Two engg students drowned in the backwaters of the Shirwata dam near Lonavla Pune: A weekend outing by six city-based engineering students in Maval taluka ended in tragedy on Sunday after two students drowned in the backwaters of the Shirwata dam near Lonavla.The deceased were identified as Arya Bandawar (20), a native of Gondia, and…
Shillong: A lower court in Tura on Friday granted bail to former Phulbari legislator Esmatur Mominin in connection with the Garo Hills unrest.Tura sessions judge AM Ripnar granted Mominin bail on two sureties, amounting to Rs 80,000.Mominin, who had been absconding after the unrest, surrendered before Ri-Bhoi police a month back, after two separate FIRs…
Lucknow: Three people were booked in Bahraich for allegedly luring a minor girl, subjecting her to mental and physical exploitation, and pressuring her for religious conversion, police said.According to the FIR filed on the complaint of the girl’s father, the accused enticed his 15-year-old daughter and later blackmailed her by uploading her objectionable photographs and…
Ajmer: Police Sunday arrested nine people accused of abducting a 21-year-old man and assaulting and brutalising him over an alleged community dispute. The arrests were made within 12 hours of a video of the incident going viral on social media.Police said the video shows the man being tied to a tree, beaten up, garlanded with…
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns among students over possible loss of marks due to the use of On-Screen Marking (OSM) for evaluating Class XII examinations, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday sharply reduced the fees for obtaining answer sheets, verification and re-evaluation, even as it defended the digital evaluation system as a globally accepted…
Seeking relief: Onion growers want an MSP of Rs 3,500/quintal and a Rs 1,500-a-quintal compensation for distress sales Rain clouds rolled over Maharashtra’s onion belt. Then came war winds from West Asia. Prices collapsed. Crops rotted. Farmers counted losses in rupees — and sold tears by the quintal. Across Nashik, Solapur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, onion…
After two weeks trailing ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’, the Michael Jackson biopic ‘Michael’ reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with USD 26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates.The movie is in rarefied territory, having brought in USD 703.9 million worldwide and counting. It still has a long…
Step out like you mean it. The Sun supports you strongly today, and you’ll get honour and respect in society, even in small moments like a neighbour greeting you warmly or a senior praising your manners.Still, the day won’t be perfectly smooth. Along with happiness, some confusion comes in, because the Moon throws mixed signals…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has rolled out a range of austerity measures, including rationalisation of VIP and VVIP carcade sizes, virtual meetings and coordinated route planning keeping fuel conservation and reduction of expenditure in mind.Starting from the rationalisation of VIP movements, non-patrolling staff have been asked to adopt a series of measures aimed at cutting…
Kalyan: A 28-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide after jumping from the sixth floor of a residential building in the Gauripada area in Kalyan.According to Khadakpada police, the incident occurred on May 14 when the woman was reportedly distressed over her mother’s deteriorating health condition. Her mother recently suffered a brain haemorrhage and was undergoing…
