New Delhi: A 40-year-old man died after allegedly suffering a medical emergency while lodged in a police lock-up in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj Tuesday, with his family alleging custodial assault and police maintaining that no external injuries were found on him.Police said Prahlad Ram had been apprehended Monday following a quarrel in Ruchi Vihar, Vasant…
Mumbai: Bombay High Court came down heavily on a govt employee who was apprehended recording the court’s proceedings.Justices Girish Kulkarni and Neela Gokhale on Monday, in suo motu proceedings, ordered Dilip Wagh’s mobile handset to be seized and confiscated after his personal data was removed and to be disposed of. They directed Wagh to deposit…
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta on Tuesday warned police against intimidating or harassing BJP workers involved in the SIR process, saying the party would not remain silent if such incidents continued.Chowta told a news conference that electoral roll purification was a crucial constitutional and nation-building exercise. BJP workers serving as booth-level agents (BLAs)…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Government Collegiate Teachers’ Association (TNGCTA) has opposed the state govt’s decision to permit the University of Western Australia to establish a campus in Chennai, alleging that the move revealed an attempt to privatise higher education.The association also criticised the govt for relaxing norms for setting up private universities while failing to…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Tuesday came down heavily on govt officials for failing to implement its orders on time, warning of stringent action against officers who seek to evade court proceedings on untenable grounds. The court also expressed strong displeasure over a request to exempt an official from personal appearance on the ground that…
An unauthorised RMC plant operating in sector 78 was razed by the MCM enforcement team in Sept this year Gurgaon: MCM commissioner Pradeep Singh has directed the civic body and GMDA officials to complete ongoing road construction works within stipulated deadlines and shut down all unauthorised ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in the city within 15…
Case Spike Pushes Up Demand For Treatment Kolkata: Cancer care in Kolkata is set for a major infrastructure boost with hospitals planning to add hundreds of oncology beds over the next two years, amid a rise in cancer cases and consequent demand for local treatment.The state currently has around 1,800 cancer beds, 1,200 of which…
The men were arrested from Sirsa Gol Chakkar on Monday Noida: Three members of a gang, among them a BSc graduate, a law student and a BA final-year student, have been arrested in Greater Noida for allegedly printing and circulating counterfeit currency across Delhi-NCR and parts of UP. They told the police that they had…
Margao: GFP president and Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai has protested Goa legislative assembly complex’s silver jubilee celebrations from Oct 6 to 9. He has refused to attend or accept the felicitation, calling the event a “display of arrogance”.In a letter to speaker Ganesh Gaonkar, Sardesai said govt was “rewriting the history” of the complex. The…
10 Buildings demolished near Kotchehri Golghar crossing for road widening Varanasi: Amid tight security arrangements, six bulldozers started demolishing demarcated portions of buildings which were not removed by their owners despite notices on Tuesday. The demolition drive was launched under the Kutchehri-Sandaha road widening project to remove structures obstructing traffic on the busy stretch.Under the…
