Jaipur/Alwar: Police in Bhiwadi city of Khairthal-Tijara district have registered an FIR against four police personnel after the family of Lokesh, a 16-year-old Scheduled Caste boy, alleged that he was subjected to “third-degree torture” at a police station where he was taken on suspicion of being involved in the theft of a motorcycle.The incident dates…
New Delhi: Just hours before the devastating Hauz Rani fire, Shagun Sharma, a Central Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) ambulance driver, began what he thought would be a routine shift.Originally from Meerut, the former e-commerce delivery rider has spent the last three years driving ambulances across the capital. Nothing, however, prepared him for what he…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of petitions alleging irregularities in the West Bengal Police constable recruitment process for 2024 till June 8, as the state counsels failed to appear, reports Srishti Lakhotia.Justice Amrita Sinha clarified that any appointment made in the interim would be subject to the final outcome of…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant visited the goddess Lairai temple at Shirgao on Tuesday, reviewed the arrangements, and offered prayers. He said an action plan is in place and that the administration has been working for two months now to ensure that not even a minor incident takes place this year.“Our entire administration has prepared…
NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, in a rare dissent, has publically opposed the CBSE’s revised three-language mandate, triggering a fresh political chatter in Tamil Nadu.Annamalai urged the Union education ministry to withdraw the CBSE notification that made three languages compulsory for Class IX students from the current academic year, saying the…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the Bengal assembly speaker if an expelled MLA can be appointed leader of the opposition.The HC — hearing a Trinamool Congress challenge to speaker Rathindra Bose’s order appointing Ritabrata Banerjee as LoP — directed the former to file an affidavit along with the order of appointment.The petition by…
Pune: The civic body has stepped up its drive against ready mix concrete plants across the city following several complaints from citizens.Over the last three months, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has taken action against 30 plants, including a facility spread over 27,000 sqft in Undri last week.Residents have complained that RMCs cause major pollution,…
Jaipur: Congress workers will take out a “Pani Yatra” on May 25 to protest contaminated water supply and drinking water shortages in Jaipur, with former minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas leading the march from his Civil Lines residence to Jal Bhavan, where the party plans a ‘matka-phod’ demonstration and will besiege the PHED headquarters.Khachariyawas alleged that…
Lucknow: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Uttar Pradesh arrested two long-absconding former fair-price shop dealers in connection with a two-decade-old foodgrain embezzlement case in Jaunpur district.The accused, Mohammad Ahmad and Lal Bahadur Maurya, were arrested on Thursday by the EOW’s Varanasi unit during a special statewide drive to trace wanted economic offenders. Both were…
North London man appears in court over fatal Primrose Hill stabbing A north London man appeared at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday in connection with the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old film student Finbar Sullivan near Primrose Hill.Sullivan was found with stab injuries near the popular viewpoint on April 7. Emergency services were called to the…
