MUMBAI: A mentally challenged man climbed onto a gantry and dangled from high-tension overhead wires at Manmad railway station in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, forcing authorities to shut down power and disrupting train services, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Friday and a video of it has since surfaced on social media, according to…
DK Shivakumar (File Photo) BENGALURU: Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar has criticised the Centre over the handling of the Women’s Reservation Amendment Bill, saying the opposition was not taken into confidence and calling for wider consultation in a democratic process. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Sunday, Shivakumar said the Congress had always supported…
Hyderabad: The Telangana govt will release the second instalment of Rythu Bharosa, the farm investment support scheme, on April 20. According to officials, chief minister A Revanth Reddy will release the funds at a public meeting in Kataram in Bhupalpally district. In the second instalment, 45,11,947 farmers will receive Rythu Bharosa assistance, with Rs 5,653…
NOIDA: Residents of Sector 55 have demanded that the Sunday weekly market, currently held between sectors 55 and 56, be shifted to the service road in Sector 57, citing traffic congestion and inconvenience. The issue was raised with Noida Authority officials during a meeting on Friday.The meeting, organised by the resident welfare association (RWA) of…
VARANASI: Driven by vengeance for the 2023 abduction and murder of his nine-year-old son over a land dispute, a 35-year-old man amassed over Rs 4 lakh, purchased a truck, and on Dec 8, 2025, rammed it into the SUV of the accused in a calculated attempt to kill him and stage the crime as an…
Chandigarh: In view of the shortage of bitumen and its rising prices due to the ongoing war in the Middle East, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Saturday approved the use of imported bitumen for the next six months to ensure that road construction and maintenance works are not affected. The CM was chairing…
The court of special judge (Pocso) Mohan Chavan on Friday convicted and sentenced a 52-year-old labourer to rigorous imprisonment for five years for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her residence in Kondhwa in 2017.According to public prosecutor Arundhati S Brahme, the incident took place on Dec 15, 2017, in a housing society in Kondhwa,…
Lucknow: Digging out old videos of top BJP leaders not approving of the women reservation bill when it was originally introduced in 2010, Samajwadi Party’s top brass on Saturday questioned the ‘motive’ and ‘intentions’ of the BJP bringing in an amendment that couldn’t pass the floor test in Parliament.SP leadership on Saturday questioned the delay…
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge NEW DELHI: Hitting back at PM Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said a “desperate and frustrated PM, with nothing meaningful to show for the last 12 years, turned an official address to the nation into a political speech full of mudslinging and outright lies”. “The model code of conduct is in…
Royal archives unlocked for first authorised biography of Queen Elizabeth II / Image: File For the first time since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, her private papers are being opened to an authorised historian, marking a significant step in documenting the life of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.Anna Keay, a respected historian and…
