Varanasi: A police constable of Mirzapur district, who was posted at Ghazipur police lines and deployed in VIP personal security, was arrested by Sarnath police on Monday night for having sexual relations with a 21-year-old woman for over four years after promising to marry and also getting her pregnancy terminated twice.ACP (Sarnath/crime), Vidush Saxena on…
Ahmedabad: The Diploma to Degree Common Entrance Test (DDCET) for admissions to degree engineering courses was conducted in the state on Tuesday. A total of 20,893 students appeared for the exam, while 936 candidates remained absent. Ahmedabad district recorded the highest participation with 4,633 students, whereas Botad district had the lowest turnout with only 11…
Ludhiana: A 46-year-old man who returned to India recently from New Zealand has been defrauded of ₹21 lakh after falling for a sophisticated work-from-home scam advertised on social media.Deepinderpal Singh told Ludhiana Rural cybercrime cell that the ordeal had started on Feb 11 when he had clicked an Instagram advertisement promising easy income. The link…
Amritsar: Four Pakistani civilian prisoners were repatriated through the Attari–Wagah border on Tuesday after completing their sentences and due legal formalities.The four — Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Raza, Mohammad Hamza and Hussain — had served jail terms in India, ranging from six months to nearly 10 years, before being handed over to Pakistani authorities under tight…
Silchar: The demand for a permanent bench of the Gauhati high court in the Barak Valley gathered fresh momentum on Tuesday after the Vishva Hindu Parishad’s Vidhi Prakoshtha (legal cell) submitted a memorandum to the chief justice, flagging “acute hardship” faced by litigants from the region.The memorandum underlined that residents of Cachar, Sribhumi, Hailakandi and…
Lucknow: An internal inquiry at KGMU on Tuesday found that a faculty member in the ophthalmology department was allegedly involved in malpractice, directing patients to a private shop to buy medicines and lenses even though these were available at subsidised rates in the hospital.The matter came to light last month after a patient from Gorakhpur…
Rajkot: A sessions court here on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing a man who tried to mediate in a minor dispute over a parked motorcycle in the Kittipara Awas Yojana area in June 2022.The killing occurred in the early hours of June 20, 2022. According to the prosecution, Zakiri…
Former Jaipur MP Ramcharan Bohra Jaipur: Even as the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) deploys anti-smog guns to ease heatwave conditions, commuters at traffic signals continue to endure long waits under direct sunlight due to the absence of shade covers.To combat rising temperatures, JMC has stationed anti-smog guns at key intersections and high-traffic stretches. These machines…
Green Card applications will now get a stronger FBI background check. Checking the FBI database to vet immigration applications is not new, but now the USCIS has gained greater access to the FBI’s criminal history database as a new enhanced security checking begins. CBS News reported that the administration has asked to pause some cases…
A new day on the South African sets of ‘King’ call for new photos leaking online. This time around, fans were over the moon to get cool shots of Shah Rukh Khan in character as he filmed scenes alone. Shah Rukh Khan shoots for ‘King’ Layered up in a button-down shirt, and a jacket, Shah…
