Behrampore: For 70-year-old Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a five-term MP returning to the assembly fray after three decades, poll day began not at a booth but inside a makeshift war room at his Kasimbazar residence, about 5km from Behrampore town.Chowdhury, who represented Behrampore in the Lok Sabha five times between 1999 and 2019, suffered a setback…
Ghaziabad: A public prosecutor has accused a Ghaziabad district court judge of using a casteist slur against him during court proceedings and filed complaints with police and National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC).Special public prosecutor Sanjeev Kumar Bakharva has alleged that on March 11, the judge used unparliamentary language and threatened him with incarceration on…
Margao: A Chinchinim resident lost Rs 3 lakh to cyber fraudsters who posed as officials of the National Consumer Forum, tricking him into sharing his mobile phone screen, police said.The victim, Alphone Monteiro of Chinchinim, Salcete, was contacted by an unidentified accused through an online site purportedly linked to the National Consumer Forum. The fraudster…
Varanasi: The city recorded 42.3 degree Celsius on Thursday, while the minimum temperature was 24.2 degree Celsius. But, beating the scorching summer heat in Varanasi is a cherished ritual, often accomplished through the city’s rich, creamy and cooling traditional beverages – thandai and lassi. Served in traditional kulhads (terracotta cups) that add a distinct, earthy…
Ahmedabad: A burglary at a locked bungalow in Sector-2C of Gandhinagar resulted in the theft of valuables worth Rs 99 lakh. Police later cracked the case, arrested one accused and recovered property valued at over Rs 1 crore.The bungalow belongs to an NRI businessman residing in Africa, who had visited Gujarat in Jan. Police said…
Chandigarh: Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who is heading the cabinet sub-committee constituted to resolve employees’ issues, on Thursday directed the state health and family welfare department to write to the Union govt to seek an increase in incentives provided to Accredited Social Health Activist (Asha) workers and facilitators.The minister said the Union govt…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a Vimannagar-based engineering products manufacturing firm of Rs73 lakh through spoofing emails between June 2024 and April last year.The firm’s director lodged a complaint with the Pune cyber police on Wednesday.An officer from the cyber police said the complainant’s company belonged to the engineering products manufacturing sector. The firm had contacted its…
Silchar: A shocking hit-and-run incident on a busy arterial road in Sribhumi town left two pedestrians critically injured after a speeding four-wheeler allegedly lost control and rammed multiple vehicles on Thursday morning.According to local sources, the car was moving at high speed along the main road when the driver suddenly lost control. The vehicle first…
Lucknow: The special House session of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation convened by mayor Sushma Kharakwal, who belongs to BJP, on Thursday passed a proposal condemning parties opposing women’s quota bill, amid uproar and protest by opposition membersBJP has majority in the LMC House. The session began on a stormy note as corporators from the Samajwadi…
Kota: A 35-year-old man died allegedly by suicide in the bathroom of a rehabilitation centre in Kota Wednesday late evening, police said.The deceased man was identified as Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Chawani Ramchandrapura in Kota. He was admitted to the drug rehabilitation centre in the city a few days ago.Mahesh allegedly hanged himself in…
