Silchar: Two school students drowned in a waterbody in Hailakandi district on Thursday afternoon after entering the water to retrieve a football during a game, police said.The incident occurred at Chiparsangan under Panchgram Police Station limits, where a group of youths were playing football on a ground adjoining a waterbody. According to sources, the ball…
An illegal immigrant from India has been jailed for 10 years in US after paying human traffickers to abuse minor girls at a Nebraska hotel.Kavankumar Patel, a 27-year-old citizen of Gujarat, India, who is living in the US illegally, was sentenced this week in a federal court in Omaha, Nebraska. The decade-long prison term was…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on the eway in the coming days LUCKNOW: Get ready to drive on the 63-km-long Lucknow- Kanpur expressway from June as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on it in the coming days.A large vacant…
Chandigarh: A Sector 37 resident was allegedly duped of Rs 55 lakh in a stock investment scam run via a WhatsApp group.Police said the victim invested Rs 54.63 lakh through a fake app after being lured by a group member. When he sought withdrawal, he was asked to pay Rs 11.3 lakh as charges. On…
GUWAHATI: AJP candidate Kunki Chowdhury’s mother, Sujata Gurung Chowdhury, has filed a complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW) against CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of making “false, defamatory and malicious” statements, which she said triggered “online harassment”.During the campaign, CM Sarma accused Sujata of sharing posts related to beef consumption and making…
Jaipur: The recent incident of fire at the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd (HRRL) at Pachpadra in Balotra district has been traced to a localised section within the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), with initial findings suggesting a technical fault as the probable cause. The refinery, an ambitious project for the state, is now undertaking restoration work…
CHENNAI: Chennai North Beach police registered a case against former minister and DMK MLA PK Sekarbabu and his supporters in connection with an altercation involving TVK functionaries during polling for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election in the Harbour constituency on April 23. Police booked them under six Sections 109(1) (attempted murder), 189(2) (unlawful assembly), 296(b)…
Hyderabad: Intensifying its demand for greater representation of advocates from Telangana in appointments to the high court bench, the Telangana High Court Advocates’ Association met Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B Mahesh Kumar Goud and BJP Telangana president N Ramchander Rao on Saturday and submitted a representation along with a resolution adopted at its…
Gyanveer Singh, a 2011 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has taken charge as the Regional Passport Officer (RPO), Lucknow. A native of Macha village near Pukhrayan in Kanpur Dehat district, Singh secured second rank in the UP-Board Class 12 examinations in 2000 and has served in Cairo, Kathmandu, Vienna and Doha. Singh is proficient…
Howrah: The charred body of 28-year-old Anamika Samanta, a resident of Jagatballavpur in Howrah who worked as a multimedia instructor at a computer education centre in the ill-fated Lucknow coaching centre building, was identified and brought to her ancestral home in Garh Balia on Wednesday after a post-mortem examination. Her last rites were performed the…
