The man’s relatives reached the city on Sunday to identify the body and complete postmortem formalities, still believing he had died in a railway accident Gurgaon: A 25-year-old software engineer allegedly killed his colleague by slitting her throat before dying by suicide on the railway tracks near Gurgaon railway station, police said.The two had been…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has overturned an almost 30-year-old acquittal in a case of bigamy and directed a 75-year-old former policeman to serve three years in prison and pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to his second wife.The bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Ananya Bandopadhyay, which delivered the ruling on Friday, observed that the…
Noida: Four men were arrested after a brief gunfight on Sunday for allegedly robbing two houses in a residential society in Surajpur, police said. Gold ornaments, cash, foreign currency allegedly stolen during the burglaries and the car used in the crime were recovered from their possession.The accused were identified as Veer Pal (25), Vijay Pal…
Panaji: Nine home buyers who paid for flats in Mapusa’s ‘Sai Ishwari’ housing complex nearly a decade ago remain without possession after the North Goa district and sessions court ruled it cannot hand over the apartments as the project lacks a final occupancy certificate.The court referred the matter back to the Real Estate Regulatory Authority…
Ahmedabad: A district consumer commission in Ahmedabad has directed United India Insurance Company Ltd to pay Rs 3 lakh, along with 7% annual interest, to a policyholder, ruling that the insurer’s rejection of his mediclaim for cancer treatment was arbitrary, illegal and invalid.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (Additional), Ahmedabad, passed the order on a…
Desilting boosts Sukhna capacity Chandigarh: In a major intervention aimed at reviving Sukhna Lake, the Chandigarh administration has completed desilting of the lake’s regulator-end area, removing around 35,000 cubic metres of accumulated silt and increasing the water-holding capacity of the water body.The engineering department completed the exercise last week after nearly one-and-a-half months of work,…
An AI-generated illustration of satellite imaging technology mapping horticulture orchards Pune: The state agriculture department has decided to deploy remote sensing technology and digital crop surveys to verify orchards under its horticulture crop insurance plan.The decision follows repeated complaints and enquiries into irregularities in the state’s fruit crop insurance programme, where claims were allegedly made…
Surat: If you are not in your car when theft is committed, the car still cannot be termed ‘unattended’ and you can get insurance. Defining an ‘unattended car’, city consumer disputes redressal commission (CDRC) has ordered an insurance firm to pay Rs 50,000 for theft of a bag of cash from a car. The forum…
Agartala: Tripura Judicial Employees’ Association (TJEA) has sought the Supreme Court’s attention for early disposal of a long-pending petition filed by the state govt challenging a Tripura high court order on implementation of the Shetty Commission recommendations.According to the association, the Supreme Court, while accepting the recommendations, had held that court employees were entitled to…
Residents raise slogans against LDA Lucknow: Residents of Jankipuram Extension staged an unusual protest on Sunday, organising a ‘Keechad Mahotsav’ (slush festival) to highlight years of waterlogging and pothole-ridden roads in the area. With monsoon showers worsening the condition of the stretch, locals gathered at the waterlogged road, held placards and raised slogans, turning rain-filled…
