Varanasi: A 27-year-old man accused in a gangster case allegedly died by suicide by shooting himself in an orchard in Azamgarh district on Tuesday morning, police said.The deceased was identified as Nagendra Yadav, a resident of Keshavpur village under Jiyanpur Kotwali police station.According to police, he went to an orchard in Jamuan village under the…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat govt has uncorked major tax relief for liquor consumers in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), one of the country’s premier financial hubs in Gandhinagar. In two separate notifications, state govt has slashed value added tax (VAT) on foreign liquor served in GIFT City from 65% to 25% and scrapped the special fee…
During a review meeting at the MC Zone D office, commissioner Alankar fixed absolute accountability among civic officials and declared that no laxity would be tolerated Ludhiana: The Ludhiana municipal corporation is replacing its traditional seasonal control room with a technology-driven monsoon war room to handle urban flooding and infrastructure complaints this rainy season. Municipal…
Mohali: Zirakpur police have registered a case against three men after a woman alleged she was sexually assaulted multiple times on the pretext of securing her husband’s release from jail.The FIR has been lodged provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against Aamir and Imran, both from Uttar Pradesh, and Sonu from Karnal. Police said…
Educational experts said leaders and authorities should try to improve the govt education system, rather than privatising them Pune: The state unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has offered to buy an airplane ticket for cabinet minister Chandrakant Patil to travel from Pune to Punjab to see the developed municipal schools in the northern…
Surat: A Surat-based farmer has alleged that he was cheated of Rs 2.14 crore in a high-value land deal involving a prime property in Pal. Police have registered a case against two brothers after they allegedly accepted a substantial advance for the land, sold it to another buyer, and failed to refund the money. The…
Lucknow: A gold medal-winning sniffer dog, Mary, helped Sambhal police crack the rape case of a 6-year-old girl in Babrala after investigators found no witnesses or CCTV footage to build leads.The incident was reported on June 18 when the child, who had been playing outside her home, was found by her mother in a distressed…
Rathod’s counsel Ankit Sethi argued that the allegations against him were unsubstantiated and that the investigation involved a large volume of digital evidence, which would take considerable time to analyse Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court Monday granted bail to Kamlesh Jayantbhai Rathod, an accountant member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), who was arrested…
A planned Bali trip was cancelled for Ketan Agarwal after his passport was allegedly stolen, an incident his family now views as suspicious in light of the murder investigation. NEW DELHI: A cancelled Bali holiday, a mysteriously missing passport and a trek that ended in death have emerged as key elements in the police investigation…
Microsoft executive Rashida Hodge says one does not need extraordinary wealth to become a philanthropist. In 1998, Rashida Hodge came to Raleigh, North Carolina, with a dare to dream beyond the St Thomas Island where she grew up. The path she took via North Carolina State University led her to Microsoft today. But she did…
