A year after the Air India flight AI 171 crashed, families of the victims have renewed their demand for a permanent memorial at the crash site, opposing the state govt’s decision to demolish the damaged hostel buildings of BJ Medical College and construct new blocks in their place.A lawyer representing several affected families said relatives…
Lucknow: A documentary titled ‘Hunar-e-Aza’, highlighting Lucknow’s Muharram traditions and the arts and crafts associated with the observance, was screened at Lucknow Bioscope at Sanatkada on Sunday.Through visuals and narration, the documentary depicts the processions held during the first 10 days of Muharram, culminating in Ashura, and explains the significance of wearing black as a…
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court, in a sharp rebuke against HYDRAA over its alleged discriminatory actions in the demolition of structures and fencing of lands, including those that are sub judice, asked why HYDRAA has not taken any action against the Barrister Fatima Owaisi Educational Campus. The institution is allegedly constructed in the Full Tank…
Shreyas Iyer and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Agency Image) Shreyas Iyer was announced as the new India T20I captain when the men’s senior selection committee chaired by Ajit Agarkar picked the squads for the tours of Ireland, England coupled with the Asian Games. Iyer replaces Suryakumar Yadav who failed to find a spot in the squad altogether….
Lucknow: A four-year-old nursery student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a school van driver in the Talkatora area, police said on Sunday. The accused, identified as Girish Mishra, has been arrested and booked under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.Police said the child…
Guwahati: As many as 39 people in Assam have lost their lives to Japanese encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) so far this year, with 32 of these deaths confirmed due to AES, Assam National Health Mission said on Thursday.JE death cases have been going up since the start of June, and seven deaths…
Ahmedabad: A UAPA and GujCTOC accused, who was arrested in connection with Dhandhuka’s controversial Kishan Bharwad murder case has conveyed to the special court that he did not have faith in it and asked his lawyer not to represent him in the case.The cleric, Kamargani Usmani, has been lodged in the Sabarmati Central Jail, from…
Ahmedabad: What began as an allegation of theft ended in a brutal act of mob violence that claimed the life of a 25-year-old unidentified man, who police said was stripped naked, tied with a rope, beaten at multiple locations and dumped by the roadside in Gandhinagar. Police have arrested six of the seven accused named…
Bengaluru: The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) wrote to the forest department Thursday seeking an urgent joint meeting to find a permanent solution to the long-pending Turahalli forest buffer zone dispute — a crisis that has left hundreds of plot owners unable to construct homes on legally purchased sites for several years.In the letter, the authority…
Kolkata: Police on Monday seized around 1,160.6 gm gold jewellery, valued at Rs 92.1 lakh, on Amherst Street in the Jorasanko constituency. The occupants of the vehicle, in which the gold was being ferried, could not produce valid papers. In a raid around 12.18 pm on Tuesday, a vehicle was stopped at the Lord Sinha…
