Mumbai: The committee led by MITRA CEO Praveen Pardeshi, appointed six months ago to formulate criteria for the farm loan waiver and recommend short- and long-term measures for the agrarian distress in Maharashtra, submitted its report to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday.The submission has brought the state government closer to implementing the loan waiver,…
A Bengaluru woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her boyfriend during a BDSM role-play. BENGALURU: In a chilling twist to an alleged BDSM role play, a 27-year-old woman has been arrested for murdering her boyfriend after tying him up, blindfolding him and setting him ablaze at her residence in northwest Bengaluru on Tuesday. Investigators…
Chennai: A Y-shaped electric pole may blur into two leaves, a whistle may look like a road-roller, and a farmer may just end up ploughing into another party’s votebank. Voters are likely to face a baffling array of similar-looking party symbols on electronic voting machines, especially in constituencies such as Karur with more than 70…
Hyderabad: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officers registered a case against a police inspector and a sub-inspector from a women police station in Vikarabad for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from a complainant. A criminal misconduct case has been registered against the duo, and they were served a notice.According to the ACB, on March 16, inspector…
Kolkata: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s rallies in Kolkata and Serampore, scheduled on April 23, have been stalled after Congress failed to secure police permission for the said rallies.Pradesh Congress netas planned three rallies in Kolkata and Serampore for Gandhi. For the Kolkata rallies, nods had been sought for either Ramlila…
Margao: GFP president Vijai Sardesai on Tuesday warned chief minister Pramod Sawant that if Gautam Khattar is not arrested before April 24, Sawant’s birthday, he would launch a public movement to unseat him.“If the CM doesn’t arrest him before his birthday, I will build a movement called ‘Goemche Projecho Avaz’ by bringing together all like-minded…
Ahmedabad: Two days after a road rage resulted in a killing and arson in Dhandhuka town, authorities on Tuesday began a demolition drive against alleged unlawful structures linked to people with criminal antecedents, officials said.Dharmesh Gamara, 30, was stabbed on Sunday afternoon after a collision between two motorcycles. His death sparked tension in the area,…
Khanna: The local police have arrested four more members of an Australia-linked organised extortion gang responsible for issuing death threats and opening fire on a local trader in the Payal area on April 14.This breakthrough follows the earlier arrest of Saudagar Singh, the father of Shaganpreet Singh, who was previously a manager for the late…
Jalandhar: A Punjab Police DSP reportedly died from a bullet fired from his service weapon on Tuesday morning at his residence in the police complex in Phagwara. Police officials claimed that it was an ‘accidental fire’ as the DSP was cleaning his service weapon at the time of the incident.DSP Yogesh Sharma, in his mid-50s,…
Pune: Maha Metro and PMPML have rolled out feeder bus service from the PCMC Metro station on multiple routes to improve last-mile connectivity, extending the service to 11 stations across 23 routes so far. Regular commuters, however, raised concerns over irregular operations and demanded greater consistency and higher frequency of buses.Maha Metro officials said surveys…
