Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court in a July 14 order directed Bengal Police to arrest cricketer Abhishek Porel and seize his electronic devices. Porel is facing criminal charges of rape lodged by a third-year medical student who alleged she was sexually assaulted and abused with a false promise of marriage. She had moved HC alleging…
Ahmedabad: For the second consecutive day on Monday, teams from the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) inspected 152 units for fire safety compliance and illegal firecracker manufacturing. The premises checked included factories, industries, warehouses and godowns.Fourteen units were sealed in the Central Zone. Fourteen units were inspected in the South West Zone, and operations…
Chandigarh: The draft electoral roll for the 01-Chandigarh parliamentary constituency will be published on July 21 as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 exercise, election officials said.The enumeration phase of the revision was conducted across UT Chandigarh from June 15 to July 14. The draft roll is being published with July 1, 2026,…
Waste accumulated at waste collection point in a housing society in Ravet Pune: Several Pimpri Chinchwad neighbourhoods are facing irregular garbage collection and growing waste piles as PCMC has not resumed dumping at the Moshi landfill nearly two weeks after a massive garbage mound collapsed onto the administrative building of the waste-to-energy plant, killing nine…
AGARTALA: Tripura DGP Anurag Dhankar , a 1994-batch IPS officer who led the CBI probe into the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case involving diamantaire Nirav Modi and later headed an SIT that reinvestigated the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, was found dead in his office toilet at Agartala police HQ Monday.Govt has ordered a magisterial…
Lucknow: Policymakers, business leaders, logistics professionals, entrepreneurs and exporters on Monday discussed the roadmap for strengthening India’s logistics ecosystem and positioning Uttar Pradesh as a preferred destination for investment, trade and infrastructure development.Discussing the theme ‘Moving India Forward’ at the Movers Connect Business Summit 2026, organised by Publicity Mantra and powered by SESR Foundation, acting…
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Special Operations Group (SOG) Monday arrested a suspended patwari for allegedly securing his appointment by using a dummy candidate to write the 2021 Patwari recruitment examination on his behalf.Additional Director General of Police (SOG) Vishal Bansal identified the accused as Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Bhadaruna village in Sanchore. According to SOG,…
NEW DELHI: Expressing concern that there has been no let-up in incidents of rape/ gangrape despite punishment for the crimes being made stringent in the aftermath of the horrifying Nirbhaya incident, Supreme Court Monday awarded a 20-year jail term to a rickshaw puller who had raped a woman in 2016 on the pretext of taking…
Pressure gets discussed constantly in football, usually about missed chances and expectant crowds. Lamine Yamal, Spain’s teenage forward, measured his own pressure against something else entirely. “My mother had me when she was 16, that’s real pressure,” he said. “My father had to figure out life, going out to the street to pick things up….
NEW DELHI: : Govt on Monday told Parliament that there was no move at the moment to abolish long-term capital gains tax on equities for retail or domestic investors.“The tax policies, including capital gains tax rates, are revised periodically as part of the annual budgetary process and legislative revisions after taking into consideration the macroeconomic…
