There was a time in India, and may be it still is when parents want their kids to get into engineering, MBA, and professional degrees apart from medicine, of course. They spend lakhs of their hard-earned money and in many cases take loans for it hoping that their kids will have a better financial future….
Gurgaon: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Gurgaon, has awarded compensation of Rs 16.5 lakh, along with 7% annual interest from the date of filing a petition, to the family of a 24-year-old youth, Deepak, who died in a road accident in 2022. The tribunal held the truck driver guilty of rash and negligent driving…
Jaipur: The Supreme Court of India Friday granted conditional bail to Sarjeet Singh, an accused in the sensational Raju Theht murder case. He was arrested for allegedly providing mobile phones to the shooters who eliminated Raju Theth outside his house in Sikar.The relief came from a bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra…
Ghaziabad: A public prosecutor has accused a Ghaziabad district court judge of using a casteist slur against him during court proceedings and filed complaints with police and National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC).Special public prosecutor Sanjeev Kumar Bakharva has alleged that on March 11, the judge used unparliamentary language and threatened him with incarceration on…
LUCKNOW: A 15-year-old girl allegedly strangled her seven-year-old brother following a quarrel over a lollipop and later staged the scene as a suicide to mislead her family, police said.The incident took place on April 11 in Thalhapaar village of Basti district.According to police, the boy was found hanging from a ceiling hook after the girl…
Ahmedabad: On Sunday, India lost Raghu Rai, one of its most faithful witnesses. A celebrated photojournalist whose images of Bhopal gas tragedy stirred the world’s conscience, Rai had spent his life ensuring nothing important went unseen. His portraits of Mother Teresa became the way many outside India understood her. He was the man Henri Cartier-Bresson…
Pune: The transition into agricultural pursuits for 41-year-old Aundh resident Smita Mehetre didn’t start with sprawling acres of fertile land. It began over a decade ago on a humble one-metre-by-10-inches windowsill, with just a few tiny plants.Today, she owns and operates a thriving organic farm in Satara, but her core message to urban dwellers remains…
HYDERABAD: In a multi-state crackdown, Hyderabad police arrested 52 people – including 32 bank employees – for their alleged role in opening mule accounts linked to cybercrime. Cops claimed the bank officials were hand-in-glove with members of a cybercrime network involved in an over Rs 150 crore scam.Cops said the arrested bank officials were employed…
Kolkata: The EC’s no-outsider-on-premises rule has drawn flak from residents of city high-rises, some of whom vote in places like East Burdwan but stay in a gated complex in Kolkata. Some others have relatives coming over from Mumbai or other places for the summer vacation. The EC order banning everyone from outside a particular constituency…
The Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway saw 1.55 crore vehicles in 2025-26, generating toll revenue of Rs 1,240.04 crore, marking a sharp rise from the previous fiscal.The toll collection was higher by Rs 499.41 crore compared to 2024-25, officials said, citing data from the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, according to PTI.The 701-km-long access-controlled corridor passes through…
