New Delhi: A fire broke out at a house in northwest Delhi’s Majlis Park Saturday night, triggering a rescue operation in the congested locality.Around 25 police personnel evacuated residents from the burning building and neighbouring houses and began efforts to contain the flames before fire tenders could reach the spot. During the operation, a cooking…
Mumbai: Citizens’ forum Amchi Mumbai Amchi BEST (AMAB) on Sunday strongly opposed the state govt’s proposal to redevelop BEST depots through long-term leases to private developers, calling the move “the last nail in the coffin” of Mumbai’s public bus undertaking. It warned that once malls, residential towers, theatres and shopping complexes come up on depot…
Byrathi Suresh, minister for transport, takes BMTC bus ride for a reality check in Bengaluru on Saturday. Bengaluru: Following transport minister Byrati Suresh’s surprise incognito inspection in the city’s buses Saturday, BMTC has issued a stern warning to drivers and conductors on their conduct.After covering his face with a surgical mask, the minister travelled as…
Elephant corridor | File photo Chennai: The southern bench of National Green Tribunal has ordered forests department and the Nilgiris collector to ensure that resort buildings within the Segur elephant plateau that have been sealed following court orders, continue to remain so. They should not used for commercial or residential purposes, the bench ordered.Stressing the…
Hyderabad: Several persons, including a YSRCP spokesperson, have been booked by Begum Bazaar police over alleged derogatory remarks against Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy, a video of which was later circulated on social media.According to the FIR, the case was registered following a complaint by advocate Kailash Sajjan, state secretary of the Telangana Pradesh…
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…
