Bengaluru: Central Crime Branch’s special investigation wing raided an illegal horse race betting racket being run from a house in Jyotinagar, west Bengaluru, and arrested a 65-year-old bookie who was accepting bets from punters through cash and online transactions.The accused, P Sheshadri, was operating the racket from a room on the third floor of a…
The ban, which came into effect from the date of the notification, will remain in force for one year across Karnataka. BENGALURU: The Office of the Commissioner of Food Safety, Karnataka, has imposed a one-year ban on the manufacture, storage, distribution, transportation and sale of gutkha and pan masala containing tobacco and/or nicotine across the…
Prabhas Mondal, the main accused in the Baruipur rape and murder case in West Bengal, has been killed in a police encounter. KOLKATA: Prabash Mondal, the main accused in the Baruipur rape and murder case in West Bengal, has been killed in a police encounter, officials said on Wednesday.Baruipur superintendent of police said the incident…
TIMES NEWS NETWORKMangaluru: AICC observer and Kozhikode North MLA K Jayanth began consultations and an exercise to choose the next president for Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee (DCC) as part of the Sanghatan Srijan Abhiyaan on Tuesday.Jayanth told reporters that the nationwide organisational initiative has been launched by the Indian National Congress to strengthen the…
The appellant had filed RTI applications on Sept 24 and Oct 3, 2023, seeking information from the RTA, Patiala. Nearly three years later, he had neither received a reply nor the requested information Chandigarh: The Punjab State Information Commission has held that govt officials cannot cite records being “not traceable” as a satisfactory explanation for…
New Delhi: The latest case has rekindled grim memories of the infamous 2014 rape case involving the driver of an app-based cab service, triggering concerns over regulatory overhauls which were promised after that crime.On the night of Dec 5, 2014, a 25-year-old finance executive hired a cab to return home to north Delhi. The driver…
At 2 years old, Suborno Isaac Bari was already doing something that would later become a defining detail of his childhood: reciting the periodic table. Mathematics was developing alongside that early fascination with science, and his parents soon realised that ordinary lessons were not quite enough to contain his curiosity. Years later, the New York…
Kolkata: With Trinamool’s rebel MPs announcing that their bloc would merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), BJP on Sunday said the decision would put all speculation to rest.While unease was brewing in BJP over the fate of the rebels, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and Union minister and Bongaon MP Shantanu…
Kolkata: The EC on Sunday removed the SDPOs of Haldia and Contai in East Midnapur district, just four days before the first phase of assembly elections on April 23.East Midnapur, Suvendu Adhikari’s turf, will go to the polls in the first phase.Atanu Ghoshal, a WBPS officer, currently attached to the state police’s special task force…
Lucknow: The transport department along with traffic police on Saturday concluded a two-day drive against vehicles fitted with modified silencers, hooters, sirens, and multi-toned horns that cause noise pollution. The drive was carried out in compliance with the orders from the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad high court,.During the operation, nine vehicles were seized, and…
