned into a horrific tragedy that left Lahon dead and Singh…
File pic for representation Mumbai: Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a developer’s plea challenging the Bombay High Court order clearing the transfer of 15 hectares of salt pan land at Kanjurmarg for Mumbai Metro Line 6 depot.After hearing senior counsel Mahesh Jethmalani for the petitioner and solicitor general Tushar Mehta for the respondents, the three-judge…
Bengaluru: Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) racket, found that suspended IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar had facilitated the leak of veterinary officers’ recruitment examination question paper to alleged middleman Basavaraj Kannale, a day before the scheduled examination.According to ED, Gangwar, then controller of examinations at KPSC, who was…
Chennai: Laboratory assistants working with the school education department staged a protest in the city on Wednesday, demanding promotion and increase in basic pay.The protesters pointed out that around 4,362 lab assistants were directly appointed into the school education department in 2017. However, despite completing 10 years in service, they have not received any promotion…
Hyderabad: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials seized 4.9 kg of cocaine worth around ₹24.5 crore from an Indian passenger at Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport on Tuesday. The passenger, who arrived from Doha, Qatar, was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and sent to judicial remand.Acting on specific intelligence that…
Gurgaon: Three people, including an 80-year-old woman, were killed in three separate road accidents.In the latest incident, a motorcycle rider was killed Tuesday after a school bus allegedly moved backwards while being pushed to start and ran over the motorcycle near Bilaspur Chowk on Pataudi Road. There were no students in the bus.The Sept 29…
VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee formed an inquiry commission to probe the alleged irregularities Kolkata: Jadavpur University (JU) VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee formed an inquiry commission to probe the alleged irregularities in connection with the recruitment processes of five officials, including deputy registrar, engineering faculty secretary, science faculty secretary, dean of students, and placement and training officer. The…
Noida: A 26-year-old man died by suicide at his flat in Gaur City 5th Avenue, hours after an argument with his wife over her association with male friends, police said. The woman was booked for abetment to suicide after the deceased allegedly blamed her for abusing him in a video message recorded before his death.The…
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Ahmedabad: A 65-year-old woman living in Bodakdev was allegedly threatened by her neighbour for complaining about loud noise from his house. In her complaint with Vastrapur police on Sunday, the woman stated that around 10.30pm on Friday, she was disturbed by the noise coming from the flat above hers. She complained to the society chairman…
