Mumbai: In a major setback to Mumbai police, the designated Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act court has directed the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) to re-register an FIR in a complaint of cheating, which the police closed as a civil dispute.Judge Vikram Jagdale directed the police to register a fresh FIR…
Temple hundi People still offer banned notes by putting inside ‘Hundi’ in temples. Bengaluru: Following the alleged theft of devotees’ offerings to Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, the govt in Karnataka has come out with standard operating procedure (SOP) to manage hundis.Accordingly, temples are asked to replace volunteers with home guards, bank personnel or govt workers…
elephant A 40-year-old female wild elephant that was under treatment in the Chadivayal elephant camp in Coimbatore for ‘constipation’ gave birth to a healthy male calf on Monday morning. Forest officials said the elephant was recovering and had started consuming fodder. Story – Komal Photo – J Jackson Chennai: Madras high court flayed Tamil Nadu…
A view of Telangana high court in Hyderabad Hyderabad: Bringing closure to a 17-year legal battle, Telangana high court has directed the state govt to provide 2BHK houses to families displaced from the Bhimrao Bada slum in Nampally, offering long-awaited relief to residents who claimed they were evicted after the area’s slum status was withdrawn…
Kolkata: RVNL started concrete deck launching between piers 326 and 327 of the Orange Line after 8pm on Friday and proceeded steadily throughout Saturday. Since the Chingrighata flyover has been shut and Nicco Park bound traffic is being diverted through a slip road built by RVNL, there were traffic snarls on the Bypass as cars…
Panaji: With no strong systems prevailing in nearby regions, the state received light rainfall in the last 24 hours, as the mercury rose by 3°C above normal to 32.4°C on the weekend. On Friday, it had soared 4°C above normal to 33.4 °C.While the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Panaji, has forecast light to moderate rainfall…
Gorakhpur: Taking a tough stand against land encroachment, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday ordered strict action against land grabbers and directed officials to ensure transparent disposal of property disputes after proper land measurement and verificationDespite rain, the CM held a Janata Darshan at the Gorakhnath Temple, where he met around 250 people from different…
Manoj Patel Bharatbhai CMA story Ahmedabad: Manoj Patel’s 2pm-11pm supermarket shift jangles with cash registers, but this 18-year-old’s All-India Rank (AIR) 9 in the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI) exam has put him in life’s new express lane.Patel lives in Kalol, near Gandhinagar, and reaches home from work around midnight. He did not…
Chandigarh: The body of 10‑year‑old Satyam, missing since Friday evening, was recovered from a pond inside the forest near Kishangarh IT Park on Saturday morning. The pond lies about 2km inside a wooded area.Satyam, a Class IV student at a govt school, was the only son of his parents. His father, Om Prakash, an auto…
Emergency responders assist two injured women after a large banyan tree fell on them, highlighting a sudden tree-fall accident and public safety concerns (representative image) Pune: A huge banyan tree fell on two women at Parvati, near Janata Vasahat on Friday evening. One of the women sustained serious injuries. Four vehicles, which were parked under…
