Chennai: A 29-year-old man was arrested by the Chitlapakkam All Women Police for repeatedly sexually abusing a Class 6 girl in Selaiyur.Police said the man lived with the girl’s mother, who had separated from her husband. The man repeatedly sexually abused the girl over a period of time.The girl informed her mother about the abuse,…
Hyderabad: Just 269 students from Telangana have benefited from the Centre’s INSPIRE-SHE scholarship programme since its inception in 2008, with Rs 6.3 crore disbursed to them. According to the data tabled in Rajya Sabha in response to a query earlier this week, more than 1.3 lakh students nationwide have received Rs 2,784 crore under the…
Colva: The Rs 27.1 crore four-lane Seraulim-Colva road, one of the most expensive roads, once envisioned as a grand boulevard on the lines of New Delhi’s Rajpath, is riddled with potholes barely two years after hot-mixing.The 2km stretch was initially estimated at Rs 16 crore in 2016. In 2018, govt sanctioned an additional Rs 11.1…
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New Delhi: Two men were arrested for threatening, assaulting and extorting car owners over pending vehicle EMIs. The accused were involved in separate cases with a similar modus operandi, police said.They used an application to identify vehicles with pending EMI instalments, intercepted the owners on the road, and coerced them into making payments. So far,…
The police said the alleged demands were made through phone calls, several of which were recorded by the complainant’s brother-in-law Mumbai: The city crime branch arrested a 31-year-old woman who had lodged an FIR of alleged rape and got a Ahmedabad-based businessman arrested and later demanded Rs 4 crore to withdraw her complaint. Her Delhi-based…
Bengaluru: A surge in passenger footfall as thousands headed towards Vidhana Soudha for Freedom Habba forced BMRCL to temporarily shut two Purple Line stations Saturday evening over overcrowding and public safety concerns.Sir M Visvesvaraya Central College and Cubbon Park Metro stations were closed around 7pm as crowds swelled near the event venue, with trains instructed…
Indigenous musical and percussion instruments and ancient martial arts equipment such as ‘palagai parai’, ‘vaal silambam’ and ‘Gadhayudham’ presented by more than 300 students from 38 Govt Model Schools across the state took the centre stage at a student-artist confluence at Victoria hall in Chennai on Saturday. The event was organized by the Tamil Nadu…
Hyderabad: A 67-year-old man lost ₹4 lakh after cyber fraudsters targeted him in a digital arrest scam. The complainant was put under severe stress after being questioned about whether he had any links with the founder of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).The complainant, a retired insurance company employee, received a call from a…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday said that around 8,000 govt jobs will be created in Goa over the next six months. He told the youth to explore opportunities and invest in the renewable energy sector in the state.In his Independence Day address, the last such address of his current tenure ahead of the…
