Union civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu Hyderabad: Union civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday announced that the UDAN regional connectivity scheme has been extended for another 10 years, with the Centre aiming to expand India’s aviation infrastructure.Speaking to the media after meeting chief minister A Revanth Reddy in New Delhi, the Union…
Rajkot: A dispute over the use of abusive language escalated into a fatal stabbing on the night of July 17 in the Gokulnagar area of Jamnagar. C Division police registered an FIR against seven persons, including members of the same family, for murder and rioting.According to the complaint filed by Babu alias Ranjitsinh Jethwa, around…
OP SinghBefore the city transformed into the bustling urban centre we know today, Allahabad (now Prayagraj) of the 1980s was a city where crime had its own distinct geography.Almost every major locality had its own strongman whose influence and criminal network were largely confined to his neighbourhood. Their reputations rarely travelled beyond their territorial boundaries,…
Kolkata: Booth-level officers finally got a breather from their “out of syllabus” work, after slogging for 176 days ever since the SIR exercise was rolled out. But BLOs pointed out that they were yet to receive their ‘release order’ from the EC though their assignments ended with the conclusion of the two-phase Assembly elections. “Now…
Ludhiana: Shopkeepers from Gole Market have once again raised serious concerns about poor sanitation condition in a public park in the market area. In a letter to the municipal commissioner and the mayor, the shopkeepers rued that their complaint is pending in Punjab State Human Rights Commission, but still officials are not taking their issues…
New Delhi: Calling the independence of the legal profession as important as the independence of the judiciary, Supreme Court Tuesday said the former must remain self-regulated. External agencies or institutions could not record adverse findings and opinions about the professional standing of advocates, the court said, as this was the exclusive domain of the Bar…
KOLKATA: Kalita Majhi, a 37-year-old domestic help turned politician, has scripted an extraordinary electoral journey by winning the Ausgram Assembly seat in West Bengal on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. She secured 1,07,692 votes, defeating her nearest rival from the Trinamool Congress, Shyama Prasanna Lohar, by a margin of 12,535 votes.Majhi, who once worked…
Alwar: An eight-month-old girl was left battling for life after her mother allegedly forced acid down her throat following a dispute with her husband in the Bhiwadi area of Khairthal-Tijara district, police said Tuesday.The girl is currently under treatment at the Rajkiya Geetanand Shishu Hospital in Alwar, where doctors described her condition as critical.According to…
Gorakhpur: Samajwadi Party workers on Saturday staged a protest in Gorakhpur against installation of smart electricity meters across the city. Raising slogans against BJP govt and power department officials, the demonstrators accused authorities of burdening consumers with inflated bills. The protest was led by the party’s city president Shabbir Qureshi.Holding banners and placards, SP workers…
Hirotoshi Tanaka (File Photo, Credit: X) BENGALURU: When Japanese student Hirotoshi Tanaka arrived in Bengaluru in 2019 to learn English, he never imagined that his journey would take him to Bengaluru Central Prison.After an altercation at an English academy, Tanaka was arrested and spent 19 days in judicial custody.For Tanaka, who knew little about India’s…
