Thane: A special Pocso court in Thane has acquitted a man accused of raping a seven-year-old girl and outraging the modesty of her 73-year-old grandmother, with the court observing that the story of aggravated penetrative sexual assault “seems to be an afterthought” introduced to make the offence appear more serious.Special judge G T Pawar delivered…
The Middle East crisis continues to choke energy supplies across the world and push crude prices higher, swinging around $100 per barrel mark. However, even though input costs for energy continue to rise, fuel prices remain unchanged in India, pushing state-run oil marketing companies under mounting losses.Losses are estimated at around Rs 18 per litre…
Varanasi: A 20-year-old student of a private institute was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the stairs of a guest house in the city on Wednesday. Although Sarnath police were waiting for the arrival of postmortem report, it was suspected that the woman was administered a dose by her boyfriend to abort…
Surat: A 30-year-old GST inspector posted in Surat has accused a Gandhinagar-based PG hostel owner of cheating her of Rs 26.8 lakh by luring her into investing in his business with promises of high returns and later threatening to tarnish her reputation when she sought her money back.According to the FIR, Dimple Jethwa, a GST…
Investigators have identified cases in which some detainees allegedly entered India through West Bengal several years ago and subsequently obtained required documents through intermediaries, which were then allegedly used to secure official identity papers Ahmedabad: Gujarat Police have detained 362 illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and launched verification of more than 782 suspected foreign nationals as…
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) There is a quiet, almost funny cruelty to this saying. Picture someone striding ahead, chin up, certain they are leading the way. Then they glance over their shoulder and find nobody there. Not a single person followed. In that instant, the grand march turns into…
Bengaluru: Did you know at least five litres of water is required to produce one litre of beer? But where does all that water go?In Bengaluru, home to nearly 88 breweries, the industry is increasingly focused on reducing its water footprint through a combination of effluent treatment plants, wastewater recycling systems and circular waste management…
India can return to a growth trajectory of over 7% in FY28 through macroeconomic stability and supply-side measures, provided external conditions improve, Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday.The comments came after the Reserve Bank of India lowered its GDP growth forecast for FY27 to 6.6% from 6.9% projected in April, citing elevated…
Panaji: The Phase-I of Census 2027, House Listing Operations (HLO), held from April 16 to May 15 in Goa, was completed recently.For the first time, the Census was carried out across the state using a dedicated mobile application. Preparations for the next phase of Census 2027 are in progress and further details will be announced…
Jaipur: The parents of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl alleged that their daughter was sexually assaulted at a private school in Deedwana-Kuchaman district Monday. Police registered an FIR under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and launched an investigation Tuesday.Inspector General of Police (Ajmer Range) Dr Ravi said an FIR was registered on the…
